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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 108 97
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 +52
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,263 1,326 2,151
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.73% 2.86%
As % of the Application Platforms category 34.72% 28.78% 26.86%
Number of salaries quoted 884 851 1,842
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,114 £58,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £41,389 £40,000
% change year-on-year -13.02% +3.47% -0.28%

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 3,638 4,607 8,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.29% 9.49% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 2,727 6,066
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,063 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £109,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,500 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.96% +8.24% -10.53%

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 21 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 21 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 -9 1,056 £42,500 -11.46% 349
UK excluding London -5 846 £36,000 -13.02% 335
Work from Home +10 395 £47,500 -1.34% 147
London -7 332 £60,000 - 95
Midlands 0 184 £40,000 -5.88% 44
North of England -24 183 £40,000 -12.33% 70
South East -30 158 £42,500 -5.56% 108
Scotland +23 112 £35,000 +7.69% 23
South West +32 109 £32,500 -27.37% 42
West Midlands -7 109 £45,000 -15.57% 25
North West -12 103 £43,500 -14.40% 46
East of England -22 83 £34,000 +6.25% 42
East Midlands -22 75 £36,250 +18.85% 19
Yorkshire -16 73 £33,000 -17.50% 21
Wales -10 11 £41,740 -12.13% 10
North East -17 7 £67,500 +88.81% 6
Northern Ireland -37 6 £47,250 -10.00% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £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
1 389 (30.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (2.45%) Confluence
3 11 (0.87%) CMS
4 7 (0.55%) IIS
4 7 (0.55%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.55%) WordPress
5 5 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.24%) govService
7 2 (0.16%) Moodle
7 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.079%) Apache
8 1 (0.079%) Appian
8 1 (0.079%) LiveLink
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 204 (16.15%) Microsoft Office
2 203 (16.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 104 (8.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.87%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.71%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.16%) InDesign
10 1 (0.079%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.079%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 43 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
3 7 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
6 3 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
7 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.079%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.079%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.079%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 865 (68.49%) Microsoft 365
2 556 (44.02%) Azure
3 370 (29.30%) Entra ID
4 264 (20.90%) Power Platform
5 263 (20.82%) OneDrive
6 149 (11.80%) Power Automate
7 139 (11.01%) PowerApps
8 82 (6.49%) Dynamics 365
9 64 (5.07%) Microsoft Copilot
10 55 (4.35%) SaaS
11 54 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
12 39 (3.09%) Mimecast
13 34 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 28 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
15 27 (2.14%) AWS
16 26 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (2.06%) PaaS
17 25 (1.98%) Serverless
18 22 (1.74%) Azure Functions
18 22 (1.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 218 (17.26%) DNS
2 192 (15.20%) DHCP
3 177 (14.01%) Firewall
4 174 (13.78%) VPN
5 102 (8.08%) WAN
6 93 (7.36%) VLAN
7 90 (7.13%) LAN
8 86 (6.81%) TCP/IP
9 69 (5.46%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (3.25%) VoIP
11 37 (2.93%) Network Security
12 29 (2.30%) Wireless
13 19 (1.50%) Intranet
13 19 (1.50%) SD-WAN
14 14 (1.11%) Internet
15 13 (1.03%) IPsec
15 13 (1.03%) SAN
16 10 (0.79%) DKIM
16 10 (0.79%) DMARC
17 9 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (12.19%) Power BI
2 54 (4.28%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.03%) Metadata
4 11 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.71%) MySQL
7 7 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.55%) Power Query
8 6 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.40%) DTS
9 5 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.32%) GIS
10 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.24%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.24%) Tableau
12 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (4.35%) JIRA
2 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.16%) Git
3 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.079%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.079%) GitLab
4 1 (0.079%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.079%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.079%) Selenium
4 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 580 (45.92%) Social Skills
2 200 (15.84%) Finance
3 96 (7.60%) Law
4 88 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
6 74 (5.86%) Legal
7 66 (5.23%) Public Sector
8 48 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 37 (2.93%) Retail
10 26 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (1.98%) Marketing
11 25 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.27%) Games
12 16 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.19%) Banking
14 13 (1.03%) German Language
15 12 (0.95%) Advertising
15 12 (0.95%) French Language
15 12 (0.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 264 (20.90%) IT Support
2 199 (15.76%) Support Engineer
3 184 (14.57%) Senior
4 156 (12.35%) Analyst
5 148 (11.72%) IT Engineer
6 119 (9.42%) IT Support Engineer
7 105 (8.31%) Developer
8 94 (7.44%) Support Analyst
9 76 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 69 (5.46%) Senior Manager
11 68 (5.38%) 2nd Line Support
12 67 (5.30%) Quality Manager
13 65 (5.15%) Support Technician
14 64 (5.07%) QA Manager
14 64 (5.07%) Senior QA Manager
14 64 (5.07%) Senior Quality Manager
15 62 (4.91%) IT Analyst
16 57 (4.51%) Consultant
17 54 (4.28%) Power Platform Developer
18 50 (3.96%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.30%) .NET
2 24 (1.90%) REST
3 21 (1.66%) HTML
3 21 (1.66%) HTML5 Canvas
4 14 (1.11%) CSS
4 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Graph
5 12 (0.95%) JSON
6 10 (0.79%) Middleware
6 10 (0.79%) SPFx
6 10 (0.79%) Web Services
7 8 (0.63%) EDI
7 8 (0.63%) XML
8 7 (0.55%) Node.js
9 6 (0.48%) SOAP
10 5 (0.40%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.40%) OAuth
10 5 (0.40%) OpenID
10 5 (0.40%) React
11 4 (0.32%) ASP.NET
12 3 (0.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 138 (10.93%) Driving Licence
2 98 (7.76%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.77%) Low-Code
6 33 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
8 26 (2.06%) Replication
9 24 (1.90%) IoT
10 21 (1.66%) Cloud Native
10 21 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.58%) CMDB
11 20 (1.58%) Product Ownership
12 12 (0.95%) AI Agents
12 12 (0.95%) CCTV
12 12 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.87%) FMCG
13 11 (0.87%) iPad
13 11 (0.87%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 472 (37.37%) Windows
2 247 (19.56%) Windows Server
3 162 (12.83%) Windows 10
4 56 (4.43%) Mac OS
5 52 (4.12%) Apple iOS
6 39 (3.09%) Android
7 33 (2.61%) Linux
8 20 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.079%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
2 238 (18.84%) Customer Service
3 228 (18.05%) ITIL
4 220 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 144 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
5 144 (11.40%) Project Management
6 142 (11.24%) Coaching
7 139 (11.01%) Agile
8 138 (10.93%) Cybersecurity
9 127 (10.06%) Service Delivery
10 101 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 95 (7.52%) Mentoring
12 91 (7.21%) AI
13 85 (6.73%) CRM
13 85 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 84 (6.65%) Migration
15 80 (6.33%) ITSM
16 76 (6.02%) Customer Experience
17 75 (5.94%) Change Management
18 74 (5.86%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (10.85%) PowerShell
2 104 (8.23%) SQL
3 47 (3.72%) JavaScript
4 44 (3.48%) C#
4 44 (3.48%) Python
5 24 (1.90%) VBA
6 9 (0.71%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.63%) Java
7 8 (0.63%) R
7 8 (0.63%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.55%) Bash
9 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.24%) Bicep
10 3 (0.24%) PHP
11 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.079%) VB
12 1 (0.079%) X++
12 1 (0.079%) XAML
Qualifications
1 198 (15.68%) Degree
2 103 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 96 (7.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 69 (5.46%) SC Cleared
5 64 (5.07%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 38 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 20 (1.58%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.58%) PMP
11 19 (1.50%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.43%) DBS Check
13 17 (1.35%) HND
13 17 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (1.19%) A+ Certification
15 14 (1.11%) MBA
16 12 (0.95%) APMP
17 11 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.81%) QA
2 69 (5.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 61 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (3.96%) SLA
5 49 (3.88%) GDPR
6 31 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.58%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.50%) PMO
9 16 (1.27%) NIST
10 14 (1.11%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.79%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.48%) GRC
13 5 (0.40%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.32%) NCSC
14 4 (0.32%) PMBOK
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) MiFID
15 2 (0.16%) P3O
15 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 464 (36.74%) Active Directory
2 84 (6.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (5.62%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (1.03%) vSphere
6 12 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.55%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.32%) DFS Replication
9 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.16%) Docker
11 2 (0.16%) Firmware
11 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.16%) XenApp
12 1 (0.079%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 326 (25.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (2.61%) SCCM
3 28 (2.22%) Terraform
4 21 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.11%) FortiGate
5 14 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.71%) Backup Exec
7 9 (0.71%) vRealize
8 7 (0.55%) Nagios
8 7 (0.55%) WSUS
9 6 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
10 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.24%) Autotask
11 3 (0.24%) Nessus
11 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.16%) Plesk
12 2 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 979 (77.51%) Microsoft
2 109 (8.63%) VMware
3 75 (5.94%) Apple
4 40 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 39 (3.09%) Veeam
6 36 (2.85%) Cisco
7 27 (2.14%) Meraki
8 25 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.74%) Citrix
10 21 (1.66%) Adobe
11 20 (1.58%) Google
11 20 (1.58%) Sophos
12 19 (1.50%) Datto
13 17 (1.35%) ConnectWise
14 16 (1.27%) SAP
15 15 (1.19%) iManage
16 14 (1.11%) Oracle
17 13 (1.03%) Intapp
18 11 (0.87%) HP
19 10 (0.79%) Progress