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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 109 98
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +53
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,251 1,363 2,069
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 2.73% 2.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.01% 29.14% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 869 861 1,764
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 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £71,775
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -0.76%

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 3,573 4,678 7,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.37% 9.39% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,363 2,756 5,947
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +13.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,507 £102,625 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +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 12 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 12 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 -9 1,043 £42,500 -11.72% 332
UK excluding London -7 833 £36,000 -12.20% 329
Work from Home +11 379 £47,500 - 137
London -4 336 £56,500 -5.83% 74
Midlands -9 184 £38,750 -8.82% 42
North of England -22 172 £40,000 -11.86% 63
South East -14 161 £42,500 -5.56% 120
Scotland +18 117 £35,000 +7.69% 18
South West +30 110 £32,500 -27.78% 37
West Midlands +4 108 £45,000 -15.57% 26
North West -4 98 £43,500 -14.40% 32
East Midlands -14 76 £35,000 +11.11% 16
East of England -29 75 £34,000 +6.25% 50
Yorkshire -25 69 £32,500 -10.96% 27
Wales -15 9 £41,740 -12.13% 11
Northern Ireland -27 6 £47,250 -10.00% 2
North East -12 5 £77,500 +82.35% 7
Isle of Man - 3 £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
1 379 (30.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.32%) Confluence
3 11 (0.88%) CMS
4 8 (0.64%) IIS
4 8 (0.64%) WordPress
5 7 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.24%) govService
8 2 (0.16%) Moodle
8 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.080%) Apache
9 1 (0.080%) Appian
9 1 (0.080%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 204 (16.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 204 (16.31%) Microsoft Office
2 107 (8.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.88%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.72%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.16%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.16%) InDesign
9 1 (0.080%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 43 (3.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.080%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.080%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 853 (68.19%) Microsoft 365
2 544 (43.49%) Azure
3 366 (29.26%) Entra ID
4 260 (20.78%) Power Platform
5 257 (20.54%) OneDrive
6 152 (12.15%) Power Automate
7 137 (10.95%) PowerApps
8 79 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
9 59 (4.72%) Microsoft Copilot
10 54 (4.32%) Microsoft Purview
11 50 (4.00%) SaaS
12 36 (2.88%) Mimecast
13 33 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 28 (2.24%) Copilot Studio
15 26 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
16 25 (2.00%) AWS
16 25 (2.00%) Serverless
17 23 (1.84%) PaaS
18 21 (1.68%) Azure Functions
19 19 (1.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 213 (17.03%) DNS
2 187 (14.95%) DHCP
3 175 (13.99%) Firewall
4 172 (13.75%) VPN
5 100 (7.99%) WAN
6 94 (7.51%) VLAN
7 89 (7.11%) LAN
7 89 (7.11%) TCP/IP
8 67 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (3.20%) VoIP
10 36 (2.88%) Network Security
11 32 (2.56%) Wireless
12 21 (1.68%) Intranet
13 19 (1.52%) SD-WAN
14 14 (1.12%) Internet
15 13 (1.04%) IPsec
16 11 (0.88%) SAN
17 10 (0.80%) DKIM
17 10 (0.80%) DMARC
18 9 (0.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (11.83%) Power BI
2 53 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.12%) Metadata
4 11 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.72%) MySQL
6 7 (0.56%) Power Query
7 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.32%) DTS
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%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 51 (4.08%) 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 (0.080%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.080%) GitLab
4 1 (0.080%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 578 (46.20%) Social Skills
2 203 (16.23%) Finance
3 93 (7.43%) Law
4 86 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (6.47%) Organisational Skills
6 76 (6.08%) Legal
7 75 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (4.72%) Public Sector
9 48 (3.84%) Manufacturing
10 37 (2.96%) Retail
11 27 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.92%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.76%) Marketing
14 16 (1.28%) Banking
14 16 (1.28%) Games
15 13 (1.04%) German Language
16 12 (0.96%) French Language
16 12 (0.96%) Spanish Language
17 11 (0.88%) Advertising
17 11 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 257 (20.54%) IT Support
2 202 (16.15%) Support Engineer
3 181 (14.47%) Senior
4 150 (11.99%) Analyst
5 147 (11.75%) IT Engineer
6 118 (9.43%) IT Support Engineer
7 103 (8.23%) Developer
8 88 (7.03%) Support Analyst
9 72 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 71 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support
11 69 (5.52%) Senior Manager
12 66 (5.28%) Quality Manager
13 64 (5.12%) QA Manager
13 64 (5.12%) Senior QA Manager
13 64 (5.12%) Senior Quality Manager
14 59 (4.72%) Support Technician
15 57 (4.56%) Consultant
16 55 (4.40%) IT Analyst
17 51 (4.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 51 (4.08%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.08%) .NET
2 25 (2.00%) HTML
3 23 (1.84%) REST
4 19 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
5 17 (1.36%) CSS
6 15 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (0.96%) Web Services
8 10 (0.80%) Middleware
8 10 (0.80%) SPFx
9 9 (0.72%) JSON
10 8 (0.64%) Node.js
11 6 (0.48%) EDI
11 6 (0.48%) LangChain
11 6 (0.48%) OAuth
11 6 (0.48%) OpenID
12 5 (0.40%) .NET Framework
12 5 (0.40%) XML
13 4 (0.32%) ASP.NET
13 4 (0.32%) SAML
13 4 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 136 (10.87%) Driving Licence
2 105 (8.39%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.88%) Low-Code
6 31 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.16%) Video Conferencing
8 25 (2.00%) IoT
8 25 (2.00%) Replication
9 24 (1.92%) Product Ownership
10 20 (1.60%) CMDB
11 19 (1.52%) Cloud Native
11 19 (1.52%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.12%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.04%) CCTV
13 13 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (0.88%) FMCG
14 11 (0.88%) iPhone
14 11 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 465 (37.17%) Windows
2 245 (19.58%) Windows Server
3 166 (13.27%) Windows 10
4 54 (4.32%) Mac OS
5 52 (4.16%) Apple iOS
6 36 (2.88%) Android
7 33 (2.64%) Linux
8 21 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.080%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
2 231 (18.47%) ITIL
3 228 (18.23%) Customer Service
4 217 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 145 (11.59%) Project Management
6 142 (11.35%) Agile
6 142 (11.35%) Coaching
7 139 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 139 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 132 (10.55%) Service Delivery
9 102 (8.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 97 (7.75%) Mentoring
11 96 (7.67%) AI
12 86 (6.87%) Migration
13 84 (6.71%) CRM
14 82 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 80 (6.39%) ITSM
16 76 (6.08%) Customer Experience
16 76 (6.08%) Service Management
17 75 (6.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 107 (8.55%) SQL
3 48 (3.84%) Python
4 47 (3.76%) JavaScript
5 40 (3.20%) C#
6 23 (1.84%) VBA
7 11 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 9 (0.72%) Bash
9 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.48%) R
11 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.40%) Java
12 3 (0.24%) Bicep
12 3 (0.24%) PHP
13 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.080%) VB
14 1 (0.080%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.080%) X++
Qualifications
1 193 (15.43%) Degree
2 97 (7.75%) Security Cleared
3 91 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 64 (5.12%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.12%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 37 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 20 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.60%) PMP
10 17 (1.36%) HND
11 16 (1.28%) A+ Certification
11 16 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (1.04%) MBA
13 12 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.88%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.79%) QA
2 68 (5.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 58 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (4.16%) GDPR
5 51 (4.08%) SLA
6 30 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 21 (1.68%) Data Quality
8 20 (1.60%) PMO
9 19 (1.52%) NIST
10 13 (1.04%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.64%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.48%) GRC
12 6 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.40%) ISO 22301
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
1 461 (36.85%) Active Directory
2 84 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (5.76%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.96%) vSphere
6 11 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.72%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.64%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.32%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.16%) XenApp
13 1 (0.080%) Docker
13 1 (0.080%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 327 (26.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (2.56%) SCCM
3 30 (2.40%) Terraform
4 23 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.12%) FortiGate
6 13 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (0.72%) Backup Exec
7 9 (0.72%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.72%) vRealize
8 8 (0.64%) Nagios
9 6 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.48%) WSUS
10 4 (0.32%) Autotask
10 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
10 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.24%) Nessus
11 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.16%) Plesk
12 2 (0.16%) SCSM
Vendors
1 970 (77.54%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.87%) VMware
3 75 (6.00%) Apple
4 41 (3.28%) Cisco
5 40 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 37 (2.96%) Veeam
7 30 (2.40%) Meraki
8 24 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.84%) Citrix
10 22 (1.76%) Adobe
11 21 (1.68%) Sophos
12 19 (1.52%) Datto
13 18 (1.44%) Google
14 16 (1.28%) ConnectWise
15 15 (1.20%) HP
15 15 (1.20%) Oracle
16 14 (1.12%) iManage
16 14 (1.12%) SAP
17 13 (1.04%) Progress
18 9 (0.72%) Fortinet