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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 134 113
Rank change year-on-year +22 -21 +10
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,913 1,161 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.36% 2.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.37% 28.93% 26.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,402 857 1,011
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -1.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year - -3.61% +3.75%

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 4,859 4,013 5,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.09% 8.16% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,251 2,641 3,575
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +27 1,690 £43,000 -2.27% 668
UK excluding London +45 1,380 £40,000 - 438
Work from Home +54 680 £45,000 -10.00% 297
London -19 451 £55,000 -4.35% 248
North of England +73 376 £42,500 +6.25% 112
South East +32 310 £40,000 -1.23% 108
East of England +60 234 £36,500 -8.75% 55
Midlands +1 194 £42,500 +10.39% 61
North West +47 179 £44,000 +10.00% 67
Yorkshire +48 154 £40,000 +37.93% 38
West Midlands +5 118 £50,000 +13.64% 41
South West -51 115 £36,250 +0.69% 52
Scotland +2 81 £31,500 -10.00% 40
East Midlands -27 76 £37,500 +7.14% 20
North East -31 43 £47,500 -29.63% 8
Wales -40 39 £32,000 -21.95% 8
Northern Ireland -49 32 £50,750 -27.50% 9

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
1 622 (32.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (1.88%) CMS
3 31 (1.62%) Confluence
4 27 (1.41%) Sitecore CMS
5 20 (1.05%) IIS
6 18 (0.94%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.42%) Apache
7 8 (0.42%) nginx
8 6 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.26%) MS Project Server
9 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
11 3 (0.16%) HCL Notes
11 3 (0.16%) SAS
11 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.16%) WordPress
12 1 (0.052%) Moodle
12 1 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.052%) WebLogic
Applications
1 197 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 181 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.89%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.84%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.52%) CorelDRAW
7 10 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.31%) Trello
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.21%) ProjectWise
10 3 (0.16%) Revit
11 2 (0.10%) Navisworks
11 2 (0.10%) Simulink
11 2 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.052%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.052%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 64 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.25%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.68%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.58%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.26%) Primavera
6 5 (0.26%) Shopify
7 4 (0.21%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.10%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.10%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 1 (0.052%) Eikon
10 1 (0.052%) FLEXCUBE
10 1 (0.052%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.052%) Sage 50
10 1 (0.052%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.052%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,423 (74.39%) Microsoft 365
2 808 (42.24%) Azure
3 638 (33.35%) Entra ID
4 563 (29.43%) Power Platform
5 449 (23.47%) OneDrive
6 323 (16.88%) Power Automate
7 309 (16.15%) PowerApps
8 257 (13.43%) Microsoft Copilot
9 123 (6.43%) Microsoft Purview
10 120 (6.27%) Dynamics 365
11 109 (5.70%) SaaS
12 94 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
13 75 (3.92%) Copilot Studio
14 60 (3.14%) Mimecast
15 41 (2.14%) Serverless
16 38 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
17 36 (1.88%) AWS
18 32 (1.67%) Azure AI
18 32 (1.67%) Google Workspace
19 29 (1.52%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 325 (16.99%) Firewall
2 312 (16.31%) DNS
3 268 (14.01%) DHCP
4 215 (11.24%) VPN
5 158 (8.26%) VLAN
6 156 (8.15%) Wi-Fi
7 122 (6.38%) TCP/IP
8 103 (5.38%) Wireless
9 97 (5.07%) VoIP
10 88 (4.60%) LAN
10 88 (4.60%) WAN
11 46 (2.40%) Network Security
12 38 (1.99%) Intranet
13 23 (1.20%) SSL
14 20 (1.05%) Skype
15 16 (0.84%) SAN
16 15 (0.78%) PBX
17 14 (0.73%) Cisco Wireless
18 13 (0.68%) Internet
19 11 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (13.17%) Power BI
2 99 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (1.20%) Metadata
5 18 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.52%) GIS
9 8 (0.42%) Power Query
10 5 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.21%) EDMS
12 2 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.10%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.10%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.10%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.10%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.10%) Tableau
13 1 (0.052%) MySQL
13 1 (0.052%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 100 (5.23%) JIRA
2 39 (2.04%) Git
3 5 (0.26%) Postman
4 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.16%) JUnit
5 3 (0.16%) Mockito
5 3 (0.16%) Selenium
6 2 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.10%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.052%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.052%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.052%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.052%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 926 (48.41%) Social Skills
2 289 (15.11%) Finance
3 199 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (8.68%) Organisational Skills
5 152 (7.95%) Legal
6 102 (5.33%) Law
7 91 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 88 (4.60%) Manufacturing
9 73 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 50 (2.61%) Marketing
10 50 (2.61%) Retail
11 37 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
12 35 (1.83%) Publishing
12 35 (1.83%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.57%) Banking
15 28 (1.46%) Local Government
16 20 (1.05%) Legal Technology
17 17 (0.89%) Games
18 15 (0.78%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 410 (21.43%) IT Support
2 290 (15.16%) Support Engineer
3 274 (14.32%) Senior
4 258 (13.49%) IT Engineer
5 227 (11.87%) IT Support Engineer
6 210 (10.98%) Developer
7 203 (10.61%) Analyst
8 132 (6.90%) Support Analyst
9 117 (6.12%) Consultant
10 101 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 100 (5.23%) IT Technician
12 96 (5.02%) Administrator
13 94 (4.91%) Lead
14 89 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
15 83 (4.34%) IT Analyst
16 71 (3.71%) IT Support Analyst
17 70 (3.66%) Support Technician
18 63 (3.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 63 (3.29%) IT Support Technician
19 60 (3.14%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (3.82%) HTML
2 67 (3.50%) .NET
3 56 (2.93%) CSS
4 55 (2.88%) Microsoft Graph
5 53 (2.77%) REST
6 38 (1.99%) SPFx
7 33 (1.73%) HTML5 Canvas
8 27 (1.41%) JSON
9 26 (1.36%) React
10 25 (1.31%) ASP.NET
11 17 (0.89%) Terraform
12 16 (0.84%) .NET Core
12 16 (0.84%) .NET Framework
12 16 (0.84%) XML
13 15 (0.78%) RESTful
14 14 (0.73%) Middleware
15 8 (0.42%) XSLT
16 7 (0.37%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (0.37%) ASP.NET MVC
16 7 (0.37%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 200 (10.45%) Onboarding
2 181 (9.46%) Driving Licence
3 163 (8.52%) Management Information System
4 94 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
5 47 (2.46%) AI Agents
6 42 (2.20%) Low-Code
7 38 (1.99%) Product Ownership
8 34 (1.78%) Security Posture
9 32 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 30 (1.57%) Blog
11 27 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
11 27 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
12 26 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
14 22 (1.15%) Virtual Team
15 20 (1.05%) Clustering
15 20 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (0.99%) CMDB
17 16 (0.84%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 710 (37.11%) Windows
2 331 (17.30%) Windows Server
3 138 (7.21%) Windows 10
4 107 (5.59%) macOS
5 50 (2.61%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.30%) Linux
7 33 (1.73%) Android
8 30 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.21%) VMS
12 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.052%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (33.09%) Problem-Solving
2 468 (24.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 333 (17.41%) Customer Service
4 313 (16.36%) AI
5 278 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
6 254 (13.28%) ITIL
7 227 (11.87%) Business Intelligence
8 205 (10.72%) Project Delivery
9 197 (10.30%) Service Delivery
10 192 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 172 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 170 (8.89%) Disaster Recovery
13 169 (8.83%) Agile
14 160 (8.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 158 (8.26%) Workflow
16 155 (8.10%) Service Management
17 147 (7.68%) Migration
18 146 (7.63%) CRM
19 140 (7.32%) Project Management
20 136 (7.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 245 (12.81%) PowerShell
2 171 (8.94%) SQL
3 123 (6.43%) C#
4 115 (6.01%) JavaScript
5 45 (2.35%) Python
6 28 (1.46%) R
7 25 (1.31%) TypeScript
8 20 (1.05%) VBA
9 14 (0.73%) Ruby
10 9 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.42%) C
12 7 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.31%) Bicep
14 5 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.21%) Java
15 4 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.16%) C++
17 2 (0.10%) Bash
17 2 (0.10%) Ladder Logic
17 2 (0.10%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 264 (13.80%) Degree
2 175 (9.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 87 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 68 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 55 (2.88%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.04%) DBS Check
7 37 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
10 23 (1.20%) A+ Certification
10 23 (1.20%) CCNA
11 19 (0.99%) HND
12 17 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
13 15 (0.78%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.73%) PMP
15 12 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.58%) DV Cleared
16 11 (0.58%) MCSE
17 10 (0.52%) HNC
18 9 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.49%) GDPR
2 100 (5.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 87 (4.55%) SLA
4 76 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (3.29%) Accessibility
6 46 (2.40%) Data Quality
7 42 (2.20%) QA
8 31 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (1.52%) PMO
10 22 (1.15%) ISO 9001
11 12 (0.63%) WCAG
12 10 (0.52%) NIST
13 8 (0.42%) NEBOSH
14 7 (0.37%) ISO 14001
14 7 (0.37%) NCSC
15 5 (0.26%) COSHH
15 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.21%) Def Stans
17 2 (0.10%) EU AI Act
17 2 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 650 (33.98%) Active Directory
2 166 (8.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 148 (7.74%) Hyper-V
4 40 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 23 (1.20%) vSphere
6 21 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
8 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 11 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.26%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.10%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.052%) Docker
12 1 (0.052%) Firmware
12 1 (0.052%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.052%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 408 (21.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (2.25%) SCCM
3 32 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
4 31 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (1.57%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.94%) Autotask
7 7 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.31%) Ansible
9 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.16%) cPanel
11 3 (0.16%) Plesk
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
12 2 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.10%) Kubernetes
12 2 (0.10%) N-central
12 2 (0.10%) Nessus
12 2 (0.10%) VxRail
12 2 (0.10%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,627 (85.05%) Microsoft
2 193 (10.09%) VMware
3 114 (5.96%) Cisco
4 85 (4.44%) Apple
5 72 (3.76%) Veeam
6 58 (3.03%) SonicWALL
7 53 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 46 (2.40%) Meraki
9 43 (2.25%) Google
9 43 (2.25%) HP
10 37 (1.93%) Datto
11 29 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
11 29 (1.52%) Salesforce
12 28 (1.46%) Adobe
12 28 (1.46%) Sitecore
13 26 (1.36%) Fortinet
14 24 (1.25%) Aruba
15 23 (1.20%) WatchGuard
16 22 (1.15%) Citrix
17 21 (1.10%) Palo Alto