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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 138 115
Rank change year-on-year +21 -23 +9
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,889 1,149 1,634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.31% 2.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.54% 28.52% 25.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,402 863 1,053
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,063 £32,500 £32,750
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 £60,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.41%

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 4,777 4,029 6,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.05% 8.11% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,242 2,656 3,753
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,762
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.16% +1.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £106,250 £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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +30 1,669 £43,500 -3.33% 950
UK excluding London +57 1,365 £40,000 - 679
Work from Home +42 669 £45,000 -9.09% 435
London -19 448 £55,000 -4.35% 344
North of England +78 371 £42,500 +6.25% 136
South East +26 306 £42,500 +3.66% 197
East of England +61 233 £37,000 -11.90% 86
Midlands -10 192 £42,500 +10.39% 91
North West +37 177 £44,000 +10.00% 80
Yorkshire +38 154 £40,000 +37.93% 44
West Midlands -4 121 £47,500 +5.56% 44
South West -61 111 £36,625 -0.34% 82
Scotland +15 80 £31,500 -10.00% 67
East Midlands -31 71 £37,500 +2.04% 47
Wales -30 42 £32,000 -21.95% 16
North East -25 40 £46,250 -31.48% 12
Northern Ireland -51 31 £63,500 -9.29% 10

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
1 614 (32.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (1.85%) CMS
3 32 (1.69%) Confluence
4 27 (1.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 21 (1.11%) IIS
6 19 (1.01%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.42%) Apache
7 8 (0.42%) nginx
8 5 (0.26%) MS Project Server
8 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.16%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.16%) Office Communications Server
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.053%) Moodle
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 188 (9.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (9.21%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.85%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.53%) CorelDRAW
8 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.32%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.26%) Trello
11 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.16%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.16%) Revit
13 2 (0.11%) DaVinci Resolve
13 2 (0.11%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.053%) InDesign
14 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.053%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 62 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.22%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.69%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.58%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.26%) Primavera
6 5 (0.26%) Shopify
7 4 (0.21%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 1 (0.053%) Eikon
10 1 (0.053%) FLEXCUBE
10 1 (0.053%) Sage 50
10 1 (0.053%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.053%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,398 (74.01%) Microsoft 365
2 798 (42.24%) Azure
3 631 (33.40%) Entra ID
4 548 (29.01%) Power Platform
5 426 (22.55%) OneDrive
6 309 (16.36%) Power Automate
7 301 (15.93%) PowerApps
8 236 (12.49%) Microsoft Copilot
9 114 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
9 114 (6.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 110 (5.82%) SaaS
11 90 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
12 67 (3.55%) Copilot Studio
13 60 (3.18%) Mimecast
14 40 (2.12%) AWS
15 36 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
16 35 (1.85%) Serverless
17 31 (1.64%) Google Workspace
18 30 (1.59%) Azure AI
19 28 (1.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 326 (17.26%) Firewall
2 306 (16.20%) DNS
3 260 (13.76%) DHCP
4 213 (11.28%) VPN
5 156 (8.26%) Wi-Fi
6 153 (8.10%) VLAN
7 117 (6.19%) TCP/IP
8 102 (5.40%) Wireless
9 94 (4.98%) VoIP
10 89 (4.71%) WAN
11 88 (4.66%) LAN
12 43 (2.28%) Network Security
13 37 (1.96%) Intranet
14 23 (1.22%) SSL
15 21 (1.11%) Skype
16 15 (0.79%) PBX
17 14 (0.74%) Internet
17 14 (0.74%) SAN
18 13 (0.69%) Cisco Wireless
19 11 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (13.29%) Power BI
2 99 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (1.06%) Metadata
5 18 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.48%) GIS
8 9 (0.48%) Power Query
9 5 (0.26%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.16%) EDMS
10 3 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.11%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.11%) Tableau
12 1 (0.053%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.053%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 99 (5.24%) JIRA
2 37 (1.96%) Git
3 5 (0.26%) Postman
4 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.16%) JUnit
5 3 (0.16%) Mockito
5 3 (0.16%) Selenium
5 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.053%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.053%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.053%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.053%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 919 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 284 (15.03%) Finance
3 192 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
5 145 (7.68%) Legal
6 103 (5.45%) Law
7 89 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 84 (4.45%) Manufacturing
9 73 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 51 (2.70%) Retail
11 49 (2.59%) Marketing
12 36 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (1.91%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.80%) Publishing
14 31 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.59%) Banking
16 27 (1.43%) Local Government
17 21 (1.11%) Legal Technology
18 17 (0.90%) Games
19 14 (0.74%) Billing
Job Titles
1 413 (21.86%) IT Support
2 292 (15.46%) Support Engineer
3 273 (14.45%) Senior
4 259 (13.71%) IT Engineer
5 231 (12.23%) IT Support Engineer
6 205 (10.85%) Analyst
7 203 (10.75%) Developer
8 132 (6.99%) Support Analyst
9 116 (6.14%) Consultant
10 98 (5.19%) IT Technician
11 97 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 93 (4.92%) 2nd Line Support
13 92 (4.87%) Lead
14 88 (4.66%) Administrator
15 82 (4.34%) IT Analyst
16 71 (3.76%) Support Technician
17 69 (3.65%) IT Support Analyst
18 65 (3.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 64 (3.39%) IT Manager
20 63 (3.34%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (3.71%) HTML
2 64 (3.39%) .NET
3 54 (2.86%) CSS
4 51 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
5 49 (2.59%) REST
6 38 (2.01%) SPFx
7 34 (1.80%) HTML5 Canvas
8 30 (1.59%) JSON
9 25 (1.32%) ASP.NET
9 25 (1.32%) React
10 18 (0.95%) .NET Core
11 17 (0.90%) .NET Framework
12 16 (0.85%) Terraform
12 16 (0.85%) XML
13 14 (0.74%) RESTful
14 12 (0.64%) Middleware
15 8 (0.42%) XSLT
16 7 (0.37%) Entity Framework
16 7 (0.37%) Playwright
16 7 (0.37%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 191 (10.11%) Onboarding
2 174 (9.21%) Driving Licence
3 159 (8.42%) Management Information System
4 94 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (2.28%) AI Agents
6 39 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 35 (1.85%) Low-Code
8 31 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 31 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 30 (1.59%) Blog
10 28 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
11 27 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
12 25 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
14 21 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 20 (1.06%) Clustering
16 19 (1.01%) CMDB
17 17 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
18 14 (0.74%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 705 (37.32%) Windows
2 323 (17.10%) Windows Server
3 140 (7.41%) Windows 10
4 110 (5.82%) Mac OS
5 47 (2.49%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.33%) Linux
7 33 (1.75%) Android
8 28 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.21%) VMS
13 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.053%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (33.03%) Problem-Solving
2 455 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 325 (17.20%) Customer Service
4 299 (15.83%) AI
5 281 (14.88%) Cybersecurity
6 256 (13.55%) ITIL
7 224 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
8 202 (10.69%) Project Delivery
9 200 (10.59%) Service Delivery
10 182 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 172 (9.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 165 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 162 (8.58%) Agile
14 156 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 155 (8.21%) Service Management
16 153 (8.10%) Workflow
17 146 (7.73%) CRM
18 142 (7.52%) Migration
19 138 (7.31%) Project Management
20 136 (7.20%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 240 (12.71%) PowerShell
2 173 (9.16%) SQL
3 115 (6.09%) C#
4 109 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 42 (2.22%) Python
6 28 (1.48%) R
7 25 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 22 (1.16%) VBA
9 13 (0.69%) Ruby
10 9 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.42%) C
11 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.21%) Bicep
13 4 (0.21%) Java
13 4 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.16%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.11%) Bash
15 2 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 254 (13.45%) Degree
2 170 (9.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 86 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 69 (3.65%) SC Cleared
5 54 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 37 (1.96%) DBS Check
7 36 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
10 23 (1.22%) CCNA
11 22 (1.16%) A+ Certification
12 19 (1.01%) HND
13 17 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 12 (0.64%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.64%) PMP
16 11 (0.58%) MCSE
17 10 (0.53%) HNC
17 10 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.51%) GDPR
2 100 (5.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 85 (4.50%) SLA
4 77 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 44 (2.33%) Data Quality
7 40 (2.12%) QA
8 30 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 27 (1.43%) PMO
10 19 (1.01%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.58%) WCAG
12 9 (0.48%) NIST
13 7 (0.37%) NCSC
13 7 (0.37%) NEBOSH
14 6 (0.32%) ISO 14001
15 5 (0.26%) COSHH
15 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.21%) Def Stans
17 2 (0.11%) IEC 61131
17 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 643 (34.04%) Active Directory
2 163 (8.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 147 (7.78%) Hyper-V
4 41 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.16%) vSphere
6 19 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
7 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 10 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.053%) Docker
11 1 (0.053%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.053%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 405 (21.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (2.22%) SCCM
3 32 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
4 30 (1.59%) FortiGate
5 27 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (1.01%) Autotask
7 7 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.32%) Ansible
9 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.16%) cPanel
11 3 (0.16%) Plesk
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
12 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.11%) Nessus
12 2 (0.11%) vRealize
12 2 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,599 (84.65%) Microsoft
2 193 (10.22%) VMware
3 112 (5.93%) Cisco
4 80 (4.24%) Apple
5 73 (3.86%) Veeam
6 56 (2.96%) SonicWALL
7 53 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 46 (2.44%) Meraki
9 42 (2.22%) Google
10 41 (2.17%) HP
11 36 (1.91%) Datto
12 32 (1.69%) Adobe
13 30 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (1.48%) Sitecore
15 27 (1.43%) Aruba
16 26 (1.38%) Salesforce
17 25 (1.32%) Fortinet
18 22 (1.16%) Citrix
19 21 (1.11%) Palo Alto
19 21 (1.11%) WatchGuard