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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 107 99
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +50
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,242 1,359 2,081
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.89% 2.72% 2.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.11% 29.09% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 860 848 1,776
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,688 £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 £63,359 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,980 £40,748 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.70% +1.87% -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 3,537 4,672 7,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.38% 9.34% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,332 2,717 6,001
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,938 £40,000 £34,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,634 £102,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +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 10 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 10 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 -6 1,035 £42,500 -10.53% 341
UK excluding London -6 824 £35,980 -11.70% 333
Work from Home +8 373 £47,500 - 136
London -1 338 £57,500 -4.17% 73
Midlands -2 183 £40,000 -5.88% 44
North of England -24 168 £40,000 -11.11% 65
South East -15 163 £42,500 -5.56% 119
Scotland +19 117 £35,000 +7.69% 19
West Midlands +4 108 £45,000 -15.57% 28
South West +20 106 £32,500 -25.29% 38
North West -3 98 £43,500 -13.71% 34
East Midlands -12 75 £36,250 +13.28% 16
East of England -22 74 £34,000 +6.25% 48
Yorkshire -33 66 £32,000 -12.33% 24
Wales -12 9 £41,740 -12.13% 11
Northern Ireland -30 6 £47,250 -10.00% 1
North East -11 4 £82,966 +95.21% 9
Isle of Man - 2 £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
1 372 (29.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.33%) Confluence
3 11 (0.89%) CMS
4 8 (0.64%) WordPress
5 7 (0.56%) IIS
5 7 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.24%) govService
8 2 (0.16%) Moodle
8 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.081%) Apache
9 1 (0.081%) Appian
9 1 (0.081%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 204 (16.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 203 (16.34%) Microsoft Office
3 107 (8.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.89%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.72%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.40%) 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 (3.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
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%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 844 (67.95%) Microsoft 365
2 540 (43.48%) Azure
3 358 (28.82%) Entra ID
4 259 (20.85%) Power Platform
5 249 (20.05%) OneDrive
6 152 (12.24%) Power Automate
7 137 (11.03%) PowerApps
8 79 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
9 57 (4.59%) Microsoft Copilot
10 53 (4.27%) Microsoft Purview
11 51 (4.11%) SaaS
12 36 (2.90%) Mimecast
13 33 (2.66%) Azure Logic Apps
14 28 (2.25%) Copilot Studio
15 26 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
16 25 (2.01%) AWS
16 25 (2.01%) Serverless
17 23 (1.85%) PaaS
18 21 (1.69%) Azure Functions
19 19 (1.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 205 (16.51%) DNS
2 180 (14.49%) DHCP
3 173 (13.93%) Firewall
4 168 (13.53%) VPN
5 99 (7.97%) WAN
6 89 (7.17%) VLAN
7 88 (7.09%) LAN
8 86 (6.92%) TCP/IP
9 64 (5.15%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (3.22%) VoIP
11 36 (2.90%) Network Security
12 32 (2.58%) Wireless
13 22 (1.77%) Intranet
14 19 (1.53%) SD-WAN
15 14 (1.13%) Internet
16 12 (0.97%) IPsec
17 11 (0.89%) SAN
18 10 (0.81%) DKIM
18 10 (0.81%) DMARC
18 10 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.67%) Power BI
2 52 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.13%) Metadata
4 11 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.72%) MySQL
7 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.48%) Power Query
7 6 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.32%) DTS
9 4 (0.32%) GIS
9 4 (0.32%) 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 51 (4.11%) 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 (0.081%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.081%) GitLab
4 1 (0.081%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.081%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 580 (46.70%) Social Skills
2 199 (16.02%) Finance
3 92 (7.41%) Law
4 84 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
6 74 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (5.96%) Legal
7 54 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 48 (3.86%) Manufacturing
9 37 (2.98%) Retail
10 26 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.77%) Marketing
13 16 (1.29%) Banking
13 16 (1.29%) Games
14 13 (1.05%) German Language
15 12 (0.97%) French Language
15 12 (0.97%) Spanish Language
16 11 (0.89%) Advertising
17 9 (0.72%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 255 (20.53%) IT Support
2 199 (16.02%) Support Engineer
3 181 (14.57%) Senior
4 147 (11.84%) Analyst
5 145 (11.67%) IT Engineer
6 116 (9.34%) IT Support Engineer
7 103 (8.29%) Developer
8 87 (7.00%) Support Analyst
9 72 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 70 (5.64%) 2nd Line Support
11 69 (5.56%) Senior Manager
12 66 (5.31%) Quality Manager
13 64 (5.15%) QA Manager
13 64 (5.15%) Senior QA Manager
13 64 (5.15%) Senior Quality Manager
14 58 (4.67%) Support Technician
15 57 (4.59%) Consultant
16 54 (4.35%) IT Analyst
17 51 (4.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 51 (4.11%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.09%) .NET
2 25 (2.01%) HTML
3 23 (1.85%) REST
4 19 (1.53%) HTML5 Canvas
5 17 (1.37%) CSS
5 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
6 13 (1.05%) Web Services
7 10 (0.81%) Middleware
7 10 (0.81%) SPFx
8 9 (0.72%) JSON
9 8 (0.64%) Node.js
10 6 (0.48%) LangChain
10 6 (0.48%) OAuth
10 6 (0.48%) OpenID
11 5 (0.40%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.40%) EDI
11 5 (0.40%) XML
12 4 (0.32%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.32%) SAML
12 4 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 134 (10.79%) Driving Licence
2 106 (8.53%) Onboarding
3 54 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.82%) Low-Code
6 32 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
8 25 (2.01%) IoT
9 24 (1.93%) Product Ownership
9 24 (1.93%) Replication
10 20 (1.61%) CMDB
11 19 (1.53%) Cloud Native
11 19 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.13%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.05%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.05%) CCTV
13 13 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (0.89%) FMCG
14 11 (0.89%) iPhone
14 11 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 459 (36.96%) Windows
2 240 (19.32%) Windows Server
3 164 (13.20%) Windows 10
4 52 (4.19%) Mac OS
5 51 (4.11%) Apple iOS
6 35 (2.82%) Android
7 33 (2.66%) Linux
8 21 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.081%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
2 228 (18.36%) ITIL
3 226 (18.20%) Customer Service
4 212 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 146 (11.76%) Project Management
6 140 (11.27%) Agile
7 139 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
8 137 (11.03%) Business Intelligence
8 137 (11.03%) Coaching
9 130 (10.47%) Service Delivery
10 102 (8.21%) Disaster Recovery
11 95 (7.65%) AI
12 92 (7.41%) Mentoring
13 85 (6.84%) Migration
14 83 (6.68%) CRM
14 83 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 79 (6.36%) ITSM
16 76 (6.12%) Customer Experience
16 76 (6.12%) Service Management
17 74 (5.96%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 106 (8.53%) SQL
3 48 (3.86%) Python
4 47 (3.78%) JavaScript
5 40 (3.22%) C#
6 23 (1.85%) VBA
7 11 (0.89%) TypeScript
8 9 (0.72%) Bash
9 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.48%) R
11 5 (0.40%) Java
12 4 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.24%) Bicep
13 3 (0.24%) PHP
14 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.081%) VB
15 1 (0.081%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.081%) X++
Qualifications
1 191 (15.38%) Degree
2 97 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 90 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 64 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 37 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 20 (1.61%) DBS Check
10 19 (1.53%) PMI Certification
10 19 (1.53%) PMP
11 17 (1.37%) HND
12 16 (1.29%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (1.21%) A+ Certification
14 13 (1.05%) MBA
15 12 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.92%) QA
2 68 (5.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 58 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (4.27%) SLA
5 51 (4.11%) GDPR
6 30 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.61%) PMO
8 19 (1.53%) NIST
9 13 (1.05%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.64%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.48%) GRC
11 6 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.32%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.32%) NCSC
12 4 (0.32%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.16%) P3O
13 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 455 (36.63%) Active Directory
2 84 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (5.64%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.97%) vSphere
6 10 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.72%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.64%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.32%) Firmware
9 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.16%) XenApp
12 1 (0.081%) Docker
12 1 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 323 (26.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (2.58%) SCCM
3 30 (2.42%) Terraform
4 22 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.13%) FortiGate
6 11 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (0.72%) vRealize
8 8 (0.64%) Backup Exec
8 8 (0.64%) Nagios
8 8 (0.64%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.48%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) Autotask
10 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
10 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.24%) Nessus
11 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.16%) Plesk
12 2 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 961 (77.38%) Microsoft
2 109 (8.78%) VMware
3 72 (5.80%) Apple
4 41 (3.30%) Cisco
5 40 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.82%) Veeam
7 29 (2.33%) Meraki
8 23 (1.85%) Citrix
8 23 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.77%) Adobe
10 21 (1.69%) Sophos
11 19 (1.53%) Datto
12 17 (1.37%) Google
13 16 (1.29%) ConnectWise
14 15 (1.21%) HP
14 15 (1.21%) Oracle
15 14 (1.13%) iManage
15 14 (1.13%) SAP
16 13 (1.05%) Progress
17 9 (0.72%) Fortinet