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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 110 96
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 +52
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,261 1,320 2,155
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 2.73% 2.86%
As % of the Application Platforms category 34.66% 28.63% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 879 851 1,846
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £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 £63,114 £58,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £41,778 £40,000
% change year-on-year -13.83% +4.45% -0.28%

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 3,638 4,610 8,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.28% 9.52% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,421 2,735 6,063
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,500 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.96% +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 22 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 22 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 -7 1,053 £42,500 -11.72% 346
UK excluding London -1 850 £36,000 -13.83% 329
Work from Home +10 391 £47,292 -1.77% 148
London -13 327 £60,000 - 97
North of England -17 185 £40,000 -12.33% 67
Midlands -5 183 £40,000 -5.88% 44
South East -22 159 £43,750 -2.78% 108
Scotland +26 113 £35,000 +7.69% 22
South West +24 110 £32,500 -27.78% 41
West Midlands +4 108 £45,000 -15.57% 24
North West -13 104 £43,500 -14.40% 45
East of England -17 83 £34,000 +6.25% 41
East Midlands -20 75 £36,250 +18.85% 20
Yorkshire -10 74 £33,000 -17.50% 18
Wales -11 11 £41,740 -12.13% 10
North East -15 7 £67,500 +132.76% 7
Northern Ireland -33 6 £47,250 -10.00% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £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
1 390 (30.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (2.38%) Confluence
3 11 (0.87%) CMS
4 7 (0.56%) IIS
4 7 (0.56%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.56%) WordPress
5 5 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.24%) govService
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%) LiveLink
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 202 (16.02%) Microsoft Office
2 201 (15.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 103 (8.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.87%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.71%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.16%) InDesign
10 1 (0.079%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.079%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 43 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) 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%) Raiser’s Edge
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%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 868 (68.83%) Microsoft 365
2 558 (44.25%) Azure
3 371 (29.42%) Entra ID
4 262 (20.78%) OneDrive
5 261 (20.70%) Power Platform
6 145 (11.50%) Power Automate
7 137 (10.86%) PowerApps
8 81 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
9 63 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 54 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
10 54 (4.28%) SaaS
11 43 (3.41%) Mimecast
12 33 (2.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 27 (2.14%) AWS
13 27 (2.14%) Copilot Studio
14 25 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (1.98%) PaaS
15 23 (1.82%) Serverless
16 22 (1.74%) IaaS
17 21 (1.67%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 219 (17.37%) DNS
2 193 (15.31%) DHCP
3 178 (14.12%) Firewall
4 175 (13.88%) VPN
5 102 (8.09%) WAN
6 95 (7.53%) VLAN
7 90 (7.14%) LAN
8 86 (6.82%) TCP/IP
9 69 (5.47%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (3.25%) VoIP
11 37 (2.93%) Network Security
12 28 (2.22%) Wireless
13 19 (1.51%) Intranet
13 19 (1.51%) SD-WAN
14 13 (1.03%) Internet
14 13 (1.03%) IPsec
14 13 (1.03%) SAN
15 10 (0.79%) DKIM
15 10 (0.79%) DMARC
16 9 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (12.21%) Power BI
2 52 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.03%) Metadata
4 11 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.63%) MySQL
7 7 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.56%) Power Query
8 6 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.40%) DTS
10 4 (0.32%) GIS
10 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.24%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.24%) Tableau
12 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (4.20%) 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 (0.079%) 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
1 578 (45.84%) Social Skills
2 200 (15.86%) Finance
3 94 (7.45%) Law
4 85 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
6 81 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (5.87%) Legal
8 64 (5.08%) Public Sector
9 48 (3.81%) Manufacturing
10 36 (2.85%) Retail
11 26 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (1.98%) Marketing
12 25 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.27%) Games
13 16 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.11%) Banking
15 13 (1.03%) German Language
16 12 (0.95%) Advertising
16 12 (0.95%) French Language
16 12 (0.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 264 (20.94%) IT Support
2 199 (15.78%) Support Engineer
3 183 (14.51%) Senior
4 159 (12.61%) Analyst
5 149 (11.82%) IT Engineer
6 120 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 104 (8.25%) Developer
8 94 (7.45%) Support Analyst
9 76 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 69 (5.47%) Senior Manager
11 68 (5.39%) 2nd Line Support
12 67 (5.31%) Quality Manager
13 66 (5.23%) IT Analyst
14 65 (5.15%) Support Technician
15 64 (5.08%) QA Manager
15 64 (5.08%) Senior QA Manager
15 64 (5.08%) Senior Quality Manager
16 58 (4.60%) Consultant
17 53 (4.20%) Power Platform Developer
18 50 (3.97%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.22%) .NET
2 22 (1.74%) REST
3 20 (1.59%) HTML
3 20 (1.59%) HTML5 Canvas
4 15 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
5 13 (1.03%) CSS
6 11 (0.87%) JSON
7 10 (0.79%) SPFx
7 10 (0.79%) Web Services
8 9 (0.71%) Middleware
9 8 (0.63%) EDI
9 8 (0.63%) XML
10 6 (0.48%) SOAP
11 5 (0.40%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.40%) Node.js
11 5 (0.40%) OAuth
11 5 (0.40%) OpenID
11 5 (0.40%) React
12 4 (0.32%) ASP.NET
13 3 (0.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 138 (10.94%) Driving Licence
2 96 (7.61%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.70%) Low-Code
7 28 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
8 26 (2.06%) Replication
9 23 (1.82%) IoT
10 21 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.59%) CMDB
11 20 (1.59%) Product Ownership
12 19 (1.51%) Cloud Native
13 12 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.87%) AI Agents
14 11 (0.87%) FMCG
14 11 (0.87%) iPad
14 11 (0.87%) iPhone
15 10 (0.79%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 477 (37.83%) Windows
2 249 (19.75%) Windows Server
3 166 (13.16%) Windows 10
4 57 (4.52%) Mac OS
5 53 (4.20%) Apple iOS
6 40 (3.17%) Android
7 33 (2.62%) Linux
8 20 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.079%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
2 243 (19.27%) Customer Service
3 228 (18.08%) ITIL
4 220 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 146 (11.58%) Coaching
6 143 (11.34%) Agile
6 143 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
6 143 (11.34%) Project Management
7 137 (10.86%) Cybersecurity
8 127 (10.07%) Service Delivery
9 101 (8.01%) Disaster Recovery
10 98 (7.77%) Mentoring
11 90 (7.14%) AI
12 85 (6.74%) CRM
12 85 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 84 (6.66%) Migration
14 80 (6.34%) ITSM
15 76 (6.03%) Customer Experience
16 74 (5.87%) Change Management
17 73 (5.79%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 137 (10.86%) PowerShell
2 104 (8.25%) SQL
3 44 (3.49%) JavaScript
3 44 (3.49%) Python
4 42 (3.33%) C#
5 24 (1.90%) VBA
6 8 (0.63%) Java
6 8 (0.63%) R
6 8 (0.63%) T-SQL
6 8 (0.63%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.56%) Bash
8 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.24%) Bicep
10 2 (0.16%) PHP
10 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.079%) VB
11 1 (0.079%) X++
11 1 (0.079%) XAML
Qualifications
1 197 (15.62%) Degree
2 103 (8.17%) Security Cleared
3 97 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 69 (5.47%) SC Cleared
5 64 (5.08%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 38 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 20 (1.59%) PMI Certification
11 20 (1.59%) PMP
12 19 (1.51%) Azure Certification
13 18 (1.43%) DBS Check
14 17 (1.35%) HND
14 17 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.19%) A+ Certification
15 15 (1.19%) MBA
16 13 (1.03%) APMP
17 11 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.82%) QA
2 69 (5.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 60 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (3.97%) SLA
5 49 (3.89%) GDPR
6 31 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.51%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.43%) PMO
9 16 (1.27%) NIST
10 14 (1.11%) 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%) NCSC
14 4 (0.32%) PMBOK
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) P3O
15 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 469 (37.19%) Active Directory
2 84 (6.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (5.55%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (1.03%) vSphere
6 12 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.48%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.32%) DFS Replication
9 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.16%) Docker
11 2 (0.16%) Firmware
11 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.16%) XenApp
12 1 (0.079%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 327 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.85%) SCCM
3 28 (2.22%) Terraform
4 21 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.79%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.71%) Backup Exec
8 9 (0.71%) vRealize
9 7 (0.56%) WSUS
10 6 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.48%) Nagios
11 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
11 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.24%) Autotask
12 3 (0.24%) Nessus
12 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.16%) Plesk
Vendors
1 977 (77.48%) Microsoft
2 108 (8.56%) VMware
3 76 (6.03%) Apple
4 44 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 39 (3.09%) Veeam
6 34 (2.70%) Cisco
7 26 (2.06%) Meraki
8 24 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.90%) Sophos
9 22 (1.74%) Citrix
10 21 (1.67%) Adobe
11 20 (1.59%) Google
12 19 (1.51%) Datto
13 17 (1.35%) ConnectWise
14 16 (1.27%) SAP
15 14 (1.11%) iManage
16 13 (1.03%) Intapp
16 13 (1.03%) Oracle
17 10 (0.79%) HP
17 10 (0.79%) Progress