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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 150 102
Rank change year-on-year +46 -48 +42
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,080 694 1,883
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.55% 2.20% 2.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 40.71% 27.46% 29.28%
Number of salaries quoted 878 556 1,540
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -3.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,416 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £64,528
UK median annual salary £44,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.53% - -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 2,653 2,527 6,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.81% 8.00% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,029 1,641 4,472
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -12.37%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,424 £73,886 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +61 290 £42,500 +19.06% 84
South East -10 215 £50,000 +33.33% 131
East of England +43 190 £42,500 +20.57% 30
Midlands +3 186 £38,500 - 44
North West +48 151 £50,000 +17.65% 40
Yorkshire +22 119 £40,000 +40.35% 31
West Midlands +9 119 £42,500 -4.01% 25
South West -39 91 £32,500 -27.37% 50
East Midlands -19 67 £37,500 +3.45% 19
Scotland +39 54 £30,000 -9.09% 12
Wales -14 41 £40,000 -2.44% 12
North East -41 20 £47,500 +48.44% 15
Northern Ireland -25 9 £62,500 +19.05% 8
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
1 385 (35.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.69%) Confluence
3 12 (1.11%) CMS
4 9 (0.83%) IIS
5 8 (0.74%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.093%) govService
Applications
1 78 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (7.13%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.93%) CorelDRAW
5 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.46%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.093%) InDesign
10 1 (0.093%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.093%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.28%) Q-Pulse
6 3 (0.28%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.28%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 2 (0.19%) Alphatax
7 2 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.093%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.093%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.093%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 852 (78.89%) Microsoft 365
2 506 (46.85%) Azure
3 354 (32.78%) Entra ID
4 245 (22.69%) OneDrive
5 235 (21.76%) Power Platform
6 141 (13.06%) Power Automate
6 141 (13.06%) PowerApps
7 65 (6.02%) Microsoft Copilot
8 64 (5.93%) SaaS
9 49 (4.54%) Mimecast
10 44 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 34 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
14 28 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (2.31%) AWS
16 23 (2.13%) Copilot Studio
17 20 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 15 (1.39%) Serverless
19 14 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 231 (21.39%) Firewall
2 223 (20.65%) DNS
3 197 (18.24%) DHCP
4 156 (14.44%) VPN
5 105 (9.72%) VLAN
6 97 (8.98%) Wi-Fi
7 79 (7.31%) VoIP
8 73 (6.76%) LAN
9 70 (6.48%) WAN
10 63 (5.83%) TCP/IP
11 53 (4.91%) Wireless
12 17 (1.57%) Network Security
13 14 (1.30%) Internet
14 11 (1.02%) Intranet
14 11 (1.02%) SAN
15 10 (0.93%) Broadband
16 8 (0.74%) PBX
16 8 (0.74%) Skype
16 8 (0.74%) WLAN
17 7 (0.65%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (11.67%) Power BI
2 55 (5.09%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.11%) Metadata
5 9 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.28%) Power Query
8 2 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.19%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.19%) DataStage
8 2 (0.19%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.19%) MySQL
8 2 (0.19%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.19%) Tableau
9 1 (0.093%) EDMS
9 1 (0.093%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 68 (6.30%) JIRA
2 5 (0.46%) Postman
3 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.37%) Git
3 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.19%) Selenium
6 1 (0.093%) Carbide.c++
6 1 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 463 (42.87%) Social Skills
2 130 (12.04%) Finance
3 89 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.96%) Legal
5 84 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
6 54 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 48 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.61%) Law
9 35 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
12 26 (2.41%) Retail
13 24 (2.22%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.30%) Local Government
15 10 (0.93%) Advertising
16 9 (0.83%) Marketing
17 7 (0.65%) Banking
17 7 (0.65%) Games
18 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
19 3 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 312 (28.89%) IT Support
2 187 (17.31%) IT Engineer
3 185 (17.13%) Support Engineer
4 159 (14.72%) IT Support Engineer
5 151 (13.98%) Senior
6 132 (12.22%) Analyst
7 115 (10.65%) Developer
8 89 (8.24%) Support Analyst
9 85 (7.87%) IT Technician
10 72 (6.67%) Support Technician
11 70 (6.48%) IT Analyst
12 64 (5.93%) 2nd Line Support
12 64 (5.93%) IT Support Technician
13 59 (5.46%) IT Support Analyst
14 57 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 54 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
16 48 (4.44%) Administrator
17 46 (4.26%) Lead
17 46 (4.26%) Senior Developer
18 43 (3.98%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.07%) HTML
2 40 (3.70%) .NET
3 37 (3.43%) Microsoft Graph
4 36 (3.33%) CSS
5 30 (2.78%) SPFx
6 27 (2.50%) HTML5 Canvas
7 23 (2.13%) JSON
8 19 (1.76%) .NET Core
9 12 (1.11%) ASP.NET
9 12 (1.11%) REST
10 11 (1.02%) React
11 9 (0.83%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.83%) XML
12 7 (0.65%) Razor View Engine
12 7 (0.65%) Web Services
13 6 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (0.56%) Node.js
14 5 (0.46%) Entity Framework
14 5 (0.46%) Swagger
15 4 (0.37%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 127 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 92 (8.52%) Onboarding
3 50 (4.63%) Management Information System
4 40 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.13%) Replication
6 19 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.20%) Clustering
8 12 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (0.93%) CMDB
10 10 (0.93%) Security Posture
11 9 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
11 9 (0.83%) Data Centre
11 9 (0.83%) FMCG
11 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.74%) IoT
12 8 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 434 (40.19%) Windows
2 226 (20.93%) Windows Server
3 104 (9.63%) Windows 10
4 74 (6.85%) Mac OS
5 37 (3.43%) Android
6 25 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 23 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (1.76%) Linux
10 7 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.28%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.19%) Unix
12 2 (0.19%) VMS
13 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (31.02%) Problem-Solving
2 254 (23.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 192 (17.78%) Customer Service
4 183 (16.94%) ITIL
5 154 (14.26%) Cybersecurity
6 119 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
7 110 (10.19%) Service Delivery
8 102 (9.44%) User Experience
9 99 (9.17%) Agile
10 96 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 86 (7.96%) Service Management
12 84 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 81 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
14 78 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 76 (7.04%) CRM
16 74 (6.85%) AI
17 72 (6.67%) Project Delivery
18 68 (6.30%) Mentoring
19 67 (6.20%) Coaching
20 66 (6.11%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 157 (14.54%) PowerShell
2 119 (11.02%) SQL
3 52 (4.81%) JavaScript
4 49 (4.54%) C#
5 26 (2.41%) Python
5 26 (2.41%) R
6 24 (2.22%) TypeScript
7 19 (1.76%) VBA
8 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.56%) C
10 4 (0.37%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.28%) Java
11 3 (0.28%) Ruby
12 2 (0.19%) C++
13 1 (0.093%) Bash
13 1 (0.093%) Bicep
13 1 (0.093%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.093%) VB
Qualifications
1 158 (14.63%) Degree
2 89 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 67 (6.20%) Security Cleared
4 51 (4.72%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 19 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (1.67%) A+ Certification
9 15 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.39%) CCNA
10 14 (1.30%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.20%) HND
12 10 (0.93%) HNC
12 10 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (0.74%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 7 (0.65%) APMP
14 7 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.65%) MBA
15 6 (0.56%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 46 (4.26%) GDPR
4 28 (2.59%) SLA
5 27 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 26 (2.41%) QA
7 21 (1.94%) ISO 9001
8 18 (1.67%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.83%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.74%) PMO
11 6 (0.56%) ISO 14001
12 5 (0.46%) COSHH
12 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
12 5 (0.46%) NIST
13 4 (0.37%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 2 (0.19%) NCSC
16 1 (0.093%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 428 (39.63%) Active Directory
2 107 (9.91%) Hyper-V
3 84 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.67%) vSphere
5 14 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.56%) BitLocker
7 6 (0.56%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.093%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.093%) XenApp
9 1 (0.093%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 247 (22.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
3 22 (2.04%) SCCM
4 17 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.02%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.93%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.83%) Backup Exec
8 6 (0.56%) vRealize
9 3 (0.28%) cPanel
9 3 (0.28%) Plesk
9 3 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.093%) Autotask
10 1 (0.093%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.093%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.093%) Nessus
10 1 (0.093%) Terraform
Vendors
1 864 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 112 (10.37%) VMware
3 58 (5.37%) Cisco
4 55 (5.09%) Veeam
5 49 (4.54%) Apple
6 31 (2.87%) Meraki
6 31 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
8 24 (2.22%) Adobe
9 21 (1.94%) SonicWALL
10 16 (1.48%) Ubiquiti
11 14 (1.30%) Datto
11 14 (1.30%) Sophos
12 13 (1.20%) Aruba
13 12 (1.11%) Salesforce
14 11 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 11 (1.02%) WatchGuard
15 10 (0.93%) Computacenter
15 10 (0.93%) Foundry
15 10 (0.93%) Google