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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 143 103
Rank change year-on-year +29 -40 +25
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,191 763 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.54% 2.20% 2.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 40.75% 29.23% 28.87%
Number of salaries quoted 948 595 1,046
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,125 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -9.41% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,125 £63,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £43,000 £42,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% -6.67% -10.00%

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 2,923 2,610 4,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.77% 7.53% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,158 1,766 2,966
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,306 £73,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.46%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +56 326 £42,500 +21.43% 86
South East +9 265 £50,000 +25.00% 127
East of England +51 224 £40,000 -1.23% 51
North West +37 160 £50,000 +25.00% 39
Midlands -18 155 £37,500 -6.25% 69
Yorkshire +38 137 £38,772 +36.04% 42
South West -58 102 £36,250 -9.38% 42
West Midlands -21 91 £39,000 -11.91% 46
Scotland +40 67 £29,250 -22.00% 31
East Midlands -23 64 £37,500 -2.60% 23
Wales -21 44 £38,000 -6.17% 8
North East -38 29 £45,871 +43.35% 7
Northern Ireland - 6 £63,500 - 12
Isle of Man 0 3 £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
1 447 (37.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.77%) Confluence
3 15 (1.26%) IIS
4 13 (1.09%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.76%) CMS
6 5 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) nginx
8 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.25%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.84%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.84%) CorelDRAW
6 9 (0.76%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.17%) Revit
9 2 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.084%) InDesign
10 1 (0.084%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.084%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.92%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.50%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (0.34%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.25%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.084%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.084%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.084%) Shopify
7 1 (0.084%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 934 (78.42%) Microsoft 365
2 539 (45.26%) Azure
3 412 (34.59%) Entra ID
4 286 (24.01%) Power Platform
5 258 (21.66%) OneDrive
6 173 (14.53%) Power Automate
7 161 (13.52%) PowerApps
8 99 (8.31%) Microsoft Copilot
9 86 (7.22%) SaaS
10 54 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
10 54 (4.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 54 (4.53%) Mimecast
11 47 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 27 (2.27%) AWS
14 23 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 21 (1.76%) Copilot Studio
16 20 (1.68%) IaaS
17 18 (1.51%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 244 (20.49%) Firewall
2 225 (18.89%) DNS
3 193 (16.20%) DHCP
4 152 (12.76%) VPN
5 108 (9.07%) VLAN
6 107 (8.98%) Wi-Fi
7 82 (6.88%) VoIP
8 70 (5.88%) TCP/IP
9 68 (5.71%) LAN
10 65 (5.46%) Wireless
11 63 (5.29%) WAN
12 24 (2.02%) Network Security
13 17 (1.43%) SSL
14 14 (1.18%) Internet
14 14 (1.18%) SAN
14 14 (1.18%) Skype
15 11 (0.92%) Broadband
16 9 (0.76%) Intranet
17 8 (0.67%) Cisco Wireless
17 8 (0.67%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (11.34%) Power BI
2 44 (3.69%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (0.92%) Metadata
5 9 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.42%) GIS
7 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.34%) Power Query
9 3 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.25%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.25%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.17%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.17%) EDRMS
11 1 (0.084%) DataStage
11 1 (0.084%) EDMS
11 1 (0.084%) PowerCenter
11 1 (0.084%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 81 (6.80%) JIRA
2 9 (0.76%) Git
3 5 (0.42%) Postman
4 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.34%) Selenium
5 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.17%) JUnit
6 2 (0.17%) Mockito
6 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.084%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.084%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 546 (45.84%) Social Skills
2 144 (12.09%) Finance
3 123 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (8.23%) Legal
5 90 (7.56%) Organisational Skills
6 66 (5.54%) Manufacturing
7 47 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.19%) Law
9 31 (2.60%) Retail
10 29 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.51%) Local Government
15 12 (1.01%) Advertising
16 9 (0.76%) Legal Technology
16 9 (0.76%) Marketing
17 8 (0.67%) Banking
17 8 (0.67%) Military
18 6 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 317 (26.62%) IT Support
2 197 (16.54%) Support Engineer
3 193 (16.20%) IT Engineer
4 183 (15.37%) Senior
5 172 (14.44%) IT Support Engineer
6 130 (10.92%) Developer
7 116 (9.74%) Analyst
8 93 (7.81%) IT Technician
9 76 (6.38%) Support Technician
10 74 (6.21%) Support Analyst
11 66 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 66 (5.54%) IT Support Technician
12 61 (5.12%) Administrator
13 60 (5.04%) 2nd Line Support
14 57 (4.79%) Consultant
15 55 (4.62%) Lead
16 53 (4.45%) IT Analyst
17 51 (4.28%) Senior Developer
18 48 (4.03%) 3rd Line Support
19 45 (3.78%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.45%) HTML
2 44 (3.69%) CSS
3 43 (3.61%) Microsoft Graph
4 39 (3.27%) .NET
5 34 (2.85%) HTML5 Canvas
5 34 (2.85%) SPFx
6 26 (2.18%) JSON
7 19 (1.60%) .NET Core
8 15 (1.26%) REST
9 13 (1.09%) React
10 11 (0.92%) ASP.NET
11 9 (0.76%) XML
12 8 (0.67%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.59%) Razor View Engine
14 6 (0.50%) Node.js
14 6 (0.50%) Playwright
15 5 (0.42%) ASP.NET Core
15 5 (0.42%) Swagger
16 4 (0.34%) Entity Framework
16 4 (0.34%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 137 (11.50%) Driving Licence
2 108 (9.07%) Onboarding
3 78 (6.55%) Management Information System
4 52 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.18%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.18%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (1.85%) Security Posture
8 20 (1.68%) Clustering
9 16 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.18%) CMDB
10 14 (1.18%) Replication
11 12 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
13 9 (0.76%) IoT
13 9 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
13 9 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 464 (38.96%) Windows
2 243 (20.40%) Windows Server
3 104 (8.73%) Windows 10
4 82 (6.88%) Mac OS
5 35 (2.94%) Android
6 31 (2.60%) Apple iOS
7 28 (2.35%) Linux
8 24 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.42%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.25%) VMS
12 3 (0.25%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 294 (24.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 217 (18.22%) Customer Service
4 184 (15.45%) ITIL
5 173 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
6 140 (11.75%) Business Intelligence
7 129 (10.83%) AI
8 120 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 120 (10.08%) Service Delivery
9 112 (9.40%) User Experience
10 108 (9.07%) Disaster Recovery
11 106 (8.90%) Project Delivery
12 101 (8.48%) Service Management
13 100 (8.40%) Agile
14 98 (8.23%) Technical Leadership
15 92 (7.72%) Stakeholder Management
16 90 (7.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 87 (7.30%) CRM
18 81 (6.80%) ERP
19 80 (6.72%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 182 (15.28%) PowerShell
2 122 (10.24%) SQL
3 65 (5.46%) JavaScript
4 59 (4.95%) C#
5 29 (2.43%) R
6 25 (2.10%) Python
6 25 (2.10%) TypeScript
7 15 (1.26%) VBA
8 8 (0.67%) Ruby
9 7 (0.59%) C
9 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.42%) Java
11 3 (0.25%) Bicep
11 3 (0.25%) C++
11 3 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.25%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.17%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.084%) Bash
13 1 (0.084%) VB
Qualifications
1 177 (14.86%) Degree
2 122 (10.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 64 (5.37%) Security Cleared
4 55 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 35 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (2.27%) DBS Check
7 19 (1.60%) CCNA
8 18 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
9 14 (1.18%) A+ Certification
9 14 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.09%) HND
11 11 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
11 11 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 10 (0.84%) HNC
13 9 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.76%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.76%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.50%) MCSA
14 6 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 66 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (4.79%) GDPR
4 37 (3.11%) SLA
5 33 (2.77%) QA
6 22 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 21 (1.76%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.34%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.26%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.67%) PMO
11 7 (0.59%) NIST
12 5 (0.42%) COSHH
12 5 (0.42%) ISO 14001
12 5 (0.42%) NCSC
12 5 (0.42%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.34%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.17%) IEC 61131
15 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 2 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 463 (38.87%) Active Directory
2 117 (9.82%) Hyper-V
3 109 (9.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.60%) vSphere
5 16 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 11 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.25%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.25%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.084%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 299 (25.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (2.10%) Jamf Pro
2 25 (2.10%) SCCM
3 15 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (1.18%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.67%) Terraform
5 8 (0.67%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.42%) Ansible
7 3 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.25%) cPanel
7 3 (0.25%) Plesk
7 3 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.17%) Puppet
8 2 (0.17%) vRealize
9 1 (0.084%) Autotask
9 1 (0.084%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.084%) Nessus
Vendors
1 997 (83.71%) Microsoft
2 133 (11.17%) VMware
3 78 (6.55%) Cisco
4 65 (5.46%) Veeam
5 55 (4.62%) Apple
6 33 (2.77%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
7 32 (2.69%) SonicWALL
8 30 (2.52%) Meraki
9 28 (2.35%) Adobe
10 21 (1.76%) Google
10 21 (1.76%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.43%) Datto
12 16 (1.34%) Ubiquiti
13 14 (1.18%) Aruba
13 14 (1.18%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.09%) HP
14 13 (1.09%) Sophos
15 12 (1.01%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.92%) Sage