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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 109 90
Rank change year-on-year -10 -19 +66
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,260 1,218 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.73% 2.77% 3.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.06% 28.22% 28.26%
Number of salaries quoted 883 898 2,119
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,064 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +8.39% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,000 £77,500 £71,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

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 3,594 4,316 8,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.94% 9.83% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 2,809 6,688
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,000 £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 £70,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £102,500 £87,500
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 10 March 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 March 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 -13 1,059 £42,500 -10.53% 366
UK excluding London -5 848 £37,500 -6.25% 320
Work from Home +9 389 £47,500 - 162
London -10 333 £60,000 - 111
North of England -31 194 £42,270 -6.07% 68
Midlands -2 174 £42,500 - 45
South East -17 161 £45,000 +16.13% 96
North West -18 114 £50,000 - 45
South West +11 106 £31,500 -35.05% 40
Scotland +15 105 £31,500 -3.08% 32
West Midlands -3 105 £45,000 -14.93% 18
East of England -12 87 £34,000 +4.62% 38
Yorkshire -26 73 £33,000 +1.54% 17
East Midlands -25 69 £37,500 +22.95% 27
Wales -8 12 £41,740 -1.79% 7
North East -27 7 £67,500 +110.94% 10
Northern Ireland -33 7 £47,250 -10.00% 3
Isle of Man +7 6 £45,000 +30.43% 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
1 397 (31.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (2.78%) Confluence
3 11 (0.87%) CMS
4 7 (0.56%) IIS
5 4 (0.32%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.32%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.32%) WordPress
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 (0.079%) Apache
8 1 (0.079%) Appian
8 1 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.079%) LiveLink
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 206 (16.35%) Microsoft Office
2 189 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 97 (7.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.87%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.71%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.16%) InDesign
10 1 (0.079%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.079%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 41 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.71%) Dynamics GP
3 7 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
7 3 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.079%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.079%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.079%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.079%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 866 (68.73%) Microsoft 365
2 561 (44.52%) Azure
3 375 (29.76%) Entra ID
4 269 (21.35%) OneDrive
5 267 (21.19%) Power Platform
6 143 (11.35%) Power Automate
7 134 (10.63%) PowerApps
8 76 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
9 66 (5.24%) Microsoft Copilot
10 57 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 51 (4.05%) SaaS
12 43 (3.41%) Mimecast
13 36 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
14 27 (2.14%) AWS
15 26 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
16 24 (1.90%) Copilot Studio
16 24 (1.90%) Serverless
17 22 (1.75%) Azure Functions
17 22 (1.75%) PaaS
18 18 (1.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 223 (17.70%) DNS
2 195 (15.48%) DHCP
3 178 (14.13%) Firewall
4 175 (13.89%) VPN
5 104 (8.25%) WAN
6 97 (7.70%) VLAN
7 90 (7.14%) LAN
8 86 (6.83%) TCP/IP
9 74 (5.87%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (3.65%) VoIP
11 38 (3.02%) Network Security
12 27 (2.14%) Wireless
13 19 (1.51%) SD-WAN
14 17 (1.35%) Intranet
15 14 (1.11%) Internet
16 13 (1.03%) IPsec
17 12 (0.95%) SAN
18 10 (0.79%) DKIM
18 10 (0.79%) DMARC
19 9 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (12.46%) Power BI
2 52 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 11 (0.87%) Metadata
3 11 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.63%) MySQL
6 7 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.48%) Power Query
8 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.24%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.24%) DTS
10 3 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.24%) Tableau
11 2 (0.16%) DataStage
11 2 (0.16%) QlikView
11 2 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 61 (4.84%) JIRA
2 3 (0.24%) Git
2 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
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
1 569 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 191 (15.16%) Finance
3 93 (7.38%) Law
4 82 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
5 81 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 75 (5.95%) Legal
7 60 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 44 (3.49%) Manufacturing
9 37 (2.94%) Retail
10 24 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.51%) Marketing
13 17 (1.35%) Games
14 16 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.19%) Advertising
15 15 (1.19%) Banking
16 13 (1.03%) German Language
17 12 (0.95%) French Language
18 11 (0.87%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 274 (21.75%) IT Support
2 195 (15.48%) Support Engineer
3 187 (14.84%) Senior
4 157 (12.46%) Analyst
5 145 (11.51%) IT Engineer
6 119 (9.44%) IT Support Engineer
7 113 (8.97%) Developer
8 93 (7.38%) Support Analyst
9 74 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 72 (5.71%) Support Technician
11 70 (5.56%) IT Analyst
12 69 (5.48%) Senior Manager
13 67 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support
13 67 (5.32%) Quality Manager
14 64 (5.08%) QA Manager
14 64 (5.08%) Senior QA Manager
14 64 (5.08%) Senior Quality Manager
15 57 (4.52%) IT Technician
16 55 (4.37%) Consultant
16 55 (4.37%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.38%) .NET
2 23 (1.83%) REST
3 21 (1.67%) HTML5 Canvas
4 18 (1.43%) HTML
4 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
5 14 (1.11%) CSS
6 13 (1.03%) JSON
7 12 (0.95%) SPFx
8 9 (0.71%) Middleware
8 9 (0.71%) Web Services
8 9 (0.71%) XML
9 8 (0.63%) EDI
9 8 (0.63%) React
10 6 (0.48%) OAuth
10 6 (0.48%) OpenID
10 6 (0.48%) SOAP
11 5 (0.40%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.40%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.40%) Node.js
12 3 (0.24%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 130 (10.32%) Driving Licence
2 89 (7.06%) Onboarding
3 48 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
4 43 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 40 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (2.46%) Low-Code
7 28 (2.22%) Replication
8 24 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
9 23 (1.83%) IoT
10 22 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.51%) Cloud Native
11 19 (1.51%) CMDB
12 17 (1.35%) Product Ownership
13 12 (0.95%) FMCG
13 12 (0.95%) iPhone
13 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (0.79%) Social Media
15 10 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 488 (38.73%) Windows
2 248 (19.68%) Windows Server
3 169 (13.41%) Windows 10
4 63 (5.00%) Mac OS
5 54 (4.29%) Apple iOS
6 43 (3.41%) Android
7 35 (2.78%) Linux
8 24 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
2 239 (18.97%) Customer Service
3 232 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 229 (18.17%) ITIL
5 143 (11.35%) Agile
5 143 (11.35%) Project Management
6 142 (11.27%) Coaching
7 141 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
8 133 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
9 123 (9.76%) Service Delivery
10 95 (7.54%) Disaster Recovery
11 91 (7.22%) Mentoring
12 89 (7.06%) AI
13 83 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 82 (6.51%) CRM
14 82 (6.51%) Migration
15 80 (6.35%) ITSM
16 77 (6.11%) Change Management
16 77 (6.11%) Customer Experience
17 71 (5.63%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 138 (10.95%) PowerShell
2 100 (7.94%) SQL
3 48 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 47 (3.73%) C#
5 41 (3.25%) Python
6 22 (1.75%) VBA
7 10 (0.79%) TypeScript
8 9 (0.71%) R
9 8 (0.63%) Java
10 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.48%) Bash
12 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.24%) Bicep
14 2 (0.16%) PHP
14 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.079%) VB
15 1 (0.079%) X++
15 1 (0.079%) XAML
Qualifications
1 195 (15.48%) Degree
2 101 (8.02%) Microsoft Certification
2 101 (8.02%) Security Cleared
3 68 (5.40%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.08%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 38 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.02%) Master's Degree
6 24 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 19 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.51%) DBS Check
8 19 (1.51%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.51%) PMP
9 18 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
10 17 (1.35%) HND
11 15 (1.19%) MBA
12 14 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.03%) A+ Certification
13 13 (1.03%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (6.59%) QA
2 68 (5.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 61 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (4.13%) SLA
5 45 (3.57%) GDPR
6 29 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.51%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.35%) PMO
9 14 (1.11%) NIST
10 13 (1.03%) 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%) MiFID
14 4 (0.32%) NCSC
14 4 (0.32%) PMBOK
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 475 (37.70%) Active Directory
2 80 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (5.48%) Hyper-V
4 26 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (1.03%) vSphere
7 9 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.48%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.40%) BitLocker
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 (0.079%) Firmware
13 1 (0.079%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 327 (25.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (2.70%) SCCM
3 24 (1.90%) Terraform
4 21 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.51%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.95%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.71%) Backup Exec
8 9 (0.71%) vRealize
9 7 (0.56%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
11 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.24%) Nessus
11 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.16%) Kubernetes
12 2 (0.16%) SCOM
12 2 (0.16%) SCSM
12 2 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 969 (76.90%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.33%) VMware
3 79 (6.27%) Apple
4 44 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 40 (3.17%) Veeam
6 34 (2.70%) Cisco
7 25 (1.98%) Meraki
8 23 (1.83%) Adobe
8 23 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.51%) Citrix
9 19 (1.51%) Google
9 19 (1.51%) Sophos
10 17 (1.35%) Datto
11 15 (1.19%) Intapp
12 14 (1.11%) iManage
13 13 (1.03%) ConnectWise
14 12 (0.95%) Oracle
15 11 (0.87%) HP
15 11 (0.87%) SAP
16 9 (0.71%) Infor