SharePoint Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SharePoint
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SharePoint skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 148 101
Rank change year-on-year +34 -47 +33
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,085 737 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.52% 2.18% 2.47%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.58% 28.24% 29.22%
Number of salaries quoted 881 585 1,485
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -3.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £66,250
UK median annual salary £44,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.53% - -15.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

SharePoint falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,741 2,610 6,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.83% 7.72% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,093 1,717 4,285
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.46%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SharePoint relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SharePoint job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SharePoint
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SharePoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SharePoint in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SharePoint in the UK excluding London

SharePoint
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +65 293 £42,500 +16.92% 71
South East +1 222 £50,000 +33.33% 120
East of England +41 191 £42,500 +5.59% 32
Midlands -4 167 £38,000 -1.30% 32
North West +46 150 £50,000 +25.00% 35
Yorkshire +24 122 £40,000 +40.35% 21
West Midlands -9 106 £43,750 -0.88% 19
South West -36 99 £32,500 -27.37% 46
East Midlands -36 61 £37,500 +3.45% 13
Scotland +41 59 £28,500 -18.57% 18
Wales -20 41 £40,000 -1.23% 3
North East -42 21 £43,136 +34.80% 16
Northern Ireland -53 9 £62,500 +19.05% 8
Isle of Man +4 6 £45,000 +30.43%
SharePoint
UK

SharePoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 392 (36.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.67%) Confluence
3 12 (1.11%) CMS
4 10 (0.92%) IIS
5 9 (0.83%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) WordPress
9 1 (0.092%) Apache
9 1 (0.092%) nginx
Applications
1 77 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.92%) CorelDRAW
5 9 (0.83%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.092%) InDesign
9 1 (0.092%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.092%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.55%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.37%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.28%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.18%) Alphatax
8 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 1 (0.092%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.092%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.092%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 868 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 513 (47.28%) Azure
3 372 (34.29%) Entra ID
4 248 (22.86%) OneDrive
5 243 (22.40%) Power Platform
6 148 (13.64%) Power Automate
7 147 (13.55%) PowerApps
8 77 (7.10%) Microsoft Copilot
9 66 (6.08%) SaaS
10 51 (4.70%) Mimecast
11 47 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
12 43 (3.96%) Microsoft Purview
13 42 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
14 37 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
16 24 (2.21%) AWS
16 24 (2.21%) Copilot Studio
17 20 (1.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 14 (1.29%) PaaS
19 12 (1.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (21.11%) Firewall
2 224 (20.65%) DNS
3 196 (18.06%) DHCP
4 157 (14.47%) VPN
5 105 (9.68%) VLAN
6 100 (9.22%) Wi-Fi
7 81 (7.47%) VoIP
8 73 (6.73%) LAN
9 70 (6.45%) TCP/IP
9 70 (6.45%) WAN
10 58 (5.35%) Wireless
11 19 (1.75%) Network Security
12 13 (1.20%) Internet
13 12 (1.11%) SAN
14 10 (0.92%) Broadband
15 9 (0.83%) Intranet
15 9 (0.83%) Skype
16 8 (0.74%) PBX
16 8 (0.74%) WLAN
17 7 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (11.98%) Power BI
2 50 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.20%) Metadata
5 9 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.28%) Power Query
8 2 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.18%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.18%) DataStage
8 2 (0.18%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.18%) MySQL
8 2 (0.18%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.18%) Tableau
9 1 (0.092%) EDMS
9 1 (0.092%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 70 (6.45%) JIRA
2 5 (0.46%) Postman
3 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.37%) Git
3 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.18%) Selenium
4 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.092%) Carbide.c++
5 1 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 478 (44.06%) Social Skills
2 133 (12.26%) Finance
3 98 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (8.20%) Legal
5 82 (7.56%) Organisational Skills
6 54 (4.98%) Manufacturing
7 45 (4.15%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.78%) Law
9 33 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (2.21%) Retail
12 24 (2.21%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.20%) Local Government
14 10 (0.92%) Advertising
15 8 (0.74%) Banking
15 8 (0.74%) Marketing
16 7 (0.65%) Games
17 4 (0.37%) Military
17 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 324 (29.86%) IT Support
2 193 (17.79%) IT Engineer
3 192 (17.70%) Support Engineer
4 168 (15.48%) IT Support Engineer
5 154 (14.19%) Senior
6 130 (11.98%) Analyst
7 119 (10.97%) Developer
8 88 (8.11%) Support Analyst
9 86 (7.93%) IT Technician
10 75 (6.91%) Support Technician
11 71 (6.54%) IT Analyst
12 65 (5.99%) IT Support Technician
13 63 (5.81%) 2nd Line Support
14 61 (5.62%) IT Support Analyst
15 57 (5.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 54 (4.98%) 3rd Line Support
17 48 (4.42%) Senior Developer
18 47 (4.33%) Administrator
19 45 (4.15%) Lead
20 42 (3.87%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.24%) HTML
2 40 (3.69%) .NET
3 39 (3.59%) Microsoft Graph
4 37 (3.41%) CSS
5 31 (2.86%) SPFx
6 28 (2.58%) HTML5 Canvas
7 23 (2.12%) JSON
8 19 (1.75%) .NET Core
9 12 (1.11%) ASP.NET
9 12 (1.11%) REST
10 11 (1.01%) React
11 9 (0.83%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.83%) XML
12 7 (0.65%) Razor View Engine
13 6 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (0.55%) Node.js
13 6 (0.55%) Web Services
14 5 (0.46%) Entity Framework
14 5 (0.46%) Swagger
15 4 (0.37%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 129 (11.89%) Driving Licence
2 93 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 58 (5.35%) Management Information System
4 43 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (1.84%) Replication
7 14 (1.29%) Clustering
8 13 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (0.92%) CMDB
10 10 (0.92%) Security Posture
11 9 (0.83%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.83%) CCTV
11 9 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
11 9 (0.83%) Data Centre
11 9 (0.83%) IoT
11 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 438 (40.37%) Windows
2 228 (21.01%) Windows Server
3 105 (9.68%) Windows 10
4 75 (6.91%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.50%) Android
6 27 (2.49%) Apple iOS
7 21 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (1.84%) Linux
9 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.28%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.18%) Unix
11 2 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (31.89%) Problem-Solving
2 260 (23.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 202 (18.62%) Customer Service
4 186 (17.14%) ITIL
5 159 (14.65%) Cybersecurity
6 128 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
7 113 (10.41%) Service Delivery
8 103 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 102 (9.40%) User Experience
10 96 (8.85%) Agile
11 91 (8.39%) Service Management
12 86 (7.93%) AI
12 86 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 85 (7.83%) Disaster Recovery
14 83 (7.65%) Technical Leadership
15 82 (7.56%) CRM
16 79 (7.28%) Project Delivery
17 72 (6.64%) Mentoring
18 70 (6.45%) Identity Management
19 69 (6.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 117 (10.78%) SQL
3 56 (5.16%) JavaScript
4 51 (4.70%) C#
5 28 (2.58%) R
6 27 (2.49%) Python
7 25 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.66%) VBA
9 7 (0.65%) C
9 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.37%) Ruby
10 4 (0.37%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.28%) C++
11 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.28%) Java
12 1 (0.092%) Bash
12 1 (0.092%) Bicep
12 1 (0.092%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.092%) VB
Qualifications
1 163 (15.02%) Degree
2 94 (8.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 61 (5.62%) Security Cleared
4 51 (4.70%) SC Cleared
5 26 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (1.84%) DBS Check
8 19 (1.75%) A+ Certification
9 17 (1.57%) CCNA
10 14 (1.29%) HND
11 13 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (0.92%) HNC
14 6 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.55%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.55%) MBA
14 6 (0.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (5.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 50 (4.61%) GDPR
4 27 (2.49%) QA
4 27 (2.49%) SLA
5 23 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 20 (1.84%) ISO 9001
7 19 (1.75%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.65%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) PMO
10 5 (0.46%) COSHH
10 5 (0.46%) ISO 14001
10 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.37%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.18%) NCSC
14 1 (0.092%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 440 (40.55%) Active Directory
2 107 (9.86%) Hyper-V
3 91 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.75%) vSphere
5 16 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.55%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.55%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.18%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.092%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.092%) XenApp
11 1 (0.092%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 256 (23.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
3 21 (1.94%) SCCM
4 17 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.01%) vCenter Server
6 10 (0.92%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.74%) Backup Exec
8 4 (0.37%) vRealize
9 3 (0.28%) cPanel
9 3 (0.28%) Plesk
9 3 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.092%) Autotask
11 1 (0.092%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.092%) Nessus
11 1 (0.092%) Terraform
11 1 (0.092%) WSUS
Vendors
1 883 (81.38%) Microsoft
2 115 (10.60%) VMware
3 65 (5.99%) Cisco
4 58 (5.35%) Veeam
5 51 (4.70%) Apple
6 35 (3.23%) Meraki
7 30 (2.76%) CrowdStrike
7 30 (2.76%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.21%) Adobe
9 23 (2.12%) SonicWALL
10 16 (1.47%) Ubiquiti
11 14 (1.29%) Aruba
11 14 (1.29%) Sophos
12 13 (1.20%) Datto
12 13 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.11%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.11%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.92%) Foundry
14 10 (0.92%) Google
14 10 (0.92%) Sage