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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 106 114
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +39
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,212 1,543 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.48% 2.92%
As % of the Application Platforms category 32.81% 27.95% 25.51%
Number of salaries quoted 873 982 1,260
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £63,313
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +3.03%

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 3,694 5,520 5,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.55% 8.89% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,519 3,403 4,551
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,750 £47,500 £47,103
% change year-on-year -12.11% +0.84% -0.84%

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 9 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 9 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 -13 1,031 £42,500 -15.00% 456
UK excluding London -14 777 £37,500 -11.76% 404
London +22 356 £57,500 +4.55% 122
Work from Home -4 353 £50,000 - 212
South East -6 166 £40,000 -11.11% 141
North of England -20 152 £40,000 -14.10% 78
Midlands -8 148 £40,000 -5.88% 84
South West +34 126 £34,000 -32.00% 28
Scotland +6 104 £35,000 +7.69% 14
North West -2 86 £43,500 -13.71% 37
West Midlands -6 80 £44,000 -15.79% 54
East of England -21 77 £34,000 +6.25% 65
East Midlands -2 68 £35,000 +12.90% 30
Yorkshire -14 61 £32,500 -21.69% 37
North East -9 5 £77,500 +82.35% 6
Wales -18 4 £42,500 -10.53% 4
Northern Ireland -19 2 £66,250 +26.19% 3

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 (30.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (2.56%) Confluence
3 16 (1.32%) Skype for Business
4 13 (1.07%) CMS
5 8 (0.66%) WordPress
6 7 (0.58%) IIS
7 5 (0.41%) 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
1 213 (17.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 207 (17.08%) Microsoft Office
3 112 (9.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.91%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.74%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.41%) 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 44 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.33%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.083%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.083%) Sage 1000
6 1 (0.083%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 815 (67.24%) Microsoft 365
2 514 (42.41%) Azure
3 351 (28.96%) Entra ID
4 243 (20.05%) Power Platform
5 227 (18.73%) OneDrive
6 150 (12.38%) Power Automate
7 137 (11.30%) PowerApps
8 84 (6.93%) Dynamics 365
9 68 (5.61%) Microsoft Copilot
10 62 (5.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 57 (4.70%) SaaS
12 43 (3.55%) AWS
13 34 (2.81%) Serverless
14 28 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
15 27 (2.23%) Copilot Studio
16 26 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (2.15%) PaaS
17 24 (1.98%) Mimecast
18 23 (1.90%) IaaS
19 21 (1.73%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 177 (14.60%) DNS
2 166 (13.70%) Firewall
3 159 (13.12%) DHCP
4 136 (11.22%) VPN
5 99 (8.17%) TCP/IP
6 84 (6.93%) VLAN
7 81 (6.68%) LAN
8 74 (6.11%) WAN
9 65 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
10 50 (4.13%) Wireless
11 44 (3.63%) VoIP
12 36 (2.97%) Network Security
13 35 (2.89%) Intranet
14 21 (1.73%) Internet
15 11 (0.91%) SAN
15 11 (0.91%) Skype
16 10 (0.83%) Unified Communications
16 10 (0.83%) WebEx
17 9 (0.74%) DKIM
17 9 (0.74%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (11.14%) Power BI
2 32 (2.64%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.16%) Metadata
4 12 (0.99%) MySQL
5 11 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.83%) NoSQL
7 9 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.74%) DTS
8 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.41%) Power Query
11 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.25%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.25%) GIS
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.17%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.17%) EDRMS
13 2 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (4.54%) JIRA
2 3 (0.25%) Git
3 2 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.083%) GitLab
4 1 (0.083%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.083%) RStudio
4 1 (0.083%) Sourcetree
General
1 552 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 221 (18.23%) Finance
3 87 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.52%) Law
5 77 (6.35%) Legal
6 68 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (4.87%) Manufacturing
8 58 (4.79%) Public Sector
9 51 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (3.38%) Retail
11 29 (2.39%) Telecoms
12 25 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (2.06%) Marketing
13 24 (1.98%) Banking
14 15 (1.24%) Automotive
15 14 (1.16%) Advertising
15 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.07%) German Language
17 12 (0.99%) Spanish Language
18 11 (0.91%) French Language
Job Titles
1 239 (19.72%) IT Support
2 199 (16.42%) Support Engineer
3 162 (13.37%) Senior
4 128 (10.56%) Analyst
5 114 (9.41%) IT Engineer
6 98 (8.09%) IT Support Engineer
7 93 (7.67%) Developer
8 84 (6.93%) Support Analyst
9 79 (6.52%) 2nd Line Support
10 71 (5.86%) Senior Manager
11 64 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 64 (5.28%) QA Manager
11 64 (5.28%) Quality Manager
11 64 (5.28%) Senior QA Manager
11 64 (5.28%) Senior Quality Manager
12 61 (5.03%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 51 (4.21%) Support Technician
14 50 (4.13%) Lead
14 50 (4.13%) Power Platform Developer
15 45 (3.71%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.14%) .NET
2 25 (2.06%) HTML
3 23 (1.90%) HTML5 Canvas
4 21 (1.73%) Microsoft Graph
5 17 (1.40%) CSS
6 16 (1.32%) REST
7 13 (1.07%) Web Services
8 10 (0.83%) .NET Framework
8 10 (0.83%) JSON
8 10 (0.83%) React
9 8 (0.66%) Software Packaging
10 7 (0.58%) Node.js
10 7 (0.58%) SPFx
11 6 (0.50%) ASP.NET
11 6 (0.50%) EDI
11 6 (0.50%) LangChain
11 6 (0.50%) Middleware
12 5 (0.41%) FreeMarker
12 5 (0.41%) SAML
12 5 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (10.56%) Onboarding
2 123 (10.15%) Driving Licence
3 52 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 38 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 34 (2.81%) IoT
7 31 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
8 27 (2.23%) Product Ownership
9 24 (1.98%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.49%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.49%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.32%) Social Media
13 14 (1.16%) CCTV
13 14 (1.16%) CMDB
13 14 (1.16%) NHS
13 14 (1.16%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.99%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 447 (36.88%) Windows
2 253 (20.87%) Windows Server
3 163 (13.45%) Windows 10
4 53 (4.37%) Mac OS
5 36 (2.97%) Linux
6 28 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 26 (2.15%) Android
8 18 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.17%) Unix
11 2 (0.17%) VMS
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.083%) CentOS
12 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.083%) SUSE
12 1 (0.083%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.083%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (17.66%) Customer Service
3 210 (17.33%) ITIL
4 207 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 156 (12.87%) Project Management
6 144 (11.88%) Cybersecurity
7 134 (11.06%) Agile
8 132 (10.89%) Business Intelligence
8 132 (10.89%) Service Delivery
9 125 (10.31%) Coaching
10 97 (8.00%) Migration
11 93 (7.67%) Mentoring
12 92 (7.59%) CRM
13 89 (7.34%) Project Delivery
14 88 (7.26%) AI
15 87 (7.18%) Disaster Recovery
16 78 (6.44%) ITSM
17 74 (6.11%) Customer Experience
18 73 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 72 (5.94%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 174 (14.36%) PowerShell
2 104 (8.58%) SQL
3 59 (4.87%) JavaScript
4 52 (4.29%) C#
5 49 (4.04%) Python
6 20 (1.65%) VBA
7 15 (1.24%) Bash
8 13 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.58%) Bicep
11 5 (0.41%) Java
12 4 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.17%) C++
13 2 (0.17%) PHP
13 2 (0.17%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.083%) R
14 1 (0.083%) VB
14 1 (0.083%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.083%) VBScript
14 1 (0.083%) X++
Qualifications
1 187 (15.43%) Degree
2 92 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 68 (5.61%) Security Cleared
4 64 (5.28%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 48 (3.96%) SC Cleared
6 27 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.23%) DBS Check
7 26 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.73%) MCP
9 21 (1.73%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.65%) PMP
11 18 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.40%) A+ Certification
13 16 (1.32%) HND
14 12 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.91%) DV Cleared
16 9 (0.74%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.34%) QA
2 55 (4.54%) GDPR
3 52 (4.29%) SLA
4 51 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (3.14%) PMO
6 31 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (1.40%) NIST
8 15 (1.24%) Data Quality
9 11 (0.91%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.50%) MiFID
11 5 (0.41%) GRC
12 4 (0.33%) NCSC
12 4 (0.33%) PMBOK
13 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.17%) P3O
14 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.17%) WCAG
15 1 (0.083%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.083%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 436 (35.97%) Active Directory
2 83 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (6.52%) Hyper-V
4 25 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.50%) Firmware
8 5 (0.41%) vSphere
9 4 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.25%) XenApp
11 1 (0.083%) Docker
11 1 (0.083%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.083%) Postfix
11 1 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 328 (27.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.31%) SCCM
3 27 (2.23%) Terraform
4 17 (1.40%) Autotask
5 15 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.07%) Nagios
7 10 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.74%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.33%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.33%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.25%) Nessus
11 3 (0.25%) PaperCut
11 3 (0.25%) SCOM
11 3 (0.25%) vRealize
12 2 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.17%) Plesk
12 2 (0.17%) SCSM
12 2 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 989 (81.60%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.17%) VMware
3 62 (5.12%) Apple
4 57 (4.70%) Cisco
5 42 (3.47%) Meraki
6 36 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 36 (2.97%) Sophos
7 29 (2.39%) Citrix
8 24 (1.98%) Datto
8 24 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.90%) Atlassian
9 23 (1.90%) HP
10 22 (1.82%) Google
11 21 (1.73%) Veeam
12 19 (1.57%) Oracle
13 18 (1.49%) Adobe
14 17 (1.40%) ConnectWise
14 17 (1.40%) Progress
15 16 (1.32%) Sage
16 12 (0.99%) Trend Micro