SharePoint Job Trends

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 109 103
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +40
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,228 1,381 2,052
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.92% 2.67% 2.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.17% 28.85% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 854 863 1,751
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,063 £32,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,020 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,925 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,700 £76,250 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -14.63% +2.50% -1.23%

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 3,492 4,786 7,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.46% 9.26% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,307 2,760 5,936
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,000 £39,625 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,631 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +11.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,749 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.78% +8.24% -8.60%

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 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Top 18 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 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
England -10 1,028 £41,750 -13.15% 413
UK excluding London -6 810 £35,000 -14.63% 382
Work from Home +6 361 £50,000 +5.26% 164
London +7 339 £56,500 -5.83% 99
Midlands -6 180 £37,500 -11.76% 56
North of England -29 165 £40,000 -11.11% 78
South East -11 162 £42,500 -5.56% 143
Scotland +16 114 £35,000 +7.69% 18
South West +33 109 £33,000 -25.84% 37
West Midlands +3 100 £42,039 -21.13% 34
North West -9 95 £45,000 -5.89% 43
East Midlands -6 80 £35,000 +11.11% 22
East of England -29 71 £34,000 +6.25% 47
Yorkshire -16 66 £30,750 -6.82% 31
Wales -13 8 £41,740 -12.13% 10
North East -12 4 £82,966 +95.21% 6
Northern Ireland -24 4 £62,500 +19.05% 2
Isle of Man - 1 £45,000 - 1

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
1 370 (30.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.36%) Confluence
3 12 (0.98%) CMS
4 9 (0.73%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.65%) WordPress
6 6 (0.49%) IIS
7 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.24%) govService
9 2 (0.16%) Moodle
10 1 (0.081%) Apache
10 1 (0.081%) LiveLink
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.081%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 201 (16.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 194 (15.80%) Microsoft Office
3 107 (8.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.90%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.73%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.16%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.16%) InDesign
10 1 (0.081%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 43 (3.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.081%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.081%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.081%) Shopify
7 1 (0.081%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 837 (68.16%) Microsoft 365
2 531 (43.24%) Azure
3 354 (28.83%) Entra ID
4 254 (20.68%) Power Platform
5 242 (19.71%) OneDrive
6 149 (12.13%) Power Automate
7 138 (11.24%) PowerApps
8 75 (6.11%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (4.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 52 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 49 (3.99%) SaaS
12 36 (2.93%) Mimecast
13 31 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 29 (2.36%) Copilot Studio
15 28 (2.28%) AWS
16 26 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
17 25 (2.04%) Serverless
18 23 (1.87%) PaaS
19 20 (1.63%) Azure Functions
20 19 (1.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 196 (15.96%) DNS
2 173 (14.09%) DHCP
3 171 (13.93%) Firewall
4 162 (13.19%) VPN
5 96 (7.82%) WAN
6 87 (7.08%) VLAN
7 86 (7.00%) LAN
8 84 (6.84%) TCP/IP
9 63 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (3.18%) VoIP
11 36 (2.93%) Network Security
12 35 (2.85%) Wireless
13 23 (1.87%) Intranet
14 19 (1.55%) SD-WAN
15 14 (1.14%) Internet
16 11 (0.90%) IPsec
17 10 (0.81%) DKIM
17 10 (0.81%) DMARC
17 10 (0.81%) SAN
18 9 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (11.32%) Power BI
2 49 (3.99%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.38%) Metadata
4 11 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (0.73%) MySQL
7 6 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.49%) DTS
7 6 (0.49%) Power Query
7 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.33%) GIS
9 4 (0.33%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.24%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.24%) Tableau
11 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.16%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (3.99%) JIRA
2 2 (0.16%) Git
2 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.081%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.081%) GitLab
3 1 (0.081%) MSBuild
3 1 (0.081%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 566 (46.09%) Social Skills
2 203 (16.53%) Finance
3 93 (7.57%) Law
4 83 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (6.27%) Legal
6 72 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
7 68 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 48 (3.91%) Manufacturing
10 38 (3.09%) Retail
11 26 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.79%) Marketing
14 16 (1.30%) Banking
15 14 (1.14%) Games
16 13 (1.06%) German Language
17 12 (0.98%) Advertising
17 12 (0.98%) French Language
17 12 (0.98%) Spanish Language
18 9 (0.73%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 247 (20.11%) IT Support
2 202 (16.45%) Support Engineer
3 174 (14.17%) Senior
4 143 (11.64%) IT Engineer
5 134 (10.91%) Analyst
6 116 (9.45%) IT Support Engineer
7 101 (8.22%) Developer
8 78 (6.35%) Support Analyst
9 69 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support
9 69 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 69 (5.62%) Senior Manager
10 65 (5.29%) Quality Manager
11 64 (5.21%) QA Manager
11 64 (5.21%) Senior QA Manager
11 64 (5.21%) Senior Quality Manager
12 57 (4.64%) Support Technician
13 56 (4.56%) Consultant
14 54 (4.40%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 52 (4.23%) 1st Line Support
15 52 (4.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.12%) .NET
2 25 (2.04%) HTML
3 23 (1.87%) REST
4 19 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (1.55%) Microsoft Graph
5 17 (1.38%) CSS
6 10 (0.81%) Middleware
6 10 (0.81%) SPFx
6 10 (0.81%) Web Services
7 9 (0.73%) JSON
8 8 (0.65%) Node.js
9 6 (0.49%) LangChain
9 6 (0.49%) OAuth
9 6 (0.49%) OpenID
10 5 (0.41%) XML
11 4 (0.33%) EDI
11 4 (0.33%) OAuth2
11 4 (0.33%) React
11 4 (0.33%) SAML
11 4 (0.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 137 (11.16%) Driving Licence
2 108 (8.79%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.69%) Low-Code
6 29 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
8 26 (2.12%) IoT
8 26 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 22 (1.79%) Replication
10 21 (1.71%) CMDB
11 19 (1.55%) Cloud Native
12 18 (1.47%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.14%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.06%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.98%) CCTV
15 12 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (0.90%) iPad
16 11 (0.90%) Social Media
17 10 (0.81%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 454 (36.97%) Windows
2 244 (19.87%) Windows Server
3 167 (13.60%) Windows 10
4 52 (4.23%) Mac OS
5 45 (3.66%) Apple iOS
6 33 (2.69%) Android
6 33 (2.69%) Linux
7 22 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.081%) Unix
12 1 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
2 224 (18.24%) ITIL
3 221 (18.00%) Customer Service
4 207 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 150 (12.21%) Project Management
6 136 (11.07%) Agile
6 136 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
7 132 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
8 131 (10.67%) Coaching
8 131 (10.67%) Service Delivery
9 96 (7.82%) AI
9 96 (7.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 91 (7.41%) Mentoring
11 85 (6.92%) Migration
12 83 (6.76%) CRM
13 80 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 78 (6.35%) ITSM
15 75 (6.11%) Customer Experience
16 74 (6.03%) Change Management
16 74 (6.03%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (11.64%) PowerShell
2 105 (8.55%) SQL
3 47 (3.83%) JavaScript
4 46 (3.75%) Python
5 39 (3.18%) C#
6 23 (1.87%) VBA
7 11 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 9 (0.73%) Bash
9 8 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.41%) Java
11 4 (0.33%) R
12 3 (0.24%) Bicep
12 3 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.24%) PHP
13 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.081%) VB
14 1 (0.081%) X++
Qualifications
1 189 (15.39%) Degree
2 91 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 89 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 64 (5.21%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 59 (4.80%) SC Cleared
6 36 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.69%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.79%) DBS Check
10 20 (1.63%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 19 (1.55%) PMI Certification
11 19 (1.55%) PMP
12 16 (1.30%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.30%) HND
12 16 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (1.06%) A+ Certification
14 12 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.98%) MBA
15 11 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.00%) QA
2 67 (5.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 55 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (4.48%) SLA
4 52 (4.23%) GDPR
5 27 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 22 (1.79%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.79%) PMO
7 19 (1.55%) NIST
8 14 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.49%) GRC
9 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.33%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.33%) NCSC
11 4 (0.33%) PMBOK
12 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.16%) MiFID
12 2 (0.16%) P3O
12 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 451 (36.73%) Active Directory
2 86 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (5.70%) Hyper-V
4 28 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.90%) vSphere
6 10 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.49%) Firmware
10 4 (0.33%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.16%) XenApp
13 1 (0.081%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.081%) Docker
13 1 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 317 (25.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.44%) SCCM
2 30 (2.44%) Terraform
3 19 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (1.22%) FortiGate
5 10 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (0.81%) Nagios
6 9 (0.73%) vRealize
7 6 (0.49%) Backup Exec
7 6 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (0.49%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.49%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.41%) Autotask
8 5 (0.41%) WSUS
9 4 (0.33%) PaperCut
10 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.24%) Nessus
10 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.16%) Plesk
Vendors
1 955 (77.77%) Microsoft
2 111 (9.04%) VMware
3 75 (6.11%) Apple
4 42 (3.42%) Cisco
5 39 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 34 (2.77%) Veeam
7 29 (2.36%) Meraki
8 28 (2.28%) Citrix
9 23 (1.87%) Sophos
10 21 (1.71%) Adobe
11 20 (1.63%) Datto
11 20 (1.63%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.47%) ConnectWise
12 18 (1.47%) Google
13 16 (1.30%) HP
13 16 (1.30%) Oracle
14 15 (1.22%) Progress
15 14 (1.14%) SAP
16 11 (0.90%) iManage
17 10 (0.81%) Freshdesk