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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 108 112
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +34
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,157 1,404 1,556
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.63% 2.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 34.48% 28.78% 25.50%
Number of salaries quoted 806 881 1,300
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +3.26% -3.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% - +3.66%

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 3,356 4,878 6,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.66% 9.12% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,243 2,856 4,553
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.63% +5.56% -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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -11 974 £40,000 -20.00% 313
UK excluding London -12 765 £35,000 -17.65% 288
London +6 318 £56,500 +2.73% 78
Work from Home -17 305 £50,000 +3.86% 124
North of England -24 159 £40,000 -12.10% 61
Midlands -16 156 £37,500 -11.76% 40
South East -17 152 £40,000 -11.11% 117
South West +42 112 £33,000 -33.33% 19
Scotland +16 109 £35,000 +7.69% 11
North West -4 93 £43,500 -14.40% 31
West Midlands -10 82 £44,000 -15.79% 24
East Midlands -7 74 £37,500 +20.00% 16
East of England -19 73 £34,000 +6.25% 41
Yorkshire -11 61 £30,000 -9.09% 26
North East -9 5 £77,500 +72.22% 5
Wales -22 3 £41,740 -12.13% 6
Northern Ireland -23 3 £66,250 +26.19% 2

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
1 346 (29.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (2.68%) Confluence
3 13 (1.12%) CMS
4 11 (0.95%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.69%) WordPress
6 7 (0.61%) IIS
7 5 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.26%) govService
9 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.17%) Moodle
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.086%) Apache
10 1 (0.086%) LiveLink
10 1 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 194 (16.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 189 (16.34%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (8.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.95%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.78%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) InDesign
10 1 (0.086%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 37 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.26%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.086%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.086%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.086%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.086%) Shopify
5 1 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 782 (67.59%) Microsoft 365
2 479 (41.40%) Azure
3 331 (28.61%) Entra ID
4 233 (20.14%) Power Platform
5 231 (19.97%) OneDrive
6 141 (12.19%) Power Automate
7 125 (10.80%) PowerApps
8 73 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
9 57 (4.93%) Microsoft Copilot
10 53 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
11 50 (4.32%) SaaS
12 32 (2.77%) AWS
13 28 (2.42%) Copilot Studio
14 26 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
15 23 (1.99%) Mimecast
15 23 (1.99%) Serverless
16 21 (1.82%) PaaS
17 20 (1.73%) IaaS
18 17 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 170 (14.69%) DNS
2 161 (13.92%) Firewall
3 152 (13.14%) DHCP
4 140 (12.10%) VPN
5 86 (7.43%) TCP/IP
6 80 (6.91%) WAN
7 78 (6.74%) LAN
8 77 (6.66%) VLAN
9 62 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (3.54%) VoIP
11 39 (3.37%) Wireless
12 36 (3.11%) Network Security
13 28 (2.42%) Intranet
14 16 (1.38%) Internet
15 14 (1.21%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
17 11 (0.95%) Unified Communications
18 9 (0.78%) DKIM
18 9 (0.78%) Skype
18 9 (0.78%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (10.72%) Power BI
2 40 (3.46%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.47%) Metadata
4 10 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.86%) MySQL
4 10 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (0.69%) DTS
6 6 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.52%) Power Query
7 5 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.35%) GIS
8 4 (0.35%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.26%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.17%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.17%) QlikView
10 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (4.24%) JIRA
2 3 (0.26%) Git
3 2 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.086%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.086%) GitLab
4 1 (0.086%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.086%) Sourcetree
General
1 541 (46.76%) Social Skills
2 194 (16.77%) Finance
3 86 (7.43%) Law
4 85 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (6.31%) Legal
6 64 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (4.58%) Public Sector
9 49 (4.24%) Manufacturing
10 38 (3.28%) Retail
11 24 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (1.90%) Marketing
13 17 (1.47%) Banking
14 13 (1.12%) Advertising
14 13 (1.12%) German Language
15 12 (1.04%) French Language
15 12 (1.04%) Spanish Language
16 10 (0.86%) Games
17 9 (0.78%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 235 (20.31%) IT Support
2 193 (16.68%) Support Engineer
3 156 (13.48%) Senior
4 123 (10.63%) IT Engineer
5 115 (9.94%) Analyst
6 102 (8.82%) IT Support Engineer
7 89 (7.69%) Developer
8 70 (6.05%) 2nd Line Support
8 70 (6.05%) Senior Manager
8 70 (6.05%) Support Analyst
9 64 (5.53%) QA Manager
9 64 (5.53%) Quality Manager
9 64 (5.53%) Senior QA Manager
9 64 (5.53%) Senior Quality Manager
10 58 (5.01%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 57 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 57 (4.93%) Support Technician
12 51 (4.41%) 1st Line Support
13 49 (4.24%) Power Platform Developer
14 48 (4.15%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.33%) .NET
2 22 (1.90%) HTML
2 22 (1.90%) REST
3 20 (1.73%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
5 14 (1.21%) CSS
6 11 (0.95%) Web Services
7 10 (0.86%) SPFx
8 9 (0.78%) JSON
8 9 (0.78%) Middleware
9 7 (0.61%) Node.js
10 6 (0.52%) LangChain
11 5 (0.43%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.43%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.43%) FreeMarker
11 5 (0.43%) XML
12 4 (0.35%) OAuth
12 4 (0.35%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.35%) OpenID
12 4 (0.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 126 (10.89%) Driving Licence
2 112 (9.68%) Onboarding
3 52 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.77%) Low-Code
6 29 (2.51%) IoT
6 29 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
8 19 (1.64%) CMDB
9 18 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.47%) Cloud Native
11 16 (1.38%) Social Media
12 15 (1.30%) Replication
13 14 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.95%) CCTV
15 11 (0.95%) iPad
15 11 (0.95%) Security Posture
16 10 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 413 (35.70%) Windows
2 229 (19.79%) Windows Server
3 160 (13.83%) Windows 10
4 47 (4.06%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.28%) Apple iOS
6 33 (2.85%) Android
7 29 (2.51%) Linux
8 19 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.086%) Unix
12 1 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (26.27%) Problem-Solving
2 203 (17.55%) ITIL
3 202 (17.46%) Customer Service
4 190 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 151 (13.05%) Project Management
6 134 (11.58%) Cybersecurity
7 128 (11.06%) Agile
8 125 (10.80%) Coaching
9 121 (10.46%) Service Delivery
10 120 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
11 90 (7.78%) AI
12 86 (7.43%) Migration
13 84 (7.26%) Disaster Recovery
14 83 (7.17%) Mentoring
15 74 (6.40%) Customer Experience
15 74 (6.40%) ITSM
16 71 (6.14%) Change Management
16 71 (6.14%) Quality Management
17 70 (6.05%) CRM
18 69 (5.96%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 150 (12.96%) PowerShell
2 95 (8.21%) SQL
3 46 (3.98%) JavaScript
4 43 (3.72%) Python
5 39 (3.37%) C#
6 21 (1.82%) VBA
7 12 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.95%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.86%) Bash
10 5 (0.43%) Java
11 3 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.17%) Bicep
12 2 (0.17%) C++
12 2 (0.17%) PHP
12 2 (0.17%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.086%) VB
13 1 (0.086%) X++
Qualifications
1 170 (14.69%) Degree
2 81 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 75 (6.48%) Security Cleared
4 64 (5.53%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 53 (4.58%) SC Cleared
6 30 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.16%) DBS Check
9 22 (1.90%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.82%) PMP
11 19 (1.64%) MCP
12 18 (1.56%) Azure Certification
13 17 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (1.38%) HND
15 13 (1.12%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.86%) A+ Certification
16 10 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
18 8 (0.69%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.61%) QA
2 58 (5.01%) Cyber Essentials
3 54 (4.67%) GDPR
3 54 (4.67%) SLA
4 40 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.99%) PMO
6 20 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.64%) NIST
8 16 (1.38%) Data Quality
9 14 (1.21%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.52%) GRC
11 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.35%) NCSC
12 4 (0.35%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.17%) MiFID
13 2 (0.17%) P3O
13 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 418 (36.13%) Active Directory
2 80 (6.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (5.79%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.52%) Firmware
6 6 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.35%) vSphere
9 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.086%) Docker
10 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.086%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 303 (26.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.51%) Terraform
3 21 (1.82%) SCCM
4 17 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.30%) FortiGate
6 12 (1.04%) Nagios
7 9 (0.78%) Autotask
8 8 (0.69%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.43%) vRealize
11 4 (0.35%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.26%) Nessus
12 3 (0.26%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.17%) Plesk
13 2 (0.17%) SCOM
13 2 (0.17%) SCSM
13 2 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 919 (79.43%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.64%) VMware
3 74 (6.40%) Apple
4 43 (3.72%) Cisco
5 34 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 33 (2.85%) Meraki
7 29 (2.51%) Sophos
8 27 (2.33%) Citrix
9 26 (2.25%) Veeam
10 21 (1.82%) Adobe
10 21 (1.82%) Google
11 19 (1.64%) Datto
11 19 (1.64%) Progress
12 18 (1.56%) ConnectWise
12 18 (1.56%) HP
12 18 (1.56%) Oracle
13 17 (1.47%) Salesforce
14 12 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.95%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.95%) Trend Micro