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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 97 105
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +31
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 815 929 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.80% 2.69% 2.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.64% 32.28% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 571 556 1,125
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,188 £25,550
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £41,389 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +3.47% -1.23%
75th Percentile £50,125 £55,000 £51,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £62,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -10.53%

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 2,056 2,878 4,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.54% 8.35% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,385 1,501 3,616
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,740 £46,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +8.24% -8.60%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,860 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.60% +11.72% -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 February 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 February 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
Midlands 0 179 £37,500 -11.76% 60
North of England -30 167 £40,000 -11.49% 81
South East -6 165 £42,500 -5.56% 139
Scotland +26 114 £35,000 +7.69% 20
South West +41 108 £33,000 -25.84% 35
West Midlands +7 100 £42,039 -21.13% 38
North West -6 95 £45,000 -10.00% 41
East Midlands -8 79 £36,250 +15.08% 22
East of England -23 73 £34,000 +6.25% 42
Yorkshire -8 68 £31,500 -4.55% 37
Wales -16 8 £41,740 -12.13% 11
North East -12 4 £82,966 +95.21% 5
Northern Ireland -27 4 £62,500 +19.05% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £45,000 - 1
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
1 260 (31.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (1.96%) Confluence
3 8 (0.98%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.86%) WordPress
5 5 (0.61%) CMS
6 4 (0.49%) IIS
7 3 (0.37%) govService
8 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.12%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 139 (17.06%) Microsoft Office
2 134 (16.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (9.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 31 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.37%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.12%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 555 (68.10%) Microsoft 365
2 330 (40.49%) Azure
3 248 (30.43%) Entra ID
4 140 (17.18%) OneDrive
5 139 (17.06%) Power Platform
6 83 (10.18%) PowerApps
7 80 (9.82%) Power Automate
8 39 (4.79%) SaaS
9 36 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
10 29 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (3.19%) Mimecast
12 20 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 16 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (1.84%) Serverless
15 13 (1.60%) AWS
16 12 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (1.47%) Copilot Studio
16 12 (1.47%) IaaS
17 11 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 144 (17.67%) Firewall
2 142 (17.42%) DNS
3 127 (15.58%) DHCP
4 109 (13.37%) VPN
5 73 (8.96%) VLAN
6 60 (7.36%) LAN
7 56 (6.87%) WAN
8 48 (5.89%) TCP/IP
8 48 (5.89%) Wi-Fi
9 32 (3.93%) Network Security
9 32 (3.93%) VoIP
10 28 (3.44%) Wireless
11 13 (1.60%) Internet
12 11 (1.35%) IPsec
13 9 (1.10%) DKIM
13 9 (1.10%) DMARC
13 9 (1.10%) WLAN
14 8 (0.98%) Intranet
14 8 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (0.98%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (9.20%) Power BI
2 30 (3.68%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.86%) Metadata
4 7 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (0.74%) DTS
5 6 (0.74%) MySQL
6 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.37%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.37%) Power Query
9 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.12%) EDMS
10 1 (0.12%) GIS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (3.31%) JIRA
2 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.12%) Git
3 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 386 (47.36%) Social Skills
2 92 (11.29%) Finance
3 48 (5.89%) Manufacturing
4 46 (5.64%) Law
5 44 (5.40%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (4.29%) Legal
9 32 (3.93%) Public Sector
10 23 (2.82%) Retail
11 17 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.72%) Marketing
12 14 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.98%) Advertising
14 7 (0.86%) Electronics
15 5 (0.61%) Automotive
15 5 (0.61%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.49%) German Language
17 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 198 (24.29%) IT Support
2 152 (18.65%) Support Engineer
3 121 (14.85%) IT Engineer
4 111 (13.62%) Senior
5 102 (12.52%) IT Support Engineer
6 82 (10.06%) Analyst
7 68 (8.34%) 2nd Line Support
8 65 (7.98%) Senior Manager
9 64 (7.85%) QA Manager
9 64 (7.85%) Quality Manager
9 64 (7.85%) Senior QA Manager
9 64 (7.85%) Senior Quality Manager
10 55 (6.75%) Support Technician
11 50 (6.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 45 (5.52%) Developer
13 44 (5.40%) Support Analyst
14 41 (5.03%) 1st Line Support
14 41 (5.03%) Consultant
15 40 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 40 (4.91%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.96%) .NET
2 13 (1.60%) HTML
3 10 (1.23%) Web Services
4 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (0.98%) CSS
6 4 (0.49%) Middleware
6 4 (0.49%) OAuth
6 4 (0.49%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.49%) OpenID
6 4 (0.49%) REST
6 4 (0.49%) SAML
6 4 (0.49%) SPFx
7 3 (0.37%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.25%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.25%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (0.25%) JSON
8 2 (0.25%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (0.12%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.12%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 125 (15.34%) Driving Licence
2 70 (8.59%) Onboarding
3 36 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (3.31%) IoT
5 25 (3.07%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.33%) Replication
8 18 (2.21%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.60%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
11 11 (1.35%) CMDB
11 11 (1.35%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.23%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.10%) FMCG
13 9 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.86%) Clustering
15 7 (0.86%) Cyber Security Posture
15 7 (0.86%) iPad
16 6 (0.74%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 306 (37.55%) Windows
2 172 (21.10%) Windows Server
3 99 (12.15%) Windows 10
4 36 (4.42%) Mac OS
5 30 (3.68%) Android
6 24 (2.94%) Apple iOS
7 17 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (1.96%) Linux
9 14 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (27.36%) Problem-Solving
2 158 (19.39%) Customer Service
3 143 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 140 (17.18%) ITIL
5 114 (13.99%) Project Management
6 106 (13.01%) Coaching
7 99 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
8 87 (10.67%) Agile
9 84 (10.31%) Service Delivery
10 71 (8.71%) Customer Experience
11 66 (8.10%) Performance Improvement
11 66 (8.10%) Six Sigma
12 65 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
12 65 (7.98%) Due Diligence
12 65 (7.98%) Quality Management
13 64 (7.85%) Lean Six Sigma
14 57 (6.99%) Mentoring
15 52 (6.38%) AI
16 50 (6.13%) Disaster Recovery
16 50 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 97 (11.90%) PowerShell
2 64 (7.85%) SQL
3 27 (3.31%) Python
4 19 (2.33%) VBA
5 9 (1.10%) Bash
5 9 (1.10%) T-SQL
6 7 (0.86%) C#
6 7 (0.86%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.49%) R
8 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.12%) C++
9 1 (0.12%) Java
9 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (11.66%) Degree
2 64 (7.85%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 61 (7.48%) Security Cleared
4 53 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (4.42%) SC Cleared
6 24 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.09%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.60%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (1.23%) A+ Certification
11 10 (1.23%) APMP
11 10 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 10 (1.23%) MBA
11 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (0.98%) HND
13 7 (0.86%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.82%) QA
2 48 (5.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 39 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (4.66%) SLA
5 32 (3.93%) GDPR
6 23 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 14 (1.72%) NIST
8 12 (1.47%) PMO
9 7 (0.86%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.74%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.49%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.49%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.25%) P3O
13 2 (0.25%) WCAG
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 314 (38.53%) Active Directory
2 61 (7.48%) Hyper-V
3 53 (6.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.74%) Firmware
8 5 (0.61%) vSphere
9 4 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.25%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.12%) Docker
12 1 (0.12%) XenApp
12 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 205 (25.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (3.19%) Terraform
3 17 (2.09%) SCCM
4 16 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.10%) vRealize
6 6 (0.74%) Backup Exec
6 6 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (0.74%) Nagios
6 6 (0.74%) ZABBIX
7 5 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.49%) Autotask
8 4 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.49%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.25%) Plesk
9 2 (0.25%) SCOM
9 2 (0.25%) SCSM
10 1 (0.12%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.12%) MOM
10 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 640 (78.53%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.83%) VMware
3 50 (6.13%) Apple
4 30 (3.68%) Cisco
5 29 (3.56%) Veeam
6 25 (3.07%) Sophos
7 24 (2.94%) Meraki
8 21 (2.58%) ServiceNow
9 19 (2.33%) Citrix
10 17 (2.09%) ConnectWise
11 15 (1.84%) Progress
12 13 (1.60%) SAP
13 12 (1.47%) Google
14 11 (1.35%) Datto
15 9 (1.10%) Infor
15 9 (1.10%) Oracle
15 9 (1.10%) Trend Micro
16 8 (0.98%) Darktrace
16 8 (0.98%) Sage
16 8 (0.98%) Splunk