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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 139 117
Rank change year-on-year +24 -22 +6
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,852 1,128 1,684
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.29% 2.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.87% 27.75% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 864 1,138
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,125 £32,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -

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 4,645 4,065 6,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 8.23% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,224 2,710 4,106
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,738 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

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 16 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 16 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 +24 1,643 £43,500 +2.35% 920
UK excluding London +58 1,348 £40,000 - 628
Work from Home +55 665 £47,500 - 382
London -12 436 £55,000 -4.35% 377
North of England +60 362 £42,500 +11.84% 149
South East +18 295 £45,000 +10.29% 180
East of England +66 241 £37,500 -7.41% 59
Midlands -1 192 £40,750 +1.88% 103
North West +55 171 £47,250 +18.13% 87
Yorkshire +51 154 £38,772 +33.70% 52
West Midlands -6 122 £45,000 +2.27% 56
South West -54 108 £36,250 -9.38% 69
Scotland +40 75 £31,500 -10.00% 52
East Midlands -33 70 £37,500 -2.60% 47
Wales -40 44 £32,000 -20.99% 16
North East -30 37 £47,500 +43.08% 11
Northern Ireland - 32 £63,000 - 11

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
1 625 (33.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (1.94%) Confluence
3 35 (1.89%) CMS
4 27 (1.46%) Sitecore CMS
5 21 (1.13%) IIS
6 18 (0.97%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.43%) Apache
7 8 (0.43%) nginx
8 5 (0.27%) MS Project Server
8 5 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.27%) WordPress
9 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.16%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 171 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 167 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.86%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.76%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.54%) CorelDRAW
8 9 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.27%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.16%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.16%) Revit
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.054%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 59 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.70%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.59%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.27%) Primavera
7 4 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.22%) Shopify
8 3 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 1 (0.054%) Eikon
10 1 (0.054%) FLEXCUBE
10 1 (0.054%) Sage 50
10 1 (0.054%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.054%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,373 (74.14%) Microsoft 365
2 794 (42.87%) Azure
3 626 (33.80%) Entra ID
4 534 (28.83%) Power Platform
5 408 (22.03%) OneDrive
6 295 (15.93%) Power Automate
7 290 (15.66%) PowerApps
8 210 (11.34%) Microsoft Copilot
9 113 (6.10%) SaaS
10 108 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
11 107 (5.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 84 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
13 59 (3.19%) Mimecast
14 53 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
15 44 (2.38%) AWS
16 41 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
17 33 (1.78%) Google Workspace
18 31 (1.67%) Serverless
19 30 (1.62%) IaaS
20 25 (1.35%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 327 (17.66%) Firewall
2 290 (15.66%) DNS
3 242 (13.07%) DHCP
4 198 (10.69%) VPN
5 158 (8.53%) Wi-Fi
6 143 (7.72%) VLAN
7 107 (5.78%) TCP/IP
8 97 (5.24%) VoIP
9 92 (4.97%) Wireless
10 86 (4.64%) LAN
11 84 (4.54%) WAN
12 44 (2.38%) Intranet
12 44 (2.38%) Network Security
13 21 (1.13%) SSL
14 19 (1.03%) Skype
15 17 (0.92%) Internet
16 15 (0.81%) PBX
17 13 (0.70%) SAN
18 12 (0.65%) Broadband
19 11 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (13.61%) Power BI
2 96 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (1.19%) Metadata
5 19 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.49%) GIS
8 9 (0.49%) Power Query
9 8 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.22%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.16%) EDMS
13 2 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.11%) EDRMS
13 2 (0.11%) Tableau
14 1 (0.054%) Parquet
14 1 (0.054%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 102 (5.51%) JIRA
2 29 (1.57%) Git
3 5 (0.27%) Postman
4 4 (0.22%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.16%) Selenium
5 3 (0.16%) 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 (0.054%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.054%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 891 (48.11%) Social Skills
2 280 (15.12%) Finance
3 188 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (7.99%) Organisational Skills
5 140 (7.56%) Legal
6 100 (5.40%) Law
7 87 (4.70%) Public Sector
8 76 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 66 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 50 (2.70%) Retail
11 48 (2.59%) Marketing
12 40 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
13 38 (2.05%) Telecoms
14 32 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.67%) Publishing
16 30 (1.62%) Banking
17 24 (1.30%) Local Government
18 17 (0.92%) Games
18 17 (0.92%) Legal Technology
19 15 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 423 (22.84%) IT Support
2 298 (16.09%) Support Engineer
3 284 (15.33%) Senior
4 267 (14.42%) IT Engineer
5 241 (13.01%) IT Support Engineer
6 205 (11.07%) Analyst
7 197 (10.64%) Developer
8 129 (6.97%) Support Analyst
9 112 (6.05%) Consultant
10 104 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support
11 100 (5.40%) IT Technician
12 94 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 93 (5.02%) Lead
14 84 (4.54%) Administrator
15 80 (4.32%) IT Analyst
16 76 (4.10%) Support Technician
17 69 (3.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 67 (3.62%) IT Support Analyst
19 66 (3.56%) IT Manager
19 66 (3.56%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (3.94%) HTML
2 70 (3.78%) .NET
3 62 (3.35%) CSS
4 57 (3.08%) Microsoft Graph
5 47 (2.54%) REST
6 44 (2.38%) SPFx
7 39 (2.11%) HTML5 Canvas
8 31 (1.67%) JSON
9 28 (1.51%) React
10 25 (1.35%) ASP.NET
11 23 (1.24%) .NET Core
12 18 (0.97%) .NET Framework
13 15 (0.81%) XML
14 14 (0.76%) RESTful
15 12 (0.65%) Terraform
16 10 (0.54%) Middleware
17 8 (0.43%) ASP.NET MVC
17 8 (0.43%) HTML5
18 7 (0.38%) Entity Framework
18 7 (0.38%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 173 (9.34%) Onboarding
2 168 (9.07%) Driving Licence
3 145 (7.83%) Management Information System
4 97 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 40 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 36 (1.94%) Low-Code
8 30 (1.62%) Blog
9 27 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
9 27 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
10 26 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 26 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 24 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 23 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
13 21 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.08%) Clustering
15 19 (1.03%) CMDB
16 16 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 703 (37.96%) Windows
2 322 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 147 (7.94%) Windows 10
4 114 (6.16%) Mac OS
5 51 (2.75%) Linux
6 48 (2.59%) Apple iOS
7 40 (2.16%) Android
8 29 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.49%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.27%) VMS
13 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.054%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (31.26%) Problem-Solving
2 436 (23.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 298 (16.09%) Customer Service
4 278 (15.01%) AI
5 267 (14.42%) ITIL
6 265 (14.31%) Cybersecurity
7 222 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
8 199 (10.75%) Service Delivery
9 198 (10.69%) Project Delivery
10 169 (9.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 163 (8.80%) Disaster Recovery
12 162 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 159 (8.59%) Agile
14 153 (8.26%) Workflow
15 150 (8.10%) Service Management
16 148 (7.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 148 (7.99%) User Experience
17 143 (7.72%) CRM
18 141 (7.61%) Project Management
19 134 (7.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 244 (13.17%) PowerShell
2 172 (9.29%) SQL
3 115 (6.21%) C#
4 108 (5.83%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.05%) Python
6 31 (1.67%) R
7 30 (1.62%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.24%) VBA
9 11 (0.59%) Ruby
10 8 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.38%) C
12 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.27%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.22%) Bicep
15 3 (0.16%) C++
15 3 (0.16%) Java
15 3 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.16%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.11%) Bash
16 2 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 249 (13.44%) Degree
2 168 (9.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 87 (4.70%) Security Cleared
4 73 (3.94%) SC Cleared
5 52 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 36 (1.94%) DBS Check
7 35 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
9 24 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.24%) CCNA
11 21 (1.13%) A+ Certification
12 19 (1.03%) HND
13 16 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (0.76%) PMI Certification
15 13 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.65%) PMP
17 11 (0.59%) DV Cleared
18 10 (0.54%) HNC
18 10 (0.54%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.35%) GDPR
2 98 (5.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 83 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (4.16%) SLA
5 55 (2.97%) Accessibility
6 43 (2.32%) Data Quality
7 39 (2.11%) QA
8 28 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 26 (1.40%) PMO
10 17 (0.92%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.43%) NIST
11 8 (0.43%) WCAG
12 7 (0.38%) NCSC
13 6 (0.32%) ISO 14001
14 5 (0.27%) COSHH
14 5 (0.27%) NEBOSH
14 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
16 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 643 (34.72%) Active Directory
2 157 (8.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 152 (8.21%) Hyper-V
4 34 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (1.19%) vSphere
6 20 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 11 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.32%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.054%) Docker
11 1 (0.054%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.054%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 417 (22.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (2.27%) SCCM
3 35 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
4 29 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 28 (1.51%) FortiGate
6 19 (1.03%) Autotask
7 6 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 6 (0.32%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.27%) Ansible
9 4 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.16%) cPanel
10 3 (0.16%) Plesk
11 2 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
11 2 (0.11%) Nessus
11 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.11%) Puppet
11 2 (0.11%) vRealize
11 2 (0.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,554 (83.91%) Microsoft
2 188 (10.15%) VMware
3 110 (5.94%) Cisco
4 78 (4.21%) Apple
5 74 (4.00%) Veeam
6 62 (3.35%) ServiceNow
7 53 (2.86%) SonicWALL
8 45 (2.43%) Meraki
9 44 (2.38%) Google
10 43 (2.32%) HP
11 41 (2.21%) Adobe
12 35 (1.89%) Datto
13 34 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
14 29 (1.57%) Aruba
15 27 (1.46%) Sitecore
16 24 (1.30%) Ubiquiti
17 23 (1.24%) Salesforce
18 21 (1.13%) Citrix
18 21 (1.13%) Fortinet
19 18 (0.97%) Palo Alto