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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 106 109
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +46
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,202 1,493 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.06% 2.63% 3.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.58% 28.36% 25.89%
Number of salaries quoted 853 967 1,243
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £28,550
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £47,500 £46,550
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,200 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +3.66%

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 3,579 5,264 5,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.12% 9.27% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 3,234 4,412
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,585 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,648 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £91,993
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,750 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -12.11% +2.15% -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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 -11 1,015 £41,000 -18.00% 513
UK excluding London -13 785 £37,500 -11.76% 483
London +13 337 £56,250 +2.27% 108
Work from Home -10 337 £50,000 - 263
South East -15 162 £40,000 -11.11% 154
North of England -18 159 £40,000 -12.10% 107
Midlands -19 151 £38,750 -8.28% 97
South West +38 123 £34,000 -32.00% 27
Scotland +16 108 £35,000 +7.69% 25
North West -10 90 £40,000 -21.29% 58
West Midlands -2 81 £44,000 -16.19% 52
East of England -13 77 £34,000 +6.25% 73
East Midlands -17 70 £35,000 +12.90% 42
Yorkshire -10 64 £30,000 -29.41% 40
North East -14 5 £77,500 +82.35% 11
Wales -22 4 £42,500 -10.53% 8
Northern Ireland -17 3 £66,250 +26.19% 7

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
1 373 (31.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (2.58%) Confluence
3 15 (1.25%) Skype for Business
4 13 (1.08%) CMS
5 8 (0.67%) WordPress
6 7 (0.58%) IIS
7 5 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.17%) Moodle
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.083%) JOnAS
10 1 (0.083%) LiveLink
10 1 (0.083%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 207 (17.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 204 (16.97%) Microsoft Office
3 111 (9.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.92%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.75%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) InDesign
10 1 (0.083%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.083%) Revit
Business Applications
1 40 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.33%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.083%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.083%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.083%) Shopify
5 1 (0.083%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 806 (67.05%) Microsoft 365
2 497 (41.35%) Azure
3 348 (28.95%) Entra ID
4 235 (19.55%) Power Platform
5 230 (19.13%) OneDrive
6 140 (11.65%) Power Automate
7 129 (10.73%) PowerApps
8 79 (6.57%) Dynamics 365
9 65 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
10 59 (4.91%) Microsoft Purview
11 57 (4.74%) SaaS
12 42 (3.49%) AWS
13 28 (2.33%) Copilot Studio
13 28 (2.33%) Serverless
14 26 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
15 24 (2.00%) PaaS
16 23 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
16 23 (1.91%) Mimecast
17 22 (1.83%) IaaS
18 18 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 181 (15.06%) DNS
2 166 (13.81%) Firewall
3 165 (13.73%) DHCP
4 141 (11.73%) VPN
5 99 (8.24%) TCP/IP
6 86 (7.15%) VLAN
7 85 (7.07%) LAN
8 82 (6.82%) WAN
9 71 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (3.83%) Wireless
11 45 (3.74%) VoIP
12 36 (3.00%) Network Security
13 31 (2.58%) Intranet
14 19 (1.58%) Internet
15 11 (0.92%) Skype
15 11 (0.92%) Unified Communications
16 10 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
16 10 (0.83%) SD-WAN
17 9 (0.75%) DKIM
17 9 (0.75%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (10.65%) Power BI
2 34 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.16%) Metadata
4 12 (1.00%) MySQL
5 10 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.75%) DTS
6 9 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 8 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.42%) Power Query
10 4 (0.33%) GIS
10 4 (0.33%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.25%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.25%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.17%) EDMS
12 2 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.17%) QlikView
12 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 53 (4.41%) JIRA
2 3 (0.25%) Git
3 2 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.083%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.083%) GitLab
4 1 (0.083%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.083%) Sourcetree
General
1 554 (46.09%) Social Skills
2 214 (17.80%) Finance
3 84 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (6.82%) Law
5 78 (6.49%) Legal
6 68 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
7 56 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (4.58%) Manufacturing
8 55 (4.58%) Public Sector
9 39 (3.24%) Retail
10 28 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (1.83%) Marketing
13 21 (1.75%) Banking
14 15 (1.25%) Advertising
15 13 (1.08%) German Language
16 12 (1.00%) Automotive
16 12 (1.00%) French Language
16 12 (1.00%) Spanish Language
17 11 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 246 (20.47%) IT Support
2 201 (16.72%) Support Engineer
3 163 (13.56%) Senior
4 119 (9.90%) Analyst
5 118 (9.82%) IT Engineer
6 100 (8.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 89 (7.40%) Developer
8 80 (6.66%) 2nd Line Support
9 75 (6.24%) Support Analyst
10 70 (5.82%) Senior Manager
11 64 (5.32%) QA Manager
11 64 (5.32%) Quality Manager
11 64 (5.32%) Senior QA Manager
11 64 (5.32%) Senior Quality Manager
12 62 (5.16%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 60 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 57 (4.74%) Support Technician
15 51 (4.24%) Power Platform Developer
16 50 (4.16%) Lead
17 47 (3.91%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.66%) .NET
2 22 (1.83%) HTML
3 21 (1.75%) HTML5 Canvas
4 20 (1.66%) Microsoft Graph
5 17 (1.41%) REST
6 14 (1.16%) CSS
7 13 (1.08%) Web Services
8 10 (0.83%) JSON
9 8 (0.67%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.58%) Middleware
10 7 (0.58%) Node.js
10 7 (0.58%) React
11 6 (0.50%) EDI
11 6 (0.50%) LangChain
11 6 (0.50%) Software Packaging
11 6 (0.50%) SPFx
12 5 (0.42%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.42%) FreeMarker
12 5 (0.42%) SAML
12 5 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (10.65%) Driving Licence
1 128 (10.65%) Onboarding
2 52 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (2.66%) IoT
6 31 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
7 26 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 25 (2.08%) Low-Code
9 23 (1.91%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.50%) Social Media
11 16 (1.33%) CMDB
12 15 (1.25%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.16%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.08%) CCTV
14 13 (1.08%) NHS
14 13 (1.08%) Replication
15 12 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 449 (37.35%) Windows
2 258 (21.46%) Windows Server
3 163 (13.56%) Windows 10
4 51 (4.24%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.00%) Linux
6 33 (2.75%) Android
7 31 (2.58%) Apple iOS
8 19 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.17%) VMS
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.083%) CentOS
12 1 (0.083%) SUSE
12 1 (0.083%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.083%) Unix
12 1 (0.083%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
2 216 (17.97%) Customer Service
2 216 (17.97%) ITIL
3 200 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 155 (12.90%) Project Management
5 144 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
6 132 (10.98%) Agile
7 130 (10.82%) Service Delivery
8 126 (10.48%) Coaching
9 124 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
10 95 (7.90%) Migration
11 94 (7.82%) AI
12 90 (7.49%) Mentoring
13 85 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
14 84 (6.99%) CRM
14 84 (6.99%) Project Delivery
15 79 (6.57%) ITSM
16 75 (6.24%) Customer Experience
17 74 (6.16%) Change Management
18 71 (5.91%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (13.73%) PowerShell
2 102 (8.49%) SQL
3 50 (4.16%) JavaScript
4 47 (3.91%) Python
5 43 (3.58%) C#
6 20 (1.66%) VBA
7 14 (1.16%) Bash
8 12 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.42%) Bicep
10 5 (0.42%) Java
11 4 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.17%) C++
12 2 (0.17%) PHP
12 2 (0.17%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.083%) VB
13 1 (0.083%) VBScript
13 1 (0.083%) X++
Qualifications
1 184 (15.31%) Degree
2 89 (7.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 70 (5.82%) Security Cleared
4 64 (5.32%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 49 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.58%) DBS Check
7 29 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.91%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.83%) PMI Certification
11 21 (1.75%) PMP
12 19 (1.58%) MCP
13 18 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (1.33%) A+ Certification
14 16 (1.33%) HND
15 15 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (1.08%) DV Cleared
17 10 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 9 (0.75%) AWS Certification
18 9 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.32%) QA
2 58 (4.83%) GDPR
3 55 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 51 (4.24%) SLA
5 34 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (2.66%) PMO
7 18 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 18 (1.50%) NIST
8 15 (1.25%) Data Quality
9 11 (0.92%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.50%) GRC
11 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.33%) MiFID
12 4 (0.33%) NCSC
12 4 (0.33%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.17%) P3O
13 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 435 (36.19%) Active Directory
2 84 (6.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (6.41%) Hyper-V
4 26 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.58%) Firmware
6 7 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.42%) vSphere
8 4 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.25%) XenApp
10 2 (0.17%) Docker
11 1 (0.083%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.083%) Postfix
11 1 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 321 (26.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.41%) Terraform
3 24 (2.00%) SCCM
4 18 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.16%) Autotask
6 13 (1.08%) Nagios
7 11 (0.92%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.75%) ZABBIX
9 8 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.42%) vRealize
12 4 (0.33%) PaperCut
12 4 (0.33%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.25%) Nessus
13 3 (0.25%) SCOM
13 3 (0.25%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.17%) Kubernetes
14 2 (0.17%) Plesk
14 2 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 974 (81.03%) Microsoft
2 103 (8.57%) VMware
3 72 (5.99%) Apple
4 48 (3.99%) Cisco
5 38 (3.16%) Meraki
6 36 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.66%) Sophos
8 29 (2.41%) Citrix
9 25 (2.08%) Veeam
10 23 (1.91%) Adobe
11 22 (1.83%) Google
12 21 (1.75%) Salesforce
13 20 (1.66%) Atlassian
13 20 (1.66%) Datto
14 19 (1.58%) Oracle
14 19 (1.58%) Progress
15 18 (1.50%) ConnectWise
15 18 (1.50%) HP
16 12 (1.00%) Sage
16 12 (1.00%) Trend Micro