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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 152 116
Rank change year-on-year +50 -36 +15
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,338 716 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.61% 2.07% 2.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 44.32% 29.51% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,025 559 758
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £52,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £63,750 £70,375
UK median annual salary £42,500 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.19% -11.58% -5.00%

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 3,019 2,426 4,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.63% 7.02% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,177 1,638 2,267
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £31,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,437 £73,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -2.70%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +73 355 £42,500 +14.86% 76
South East +24 300 £45,000 +10.84% 139
East of England +61 238 £37,500 -7.41% 47
Midlands -1 188 £40,000 +3.90% 65
North West +44 167 £50,000 +25.00% 41
Yorkshire +36 153 £38,772 +33.70% 26
West Midlands -13 118 £47,292 +7.48% 41
South West -57 108 £36,250 -6.45% 48
Scotland +42 75 £31,500 -10.00% 23
East Midlands -29 70 £37,500 -2.60% 24
Wales -34 44 £32,000 -20.99% 7
North East -32 35 £47,500 +43.08% 10
Northern Ireland - 31 £63,500 - 6
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
1 483 (36.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.47%) CMS
3 29 (2.17%) Confluence
4 27 (2.02%) Sitecore CMS
5 17 (1.27%) IIS
6 15 (1.12%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.60%) Apache
7 8 (0.60%) nginx
8 5 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.22%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.075%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.075%) WordPress
Applications
1 125 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.97%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.75%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.67%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.30%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.22%) Revit
10 2 (0.15%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.075%) InDesign
11 1 (0.075%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 56 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.05%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.45%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Shopify
6 2 (0.15%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.15%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.075%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.075%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,021 (76.31%) Microsoft 365
2 577 (43.12%) Azure
3 466 (34.83%) Entra ID
4 346 (25.86%) Power Platform
5 298 (22.27%) OneDrive
6 205 (15.32%) PowerApps
7 196 (14.65%) Power Automate
8 127 (9.49%) Microsoft Copilot
9 87 (6.50%) SaaS
10 83 (6.20%) Dynamics 365
11 68 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
12 59 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
13 47 (3.51%) Mimecast
14 32 (2.39%) AWS
15 27 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
16 26 (1.94%) Copilot Studio
16 26 (1.94%) IaaS
17 20 (1.49%) Google Workspace
18 19 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 19 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 269 (20.10%) Firewall
2 247 (18.46%) DNS
3 210 (15.70%) DHCP
4 176 (13.15%) VPN
5 125 (9.34%) VLAN
6 121 (9.04%) Wi-Fi
7 91 (6.80%) VoIP
8 82 (6.13%) TCP/IP
9 79 (5.90%) Wireless
10 69 (5.16%) LAN
11 66 (4.93%) WAN
12 27 (2.02%) Network Security
13 19 (1.42%) SSL
14 16 (1.20%) Skype
15 15 (1.12%) PBX
16 14 (1.05%) Internet
17 13 (0.97%) Broadband
17 13 (0.97%) Intranet
18 11 (0.82%) SAN
19 10 (0.75%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (12.93%) Power BI
2 51 (3.81%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (0.90%) Metadata
5 9 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.67%) GIS
6 6 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.30%) Power Query
7 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.22%) EDMS
9 2 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.075%) MySQL
10 1 (0.075%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.075%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (5.68%) JIRA
2 22 (1.64%) Git
3 5 (0.37%) Postman
4 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.22%) Selenium
5 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.15%) JUnit
6 2 (0.15%) Mockito
6 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.075%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.075%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 663 (49.55%) Social Skills
2 197 (14.72%) Finance
3 136 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (8.45%) Organisational Skills
5 93 (6.95%) Legal
6 67 (5.01%) Manufacturing
7 64 (4.78%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.91%) Marketing
10 35 (2.62%) Law
11 31 (2.32%) Retail
12 28 (2.09%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (2.02%) Publishing
14 26 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.64%) Local Government
16 11 (0.82%) Advertising
17 10 (0.75%) Games
17 10 (0.75%) Legal Technology
18 9 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 340 (25.41%) IT Support
2 225 (16.82%) Support Engineer
3 222 (16.59%) Senior
4 214 (15.99%) IT Engineer
5 192 (14.35%) IT Support Engineer
6 143 (10.69%) Developer
7 136 (10.16%) Analyst
8 92 (6.88%) Support Analyst
9 91 (6.80%) IT Technician
10 72 (5.38%) Support Technician
11 71 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
12 69 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 66 (4.93%) Administrator
14 64 (4.78%) Lead
15 62 (4.63%) IT Support Technician
16 61 (4.56%) Consultant
17 56 (4.19%) IT Analyst
18 50 (3.74%) Senior Developer
19 49 (3.66%) IT Support Analyst
20 48 (3.59%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.04%) HTML
2 44 (3.29%) CSS
3 40 (2.99%) Microsoft Graph
4 35 (2.62%) .NET
5 33 (2.47%) HTML5 Canvas
6 32 (2.39%) SPFx
7 28 (2.09%) JSON
8 17 (1.27%) .NET Core
9 14 (1.05%) REST
10 13 (0.97%) XML
11 12 (0.90%) React
12 11 (0.82%) ASP.NET
13 8 (0.60%) .NET Framework
13 8 (0.60%) Terraform
14 7 (0.52%) Middleware
14 7 (0.52%) Razor View Engine
15 6 (0.45%) Playwright
15 6 (0.45%) XSLT
16 5 (0.37%) ASP.NET Core
16 5 (0.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 152 (11.36%) Driving Licence
2 132 (9.87%) Onboarding
3 121 (9.04%) Management Information System
4 73 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (2.32%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.02%) Blog
6 27 (2.02%) Marketing Technology
7 26 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 23 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.35%) Clustering
9 18 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 15 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.05%) CMDB
13 13 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
14 12 (0.90%) Social Media
14 12 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
15 10 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 526 (39.31%) Windows
2 266 (19.88%) Windows Server
3 104 (7.77%) Windows 10
4 78 (5.83%) Mac OS
5 35 (2.62%) Apple iOS
6 33 (2.47%) Linux
7 32 (2.39%) Android
8 25 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.67%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.30%) VMS
13 3 (0.22%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.075%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (32.51%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 256 (19.13%) Customer Service
4 214 (15.99%) Cybersecurity
5 193 (14.42%) ITIL
6 170 (12.71%) AI
7 152 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
8 148 (11.06%) Service Delivery
9 134 (10.01%) Project Delivery
10 132 (9.87%) Disaster Recovery
10 132 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 123 (9.19%) CRM
12 116 (8.67%) Service Management
12 116 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 106 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
14 104 (7.77%) Project Management
14 104 (7.77%) User Experience
15 103 (7.70%) Agile
16 102 (7.62%) Workflow
17 94 (7.03%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 194 (14.50%) PowerShell
2 118 (8.82%) SQL
3 71 (5.31%) C#
3 71 (5.31%) JavaScript
4 25 (1.87%) Python
4 25 (1.87%) R
5 23 (1.72%) TypeScript
6 13 (0.97%) VBA
7 10 (0.75%) Ruby
8 7 (0.52%) C
8 7 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.22%) Bicep
9 3 (0.22%) C++
9 3 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.22%) Java
9 3 (0.22%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.075%) Bash
11 1 (0.075%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (13.98%) Degree
2 137 (10.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 65 (4.86%) Security Cleared
4 58 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.62%) DBS Check
7 33 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
9 23 (1.72%) CCNA
10 18 (1.35%) A+ Certification
11 17 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
13 13 (0.97%) HND
13 13 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 10 (0.75%) HNC
15 9 (0.67%) DV Cleared
15 9 (0.67%) MCSE
16 8 (0.60%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.52%) MCSA
18 5 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 73 (5.46%) GDPR
3 61 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (3.51%) SLA
5 33 (2.47%) QA
6 29 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 21 (1.57%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.27%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.60%) WCAG
11 7 (0.52%) NIST
12 6 (0.45%) ISO 14001
12 6 (0.45%) PMO
13 5 (0.37%) COSHH
13 5 (0.37%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) NEBOSH
14 4 (0.30%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.15%) IEC 61131
16 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 504 (37.67%) Active Directory
2 140 (10.46%) Hyper-V
3 136 (10.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.42%) vSphere
6 16 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 11 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.075%) Docker
10 1 (0.075%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 323 (24.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.09%) SCCM
3 21 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
4 16 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.05%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.37%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.22%) cPanel
7 3 (0.22%) Plesk
7 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.15%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
8 2 (0.15%) vRealize
9 1 (0.075%) Nessus
9 1 (0.075%) VxRail
9 1 (0.075%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,125 (84.08%) Microsoft
2 157 (11.73%) VMware
3 81 (6.05%) Cisco
4 70 (5.23%) Veeam
5 56 (4.19%) Apple
6 43 (3.21%) SonicWALL
7 37 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 30 (2.24%) Adobe
9 28 (2.09%) CrowdStrike
10 27 (2.02%) Google
10 27 (2.02%) Sitecore
11 26 (1.94%) Meraki
12 22 (1.64%) HP
13 19 (1.42%) Datto
13 19 (1.42%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.27%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.27%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.20%) Ubiquiti
16 15 (1.12%) Aruba
16 15 (1.12%) Citrix