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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 108 116
Rank change year-on-year -30 +8 +10
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 749 1,063 848
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.18% 2.21% 2.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 30.63% 31.68% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 548 633 716
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,550 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £40,400
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +5.20% -2.06%
75th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £54,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £63,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.27% +3.16% -

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 2,445 3,355 3,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.11% 6.99% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,591 1,813 2,705
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £77,715
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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
South East -21 188 £40,000 -11.11% 247
North of England -50 137 £38,000 -24.00% 88
Midlands -18 115 £37,500 -6.25% 70
Scotland +8 109 £35,000 +7.69% 33
South West +34 105 £35,000 -30.00% 51
East of England -16 86 £34,000 +6.25% 35
North West -36 84 £40,000 -20.00% 42
East Midlands -4 62 £35,000 +7.69% 39
West Midlands -1 53 £44,000 -13.73% 30
Yorkshire -18 50 £29,000 -44.76% 29
Wales -10 7 £41,000 -18.00% 14
North East -10 3 £67,500 +107.69% 20
Northern Ireland -9 2 £66,250 +65.63% 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
1 257 (34.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.40%) Confluence
3 16 (2.14%) Skype for Business
4 6 (0.80%) IIS
4 6 (0.80%) WordPress
5 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.40%) JOnAS
5 3 (0.40%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.13%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 138 (18.42%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (16.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 74 (9.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.13%) InDesign
7 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.53%) Sage 1000
2 4 (0.53%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 490 (65.42%) Microsoft 365
2 320 (42.72%) Azure
3 239 (31.91%) Entra ID
4 133 (17.76%) Power Platform
5 109 (14.55%) OneDrive
6 77 (10.28%) Power Automate
7 74 (9.88%) PowerApps
8 31 (4.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 29 (3.87%) SaaS
10 28 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (3.20%) Microsoft Copilot
12 18 (2.40%) Mimecast
13 17 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (2.14%) AWS
14 16 (2.14%) Serverless
15 12 (1.60%) IaaS
16 11 (1.47%) PaaS
17 10 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
17 10 (1.34%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 129 (17.22%) Firewall
2 110 (14.69%) DNS
3 96 (12.82%) DHCP
4 83 (11.08%) VPN
5 67 (8.95%) TCP/IP
6 62 (8.28%) VLAN
7 46 (6.14%) LAN
7 46 (6.14%) Wi-Fi
7 46 (6.14%) Wireless
8 39 (5.21%) WAN
9 28 (3.74%) Network Security
10 24 (3.20%) Internet
10 24 (3.20%) VoIP
11 21 (2.80%) Intranet
12 14 (1.87%) SAN
13 12 (1.60%) DKIM
13 12 (1.60%) DMARC
14 10 (1.34%) Skype
15 9 (1.20%) IP Telephony
16 5 (0.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.61%) Power BI
2 23 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.20%) DTS
5 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.93%) Metadata
6 7 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.40%) EDRMS
7 3 (0.40%) Power Query
8 2 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.27%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.27%) MySQL
8 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.13%) EDMS
9 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (2.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.13%) Git
2 1 (0.13%) RStudio
2 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 361 (48.20%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.55%) Finance
3 54 (7.21%) Organisational Skills
4 50 (6.68%) Manufacturing
5 45 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (5.21%) Law
6 39 (5.21%) Legal
7 34 (4.54%) Retail
8 32 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 25 (3.34%) Automotive
10 20 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.74%) Marketing
14 12 (1.60%) Advertising
14 12 (1.60%) Billing
15 9 (1.20%) Local Government
16 8 (1.07%) Electronics
16 8 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.93%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 150 (20.03%) IT Support
2 123 (16.42%) Analyst
2 123 (16.42%) Support Engineer
3 109 (14.55%) Senior
4 84 (11.21%) Support Analyst
5 64 (8.54%) QA Manager
5 64 (8.54%) Quality Manager
5 64 (8.54%) Senior Manager
5 64 (8.54%) Senior QA Manager
5 64 (8.54%) Senior Quality Manager
6 62 (8.28%) 2nd Line Support
6 62 (8.28%) IT Engineer
7 54 (7.21%) IT Support Engineer
8 47 (6.28%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 43 (5.74%) Technical Support
10 40 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 40 (5.34%) Support Technician
11 35 (4.67%) Administrator
12 34 (4.54%) IT Analyst
13 29 (3.87%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.00%) .NET
2 10 (1.34%) HTML
2 10 (1.34%) Web Services
3 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.80%) ASP.NET
5 5 (0.67%) CSS
5 5 (0.67%) EDI
5 5 (0.67%) Software Packaging
6 4 (0.53%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.53%) OAuth
6 4 (0.53%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.53%) OpenID
6 4 (0.53%) SAML
7 2 (0.27%) ADO.NET
7 2 (0.27%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (0.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (0.27%) REST
7 2 (0.27%) SPFx
7 2 (0.27%) WCF
8 1 (0.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.75%) Driving Licence
2 83 (11.08%) Onboarding
3 36 (4.81%) IoT
4 27 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
8 14 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.34%) CMDB
11 10 (1.34%) FMCG
11 10 (1.34%) Replication
12 9 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.20%) NHS
13 7 (0.93%) Clustering
13 7 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
13 7 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.80%) PDA
15 5 (0.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 281 (37.52%) Windows
2 178 (23.77%) Windows Server
3 92 (12.28%) Windows 10
4 45 (6.01%) Mac OS
5 22 (2.94%) Apple iOS
6 21 (2.80%) Android
7 15 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
10 11 (1.47%) Linux
11 10 (1.34%) Unix
12 6 (0.80%) VMS
13 3 (0.40%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.13%) CentOS
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.13%) SUSE
15 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.13%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (29.24%) Problem-Solving
2 152 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 141 (18.83%) Customer Service
4 133 (17.76%) ITIL
5 101 (13.48%) Cybersecurity
6 98 (13.08%) Project Management
7 96 (12.82%) Coaching
8 90 (12.02%) Service Delivery
9 77 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
10 73 (9.75%) Customer Experience
11 67 (8.95%) Six Sigma
12 66 (8.81%) Quality Management
13 65 (8.68%) Lean Six Sigma
14 64 (8.54%) Due Diligence
14 64 (8.54%) Performance Improvement
15 61 (8.14%) Migration
16 58 (7.74%) Agile
16 58 (7.74%) Mentoring
17 52 (6.94%) CRM
18 51 (6.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 124 (16.56%) PowerShell
2 72 (9.61%) SQL
3 23 (3.07%) Python
4 17 (2.27%) C#
5 13 (1.74%) VBA
6 9 (1.20%) Bash
6 9 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.07%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.53%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.27%) C++
9 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.13%) R
10 1 (0.13%) RPG
10 1 (0.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 92 (12.28%) Degree
2 64 (8.54%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 55 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 43 (5.74%) Security Cleared
5 24 (3.20%) SC Cleared
6 17 (2.27%) DBS Check
7 16 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.14%) MCP
8 13 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.60%) A+ Certification
9 12 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.93%) AAT
12 7 (0.93%) ACCA
12 7 (0.93%) CIMA
13 6 (0.80%) CCNA
13 6 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.67%) HND
14 5 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (10.41%) QA
2 38 (5.07%) GDPR
3 25 (3.34%) SLA
4 24 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.60%) NIST
6 11 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (1.07%) PMO
8 3 (0.40%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.27%) P3O
10 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) IASME
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 301 (40.19%) Active Directory
2 72 (9.61%) Hyper-V
3 56 (7.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.20%) Terminal Services
6 6 (0.80%) Firmware
6 6 (0.80%) vSphere
7 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.40%) ISA Server
10 2 (0.27%) XenApp
11 1 (0.13%) Docker
11 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.13%) Postfix
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 233 (31.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (3.07%) SCCM
3 21 (2.80%) Terraform
4 18 (2.40%) Autotask
5 9 (1.20%) Nagios
5 9 (1.20%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.27%) Plesk
9 2 (0.27%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.27%) SCOM
9 2 (0.27%) WSUS
10 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.13%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.13%) SCSM
Vendors
1 639 (85.31%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.54%) VMware
3 46 (6.14%) Apple
4 44 (5.87%) Cisco
5 40 (5.34%) Meraki
6 39 (5.21%) Sophos
7 24 (3.20%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.07%) Sage
9 19 (2.54%) Citrix
10 17 (2.27%) Datto
10 17 (2.27%) Progress
10 17 (2.27%) Veeam
11 14 (1.87%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.74%) ConnectWise
12 13 (1.74%) Google
13 11 (1.47%) Darktrace
13 11 (1.47%) HP
13 11 (1.47%) HubSpot
13 11 (1.47%) SolarWinds
13 11 (1.47%) Trend Micro