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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 154 93
Rank change year-on-year +27 -61 +57
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 949 653 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.42% 2.24% 2.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.86% 27.49% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 761 521 1,588
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,663 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -3.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,688 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £63,750
UK median annual salary £43,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +5.88% -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 2,381 2,375 6,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.56% 8.14% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,824 1,530 4,577
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £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 £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,360 £70,000
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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +38 256 £42,500 +21.43% 84
South East -25 180 £50,000 +23.15% 122
East of England +28 171 £42,879 +28.00% 37
Midlands -9 169 £37,500 -2.60% 60
North West +50 142 £50,000 +19.76% 44
West Midlands +1 112 £38,000 -14.87% 35
Yorkshire +1 99 £37,500 +31.58% 29
South West -19 85 £29,000 -35.56% 41
East Midlands -24 57 £37,500 +7.14% 24
Scotland +15 40 £36,000 +9.09% 18
Wales -7 35 £40,000 -2.44% 6
North East -30 15 £36,886 +15.27% 13
Northern Ireland -33 9 £61,250 +16.67% 10
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
1 339 (35.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.37%) Confluence
3 9 (0.95%) IIS
4 8 (0.84%) CMS
5 5 (0.53%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.32%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.32%) govService
6 3 (0.32%) SAS
7 2 (0.21%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 81 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (7.80%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.21%) CorelDRAW
7 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.11%) InDesign
8 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.05%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.95%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.32%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 2 (0.21%) Alphatax
8 2 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.11%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 752 (79.24%) Microsoft 365
2 428 (45.10%) Azure
3 297 (31.30%) Entra ID
4 221 (23.29%) OneDrive
5 204 (21.50%) Power Platform
6 114 (12.01%) PowerApps
7 112 (11.80%) Power Automate
8 50 (5.27%) SaaS
9 45 (4.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 37 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 34 (3.58%) Mimecast
12 32 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
13 30 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 28 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.11%) AWS
16 19 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 13 (1.37%) Serverless
18 12 (1.26%) IaaS
18 12 (1.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 200 (21.07%) Firewall
2 192 (20.23%) DNS
3 164 (17.28%) DHCP
4 135 (14.23%) VPN
5 93 (9.80%) Wi-Fi
6 83 (8.75%) VLAN
7 70 (7.38%) WAN
8 69 (7.27%) LAN
9 65 (6.85%) VoIP
10 48 (5.06%) TCP/IP
11 30 (3.16%) Wireless
12 14 (1.48%) Internet
13 11 (1.16%) Intranet
13 11 (1.16%) Network Security
14 10 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
14 10 (1.05%) SAN
14 10 (1.05%) WLAN
15 8 (0.84%) IPsec
16 7 (0.74%) Broadband
17 5 (0.53%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (12.75%) Power BI
2 58 (6.11%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.16%) Metadata
6 9 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.42%) Power Query
9 3 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.21%) DataStage
10 2 (0.21%) MySQL
10 2 (0.21%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.21%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.11%) EDMS
11 1 (0.11%) GIS
11 1 (0.11%) PowerCenter
11 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (6.22%) JIRA
2 5 (0.53%) Postman
3 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.42%) Git
4 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.21%) Selenium
5 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) Carbide.c++
6 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 398 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 110 (11.59%) Finance
3 81 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (6.95%) Legal
5 64 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (4.74%) Public Sector
7 42 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (4.32%) Manufacturing
9 37 (3.90%) Law
10 28 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.32%) Retail
12 18 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.37%) Advertising
13 13 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.84%) Local Government
15 7 (0.74%) Marketing
16 6 (0.63%) Games
17 5 (0.53%) Banking
17 5 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 272 (28.66%) IT Support
2 163 (17.18%) Support Engineer
3 155 (16.33%) IT Engineer
4 138 (14.54%) Senior
5 131 (13.80%) IT Support Engineer
6 111 (11.70%) Analyst
7 95 (10.01%) Developer
8 79 (8.32%) IT Technician
9 78 (8.22%) Support Technician
10 75 (7.90%) Support Analyst
11 67 (7.06%) 2nd Line Support
12 66 (6.95%) IT Support Technician
13 57 (6.01%) IT Analyst
14 54 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 48 (5.06%) IT Support Analyst
16 43 (4.53%) 3rd Line Support
16 43 (4.53%) Consultant
16 43 (4.53%) Senior Developer
17 41 (4.32%) Lead
18 39 (4.11%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.11%) .NET
2 36 (3.79%) HTML
3 34 (3.58%) CSS
4 33 (3.48%) Microsoft Graph
5 24 (2.53%) SPFx
6 23 (2.42%) HTML5 Canvas
6 23 (2.42%) JSON
7 19 (2.00%) .NET Core
8 12 (1.26%) REST
9 10 (1.05%) ASP.NET
10 9 (0.95%) .NET Framework
10 9 (0.95%) React
11 7 (0.74%) Web Services
12 6 (0.63%) Node.js
13 5 (0.53%) Entity Framework
13 5 (0.53%) Razor View Engine
13 5 (0.53%) Swagger
13 5 (0.53%) XML
14 4 (0.42%) ASP.NET Core
14 4 (0.42%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 107 (11.28%) Driving Licence
2 75 (7.90%) Onboarding
3 46 (4.85%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.74%) Replication
6 18 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.37%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.05%) Clustering
9 10 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 9 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (0.95%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.84%) CMDB
11 8 (0.84%) Social Media
12 6 (0.63%) Cyber Security Posture
12 6 (0.63%) FMCG
13 5 (0.53%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.42%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 381 (40.15%) Windows
2 193 (20.34%) Windows Server
3 84 (8.85%) Windows 10
4 57 (6.01%) Mac OS
5 42 (4.43%) Android
6 27 (2.85%) Apple iOS
7 21 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (1.79%) Linux
10 9 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.21%) Unix
11 2 (0.21%) VMS
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
2 202 (21.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 172 (18.12%) ITIL
4 159 (16.75%) Customer Service
5 127 (13.38%) Cybersecurity
6 112 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
7 94 (9.91%) User Experience
8 89 (9.38%) Service Delivery
9 81 (8.54%) Agile
10 78 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 68 (7.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 67 (7.06%) CRM
12 67 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
13 66 (6.95%) Project Management
14 64 (6.74%) Service Management
15 63 (6.64%) Coaching
16 62 (6.53%) AI
17 61 (6.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 60 (6.32%) Mentoring
19 58 (6.11%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 131 (13.80%) PowerShell
2 104 (10.96%) SQL
3 41 (4.32%) C#
4 38 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.32%) TypeScript
6 18 (1.90%) VBA
7 17 (1.79%) R
8 16 (1.69%) Python
9 9 (0.95%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.42%) C
11 4 (0.42%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.32%) Java
13 1 (0.11%) Bash
13 1 (0.11%) Bicep
13 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 140 (14.75%) Degree
2 79 (8.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 62 (6.53%) Security Cleared
4 45 (4.74%) SC Cleared
5 19 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 18 (1.90%) A+ Certification
7 16 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.69%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (0.84%) APMP
11 8 (0.84%) CCNA
11 8 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.84%) MBA
12 5 (0.53%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (6.01%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (3.27%) GDPR
4 28 (2.95%) SLA
5 26 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 20 (2.11%) QA
7 19 (2.00%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.16%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.84%) PMO
10 5 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.53%) ISO 22301
10 5 (0.53%) NIST
11 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.11%) COSHH
13 1 (0.11%) GxP
13 1 (0.11%) NCSC
13 1 (0.11%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 376 (39.62%) Active Directory
2 89 (9.38%) Hyper-V
3 66 (6.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.84%) vSphere
8 7 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.63%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.63%) DFS Replication
9 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.32%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.11%) Docker
11 1 (0.11%) Firmware
11 1 (0.11%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.11%) XenApp
11 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 222 (23.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (2.21%) Jamf Pro
2 21 (2.21%) SCCM
3 20 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.16%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.95%) Backup Exec
6 7 (0.74%) vCenter Server
6 7 (0.74%) vRealize
7 6 (0.63%) Terraform
8 2 (0.21%) cPanel
8 2 (0.21%) Plesk
9 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.11%) Autotask
9 1 (0.11%) CASB
9 1 (0.11%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.11%) MOM
Vendors
1 740 (77.98%) Microsoft
2 94 (9.91%) VMware
3 58 (6.11%) Apple
4 52 (5.48%) Veeam
5 42 (4.43%) Cisco
6 29 (3.06%) Meraki
7 27 (2.85%) Adobe
8 26 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 19 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
9 19 (2.00%) SonicWALL
10 12 (1.26%) Ubiquiti
11 11 (1.16%) Datto
11 11 (1.16%) Sophos
12 10 (1.05%) Computacenter
12 10 (1.05%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.05%) WatchGuard
13 9 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.95%) Google
14 8 (0.84%) Logitech
14 8 (0.84%) Yealink