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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 153 96
Rank change year-on-year +39 -57 +51
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 968 672 1,966
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.46% 2.28% 2.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.80% 27.56% 29.57%
Number of salaries quoted 783 539 1,590
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,063 £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 £43,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +1.18% -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 2,432 2,438 6,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.66% 8.26% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,862 1,569 4,553
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 £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

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 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 12 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 +55 270 £42,500 +21.43% 66
South East -24 178 £50,000 +31.58% 122
East of England +34 172 £42,500 +26.87% 31
Midlands +7 172 £37,750 -1.95% 47
North West +62 149 £50,000 +17.65% 38
West Midlands +10 114 £42,500 -4.01% 23
Yorkshire +8 103 £38,636 +35.56% 22
South West -37 85 £29,000 -35.56% 41
East Midlands -30 58 £37,500 +3.45% 24
Scotland +20 43 £36,000 +9.09% 9
Wales -9 36 £40,000 -2.44% 4
North East -30 18 £43,136 +34.80% 8
Northern Ireland -29 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
1 339 (35.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.31%) Confluence
3 9 (0.93%) CMS
3 9 (0.93%) IIS
4 6 (0.62%) 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 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.41%) 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 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.03%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.41%) 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
1 768 (79.34%) Microsoft 365
2 443 (45.76%) Azure
3 310 (32.02%) Entra ID
4 227 (23.45%) OneDrive
5 211 (21.80%) Power Platform
6 119 (12.29%) PowerApps
7 118 (12.19%) Power Automate
8 52 (5.37%) Microsoft Copilot
9 51 (5.27%) SaaS
10 38 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
11 37 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
12 34 (3.51%) Mimecast
13 32 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
14 31 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (2.17%) AWS
17 19 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 13 (1.34%) PaaS
18 13 (1.34%) Serverless
19 12 (1.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 205 (21.18%) Firewall
2 197 (20.35%) DNS
3 169 (17.46%) DHCP
4 138 (14.26%) VPN
5 89 (9.19%) Wi-Fi
6 84 (8.68%) VLAN
7 66 (6.82%) VoIP
8 64 (6.61%) LAN
8 64 (6.61%) WAN
9 47 (4.86%) TCP/IP
10 34 (3.51%) Wireless
11 14 (1.45%) Internet
12 11 (1.14%) Intranet
12 11 (1.14%) Network Security
13 10 (1.03%) SAN
14 8 (0.83%) IPsec
14 8 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (0.83%) WLAN
15 7 (0.72%) Broadband
16 6 (0.62%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (12.40%) Power BI
2 57 (5.89%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.14%) Metadata
6 10 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.41%) 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 (6.40%) JIRA
2 5 (0.52%) Postman
3 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.41%) 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
1 408 (42.15%) Social Skills
2 111 (11.47%) Finance
3 82 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (7.33%) Legal
5 68 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 42 (4.34%) Manufacturing
8 39 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (3.82%) Law
10 30 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.27%) Retail
12 18 (1.86%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.34%) Advertising
15 10 (1.03%) Local Government
16 8 (0.83%) Marketing
17 6 (0.62%) Games
18 5 (0.52%) Banking
19 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
20 3 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 274 (28.31%) IT Support
2 164 (16.94%) Support Engineer
3 158 (16.32%) IT Engineer
4 140 (14.46%) Senior
5 133 (13.74%) IT Support Engineer
6 114 (11.78%) Analyst
7 101 (10.43%) Developer
8 78 (8.06%) IT Technician
8 78 (8.06%) Support Analyst
9 75 (7.75%) Support Technician
10 65 (6.71%) 2nd Line Support
11 64 (6.61%) IT Support Technician
12 61 (6.30%) IT Analyst
13 53 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 51 (5.27%) IT Support Analyst
15 44 (4.55%) Senior Developer
16 43 (4.44%) 3rd Line Support
16 43 (4.44%) Lead
17 41 (4.24%) Consultant
18 40 (4.13%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.13%) .NET
2 39 (4.03%) HTML
3 36 (3.72%) CSS
4 35 (3.62%) Microsoft Graph
5 27 (2.79%) SPFx
6 25 (2.58%) HTML5 Canvas
7 23 (2.38%) JSON
8 19 (1.96%) .NET Core
9 12 (1.24%) REST
10 11 (1.14%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.03%) React
12 9 (0.93%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.72%) Web Services
14 6 (0.62%) Node.js
14 6 (0.62%) XML
15 5 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
15 5 (0.52%) Entity Framework
15 5 (0.52%) Razor View Engine
15 5 (0.52%) Swagger
16 4 (0.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 113 (11.67%) Driving Licence
2 81 (8.37%) Onboarding
3 47 (4.86%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.48%) Replication
6 20 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.14%) Clustering
8 11 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (0.93%) Low-Code
10 9 (0.93%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.83%) CMDB
11 8 (0.83%) Social Media
12 7 (0.72%) Cyber Security Posture
12 7 (0.72%) FMCG
13 6 (0.62%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 388 (40.08%) Windows
2 196 (20.25%) Windows Server
3 90 (9.30%) Windows 10
4 63 (6.51%) Mac OS
5 39 (4.03%) Android
6 28 (2.89%) Apple iOS
7 21 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (1.86%) Linux
9 8 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.21%) Unix
10 2 (0.21%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (31.10%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 171 (17.67%) ITIL
4 164 (16.94%) Customer Service
5 132 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
6 114 (11.78%) Business Intelligence
7 95 (9.81%) User Experience
8 92 (9.50%) Service Delivery
9 86 (8.88%) Agile
10 78 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 72 (7.44%) Disaster Recovery
12 71 (7.33%) Service Management
13 68 (7.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 67 (6.92%) CRM
14 67 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
15 65 (6.71%) AI
16 64 (6.61%) Coaching
17 62 (6.40%) Project Management
18 60 (6.20%) Mentoring
19 58 (5.99%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 137 (14.15%) PowerShell
2 107 (11.05%) SQL
3 44 (4.55%) C#
4 43 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 23 (2.38%) TypeScript
6 17 (1.76%) R
7 16 (1.65%) VBA
8 15 (1.55%) Python
9 9 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.52%) C
10 5 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.31%) Java
13 1 (0.10%) Bash
13 1 (0.10%) Bicep
13 1 (0.10%) C++
13 1 (0.10%) Ruby
13 1 (0.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 142 (14.67%) Degree
2 80 (8.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 60 (6.20%) Security Cleared
4 44 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.86%) A+ Certification
5 18 (1.86%) Azure Certification
5 18 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.76%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (0.93%) CCNA
9 9 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (0.72%) APMP
11 7 (0.72%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.72%) MBA
12 6 (0.62%) HND
12 6 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (5.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 32 (3.31%) GDPR
4 27 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 27 (2.79%) SLA
5 23 (2.38%) QA
6 18 (1.86%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.65%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.72%) PMO
9 6 (0.62%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.52%) NIST
11 4 (0.41%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.31%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.21%) COSHH
13 2 (0.21%) NCSC
13 2 (0.21%) NEBOSH
13 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.10%) AQAP
14 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
System Software
1 383 (39.57%) Active Directory
2 92 (9.50%) Hyper-V
3 71 (7.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (1.03%) vSphere
6 6 (0.62%) BitLocker
6 6 (0.62%) DFS Replication
6 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.21%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.10%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.10%) XenApp
8 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 224 (23.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
3 22 (2.27%) SCCM
4 20 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.14%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.93%) Backup Exec
7 7 (0.72%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.62%) vRealize
9 5 (0.52%) Terraform
10 2 (0.21%) cPanel
10 2 (0.21%) Plesk
11 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.10%) Autotask
11 1 (0.10%) CASB
11 1 (0.10%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.10%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.10%) Nessus
11 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 764 (78.93%) Microsoft
2 100 (10.33%) VMware
3 56 (5.79%) Apple
4 51 (5.27%) Veeam
5 46 (4.75%) Cisco
6 29 (3.00%) Meraki
7 27 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.58%) Adobe
9 20 (2.07%) SonicWALL
10 19 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.34%) Datto
11 13 (1.34%) Ubiquiti
12 11 (1.14%) Sophos
13 10 (1.03%) Computacenter
13 10 (1.03%) Google
13 10 (1.03%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.03%) WatchGuard
14 9 (0.93%) Aruba
15 8 (0.83%) ConnectWise
15 8 (0.83%) Yealink