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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 146 102
Rank change year-on-year +32 -44 +36
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,145 750 1,399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.52% 2.18% 2.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.97% 28.21% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 922 590 1,091
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,125 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -9.41% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,625 £63,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -10.00%

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 2,865 2,659 4,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.81% 7.73% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,153 1,763 3,082
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.60%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,063 £59,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -4.81%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +57 315 £42,500 +21.43% 90
South East -4 245 £50,000 +25.00% 129
East of England +42 209 £40,000 -0.62% 47
North West +37 156 £51,000 +27.50% 48
Midlands -26 153 £38,250 -2.55% 52
Yorkshire +31 132 £38,772 +36.04% 31
South West -38 103 £34,500 -21.14% 42
West Midlands -21 93 £42,500 -4.01% 27
Scotland +43 67 £28,500 -24.00% 29
East Midlands -21 60 £37,500 -2.60% 25
Wales -17 42 £38,500 -4.94% 7
North East -33 27 £47,500 +48.44% 12
Northern Ireland - 7 £63,000 - 13
Isle of Man +2 4 £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
1 427 (37.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.88%) Confluence
3 14 (1.22%) IIS
4 11 (0.96%) Skype for Business
5 10 (0.87%) CMS
6 5 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.26%) Apache
7 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.26%) nginx
7 3 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.87%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.87%) CorelDRAW
6 9 (0.79%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.087%) InDesign
10 1 (0.087%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.087%) Revit
Business Applications
1 22 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
3 6 (0.52%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.35%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.26%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.087%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.087%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.087%) Shopify
7 1 (0.087%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 916 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 522 (45.59%) Azure
3 400 (34.93%) Entra ID
4 265 (23.14%) Power Platform
5 263 (22.97%) OneDrive
6 161 (14.06%) Power Automate
7 152 (13.28%) PowerApps
8 94 (8.21%) Microsoft Copilot
9 76 (6.64%) SaaS
10 52 (4.54%) Mimecast
11 50 (4.37%) Microsoft Purview
12 48 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
13 46 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
15 25 (2.18%) AWS
16 23 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
17 22 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
18 21 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 16 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
20 15 (1.31%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 236 (20.61%) Firewall
2 226 (19.74%) DNS
3 196 (17.12%) DHCP
4 154 (13.45%) VPN
5 107 (9.34%) VLAN
6 105 (9.17%) Wi-Fi
7 84 (7.34%) VoIP
8 73 (6.38%) TCP/IP
9 71 (6.20%) LAN
10 66 (5.76%) WAN
11 62 (5.41%) Wireless
12 21 (1.83%) Network Security
13 15 (1.31%) SSL
14 14 (1.22%) SAN
15 13 (1.14%) Internet
16 12 (1.05%) Skype
17 11 (0.96%) Broadband
18 9 (0.79%) Intranet
19 8 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
19 8 (0.70%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (11.35%) Power BI
2 45 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.05%) Metadata
5 9 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.35%) Power Query
9 3 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.17%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.17%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.17%) DataStage
10 2 (0.17%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.17%) GIS
10 2 (0.17%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.087%) EDMS
11 1 (0.087%) MySQL
11 1 (0.087%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 79 (6.90%) JIRA
2 5 (0.44%) Git
2 5 (0.44%) Postman
3 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.17%) Selenium
5 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.087%) Carbide.c++
6 1 (0.087%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 511 (44.63%) Social Skills
2 143 (12.49%) Finance
3 112 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (8.30%) Legal
5 83 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
6 61 (5.33%) Manufacturing
7 51 (4.45%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.49%) Law
9 34 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 28 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (2.36%) Retail
12 25 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.31%) Local Government
14 12 (1.05%) Advertising
15 9 (0.79%) Marketing
16 8 (0.70%) Banking
17 7 (0.61%) Military
18 6 (0.52%) Games
18 6 (0.52%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 323 (28.21%) IT Support
2 194 (16.94%) Support Engineer
3 193 (16.86%) IT Engineer
4 171 (14.93%) IT Support Engineer
5 169 (14.76%) Senior
6 124 (10.83%) Developer
7 121 (10.57%) Analyst
8 93 (8.12%) IT Technician
9 80 (6.99%) Support Analyst
9 80 (6.99%) Support Technician
10 69 (6.03%) IT Support Technician
11 62 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 61 (5.33%) IT Analyst
13 60 (5.24%) 2nd Line Support
14 53 (4.63%) IT Support Analyst
15 52 (4.54%) Consultant
15 52 (4.54%) Lead
16 51 (4.45%) Administrator
16 51 (4.45%) Senior Developer
17 48 (4.19%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (4.54%) HTML
2 43 (3.76%) CSS
2 43 (3.76%) Microsoft Graph
3 39 (3.41%) .NET
4 34 (2.97%) SPFx
5 33 (2.88%) HTML5 Canvas
6 25 (2.18%) JSON
7 19 (1.66%) .NET Core
8 14 (1.22%) REST
9 11 (0.96%) ASP.NET
9 11 (0.96%) React
10 9 (0.79%) XML
11 8 (0.70%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.61%) Razor View Engine
13 6 (0.52%) Node.js
14 5 (0.44%) ASP.NET Core
14 5 (0.44%) Swagger
15 4 (0.35%) Entity Framework
15 4 (0.35%) Gherkin
15 4 (0.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 136 (11.88%) Driving Licence
2 101 (8.82%) Onboarding
3 70 (6.11%) Management Information System
4 49 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 22 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.66%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.66%) Clustering
8 18 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.40%) Replication
10 13 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.05%) CMDB
12 10 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.79%) CCTV
13 9 (0.79%) Cyber Security Posture
13 9 (0.79%) IoT
14 8 (0.70%) Social Media
15 7 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 453 (39.56%) Windows
2 237 (20.70%) Windows Server
3 107 (9.34%) Windows 10
4 83 (7.25%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.32%) Android
6 29 (2.53%) Apple iOS
7 25 (2.18%) Linux
8 21 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.26%) VMS
12 3 (0.26%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (30.92%) Problem-Solving
2 288 (25.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 210 (18.34%) Customer Service
4 185 (16.16%) ITIL
5 171 (14.93%) Cybersecurity
6 132 (11.53%) Business Intelligence
7 119 (10.39%) Service Delivery
8 112 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 110 (9.61%) AI
9 110 (9.61%) User Experience
10 97 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
11 95 (8.30%) Project Delivery
11 95 (8.30%) Service Management
12 94 (8.21%) Agile
13 92 (8.03%) Technical Leadership
14 87 (7.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 86 (7.51%) CRM
16 85 (7.42%) Stakeholder Management
17 82 (7.16%) Mentoring
18 74 (6.46%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 172 (15.02%) PowerShell
2 117 (10.22%) SQL
3 62 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 57 (4.98%) C#
5 28 (2.45%) R
6 25 (2.18%) Python
6 25 (2.18%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.40%) VBA
8 7 (0.61%) C
8 7 (0.61%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.52%) Ruby
10 3 (0.26%) Bicep
10 3 (0.26%) C++
10 3 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.26%) Java
10 3 (0.26%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.087%) Bash
11 1 (0.087%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.087%) VB
Qualifications
1 171 (14.93%) Degree
2 114 (9.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 61 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 53 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 32 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.27%) DBS Check
7 25 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (1.66%) CCNA
9 17 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
10 16 (1.40%) A+ Certification
11 13 (1.14%) HND
12 12 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.87%) HNC
14 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.70%) DV Cleared
17 6 (0.52%) MCSA
18 5 (0.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 52 (4.54%) GDPR
4 33 (2.88%) SLA
5 31 (2.71%) QA
6 21 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 18 (1.57%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.40%) ISO 9001
9 13 (1.14%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.70%) PMO
11 7 (0.61%) NIST
12 5 (0.44%) COSHH
12 5 (0.44%) ISO 14001
12 5 (0.44%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.35%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.35%) NCSC
14 3 (0.26%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 1 (0.087%) AQAP
16 1 (0.087%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 452 (39.48%) Active Directory
2 113 (9.87%) Hyper-V
3 99 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.66%) vSphere
5 15 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 8 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.35%) DFS Replication
9 3 (0.26%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.087%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 282 (24.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (2.36%) Jamf Pro
3 21 (1.83%) SCCM
4 15 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.05%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.52%) Terraform
8 3 (0.26%) Ansible
8 3 (0.26%) Backup Exec
8 3 (0.26%) cPanel
8 3 (0.26%) Plesk
8 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.17%) vRealize
10 1 (0.087%) Autotask
10 1 (0.087%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.087%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.087%) Puppet
10 1 (0.087%) WSUS
Vendors
1 953 (83.23%) Microsoft
2 122 (10.66%) VMware
3 76 (6.64%) Cisco
4 64 (5.59%) Veeam
5 55 (4.80%) Apple
6 33 (2.88%) Meraki
7 32 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 31 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (2.53%) SonicWALL
10 25 (2.18%) Adobe
11 18 (1.57%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.40%) Datto
12 16 (1.40%) Ubiquiti
13 15 (1.31%) Google
14 14 (1.22%) Aruba
14 14 (1.22%) Sophos
15 13 (1.14%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.96%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.96%) Sage
17 10 (0.87%) HP