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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 107 94
Rank change year-on-year -21 -13 +63
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,255 1,136 2,625
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.78% 2.92%
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.99% 28.12% 27.36%
Number of salaries quoted 923 890 2,171
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,628 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +6.11% -11.79%
75th Percentile £61,041 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,275
% change year-on-year -6.25% -0.68% -0.56%

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 3,692 4,040 9,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.63% 9.88% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,532 2,855 6,930
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,225 £110,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -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 2 April 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 April 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 -26 1,084 £42,500 -10.53% 339
UK excluding London -16 860 £37,500 -6.25% 287
Work from Home -1 390 £50,000 +3.86% 118
London -26 320 £60,000 - 113
Midlands -2 187 £39,250 -7.65% 46
North of England -47 186 £41,500 -2.35% 56
South East -22 176 £45,000 - 76
West Midlands +8 118 £43,750 -12.50% 29
East of England -21 113 £34,000 +4.62% 32
North West -29 106 £50,000 +9.58% 33
South West +3 96 £31,000 -34.74% 55
Scotland +3 79 £31,500 -3.08% 18
Yorkshire -20 75 £33,000 +10.00% 19
East Midlands -40 69 £37,500 +10.29% 17
Wales -14 13 £41,740 +11.31% 8
Northern Ireland -39 8 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Isle of Man +3 6 £45,000 +30.43% 1
North East -32 5 £63,076 +97.11% 6

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
1 414 (32.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (2.95%) Confluence
3 12 (0.96%) CMS
4 7 (0.56%) IIS
5 4 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.32%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.32%) WordPress
6 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.24%) govService
6 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.16%) Moodle
7 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.080%) Apache
8 1 (0.080%) Appian
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 190 (15.14%) Microsoft Office
2 163 (12.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 77 (6.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
7 2 (0.16%) InDesign
7 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.080%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.080%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 37 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.72%) Dynamics GP
3 6 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
6 3 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.080%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.080%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.080%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 875 (69.72%) Microsoft 365
2 553 (44.06%) Azure
3 369 (29.40%) Entra ID
4 273 (21.75%) OneDrive
5 261 (20.80%) Power Platform
6 135 (10.76%) Power Automate
7 129 (10.28%) PowerApps
8 67 (5.34%) Microsoft Copilot
9 63 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (4.22%) SaaS
11 50 (3.98%) Microsoft Purview
12 41 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 41 (3.27%) Mimecast
13 32 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (1.99%) Serverless
15 24 (1.91%) AWS
15 24 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (1.83%) Azure Functions
17 20 (1.59%) PaaS
18 19 (1.51%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 225 (17.93%) DNS
2 201 (16.02%) DHCP
3 171 (13.63%) Firewall
4 166 (13.23%) VPN
5 109 (8.69%) WAN
6 97 (7.73%) LAN
7 93 (7.41%) VLAN
8 92 (7.33%) Wi-Fi
9 83 (6.61%) TCP/IP
10 52 (4.14%) VoIP
11 40 (3.19%) Network Security
12 28 (2.23%) Wireless
13 21 (1.67%) Intranet
14 19 (1.51%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.27%) Internet
16 13 (1.04%) IPsec
17 12 (0.96%) WLAN
18 11 (0.88%) SAN
19 10 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
20 9 (0.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (12.19%) Power BI
2 60 (4.78%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (0.88%) Metadata
4 11 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.64%) MySQL
8 7 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.40%) Power Query
10 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.24%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.24%) Tableau
12 2 (0.16%) DataStage
12 2 (0.16%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.16%) QlikView
12 2 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (5.90%) JIRA
2 3 (0.24%) Git
2 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.16%) Selenium
3 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.080%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.080%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 559 (44.54%) Social Skills
2 173 (13.78%) Finance
3 95 (7.57%) Law
4 90 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (7.09%) Organisational Skills
6 79 (6.29%) Legal
7 77 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (4.78%) Public Sector
9 43 (3.43%) Manufacturing
10 39 (3.11%) Retail
11 22 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (1.43%) Games
12 18 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.43%) Marketing
13 17 (1.35%) Advertising
13 17 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.12%) Banking
15 9 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.48%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.40%) German Language
Job Titles
1 302 (24.06%) IT Support
2 207 (16.49%) Support Engineer
3 186 (14.82%) Senior
4 160 (12.75%) IT Engineer
5 147 (11.71%) Analyst
6 137 (10.92%) IT Support Engineer
7 124 (9.88%) Developer
8 87 (6.93%) Support Analyst
9 84 (6.69%) Support Technician
10 79 (6.29%) 2nd Line Support
11 73 (5.82%) IT Technician
12 66 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 66 (5.26%) IT Support Technician
13 63 (5.02%) IT Analyst
14 62 (4.94%) Lead
15 56 (4.46%) 3rd Line Support
16 52 (4.14%) Senior Manager
17 51 (4.06%) IT Support Analyst
17 51 (4.06%) Quality Manager
18 50 (3.98%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.35%) .NET
2 29 (2.31%) HTML
3 28 (2.23%) CSS
3 28 (2.23%) REST
4 26 (2.07%) HTML5 Canvas
5 22 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
6 21 (1.67%) JSON
6 21 (1.67%) SPFx
7 14 (1.12%) React
8 11 (0.88%) XML
9 10 (0.80%) .NET Core
9 10 (0.80%) Middleware
9 10 (0.80%) Web Services
10 9 (0.72%) Node.js
11 8 (0.64%) EDI
12 6 (0.48%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.48%) ASP.NET
12 6 (0.48%) SOAP
13 4 (0.32%) CSS3
13 4 (0.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 138 (11.00%) Driving Licence
2 101 (8.05%) Onboarding
3 44 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.71%) Low-Code
6 31 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.15%) Replication
8 23 (1.83%) IoT
8 23 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
9 21 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.43%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.43%) CMDB
11 14 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.96%) FMCG
12 12 (0.96%) iPhone
13 11 (0.88%) Social Media
14 10 (0.80%) Fat Client
14 10 (0.80%) Thin Client
14 10 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 496 (39.52%) Windows
2 239 (19.04%) Windows Server
3 181 (14.42%) Windows 10
4 64 (5.10%) Mac OS
5 58 (4.62%) Apple iOS
6 48 (3.82%) Android
7 33 (2.63%) Linux
8 28 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.16%) Unix
14 1 (0.080%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.080%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
2 235 (18.73%) Customer Service
3 228 (18.17%) ITIL
4 217 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 138 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
6 130 (10.36%) Project Management
7 128 (10.20%) Agile
7 128 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
8 116 (9.24%) Service Delivery
9 105 (8.37%) Coaching
10 91 (7.25%) AI
11 82 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 79 (6.29%) User Experience
13 78 (6.22%) CRM
14 76 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
15 75 (5.98%) Change Management
15 75 (5.98%) ITSM
16 73 (5.82%) DevOps
16 73 (5.82%) Mentoring
17 69 (5.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 136 (10.84%) PowerShell
2 105 (8.37%) SQL
3 55 (4.38%) JavaScript
4 52 (4.14%) C#
5 34 (2.71%) Python
6 20 (1.59%) VBA
7 18 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.35%) R
9 9 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.48%) Java
11 4 (0.32%) Bicep
11 4 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.24%) Bash
13 2 (0.16%) PHP
13 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.16%) VB
13 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.080%) X++
14 1 (0.080%) XAML
Qualifications
1 181 (14.42%) Degree
2 104 (8.29%) Security Cleared
3 92 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 66 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 48 (3.82%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 37 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.31%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.51%) DBS Check
11 17 (1.35%) HND
11 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 16 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 15 (1.20%) MBA
14 14 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 14 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (1.04%) A+ Certification
15 13 (1.04%) APMP
16 9 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.42%) QA
2 62 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (4.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 50 (3.98%) SLA
5 37 (2.95%) GDPR
6 26 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 21 (1.67%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.43%) PMO
9 12 (0.96%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.80%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.56%) NIST
12 5 (0.40%) GRC
12 5 (0.40%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.40%) MiFID
12 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.24%) NCSC
14 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.16%) PMBOK
14 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 475 (37.85%) Active Directory
2 76 (6.06%) Hyper-V
3 73 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.12%) vSphere
6 11 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.80%) BitLocker
8 9 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.72%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.48%) DFS Replication
10 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.16%) Docker
12 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.16%) XenApp
13 1 (0.080%) Firmware
13 1 (0.080%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 331 (26.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.87%) SCCM
3 25 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
4 23 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (1.27%) Terraform
6 12 (0.96%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.80%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.72%) Backup Exec
8 9 (0.72%) vRealize
9 7 (0.56%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) Autotask
10 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
11 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.16%) Kubernetes
12 2 (0.16%) Plesk
12 2 (0.16%) SCOM
12 2 (0.16%) SCSM
13 1 (0.080%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 1 (0.080%) MOM
Vendors
1 959 (76.41%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.05%) VMware
3 77 (6.14%) Apple
4 45 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 37 (2.95%) Veeam
6 36 (2.87%) Cisco
7 27 (2.15%) Meraki
8 25 (1.99%) Adobe
9 24 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.43%) Datto
11 16 (1.27%) Citrix
11 16 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
11 16 (1.27%) iManage
11 16 (1.27%) Intapp
12 15 (1.20%) Google
12 15 (1.20%) Sophos
13 14 (1.12%) HP
14 13 (1.04%) ConnectWise
15 11 (0.88%) Oracle
15 11 (0.88%) SAP