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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 109 105
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +42
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,233 1,388 1,973
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 2.68% 2.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.15% 28.93% 25.97%
Number of salaries quoted 858 871 1,685
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 £63,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,000 £76,250 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £41,389 £40,000
% change year-on-year -15.44% +3.47% -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 3,508 4,797 7,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.50% 9.25% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,319 2,771 5,755
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,860 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +11.72% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,740 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.26% +8.24% -8.60%

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 1 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 1 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 -12 1,032 £42,039 -14.21% 403
UK excluding London -7 815 £35,000 -15.44% 381
Work from Home +2 361 £50,000 +5.26% 170
London +1 338 £57,000 -5.00% 93
Midlands 0 179 £37,500 -11.76% 57
North of England -30 167 £40,000 -11.49% 82
South East -6 165 £42,500 -5.56% 139
Scotland +26 114 £35,000 +7.69% 21
South West +41 108 £33,000 -25.84% 34
West Midlands +7 100 £42,039 -21.13% 35
North West -6 95 £45,000 -10.00% 41
East Midlands -8 79 £36,250 +15.08% 22
East of England -23 73 £34,000 +6.25% 42
Yorkshire -8 68 £31,500 -4.55% 38
Wales -16 8 £41,740 -12.13% 11
North East -12 4 £82,966 +95.21% 5
Northern Ireland -27 4 £62,500 +19.05% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £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
1 371 (30.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (2.43%) Confluence
3 13 (1.05%) CMS
4 9 (0.73%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.65%) WordPress
6 7 (0.57%) IIS
7 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.24%) govService
9 2 (0.16%) Moodle
10 1 (0.081%) Apache
10 1 (0.081%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.081%) LiveLink
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.081%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 201 (16.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 193 (15.65%) Microsoft Office
3 107 (8.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.89%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.73%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.41%) 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 42 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
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 BPM
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.081%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.081%) Shopify
7 1 (0.081%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 840 (68.13%) Microsoft 365
2 530 (42.98%) Azure
3 352 (28.55%) Entra ID
4 256 (20.76%) Power Platform
5 243 (19.71%) OneDrive
6 151 (12.25%) Power Automate
7 139 (11.27%) PowerApps
8 75 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (4.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 52 (4.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 49 (3.97%) SaaS
12 36 (2.92%) Mimecast
13 31 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
14 29 (2.35%) Copilot Studio
15 28 (2.27%) AWS
16 26 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (2.11%) Serverless
17 23 (1.87%) PaaS
18 20 (1.62%) Azure Functions
19 19 (1.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 194 (15.73%) DNS
2 173 (14.03%) Firewall
3 171 (13.87%) DHCP
4 161 (13.06%) VPN
5 96 (7.79%) WAN
6 86 (6.97%) LAN
6 86 (6.97%) VLAN
7 83 (6.73%) TCP/IP
8 63 (5.11%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (3.16%) Wireless
10 37 (3.00%) VoIP
11 36 (2.92%) Network Security
12 23 (1.87%) Intranet
13 19 (1.54%) SD-WAN
14 14 (1.14%) Internet
15 11 (0.89%) IPsec
16 10 (0.81%) DKIM
16 10 (0.81%) DMARC
16 10 (0.81%) SAN
16 10 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (11.19%) Power BI
2 50 (4.06%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.38%) Metadata
4 11 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.73%) MySQL
6 7 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.49%) DTS
7 6 (0.49%) Power Query
8 5 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.41%) NoSQL
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 50 (4.06%) JIRA
2 2 (0.16%) Git
2 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.081%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.081%) GitLab
3 1 (0.081%) MSBuild
3 1 (0.081%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 567 (45.99%) Social Skills
2 204 (16.55%) Finance
3 93 (7.54%) Law
4 83 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.33%) Legal
6 73 (5.92%) Organisational Skills
7 68 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (4.30%) Public Sector
9 49 (3.97%) Manufacturing
10 38 (3.08%) Retail
11 26 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.78%) Marketing
14 16 (1.30%) Banking
15 14 (1.14%) Games
16 13 (1.05%) German Language
17 12 (0.97%) Advertising
17 12 (0.97%) French Language
17 12 (0.97%) Spanish Language
18 9 (0.73%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 246 (19.95%) IT Support
2 201 (16.30%) Support Engineer
3 175 (14.19%) Senior
4 142 (11.52%) IT Engineer
5 135 (10.95%) Analyst
6 115 (9.33%) IT Support Engineer
7 102 (8.27%) Developer
8 78 (6.33%) Support Analyst
9 69 (5.60%) 2nd Line Support
9 69 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 69 (5.60%) Senior Manager
10 65 (5.27%) Quality Manager
11 64 (5.19%) QA Manager
11 64 (5.19%) Senior QA Manager
11 64 (5.19%) Senior Quality Manager
12 57 (4.62%) Support Technician
13 56 (4.54%) Consultant
14 54 (4.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 52 (4.22%) 1st Line Support
15 52 (4.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.19%) .NET
2 25 (2.03%) HTML
3 23 (1.87%) REST
4 19 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
5 17 (1.38%) CSS
6 11 (0.89%) Web Services
7 10 (0.81%) Middleware
7 10 (0.81%) SPFx
8 9 (0.73%) JSON
9 8 (0.65%) Node.js
10 6 (0.49%) LangChain
10 6 (0.49%) OAuth
10 6 (0.49%) OpenID
11 5 (0.41%) XML
12 4 (0.32%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.32%) EDI
12 4 (0.32%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.32%) SAML
12 4 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 136 (11.03%) Driving Licence
2 108 (8.76%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
4 48 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.68%) Low-Code
6 28 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
7 27 (2.19%) IoT
8 22 (1.78%) Replication
9 21 (1.70%) CMDB
10 19 (1.54%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.54%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.14%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.05%) AI Agents
13 12 (0.97%) CCTV
13 12 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.97%) Social Media
14 11 (0.89%) iPad
15 10 (0.81%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 452 (36.66%) Windows
2 244 (19.79%) Windows Server
3 166 (13.46%) Windows 10
4 51 (4.14%) Mac OS
5 46 (3.73%) Apple iOS
6 34 (2.76%) Android
7 33 (2.68%) Linux
8 23 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.081%) Unix
13 1 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
2 224 (18.17%) ITIL
3 220 (17.84%) Customer Service
4 209 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 150 (12.17%) Project Management
6 139 (11.27%) Agile
7 137 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 132 (10.71%) Coaching
8 132 (10.71%) Service Delivery
9 131 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
10 98 (7.95%) AI
11 96 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
12 91 (7.38%) Mentoring
13 85 (6.89%) Migration
14 81 (6.57%) CRM
15 80 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 77 (6.24%) ITSM
17 75 (6.08%) Customer Experience
18 74 (6.00%) Change Management
18 74 (6.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (11.60%) PowerShell
2 106 (8.60%) SQL
3 47 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 46 (3.73%) Python
5 40 (3.24%) C#
6 23 (1.87%) VBA
7 11 (0.89%) TypeScript
8 9 (0.73%) Bash
8 9 (0.73%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.41%) Java
10 4 (0.32%) R
11 3 (0.24%) Bicep
11 3 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.24%) PHP
12 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.081%) C++
13 1 (0.081%) VB
13 1 (0.081%) X++
Qualifications
1 188 (15.25%) Degree
2 91 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 89 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 64 (5.19%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 59 (4.79%) SC Cleared
6 36 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.87%) DBS Check
10 20 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 19 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 19 (1.54%) PMP
12 16 (1.30%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.30%) HND
12 16 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (1.05%) A+ Certification
14 12 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.97%) MBA
15 11 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (7.06%) QA
2 66 (5.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 55 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (4.46%) SLA
4 53 (4.30%) GDPR
5 27 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 22 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.78%) PMO
7 19 (1.54%) NIST
8 14 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.49%) GRC
9 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.32%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.32%) NCSC
11 4 (0.32%) PMBOK
12 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.16%) MiFID
12 2 (0.16%) P3O
12 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 449 (36.42%) Active Directory
2 86 (6.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (5.68%) Hyper-V
4 28 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.89%) vSphere
7 9 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.49%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.16%) XenApp
13 1 (0.081%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.081%) Docker
13 1 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 317 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.43%) SCCM
2 30 (2.43%) Terraform
3 19 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (1.22%) FortiGate
5 10 (0.81%) Nagios
6 9 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (0.73%) vRealize
7 6 (0.49%) Backup Exec
7 6 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (0.49%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.49%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.41%) Autotask
8 5 (0.41%) WSUS
9 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
10 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.24%) Nessus
10 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.16%) Plesk
Vendors
1 959 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 111 (9.00%) VMware
3 75 (6.08%) Apple
4 44 (3.57%) Cisco
5 40 (3.24%) ServiceNow
6 34 (2.76%) Veeam
7 31 (2.51%) Meraki
8 28 (2.27%) Citrix
9 25 (2.03%) Sophos
10 21 (1.70%) Adobe
11 20 (1.62%) Datto
11 20 (1.62%) Salesforce
12 19 (1.54%) ConnectWise
13 17 (1.38%) Google
13 17 (1.38%) Oracle
14 16 (1.30%) HP
15 15 (1.22%) Progress
16 14 (1.14%) SAP
17 12 (0.97%) Fortinet
18 11 (0.89%) iManage