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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 108 101
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +46
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,237 1,371 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.92% 2.69% 2.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.15% 28.96% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 855 863 1,744
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,114 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,850 £72,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -14.63% +2.50% -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 3,519 4,734 7,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.45% 9.28% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,317 2,764 5,915
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,096 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +12.19% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,680 £101,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.78% +8.24% -8.92%

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 4 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 4 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 -13 1,034 £42,020 -13.49% 351
UK excluding London -6 817 £35,000 -14.63% 335
Work from Home +6 363 £50,000 +5.26% 146
London +1 341 £56,500 -5.83% 87
Midlands -6 184 £37,500 -11.76% 47
North of England -31 165 £40,000 -11.11% 61
South East -9 161 £42,500 -5.56% 126
Scotland +9 116 £35,000 +7.69% 17
South West +36 109 £33,000 -26.26% 37
West Midlands +7 105 £43,750 -17.92% 29
North West -19 95 £45,000 -10.00% 32
East Midlands -2 79 £35,000 +11.11% 18
East of England -25 72 £34,000 +6.25% 44
Yorkshire -11 66 £30,750 -6.82% 25
Wales -18 8 £41,740 -12.13% 10
Northern Ireland -27 5 £62,500 +19.05% 2
North East -16 4 £82,966 +95.21% 6
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
1 373 (30.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.34%) Confluence
3 12 (0.97%) CMS
4 8 (0.65%) Skype for Business
4 8 (0.65%) WordPress
5 7 (0.57%) IIS
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 (0.081%) Apache
9 1 (0.081%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 202 (16.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (15.93%) Microsoft Office
3 107 (8.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.89%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.73%) 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 (0.081%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 43 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
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 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
1 844 (68.23%) Microsoft 365
2 537 (43.41%) Azure
3 356 (28.78%) Entra ID
4 261 (21.10%) Power Platform
5 246 (19.89%) OneDrive
6 151 (12.21%) Power Automate
7 139 (11.24%) PowerApps
8 79 (6.39%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (4.69%) Microsoft Copilot
10 53 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
11 50 (4.04%) SaaS
12 36 (2.91%) Mimecast
13 33 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 30 (2.43%) Copilot Studio
15 27 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (2.10%) AWS
16 26 (2.10%) Serverless
17 23 (1.86%) PaaS
18 21 (1.70%) Azure Functions
19 19 (1.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 200 (16.17%) DNS
2 177 (14.31%) DHCP
3 175 (14.15%) Firewall
4 166 (13.42%) VPN
5 97 (7.84%) WAN
6 90 (7.28%) VLAN
7 87 (7.03%) LAN
8 84 (6.79%) TCP/IP
9 64 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
10 38 (3.07%) VoIP
11 36 (2.91%) Network Security
12 35 (2.83%) Wireless
13 22 (1.78%) Intranet
14 19 (1.54%) SD-WAN
15 14 (1.13%) Internet
16 11 (0.89%) IPsec
17 10 (0.81%) DKIM
17 10 (0.81%) DMARC
17 10 (0.81%) SAN
18 9 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (11.64%) Power BI
2 52 (4.20%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.29%) Metadata
4 11 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.73%) MySQL
7 6 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.49%) Power Query
7 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.40%) DTS
8 5 (0.40%) 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%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 49 (3.96%) 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 (0.081%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.081%) GitLab
4 1 (0.081%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.081%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 572 (46.24%) Social Skills
2 205 (16.57%) Finance
3 94 (7.60%) Law
4 86 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.31%) Legal
6 73 (5.90%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 54 (4.37%) Public Sector
9 47 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 37 (2.99%) Retail
11 26 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.86%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.78%) Marketing
14 16 (1.29%) Banking
15 15 (1.21%) 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
1 248 (20.05%) IT Support
2 201 (16.25%) Support Engineer
3 177 (14.31%) Senior
4 144 (11.64%) IT Engineer
5 140 (11.32%) Analyst
6 116 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
7 102 (8.25%) Developer
8 82 (6.63%) Support Analyst
9 72 (5.82%) 2nd Line Support
9 72 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 69 (5.58%) Senior Manager
11 65 (5.25%) Quality Manager
12 64 (5.17%) QA Manager
12 64 (5.17%) Senior QA Manager
12 64 (5.17%) Senior Quality Manager
13 57 (4.61%) Consultant
14 56 (4.53%) Support Technician
15 54 (4.37%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 52 (4.20%) 1st Line Support
16 52 (4.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.18%) .NET
2 25 (2.02%) HTML
3 23 (1.86%) REST
4 19 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
5 17 (1.37%) CSS
6 13 (1.05%) 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 (0.40%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.40%) XML
12 4 (0.32%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.32%) EDI
12 4 (0.32%) SAML
12 4 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (11.16%) Driving Licence
2 106 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 54 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
4 48 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.83%) Low-Code
6 28 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.18%) Video Conferencing
8 26 (2.10%) IoT
8 26 (2.10%) Product Ownership
9 22 (1.78%) Replication
10 20 (1.62%) CMDB
11 19 (1.54%) Cloud Native
12 17 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.13%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.13%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.97%) CCTV
16 11 (0.89%) iPad
16 11 (0.89%) Social Media
17 10 (0.81%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 456 (36.86%) Windows
2 242 (19.56%) Windows Server
3 166 (13.42%) Windows 10
4 52 (4.20%) Mac OS
5 48 (3.88%) Apple iOS
6 33 (2.67%) Android
6 33 (2.67%) Linux
7 22 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.081%) Unix
11 1 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
2 226 (18.27%) ITIL
3 224 (18.11%) Customer Service
4 209 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 149 (12.05%) Project Management
6 142 (11.48%) Agile
7 137 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (10.91%) Coaching
8 135 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
9 132 (10.67%) Service Delivery
10 99 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 98 (7.92%) AI
12 95 (7.68%) Mentoring
13 88 (7.11%) Migration
14 84 (6.79%) CRM
15 82 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 78 (6.31%) ITSM
17 76 (6.14%) Customer Experience
17 76 (6.14%) Service Management
18 74 (5.98%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 145 (11.72%) PowerShell
2 107 (8.65%) SQL
3 47 (3.80%) JavaScript
3 47 (3.80%) Python
4 40 (3.23%) C#
5 23 (1.86%) VBA
6 11 (0.89%) TypeScript
7 9 (0.73%) Bash
8 8 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.40%) Java
9 5 (0.40%) R
10 4 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.24%) Bicep
11 3 (0.24%) PHP
12 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.081%) VB
13 1 (0.081%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.081%) X++
Qualifications
1 190 (15.36%) Degree
2 93 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 89 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 64 (5.17%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 61 (4.93%) SC Cleared
6 37 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.75%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.78%) DBS Check
10 21 (1.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 20 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.62%) PMI Certification
11 20 (1.62%) PMP
12 17 (1.37%) HND
13 16 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 16 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (1.05%) A+ Certification
15 12 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.97%) MBA
16 11 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.95%) QA
2 67 (5.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 56 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (4.37%) GDPR
4 54 (4.37%) SLA
5 28 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 22 (1.78%) PMO
7 21 (1.70%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.54%) NIST
9 14 (1.13%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.49%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.40%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.32%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.32%) NCSC
12 4 (0.32%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.16%) P3O
13 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 453 (36.62%) Active Directory
2 86 (6.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (5.66%) Hyper-V
4 30 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.89%) vSphere
6 10 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.57%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.49%) Firmware
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
1 320 (25.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (2.51%) SCCM
3 30 (2.43%) Terraform
4 22 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.21%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (0.73%) Nagios
7 9 (0.73%) vRealize
8 7 (0.57%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.49%) Backup Exec
9 6 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.40%) Autotask
10 5 (0.40%) WSUS
10 5 (0.40%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.24%) Nessus
12 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.16%) SCOM
13 2 (0.16%) SCSM
Vendors
1 963 (77.85%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.97%) VMware
3 75 (6.06%) Apple
4 43 (3.48%) Cisco
5 40 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 34 (2.75%) Veeam
7 30 (2.43%) Meraki
8 27 (2.18%) Citrix
9 23 (1.86%) Sophos
10 22 (1.78%) Adobe
10 22 (1.78%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.62%) Datto
12 18 (1.46%) ConnectWise
12 18 (1.46%) Google
13 16 (1.29%) HP
13 16 (1.29%) Oracle
14 15 (1.21%) Progress
15 14 (1.13%) iManage
15 14 (1.13%) SAP
16 10 (0.81%) Freshdesk