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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 153 96
Rank change year-on-year +40 -57 +53
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 954 670 1,977
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.45% 2.28% 2.56%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.78% 27.47% 29.64%
Number of salaries quoted 769 538 1,596
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,125 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,740 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% -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 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.15% +2.35% -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 2,398 2,439 6,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.64% 8.28% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,835 1,571 4,564
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -12.37%
75th Percentile £61,375 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £75,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +54 263 £42,500 +21.43% 66
South East -23 175 £50,000 +26.58% 117
East of England +37 171 £42,500 +26.87% 32
Midlands +3 169 £38,000 -1.30% 50
North West +56 146 £50,500 +18.82% 34
West Midlands +11 113 £42,500 -4.01% 27
Yorkshire -1 101 £38,636 +35.56% 26
South West -26 85 £29,000 -35.56% 41
East Midlands -25 56 £37,500 +3.45% 23
Scotland +25 43 £36,000 +9.09% 10
Wales -12 36 £40,000 -2.44% 6
North East -33 16 £36,886 +15.27% 8
Northern Ireland -28 8 £61,250 +16.67% 5
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
1 333 (34.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.35%) Confluence
3 9 (0.94%) CMS
3 9 (0.94%) IIS
4 5 (0.52%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.31%) govService
5 3 (0.31%) SAS
6 2 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
6 2 (0.21%) WordPress
7 1 (0.10%) Apache
Applications
1 78 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.42%) CorelDRAW
7 3 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.10%) InDesign
9 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 19 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.05%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.94%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.10%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 757 (79.35%) Microsoft 365
2 436 (45.70%) Azure
3 304 (31.87%) Entra ID
4 224 (23.48%) OneDrive
5 208 (21.80%) Power Platform
6 116 (12.16%) PowerApps
7 114 (11.95%) Power Automate
8 52 (5.45%) SaaS
9 48 (5.03%) Microsoft Copilot
10 38 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 35 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
12 34 (3.56%) Mimecast
13 31 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
14 29 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (2.20%) AWS
17 19 (1.99%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 13 (1.36%) PaaS
18 13 (1.36%) Serverless
19 12 (1.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 202 (21.17%) Firewall
2 192 (20.13%) DNS
3 164 (17.19%) DHCP
4 135 (14.15%) VPN
5 88 (9.22%) Wi-Fi
6 82 (8.60%) VLAN
7 65 (6.81%) VoIP
8 63 (6.60%) LAN
8 63 (6.60%) WAN
9 46 (4.82%) TCP/IP
10 33 (3.46%) Wireless
11 14 (1.47%) Internet
12 11 (1.15%) Intranet
13 10 (1.05%) Network Security
13 10 (1.05%) SAN
14 8 (0.84%) IPsec
14 8 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (0.84%) WLAN
15 7 (0.73%) Broadband
16 5 (0.52%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (12.68%) Power BI
2 58 (6.08%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.15%) Metadata
6 10 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.42%) Power Query
10 3 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.21%) DataStage
11 2 (0.21%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.21%) MySQL
11 2 (0.21%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.21%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.10%) EDMS
12 1 (0.10%) PowerCenter
12 1 (0.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (6.50%) JIRA
2 5 (0.52%) Postman
3 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.42%) Git
4 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.31%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Carbide.c++
6 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 402 (42.14%) Social Skills
2 112 (11.74%) Finance
3 83 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (7.23%) Legal
5 67 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 42 (4.40%) Manufacturing
8 39 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (3.88%) Law
10 29 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.31%) Retail
12 18 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.36%) Advertising
15 9 (0.94%) Local Government
16 7 (0.73%) Marketing
17 6 (0.63%) Games
18 5 (0.52%) Banking
19 4 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
20 3 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 271 (28.41%) IT Support
2 162 (16.98%) Support Engineer
3 155 (16.25%) IT Engineer
4 138 (14.47%) Senior
5 131 (13.73%) IT Support Engineer
6 112 (11.74%) Analyst
7 97 (10.17%) Developer
8 78 (8.18%) IT Technician
9 77 (8.07%) Support Analyst
10 75 (7.86%) Support Technician
11 64 (6.71%) 2nd Line Support
11 64 (6.71%) IT Support Technician
12 59 (6.18%) IT Analyst
13 52 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (5.24%) IT Support Analyst
15 44 (4.61%) Senior Developer
16 43 (4.51%) 3rd Line Support
17 42 (4.40%) Lead
18 41 (4.30%) Consultant
19 38 (3.98%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.09%) .NET
2 38 (3.98%) HTML
3 36 (3.77%) CSS
4 35 (3.67%) Microsoft Graph
5 26 (2.73%) SPFx
6 25 (2.62%) HTML5 Canvas
7 23 (2.41%) JSON
8 19 (1.99%) .NET Core
9 12 (1.26%) REST
10 10 (1.05%) ASP.NET
11 9 (0.94%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.94%) React
12 7 (0.73%) Web Services
13 6 (0.63%) Node.js
13 6 (0.63%) XML
14 5 (0.52%) Entity Framework
14 5 (0.52%) Razor View Engine
14 5 (0.52%) Swagger
15 4 (0.42%) ASP.NET Core
15 4 (0.42%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 108 (11.32%) Driving Licence
2 77 (8.07%) Onboarding
3 47 (4.93%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.52%) Replication
6 19 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 15 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.15%) Clustering
8 11 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (0.94%) Low-Code
10 9 (0.94%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.84%) CMDB
11 8 (0.84%) Social Media
12 7 (0.73%) FMCG
13 6 (0.63%) Cyber Security Posture
14 5 (0.52%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 380 (39.83%) Windows
2 192 (20.13%) Windows Server
3 87 (9.12%) Windows 10
4 62 (6.50%) Mac OS
5 39 (4.09%) Android
6 28 (2.94%) Apple iOS
7 21 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (1.78%) Linux
10 8 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.21%) Unix
11 2 (0.21%) VMS
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
2 210 (22.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 169 (17.71%) ITIL
4 162 (16.98%) Customer Service
5 129 (13.52%) Cybersecurity
6 115 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
7 96 (10.06%) User Experience
8 91 (9.54%) Service Delivery
9 85 (8.91%) Agile
10 77 (8.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 71 (7.44%) Service Management
12 70 (7.34%) Disaster Recovery
13 67 (7.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 67 (7.02%) Technical Leadership
14 66 (6.92%) CRM
15 63 (6.60%) AI
15 63 (6.60%) Coaching
16 62 (6.50%) Project Management
17 59 (6.18%) Mentoring
18 57 (5.97%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 131 (13.73%) PowerShell
2 108 (11.32%) SQL
3 43 (4.51%) C#
4 40 (4.19%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.31%) TypeScript
6 17 (1.78%) R
7 16 (1.68%) VBA
8 15 (1.57%) Python
9 9 (0.94%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.42%) C
11 4 (0.42%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.31%) Java
13 1 (0.10%) Bash
13 1 (0.10%) Bicep
13 1 (0.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 140 (14.68%) Degree
2 80 (8.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 60 (6.29%) Security Cleared
4 43 (4.51%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.89%) A+ Certification
5 18 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 18 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.68%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (0.94%) CCNA
10 8 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (0.73%) APMP
11 7 (0.73%) MBA
12 6 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.52%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 30 (3.14%) GDPR
4 27 (2.83%) SLA
5 26 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 23 (2.41%) QA
7 19 (1.99%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.68%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.73%) PMO
10 5 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.52%) NIST
11 4 (0.42%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.31%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.21%) COSHH
13 2 (0.21%) NEBOSH
13 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.10%) AQAP
14 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 376 (39.41%) Active Directory
2 90 (9.43%) Hyper-V
3 67 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.84%) vSphere
8 7 (0.73%) 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 2 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.10%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.10%) XenApp
11 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 221 (23.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
3 21 (2.20%) SCCM
4 20 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.05%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.94%) Backup Exec
7 7 (0.73%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.73%) vRealize
8 6 (0.63%) Terraform
9 2 (0.21%) cPanel
9 2 (0.21%) Plesk
10 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.10%) Autotask
10 1 (0.10%) CASB
10 1 (0.10%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 751 (78.72%) Microsoft
2 97 (10.17%) VMware
3 56 (5.87%) Apple
4 50 (5.24%) Veeam
5 44 (4.61%) Cisco
6 29 (3.04%) Meraki
7 26 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.62%) Adobe
9 20 (2.10%) SonicWALL
10 19 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.36%) Datto
11 13 (1.36%) Ubiquiti
12 11 (1.15%) Sophos
13 10 (1.05%) Computacenter
13 10 (1.05%) Google
13 10 (1.05%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.05%) WatchGuard
14 8 (0.84%) ConnectWise
14 8 (0.84%) Fortinet
14 8 (0.84%) Yealink