Microsoft SharePoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SharePoint skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 133 110
Rank change year-on-year +21 -23 +21
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,762 1,187 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.38% 2.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 38.65% 28.07% 24.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 911 1,357
10th Percentile £27,848 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,879 £42,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £77,500 £79,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,473 £39,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.12% -7.65% -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,559 4,229 7,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.14% 8.49% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,228 2,861 4,734
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -2.11%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SharePoint relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SharePoint job vacancy trend in the UK

SharePoint
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SharePoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SharePoint over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the UK over the 6 months to 2 September 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
England +15 1,566 £44,000 +3.53% 682
UK excluding London +47 1,280 £40,473 +3.12% 518
Work from Home +44 628 £50,000 +11.11% 323
London -23 419 £55,000 -4.35% 280
North of England +65 344 £42,500 +20.23% 101
South East +13 281 £47,166 +17.40% 144
East of England +60 233 £37,500 -7.41% 57
Midlands -9 174 £39,000 +1.30% 93
North West +38 163 £50,000 +25.00% 46
Yorkshire +36 149 £38,772 +34.86% 43
West Midlands -12 107 £45,000 +2.27% 62
South West -52 106 £36,250 -9.38% 56
Scotland +32 68 £30,750 -18.00% 41
East Midlands -25 67 £37,500 -2.60% 31
Wales -32 44 £32,000 -20.99% 10
North East -31 32 £47,500 +48.44% 14
Northern Ireland - 31 £63,500 - 29

SharePoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 611 (34.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (2.04%) CMS
2 36 (2.04%) Confluence
3 27 (1.53%) Sitecore CMS
4 20 (1.14%) IIS
5 15 (0.85%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.40%) Apache
6 7 (0.40%) nginx
7 5 (0.28%) MS Project Server
7 5 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
7 5 (0.28%) WordPress
8 4 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.17%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.17%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
Applications
1 163 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (8.63%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.79%) Chatbot
5 14 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.51%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.28%) DaVinci Resolve
10 3 (0.17%) Revit
11 2 (0.11%) Navisworks
11 2 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.057%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.057%) InDesign
12 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.057%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 56 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.08%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.68%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.57%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.34%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.23%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.17%) Primavera
7 3 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 2 (0.11%) Shopify
9 1 (0.057%) Eikon
9 1 (0.057%) FLEXCUBE
9 1 (0.057%) Sage 50
9 1 (0.057%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.057%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,316 (74.69%) Microsoft 365
2 774 (43.93%) Azure
3 601 (34.11%) Entra ID
4 510 (28.94%) Power Platform
5 385 (21.85%) OneDrive
6 278 (15.78%) Power Automate
6 278 (15.78%) PowerApps
7 195 (11.07%) Microsoft Copilot
8 115 (6.53%) SaaS
9 99 (5.62%) Microsoft Purview
10 98 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
11 76 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (3.41%) Mimecast
13 48 (2.72%) Copilot Studio
14 44 (2.50%) AWS
15 42 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
16 34 (1.93%) Google Workspace
17 30 (1.70%) IaaS
18 26 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
19 22 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 317 (17.99%) Firewall
2 283 (16.06%) DNS
3 238 (13.51%) DHCP
4 186 (10.56%) VPN
5 154 (8.74%) Wi-Fi
6 138 (7.83%) VLAN
7 104 (5.90%) TCP/IP
8 96 (5.45%) VoIP
9 86 (4.88%) Wireless
10 85 (4.82%) LAN
11 80 (4.54%) WAN
12 43 (2.44%) Network Security
13 37 (2.10%) Intranet
14 20 (1.14%) SSL
15 18 (1.02%) Internet
16 16 (0.91%) Skype
17 14 (0.79%) SAN
18 13 (0.74%) Broadband
18 13 (0.74%) PBX
19 10 (0.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (13.68%) Power BI
2 90 (5.11%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (1.25%) Metadata
5 19 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.45%) Power Query
10 6 (0.34%) GIS
11 5 (0.28%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.11%) EDRMS
13 2 (0.11%) MySQL
14 1 (0.057%) EDMS
14 1 (0.057%) Parquet
14 1 (0.057%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 103 (5.85%) JIRA
2 21 (1.19%) Git
3 5 (0.28%) Postman
4 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.17%) Selenium
5 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.11%) JUnit
6 2 (0.11%) Mockito
6 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.057%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.057%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 829 (47.05%) Social Skills
2 263 (14.93%) Finance
3 178 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (7.95%) Legal
5 137 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
6 100 (5.68%) Law
7 72 (4.09%) Manufacturing
7 72 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 61 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (2.67%) Retail
10 46 (2.61%) Marketing
11 41 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.70%) Publishing
14 27 (1.53%) Banking
15 21 (1.19%) Local Government
16 17 (0.96%) Legal Technology
17 16 (0.91%) Games
18 14 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 410 (23.27%) IT Support
2 288 (16.35%) Senior
3 287 (16.29%) Support Engineer
4 255 (14.47%) IT Engineer
5 231 (13.11%) IT Support Engineer
6 192 (10.90%) Analyst
7 188 (10.67%) Developer
8 117 (6.64%) Support Analyst
9 110 (6.24%) Consultant
10 100 (5.68%) IT Technician
11 98 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
12 91 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 88 (4.99%) Lead
14 83 (4.71%) Administrator
15 79 (4.48%) IT Analyst
16 74 (4.20%) Support Technician
17 66 (3.75%) IT Support Analyst
17 66 (3.75%) IT Support Technician
18 65 (3.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 64 (3.63%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (4.03%) HTML
2 70 (3.97%) .NET
3 62 (3.52%) CSS
4 55 (3.12%) Microsoft Graph
5 44 (2.50%) HTML5 Canvas
5 44 (2.50%) REST
5 44 (2.50%) SPFx
6 30 (1.70%) JSON
7 27 (1.53%) React
8 26 (1.48%) .NET Core
9 23 (1.31%) ASP.NET
10 15 (0.85%) .NET Framework
11 13 (0.74%) RESTful
12 12 (0.68%) Terraform
13 11 (0.62%) Middleware
13 11 (0.62%) XML
14 8 (0.45%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (0.40%) Node.js
15 7 (0.40%) Razor View Engine
16 6 (0.34%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.19%) Onboarding
2 161 (9.14%) Driving Licence
3 132 (7.49%) Management Information System
4 97 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.04%) AI Agents
7 32 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 30 (1.70%) Blog
9 27 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
9 27 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 26 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 24 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
12 23 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 22 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (1.14%) Clustering
15 19 (1.08%) CMDB
15 19 (1.08%) Virtual Team
16 18 (1.02%) Web Conferencing
17 16 (0.91%) Social Media
18 14 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 669 (37.97%) Windows
2 314 (17.82%) Windows Server
3 150 (8.51%) Windows 10
4 118 (6.70%) Mac OS
5 49 (2.78%) Linux
6 48 (2.72%) Apple iOS
7 42 (2.38%) Android
8 31 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.45%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.28%) VMS
13 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.17%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (30.82%) Problem-Solving
2 413 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 273 (15.49%) Customer Service
4 256 (14.53%) ITIL
5 255 (14.47%) AI
6 242 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
7 211 (11.98%) Business Intelligence
8 186 (10.56%) Service Delivery
9 184 (10.44%) Project Delivery
10 159 (9.02%) Disaster Recovery
11 157 (8.91%) User Experience
12 156 (8.85%) Workflow
13 155 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 149 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 147 (8.34%) Agile
16 139 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 137 (7.78%) CRM
18 136 (7.72%) Service Management
19 134 (7.60%) Project Management
20 130 (7.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 241 (13.68%) PowerShell
2 172 (9.76%) SQL
3 107 (6.07%) C#
4 103 (5.85%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.16%) Python
6 33 (1.87%) R
7 31 (1.76%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.31%) VBA
9 9 (0.51%) Ruby
10 7 (0.40%) C
10 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.23%) Bicep
13 3 (0.17%) Bash
13 3 (0.17%) C++
13 3 (0.17%) Java
13 3 (0.17%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 240 (13.62%) Degree
2 159 (9.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 89 (5.05%) Security Cleared
4 75 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 50 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 34 (1.93%) DBS Check
7 32 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.25%) CCNA
10 21 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
11 19 (1.08%) HND
12 16 (0.91%) A+ Certification
13 15 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.57%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.57%) HNC
15 10 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.51%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.28%) Cyber Essentials
1 93 (5.28%) GDPR
2 85 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (3.97%) SLA
4 43 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.27%) QA
6 35 (1.99%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 21 (1.19%) PMO
9 16 (0.91%) ISO 9001
10 9 (0.51%) NIST
11 7 (0.40%) NCSC
12 6 (0.34%) ISO 14001
13 5 (0.28%) COSHH
13 5 (0.28%) NEBOSH
14 4 (0.23%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.23%) WCAG
15 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.11%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 623 (35.36%) Active Directory
2 147 (8.34%) Hyper-V
3 145 (8.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (1.19%) vSphere
6 19 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 10 (0.57%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.057%) Docker
11 1 (0.057%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.057%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 411 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (2.50%) SCCM
3 40 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
4 28 (1.59%) FortiGate
4 28 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (1.14%) Autotask
6 6 (0.34%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.28%) Ansible
8 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.17%) cPanel
9 3 (0.17%) Plesk
10 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.11%) Nessus
10 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.11%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,475 (83.71%) Microsoft
2 176 (9.99%) VMware
3 107 (6.07%) Cisco
4 75 (4.26%) Veeam
5 74 (4.20%) Apple
6 56 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 51 (2.89%) SonicWALL
8 46 (2.61%) Meraki
9 45 (2.55%) Adobe
9 45 (2.55%) Google
10 39 (2.21%) HP
11 36 (2.04%) Datto
12 35 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
13 30 (1.70%) Aruba
14 27 (1.53%) Sitecore
14 27 (1.53%) Ubiquiti
15 26 (1.48%) Salesforce
16 21 (1.19%) Citrix
17 17 (0.96%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.96%) Palo Alto