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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 110 111
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +35
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,184 1,409 1,557
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.64% 2.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 34.58% 28.93% 25.42%
Number of salaries quoted 826 883 1,300
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,063 £33,000 £34,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,125 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +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 £35,480 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.51% -2.35% +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 3,424 4,870 6,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.64% 9.12% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,277 2,852 4,550
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,297
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,625 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.44% -4.26%

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 16 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 16 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 -7 997 £41,000 -18.00% 310
UK excluding London -7 783 £35,480 -14.51% 291
London +11 326 £56,500 +1.32% 82
Work from Home -10 318 £50,000 +1.01% 132
Midlands -5 162 £40,000 -5.88% 46
North of England -18 162 £40,000 -11.86% 60
South East -10 160 £41,000 -8.89% 120
South West +43 111 £33,000 -32.65% 16
Scotland +15 110 £35,000 +7.69% 14
North West -13 95 £44,250 -12.92% 28
West Midlands -5 86 £44,000 -16.19% 30
East Midlands -8 76 £37,500 +20.00% 16
East of England -12 73 £34,000 +6.25% 33
Yorkshire -8 62 £30,000 -9.09% 25
North East -10 5 £77,500 +72.22% 9
Wales -16 4 £41,740 -12.13% 10
Northern Ireland -23 3 £66,250 +26.19% 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
1 353 (29.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (2.53%) Confluence
3 13 (1.10%) CMS
4 11 (0.93%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.68%) IIS
5 8 (0.68%) WordPress
6 5 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.25%) govService
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%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 191 (16.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 188 (15.88%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (8.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.93%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.76%) 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
Business Applications
1 39 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 2 (0.17%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.084%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.084%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.084%) Shopify
6 1 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 802 (67.74%) Microsoft 365
2 497 (41.98%) Azure
3 337 (28.46%) Entra ID
4 243 (20.52%) Power Platform
5 235 (19.85%) OneDrive
6 146 (12.33%) Power Automate
7 129 (10.90%) PowerApps
8 75 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
9 60 (5.07%) Microsoft Copilot
10 53 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 50 (4.22%) SaaS
12 33 (2.79%) AWS
13 28 (2.36%) Copilot Studio
14 27 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (2.20%) Mimecast
16 25 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (2.11%) Serverless
17 21 (1.77%) PaaS
18 20 (1.69%) IaaS
19 17 (1.44%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 174 (14.70%) DNS
2 163 (13.77%) Firewall
3 156 (13.18%) DHCP
4 143 (12.08%) VPN
5 83 (7.01%) TCP/IP
5 83 (7.01%) WAN
6 80 (6.76%) LAN
7 79 (6.67%) VLAN
8 61 (5.15%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (3.38%) VoIP
9 40 (3.38%) Wireless
10 35 (2.96%) Network Security
11 27 (2.28%) Intranet
12 15 (1.27%) Internet
13 14 (1.18%) SD-WAN
14 12 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
15 11 (0.93%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.76%) DKIM
16 9 (0.76%) Skype
16 9 (0.76%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (10.73%) Power BI
2 45 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.44%) Metadata
4 10 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.84%) MySQL
4 10 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (0.68%) DTS
6 6 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.51%) Power Query
7 5 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.34%) GIS
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.25%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.25%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.17%) EDMS
10 2 (0.17%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.17%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (4.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.17%) Git
2 2 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.084%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.084%) GitLab
3 1 (0.084%) MSBuild
General
1 548 (46.28%) Social Skills
2 196 (16.55%) Finance
3 87 (7.35%) Law
4 85 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (6.25%) Legal
6 64 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (4.39%) Public Sector
9 50 (4.22%) Manufacturing
10 38 (3.21%) Retail
11 23 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (1.86%) Marketing
12 22 (1.86%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.44%) Banking
14 13 (1.10%) Advertising
14 13 (1.10%) German Language
15 12 (1.01%) French Language
15 12 (1.01%) Spanish Language
16 10 (0.84%) Games
17 9 (0.76%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 237 (20.02%) IT Support
2 196 (16.55%) Support Engineer
3 158 (13.34%) Senior
4 127 (10.73%) IT Engineer
5 121 (10.22%) Analyst
6 104 (8.78%) IT Support Engineer
7 93 (7.85%) Developer
8 72 (6.08%) Support Analyst
9 71 (6.00%) 2nd Line Support
10 69 (5.83%) Senior Manager
11 64 (5.41%) QA Manager
11 64 (5.41%) Quality Manager
11 64 (5.41%) Senior QA Manager
11 64 (5.41%) Senior Quality Manager
12 60 (5.07%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 58 (4.90%) Support Technician
14 57 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 51 (4.31%) 1st Line Support
16 50 (4.22%) Power Platform Developer
17 48 (4.05%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.20%) .NET
2 23 (1.94%) REST
3 22 (1.86%) HTML
4 20 (1.69%) HTML5 Canvas
4 20 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
5 14 (1.18%) CSS
6 12 (1.01%) Web Services
7 10 (0.84%) SPFx
8 9 (0.76%) JSON
8 9 (0.76%) Middleware
9 7 (0.59%) Node.js
10 6 (0.51%) LangChain
11 5 (0.42%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.42%) FreeMarker
11 5 (0.42%) XML
12 4 (0.34%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.34%) OAuth
12 4 (0.34%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.34%) SAML
12 4 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 128 (10.81%) Driving Licence
2 115 (9.71%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 43 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.79%) Low-Code
6 30 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.45%) IoT
7 29 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
9 20 (1.69%) CMDB
10 18 (1.52%) Cloud Native
11 16 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.35%) Replication
11 16 (1.35%) Social Media
12 14 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.01%) CCTV
13 12 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.93%) iPad
15 10 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 423 (35.73%) Windows
2 231 (19.51%) Windows Server
3 163 (13.77%) Windows 10
4 48 (4.05%) Mac OS
5 39 (3.29%) Apple iOS
6 33 (2.79%) Android
7 29 (2.45%) Linux
8 21 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.084%) Unix
12 1 (0.084%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 208 (17.57%) ITIL
3 206 (17.40%) Customer Service
4 199 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 153 (12.92%) Project Management
6 138 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
7 132 (11.15%) Agile
8 125 (10.56%) Coaching
9 123 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
10 120 (10.14%) Service Delivery
11 92 (7.77%) AI
12 86 (7.26%) Migration
13 83 (7.01%) Disaster Recovery
14 82 (6.93%) Mentoring
15 74 (6.25%) CRM
15 74 (6.25%) Customer Experience
16 73 (6.17%) ITSM
17 72 (6.08%) Change Management
18 71 (6.00%) Quality Management
19 70 (5.91%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 154 (13.01%) PowerShell
2 98 (8.28%) SQL
3 47 (3.97%) JavaScript
4 43 (3.63%) Python
5 39 (3.29%) C#
6 21 (1.77%) VBA
7 11 (0.93%) T-SQL
7 11 (0.93%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.84%) Bash
9 5 (0.42%) Java
10 3 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.17%) Bicep
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%) X++
Qualifications
1 177 (14.95%) Degree
2 84 (7.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 81 (6.84%) Security Cleared
4 64 (5.41%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 55 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.11%) DBS Check
9 22 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.86%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.77%) PMP
11 20 (1.69%) MCP
12 18 (1.52%) Azure Certification
13 17 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (1.35%) HND
15 15 (1.27%) DV Cleared
16 11 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (0.84%) A+ Certification
18 9 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
19 8 (0.68%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.52%) QA
2 61 (5.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 54 (4.56%) GDPR
3 54 (4.56%) SLA
4 41 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.03%) PMO
6 22 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.60%) NIST
8 17 (1.44%) Data Quality
9 14 (1.18%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.51%) GRC
11 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.34%) NCSC
12 4 (0.34%) PMBOK
13 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.17%) MiFID
14 2 (0.17%) P3O
14 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 427 (36.06%) Active Directory
2 80 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (5.83%) Hyper-V
4 24 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.51%) Firmware
7 6 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.42%) vSphere
9 4 (0.34%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.084%) Docker
12 1 (0.084%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 304 (25.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.36%) Terraform
3 24 (2.03%) SCCM
4 18 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.27%) FortiGate
6 12 (1.01%) Nagios
7 9 (0.76%) Autotask
8 8 (0.68%) ZABBIX
9 7 (0.59%) vRealize
10 6 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.34%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.25%) Nessus
12 3 (0.25%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.25%) 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
1 935 (78.97%) Microsoft
2 103 (8.70%) VMware
3 75 (6.33%) Apple
4 42 (3.55%) Cisco
5 35 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 32 (2.70%) Meraki
7 28 (2.36%) Citrix
7 28 (2.36%) Sophos
7 28 (2.36%) Veeam
8 21 (1.77%) Adobe
8 21 (1.77%) Google
9 20 (1.69%) Datto
10 19 (1.60%) Oracle
11 18 (1.52%) ConnectWise
11 18 (1.52%) HP
11 18 (1.52%) Progress
11 18 (1.52%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.01%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.01%) SAP