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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 157 103
Rank change year-on-year +51 -54 +42
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,060 682 1,877
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.55% 2.22% 2.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 40.61% 27.20% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 864 547 1,536
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
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 £53,688 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £63,750
UK median annual salary £44,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +4.71% - -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 2,610 2,507 6,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.80% 8.17% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,996 1,617 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 £62,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,462 £73,804 £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 27 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 27 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 +66 285 £42,500 +21.43% 71
South East -16 207 £50,000 +33.33% 131
East of England +38 187 £42,500 +14.86% 31
Midlands +8 186 £38,500 - 46
North West +55 150 £50,000 +16.28% 35
West Midlands +20 120 £42,500 -4.79% 26
Yorkshire +20 115 £39,386 +38.20% 26
South West -32 89 £31,750 -29.44% 43
East Midlands -18 66 £37,500 +3.45% 20
Scotland +34 53 £30,000 -9.09% 9
Wales -15 40 £40,000 -1.23% 4
North East -30 20 £47,500 +48.44% 12
Northern Ireland -27 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
1 378 (35.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (2.83%) Confluence
3 11 (1.04%) CMS
4 9 (0.85%) IIS
5 7 (0.66%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) govService
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 78 (7.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.75%) CorelDRAW
4 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.47%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.094%) InDesign
9 1 (0.094%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.094%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.85%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.28%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 2 (0.19%) Alphatax
8 2 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 2 (0.19%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.094%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.094%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 836 (78.87%) Microsoft 365
2 497 (46.89%) Azure
3 347 (32.74%) Entra ID
4 243 (22.92%) OneDrive
5 230 (21.70%) Power Platform
6 137 (12.92%) PowerApps
7 136 (12.83%) Power Automate
8 62 (5.85%) Microsoft Copilot
9 61 (5.75%) SaaS
10 47 (4.43%) Mimecast
11 43 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
12 39 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 34 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
14 28 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (2.36%) AWS
16 21 (1.98%) Copilot Studio
17 20 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 15 (1.42%) Serverless
19 14 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 227 (21.42%) Firewall
2 217 (20.47%) DNS
3 190 (17.92%) DHCP
4 153 (14.43%) VPN
5 101 (9.53%) VLAN
6 96 (9.06%) Wi-Fi
7 78 (7.36%) VoIP
8 72 (6.79%) LAN
9 69 (6.51%) WAN
10 59 (5.57%) TCP/IP
11 51 (4.81%) Wireless
12 15 (1.42%) Network Security
13 14 (1.32%) Internet
14 11 (1.04%) Intranet
14 11 (1.04%) SAN
15 9 (0.85%) Broadband
16 8 (0.75%) WLAN
17 7 (0.66%) IPsec
17 7 (0.66%) PBX
17 7 (0.66%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (11.70%) Power BI
2 55 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.13%) Metadata
5 9 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.57%) 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 (0.094%) EDMS
9 1 (0.094%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 68 (6.42%) JIRA
2 5 (0.47%) Postman
3 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.38%) Git
3 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.19%) Selenium
6 1 (0.094%) Carbide.c++
6 1 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.094%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 455 (42.92%) Social Skills
2 124 (11.70%) Finance
3 89 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (8.02%) Legal
5 80 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
6 50 (4.72%) Manufacturing
7 47 (4.43%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.68%) Law
9 34 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (2.45%) Retail
12 25 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.42%) Local Government
15 11 (1.04%) Advertising
16 9 (0.85%) Marketing
17 7 (0.66%) Games
18 6 (0.57%) Banking
19 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
20 3 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 307 (28.96%) IT Support
2 183 (17.26%) IT Engineer
2 183 (17.26%) Support Engineer
3 156 (14.72%) IT Support Engineer
4 149 (14.06%) Senior
5 129 (12.17%) Analyst
6 112 (10.57%) Developer
7 87 (8.21%) Support Analyst
8 84 (7.92%) IT Technician
9 72 (6.79%) Support Technician
10 69 (6.51%) IT Analyst
11 63 (5.94%) 2nd Line Support
11 63 (5.94%) IT Support Technician
12 58 (5.47%) IT Support Analyst
13 57 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 52 (4.91%) 3rd Line Support
15 47 (4.43%) Administrator
16 46 (4.34%) Lead
16 46 (4.34%) Senior Developer
17 42 (3.96%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.15%) HTML
2 40 (3.77%) .NET
3 37 (3.49%) CSS
3 37 (3.49%) Microsoft Graph
4 30 (2.83%) SPFx
5 27 (2.55%) HTML5 Canvas
6 23 (2.17%) JSON
7 19 (1.79%) .NET Core
8 12 (1.13%) ASP.NET
8 12 (1.13%) REST
9 11 (1.04%) React
10 9 (0.85%) .NET Framework
11 8 (0.75%) XML
12 7 (0.66%) Razor View Engine
12 7 (0.66%) Web Services
13 6 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (0.57%) Node.js
14 5 (0.47%) Entity Framework
14 5 (0.47%) Swagger
15 4 (0.38%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 125 (11.79%) Driving Licence
2 90 (8.49%) Onboarding
3 49 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.17%) Replication
6 19 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.23%) Clustering
8 12 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (0.94%) Security Posture
10 9 (0.85%) CMDB
10 9 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
10 9 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 9 (0.85%) FMCG
10 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
11 8 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (0.75%) IoT
11 8 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 427 (40.28%) Windows
2 221 (20.85%) Windows Server
3 101 (9.53%) Windows 10
4 75 (7.08%) Mac OS
5 37 (3.49%) Android
6 26 (2.45%) Apple iOS
7 23 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (1.79%) Linux
10 8 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.19%) Unix
11 2 (0.19%) VMS
11 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (31.04%) Problem-Solving
2 250 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 187 (17.64%) Customer Service
4 180 (16.98%) ITIL
5 151 (14.25%) Cybersecurity
6 118 (11.13%) Business Intelligence
7 108 (10.19%) Service Delivery
8 101 (9.53%) User Experience
9 97 (9.15%) Agile
10 95 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 82 (7.74%) Service Management
12 81 (7.64%) Disaster Recovery
13 80 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
14 75 (7.08%) CRM
14 75 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 70 (6.60%) AI
16 68 (6.42%) Project Delivery
17 67 (6.32%) Coaching
17 67 (6.32%) Mentoring
18 64 (6.04%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 155 (14.62%) PowerShell
2 118 (11.13%) SQL
3 51 (4.81%) JavaScript
4 49 (4.62%) C#
5 25 (2.36%) R
6 24 (2.26%) Python
6 24 (2.26%) TypeScript
7 18 (1.70%) VBA
8 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.57%) C
10 4 (0.38%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.28%) Java
12 2 (0.19%) C++
12 2 (0.19%) Ruby
13 1 (0.094%) Bash
13 1 (0.094%) Bicep
13 1 (0.094%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.094%) VB
Qualifications
1 154 (14.53%) Degree
2 87 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 65 (6.13%) Security Cleared
4 49 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 23 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.89%) DBS Check
7 18 (1.70%) A+ Certification
8 17 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.32%) CCNA
11 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.04%) HND
13 10 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (0.75%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.75%) HNC
14 8 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 7 (0.66%) APMP
15 7 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (0.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (5.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 45 (4.25%) GDPR
4 28 (2.64%) SLA
5 26 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 26 (2.45%) QA
6 21 (1.98%) ISO 9001
7 18 (1.70%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.75%) PMO
9 6 (0.57%) ISO 14001
10 5 (0.47%) COSHH
10 5 (0.47%) NEBOSH
10 5 (0.47%) NIST
11 4 (0.38%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.19%) NCSC
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 61131
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 418 (39.43%) Active Directory
2 104 (9.81%) Hyper-V
3 81 (7.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.60%) vSphere
5 14 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.57%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.57%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.57%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.094%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.094%) XenApp
10 1 (0.094%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 245 (23.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (2.45%) Jamf Pro
3 22 (2.08%) SCCM
4 17 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.94%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.85%) Backup Exec
6 9 (0.85%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.57%) vRealize
8 3 (0.28%) cPanel
8 3 (0.28%) Plesk
8 3 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.094%) Autotask
9 1 (0.094%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.094%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.094%) Nessus
9 1 (0.094%) Terraform
Vendors
1 848 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 109 (10.28%) VMware
3 56 (5.28%) Cisco
4 55 (5.19%) Veeam
5 51 (4.81%) Apple
6 31 (2.92%) Meraki
7 29 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 27 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
9 24 (2.26%) Adobe
10 21 (1.98%) SonicWALL
11 15 (1.42%) Ubiquiti
12 14 (1.32%) Datto
13 13 (1.23%) Sophos
14 12 (1.13%) Aruba
14 12 (1.13%) Salesforce
15 11 (1.04%) Google
15 11 (1.04%) WatchGuard
16 10 (0.94%) Computacenter
16 10 (0.94%) Fortinet
16 10 (0.94%) Palo Alto