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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 106 112
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +40
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,193 1,454 1,490
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.63% 2.90%
As % of the Application Platforms category 34.01% 28.44% 25.42%
Number of salaries quoted 834 931 1,248
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £47,500 £46,397
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +2.38% -2.32%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £74,925 £77,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.29% - +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 3,508 5,113 5,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.92% 9.25% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,373 3,068 4,377
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,075
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -12.63% +3.26% -3.16%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 -13 1,009 £41,000 -18.00% 718
UK excluding London -13 783 £36,000 -15.29% 657
London +8 331 £55,000 - 147
Work from Home -16 321 £50,000 +0.24% 306
North of England -18 164 £38,000 -16.72% 148
South East -10 158 £40,750 -9.44% 204
Midlands -11 153 £40,000 -4.76% 106
South West +46 120 £33,500 -33.00% 58
Scotland +19 108 £35,000 +7.69% 41
North West -11 97 £40,000 -21.81% 70
West Midlands -12 81 £44,000 -15.38% 57
East of England -21 77 £34,000 +6.25% 93
East Midlands -16 72 £35,000 +11.11% 44
Yorkshire -4 62 £30,000 -14.89% 66
North East -12 5 £77,500 +82.35% 14
Northern Ireland -18 3 £66,250 +26.19% 8
Wales -22 2 £38,750 -18.42% 13

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
1 366 (30.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.77%) Confluence
3 15 (1.26%) Skype for Business
4 13 (1.09%) CMS
5 8 (0.67%) IIS
5 8 (0.67%) WordPress
6 5 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.17%) Moodle
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.084%) Apache
9 1 (0.084%) govService
9 1 (0.084%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 201 (16.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 195 (16.35%) Microsoft Office
3 107 (8.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.92%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.75%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) InDesign
10 1 (0.084%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.084%) Revit
Business Applications
1 39 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.34%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.084%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.084%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.084%) Shopify
5 1 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 803 (67.31%) Microsoft 365
2 495 (41.49%) Azure
3 345 (28.92%) Entra ID
4 238 (19.95%) Power Platform
5 234 (19.61%) OneDrive
6 142 (11.90%) Power Automate
7 129 (10.81%) PowerApps
8 78 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
9 64 (5.36%) Microsoft Copilot
10 58 (4.86%) Microsoft Purview
11 57 (4.78%) SaaS
12 39 (3.27%) AWS
13 29 (2.43%) Copilot Studio
14 27 (2.26%) Serverless
15 25 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 25 (2.10%) PaaS
16 23 (1.93%) Mimecast
17 22 (1.84%) IaaS
18 17 (1.42%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 181 (15.17%) DNS
2 170 (14.25%) Firewall
3 163 (13.66%) DHCP
4 144 (12.07%) VPN
5 95 (7.96%) TCP/IP
6 85 (7.12%) VLAN
6 85 (7.12%) WAN
7 84 (7.04%) LAN
8 67 (5.62%) Wi-Fi
9 45 (3.77%) VoIP
9 45 (3.77%) Wireless
10 36 (3.02%) Network Security
11 30 (2.51%) Intranet
12 17 (1.42%) Internet
13 13 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
14 12 (1.01%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.92%) Skype
15 11 (0.92%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.75%) DKIM
16 9 (0.75%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (10.65%) Power BI
2 37 (3.10%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.34%) Metadata
4 12 (1.01%) MySQL
5 10 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (0.75%) DTS
7 8 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.50%) Power Query
9 5 (0.42%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.34%) GIS
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.25%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.25%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.25%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.17%) EDMS
12 2 (0.17%) QlikView
12 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 52 (4.36%) JIRA
2 3 (0.25%) Git
3 2 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.084%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.084%) GitLab
4 1 (0.084%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.084%) Sourcetree
General
1 554 (46.44%) Social Skills
2 211 (17.69%) Finance
3 89 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.04%) Law
5 76 (6.37%) Legal
6 63 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
7 60 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (4.44%) Public Sector
9 51 (4.27%) Manufacturing
10 38 (3.19%) Retail
11 28 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 23 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (1.84%) Marketing
14 19 (1.59%) Banking
15 15 (1.26%) Advertising
16 13 (1.09%) German Language
17 12 (1.01%) French Language
17 12 (1.01%) Spanish Language
18 10 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
19 9 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 245 (20.54%) IT Support
2 203 (17.02%) Support Engineer
3 161 (13.50%) Senior
4 125 (10.48%) IT Engineer
5 114 (9.56%) Analyst
6 104 (8.72%) IT Support Engineer
7 90 (7.54%) Developer
8 76 (6.37%) 2nd Line Support
9 70 (5.87%) Senior Manager
9 70 (5.87%) Support Analyst
10 64 (5.36%) QA Manager
10 64 (5.36%) Quality Manager
10 64 (5.36%) Senior QA Manager
10 64 (5.36%) Senior Quality Manager
11 62 (5.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 62 (5.20%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 59 (4.95%) Support Technician
13 50 (4.19%) Power Platform Developer
14 48 (4.02%) 1st Line Support
14 48 (4.02%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.60%) .NET
2 23 (1.93%) HTML
3 20 (1.68%) HTML5 Canvas
3 20 (1.68%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (1.59%) REST
5 15 (1.26%) CSS
6 13 (1.09%) Web Services
7 9 (0.75%) JSON
7 9 (0.75%) SPFx
8 8 (0.67%) .NET Framework
8 8 (0.67%) Middleware
9 7 (0.59%) Node.js
9 7 (0.59%) React
10 6 (0.50%) LangChain
11 5 (0.42%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.42%) EDI
11 5 (0.42%) FreeMarker
11 5 (0.42%) XML
12 4 (0.34%) OAuth
12 4 (0.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (10.73%) Driving Licence
2 125 (10.48%) Onboarding
3 52 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (2.60%) IoT
7 28 (2.35%) Low-Code
7 28 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
8 27 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 21 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.51%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.51%) Social Media
11 17 (1.42%) CMDB
11 17 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.17%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.09%) Replication
14 12 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.01%) CCTV
15 11 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 435 (36.46%) Windows
2 250 (20.96%) Windows Server
3 160 (13.41%) Windows 10
4 48 (4.02%) Mac OS
5 37 (3.10%) Apple iOS
6 35 (2.93%) Android
7 34 (2.85%) Linux
8 20 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.084%) SUSE
13 1 (0.084%) Unix
13 1 (0.084%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (26.49%) Problem-Solving
2 210 (17.60%) Customer Service
2 210 (17.60%) ITIL
3 193 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 155 (12.99%) Project Management
5 141 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
6 132 (11.06%) Agile
7 127 (10.65%) Coaching
7 127 (10.65%) Service Delivery
8 125 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
9 95 (7.96%) AI
9 95 (7.96%) Migration
10 89 (7.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 89 (7.46%) Mentoring
11 82 (6.87%) Project Delivery
12 80 (6.71%) CRM
13 78 (6.54%) ITSM
14 75 (6.29%) Change Management
15 74 (6.20%) Customer Experience
16 71 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 161 (13.50%) PowerShell
2 101 (8.47%) SQL
3 50 (4.19%) JavaScript
4 45 (3.77%) Python
5 43 (3.60%) C#
6 20 (1.68%) VBA
7 12 (1.01%) Bash
7 12 (1.01%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.92%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.42%) Bicep
9 5 (0.42%) Java
10 3 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.17%) C++
11 2 (0.17%) PHP
11 2 (0.17%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.084%) VB
12 1 (0.084%) VBScript
12 1 (0.084%) X++
Qualifications
1 181 (15.17%) Degree
2 87 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (6.04%) Security Cleared
4 64 (5.36%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 53 (4.44%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.51%) DBS Check
8 27 (2.26%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.84%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.76%) PMP
11 20 (1.68%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.68%) MCP
12 16 (1.34%) HND
12 16 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (1.09%) DV Cleared
14 12 (1.01%) A+ Certification
15 10 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.38%) QA
2 56 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 54 (4.53%) GDPR
4 50 (4.19%) SLA
5 39 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.26%) PMO
7 20 (1.68%) NIST
8 17 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 16 (1.34%) Data Quality
10 12 (1.01%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.50%) GRC
12 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.34%) NCSC
13 4 (0.34%) PMBOK
14 3 (0.25%) MiFID
15 2 (0.17%) ISO 19650
15 2 (0.17%) P3O
15 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.17%) WCAG
16 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
System Software
1 435 (36.46%) Active Directory
2 87 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (6.29%) Hyper-V
4 26 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.50%) Firmware
8 5 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.42%) vSphere
9 4 (0.34%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.25%) XenApp
11 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.084%) Docker
12 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 314 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (2.60%) Terraform
3 23 (1.93%) SCCM
4 17 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.09%) FortiGate
5 13 (1.09%) Nagios
6 12 (1.01%) Autotask
7 9 (0.75%) ZABBIX
8 6 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.42%) vRealize
10 4 (0.34%) PaperCut
10 4 (0.34%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.25%) Nessus
11 3 (0.25%) SCOM
11 3 (0.25%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.17%) Plesk
12 2 (0.17%) SCSM
12 2 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 955 (80.05%) Microsoft
2 107 (8.97%) VMware
3 73 (6.12%) Apple
4 47 (3.94%) Cisco
5 37 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.93%) Meraki
7 31 (2.60%) Sophos
8 30 (2.51%) Citrix
9 26 (2.18%) Veeam
10 23 (1.93%) Google
11 22 (1.84%) Adobe
12 20 (1.68%) Datto
12 20 (1.68%) Progress
13 18 (1.51%) ConnectWise
13 18 (1.51%) HP
13 18 (1.51%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.42%) Oracle
15 16 (1.34%) Atlassian
16 12 (1.01%) Trend Micro
17 11 (0.92%) Proofpoint