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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 105 87
Rank change year-on-year -7 -18 +71
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 866 694 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.55% 2.71% 2.99%
As % of the Application Platforms category 38.87% 31.55% 29.30%
Number of salaries quoted 639 558 1,549
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,221
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.55% -0.69%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £63,750 £63,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £46,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.60% +9.41% -12.51%

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 2,228 2,200 6,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.00% 8.59% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,604 1,533 4,583
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £59,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £73,750
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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -26 194 £42,270 -0.54% 56
Midlands -4 181 £42,039 -1.08% 46
South East -20 172 £42,500 -5.56% 76
West Midlands +11 112 £45,000 -11.33% 29
North West -21 112 £50,000 +9.58% 33
East of England -19 103 £34,000 +4.62% 32
South West +5 98 £31,000 -36.08% 55
Scotland +13 96 £31,500 -3.08% 18
Yorkshire -28 75 £32,750 +9.17% 19
East Midlands -33 69 £37,500 +15.38% 17
Wales -17 12 £41,740 +11.31% 8
Northern Ireland -37 8 £60,000 +14.29% 2
North East -34 7 £67,500 +110.94% 6
Isle of Man +2 6 £45,000 +30.43% 1
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
1 291 (33.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (2.54%) Confluence
3 11 (1.27%) CMS
4 5 (0.58%) IIS
5 4 (0.46%) WordPress
6 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.35%) govService
7 2 (0.23%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 145 (16.74%) Microsoft Office
2 124 (14.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (8.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.23%) InDesign
6 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (3.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.04%) Dynamics GP
3 6 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.35%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 2 (0.23%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.12%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 607 (70.09%) Microsoft 365
2 357 (41.22%) Azure
3 264 (30.48%) Entra ID
4 176 (20.32%) OneDrive
5 146 (16.86%) Power Platform
6 77 (8.89%) PowerApps
7 71 (8.20%) Power Automate
8 41 (4.73%) SaaS
9 32 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 28 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (3.12%) Mimecast
12 26 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (1.73%) Serverless
15 14 (1.62%) AWS
16 13 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (1.50%) Azure Functions
17 11 (1.27%) IaaS
17 11 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 176 (20.32%) DNS
2 159 (18.36%) DHCP
3 142 (16.40%) Firewall
4 124 (14.32%) VPN
5 84 (9.70%) VLAN
6 75 (8.66%) LAN
7 73 (8.43%) WAN
8 67 (7.74%) Wi-Fi
9 56 (6.47%) TCP/IP
10 45 (5.20%) VoIP
11 34 (3.93%) Network Security
12 18 (2.08%) Wireless
13 13 (1.50%) IPsec
14 12 (1.39%) WLAN
15 10 (1.15%) Internet
15 10 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (1.04%) Intranet
17 8 (0.92%) Broadband
17 8 (0.92%) Ethernet
18 7 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.58%) Power BI
2 41 (4.73%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.69%) Metadata
6 6 (0.69%) MySQL
7 5 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.35%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.23%) DataStage
9 2 (0.23%) Power Query
9 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.23%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.12%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 43 (4.97%) JIRA
2 2 (0.23%) Selenium
2 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.12%) Git
3 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 401 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 89 (10.28%) Finance
3 54 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (6.12%) Legal
5 47 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (4.85%) Manufacturing
7 41 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (4.50%) Law
9 35 (4.04%) Public Sector
10 23 (2.66%) Retail
11 14 (1.62%) Advertising
11 14 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.27%) Marketing
13 11 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.58%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.46%) Banking
15 4 (0.46%) German Language
15 4 (0.46%) Local Government
16 2 (0.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 246 (28.41%) IT Support
2 154 (17.78%) Support Engineer
3 132 (15.24%) IT Engineer
4 130 (15.01%) Senior
5 112 (12.93%) IT Support Engineer
6 82 (9.47%) Support Technician
7 80 (9.24%) Analyst
8 70 (8.08%) 2nd Line Support
8 70 (8.08%) IT Technician
9 66 (7.62%) IT Support Technician
10 65 (7.51%) Developer
10 65 (7.51%) Senior Manager
11 64 (7.39%) QA Manager
11 64 (7.39%) Quality Manager
11 64 (7.39%) Senior QA Manager
11 64 (7.39%) Senior Quality Manager
12 51 (5.89%) Support Analyst
13 47 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 46 (5.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.85%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.77%) .NET
2 17 (1.96%) Microsoft Graph
3 15 (1.73%) CSS
3 15 (1.73%) HTML
4 10 (1.15%) JSON
4 10 (1.15%) SPFx
5 9 (1.04%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (0.92%) REST
6 8 (0.92%) Web Services
7 6 (0.69%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.58%) ASP.NET
8 5 (0.58%) XML
9 4 (0.46%) Middleware
10 3 (0.35%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.35%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (0.35%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (0.23%) Node.js
11 2 (0.23%) Razor View Engine
11 2 (0.23%) React
11 2 (0.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 126 (14.55%) Driving Licence
2 65 (7.51%) Onboarding
3 34 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (3.00%) Replication
5 24 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.66%) IoT
6 23 (2.66%) Management Information System
7 17 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.27%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.04%) FMCG
11 8 (0.92%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.58%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.58%) CMDB
13 5 (0.58%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.58%) Digital Signage
13 5 (0.58%) iPad
13 5 (0.58%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 348 (40.18%) Windows
2 177 (20.44%) Windows Server
3 112 (12.93%) Windows 10
4 49 (5.66%) Mac OS
5 41 (4.73%) Android
6 29 (3.35%) Apple iOS
7 21 (2.42%) Linux
8 19 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
2 174 (20.09%) Customer Service
3 166 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 149 (17.21%) ITIL
5 113 (13.05%) Project Management
6 106 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
7 100 (11.55%) Coaching
8 78 (9.01%) Service Delivery
9 75 (8.66%) Agile
10 72 (8.31%) Customer Experience
11 70 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
12 66 (7.62%) Performance Improvement
13 65 (7.51%) Due Diligence
14 64 (7.39%) Lean Six Sigma
14 64 (7.39%) Quality Management
14 64 (7.39%) Six Sigma
15 57 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 51 (5.89%) Disaster Recovery
17 50 (5.77%) AI
18 49 (5.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 95 (10.97%) PowerShell
2 66 (7.62%) SQL
3 23 (2.66%) Python
4 19 (2.19%) VBA
5 17 (1.96%) C#
6 16 (1.85%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.62%) R
8 9 (1.04%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.46%) Java
11 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.23%) Bash
12 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.23%) VB
13 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 109 (12.59%) Degree
2 66 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 64 (7.39%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 62 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (4.85%) SC Cleared
6 22 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.50%) APMP
8 13 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 13 (1.50%) MBA
9 12 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.27%) DBS Check
11 10 (1.15%) A+ Certification
11 10 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.04%) HND
12 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.69%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.89%) QA
2 53 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (5.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 34 (3.93%) SLA
5 26 (3.00%) GDPR
6 23 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 12 (1.39%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.04%) ISO 9001
8 9 (1.04%) PMO
9 6 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.69%) NIST
10 5 (0.58%) ISO 22301
10 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) WCAG
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 339 (39.15%) Active Directory
2 69 (7.97%) Hyper-V
3 47 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.04%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.69%) BitLocker
6 6 (0.69%) DFS Replication
6 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.69%) vSphere
7 4 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.23%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.12%) Docker
10 1 (0.12%) Firmware
10 1 (0.12%) XenApp
10 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 226 (26.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.31%) SCCM
3 17 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (1.39%) Terraform
6 9 (1.04%) Backup Exec
6 9 (1.04%) vRealize
7 7 (0.81%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.81%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.23%) Plesk
8 2 (0.23%) SCOM
8 2 (0.23%) SCSM
9 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.12%) Autotask
9 1 (0.12%) CASB
9 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.12%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.12%) MOM
Vendors
1 672 (77.60%) Microsoft
2 73 (8.43%) VMware
3 57 (6.58%) Apple
4 38 (4.39%) Veeam
5 27 (3.12%) Cisco
6 22 (2.54%) Meraki
7 21 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.62%) Adobe
8 14 (1.62%) Sophos
9 13 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
10 12 (1.39%) Citrix
11 10 (1.15%) ConnectWise
12 9 (1.04%) Datto
12 9 (1.04%) Infor
13 8 (0.92%) Logitech
13 8 (0.92%) New Relic
13 8 (0.92%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.92%) Splunk
13 8 (0.92%) WatchGuard
13 8 (0.92%) Yealink