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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 108 97
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 +51
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,257 1,348 2,122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.72% 2.84%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.03% 28.69% 26.78%
Number of salaries quoted 879 847 1,815
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% -10.05%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,489 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,200 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -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 3,588 4,699 7,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.34% 9.47% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,386 2,727 6,043
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,281 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £106,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +8.24% -9.57%

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 15 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 15 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 -6 1,049 £42,500 -13.27% 341
UK excluding London -7 839 £36,000 -12.20% 330
Work from Home +16 384 £47,500 -0.67% 142
London -12 334 £57,500 -4.17% 78
Midlands +1 184 £40,000 -5.88% 45
North of England -17 177 £41,500 -9.05% 60
South East -20 162 £42,500 -5.56% 120
Scotland +17 115 £35,000 +7.69% 20
South West +37 110 £32,500 -27.37% 35
West Midlands +7 108 £45,000 -15.57% 26
North West -7 100 £44,250 -12.92% 33
East Midlands -14 76 £35,000 +11.11% 19
East of England -24 76 £34,000 +6.25% 50
Yorkshire -16 70 £32,750 -18.13% 22
Wales -11 10 £41,740 -12.13% 11
North East -8 7 £67,500 +88.81% 7
Northern Ireland -31 6 £47,250 -10.00% 2
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
1 382 (30.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.31%) Confluence
3 11 (0.88%) CMS
4 8 (0.64%) WordPress
5 7 (0.56%) IIS
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
1 205 (16.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (16.07%) Microsoft Office
3 107 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.88%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.72%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.16%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.16%) InDesign
10 1 (0.080%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 44 (3.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.080%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.080%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.080%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 862 (68.58%) Microsoft 365
2 549 (43.68%) Azure
3 368 (29.28%) Entra ID
4 268 (21.32%) OneDrive
5 262 (20.84%) Power Platform
6 151 (12.01%) Power Automate
7 138 (10.98%) PowerApps
8 81 (6.44%) Dynamics 365
9 61 (4.85%) Microsoft Copilot
10 54 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 50 (3.98%) SaaS
12 36 (2.86%) Mimecast
13 34 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 29 (2.31%) Copilot Studio
15 27 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (2.07%) AWS
17 25 (1.99%) Serverless
18 24 (1.91%) PaaS
19 22 (1.75%) Azure Functions
20 20 (1.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 216 (17.18%) DNS
2 190 (15.12%) DHCP
3 174 (13.84%) Firewall
3 174 (13.84%) VPN
4 100 (7.96%) WAN
5 94 (7.48%) VLAN
6 89 (7.08%) LAN
6 89 (7.08%) TCP/IP
7 67 (5.33%) Wi-Fi
8 42 (3.34%) VoIP
9 36 (2.86%) Network Security
10 30 (2.39%) Wireless
11 21 (1.67%) Intranet
12 19 (1.51%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.03%) Internet
13 13 (1.03%) IPsec
14 11 (0.88%) SAN
15 10 (0.80%) DKIM
15 10 (0.80%) DMARC
16 9 (0.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (12.01%) Power BI
2 52 (4.14%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.11%) 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%) DTS
9 4 (0.32%) GIS
9 4 (0.32%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.24%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.24%) Tableau
11 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.16%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 52 (4.14%) 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%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.080%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 582 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 201 (15.99%) Finance
3 94 (7.48%) Law
4 87 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
6 77 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 76 (6.05%) Legal
8 64 (5.09%) Public Sector
9 48 (3.82%) Manufacturing
10 36 (2.86%) Retail
11 27 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.91%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.83%) Marketing
14 16 (1.27%) Banking
14 16 (1.27%) Games
15 15 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.03%) German Language
17 12 (0.95%) French Language
17 12 (0.95%) Spanish Language
18 11 (0.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 263 (20.92%) IT Support
2 199 (15.83%) Support Engineer
3 180 (14.32%) Senior
4 157 (12.49%) Analyst
5 146 (11.61%) IT Engineer
6 118 (9.39%) IT Support Engineer
7 103 (8.19%) Developer
8 93 (7.40%) Support Analyst
9 71 (5.65%) 2nd Line Support
9 71 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 69 (5.49%) Senior Manager
11 66 (5.25%) Quality Manager
12 64 (5.09%) QA Manager
12 64 (5.09%) Senior QA Manager
12 64 (5.09%) Senior Quality Manager
13 61 (4.85%) IT Analyst
14 60 (4.77%) Support Technician
15 57 (4.53%) Consultant
16 52 (4.14%) Power Platform Developer
17 50 (3.98%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.15%) .NET
2 25 (1.99%) HTML
3 22 (1.75%) REST
4 19 (1.51%) HTML5 Canvas
5 17 (1.35%) CSS
6 15 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (0.95%) Web Services
8 10 (0.80%) JSON
8 10 (0.80%) Middleware
8 10 (0.80%) SPFx
9 8 (0.64%) EDI
10 7 (0.56%) Node.js
11 6 (0.48%) OAuth
11 6 (0.48%) OpenID
11 6 (0.48%) XML
12 5 (0.40%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.32%) ASP.NET
13 4 (0.32%) OAuth2
13 4 (0.32%) SAML
13 4 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.90%) Driving Licence
2 104 (8.27%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
4 43 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.86%) Low-Code
6 32 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
8 25 (1.99%) Replication
9 24 (1.91%) IoT
10 22 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 20 (1.59%) CMDB
12 19 (1.51%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.51%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.03%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.03%) CCTV
13 13 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.88%) FMCG
15 11 (0.88%) iPhone
16 10 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 474 (37.71%) Windows
2 247 (19.65%) Windows Server
3 168 (13.37%) Windows 10
4 56 (4.46%) Mac OS
5 54 (4.30%) Apple iOS
6 38 (3.02%) Android
7 33 (2.63%) Linux
8 21 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.27%) 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
1 318 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
2 234 (18.62%) Customer Service
3 232 (18.46%) ITIL
4 220 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 147 (11.69%) Project Management
6 145 (11.54%) Coaching
7 143 (11.38%) Agile
8 142 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
9 141 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
10 133 (10.58%) Service Delivery
11 99 (7.88%) Disaster Recovery
12 98 (7.80%) Mentoring
13 94 (7.48%) AI
14 87 (6.92%) CRM
15 85 (6.76%) Migration
16 82 (6.52%) ITSM
17 81 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 77 (6.13%) Service Management
19 76 (6.05%) Customer Experience
20 75 (5.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 141 (11.22%) PowerShell
2 103 (8.19%) SQL
3 46 (3.66%) JavaScript
3 46 (3.66%) Python
4 40 (3.18%) C#
5 23 (1.83%) VBA
6 9 (0.72%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.64%) Bash
7 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.48%) Java
8 6 (0.48%) R
9 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.24%) Bicep
10 3 (0.24%) PHP
11 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.080%) VB
12 1 (0.080%) X++
12 1 (0.080%) XAML
Qualifications
1 195 (15.51%) Degree
2 98 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 94 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 65 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 64 (5.09%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 38 (3.02%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.67%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 21 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.67%) PMP
10 20 (1.59%) DBS Check
11 17 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.35%) HND
11 17 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (1.27%) A+ Certification
13 14 (1.11%) MBA
14 12 (0.95%) APMP
15 11 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.84%) QA
2 69 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 56 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (4.22%) GDPR
5 51 (4.06%) SLA
6 30 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.59%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.59%) PMO
8 17 (1.35%) NIST
9 14 (1.11%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.64%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.48%) GRC
11 6 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.40%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.32%) NCSC
13 4 (0.32%) PMBOK
14 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.16%) P3O
14 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 465 (36.99%) Active Directory
2 84 (6.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (5.65%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.95%) vSphere
6 11 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.72%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.56%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.24%) Firmware
10 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.16%) Docker
11 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.16%) XenApp
12 1 (0.080%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 326 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (2.63%) SCCM
3 29 (2.31%) Terraform
4 23 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.11%) FortiGate
5 14 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (0.72%) Backup Exec
6 9 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 9 (0.72%) vRealize
7 7 (0.56%) Nagios
8 6 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.48%) WSUS
9 4 (0.32%) Autotask
9 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
9 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.24%) Nessus
10 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.16%) Kubernetes
11 2 (0.16%) Plesk
Vendors
1 976 (77.65%) Microsoft
2 110 (8.75%) VMware
3 76 (6.05%) Apple
4 41 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 37 (2.94%) Cisco
5 37 (2.94%) Veeam
6 28 (2.23%) Meraki
7 26 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.83%) Citrix
9 22 (1.75%) Adobe
10 20 (1.59%) Sophos
11 19 (1.51%) Datto
11 19 (1.51%) Google
12 17 (1.35%) ConnectWise
13 15 (1.19%) SAP
14 14 (1.11%) HP
14 14 (1.11%) Oracle
15 13 (1.03%) iManage
16 12 (0.95%) Progress
17 10 (0.80%) Intapp