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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 130 106
Rank change year-on-year +12 -24 +23
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,721 1,213 1,965
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.43% 2.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 38.16% 28.26% 25.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,334 932 1,487
10th Percentile £27,824 £27,775 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,063 £32,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £42,000 £45,680
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.06% -8.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,200 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,581 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -5.88% -

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 4,510 4,293 7,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.14% 8.59% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,181 2,909 5,011
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £35,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -2.68%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +12 1,527 £44,000 +3.53% 299
UK excluding London +38 1,250 £41,581 +3.95% 244
Work from Home +46 613 £50,000 +11.11% 124
London -32 409 £55,000 -4.35% 89
North of England +48 341 £42,500 +21.43% 51
South East +3 274 £47,500 +18.75% 67
East of England +49 229 £37,500 -7.41% 28
North West +43 165 £50,000 +25.00% 25
Midlands -14 161 £38,500 -3.75% 51
Yorkshire +39 146 £38,772 +36.04% 22
South West -55 104 £36,250 -9.38% 32
West Midlands -22 98 £44,621 +0.78% 33
Scotland +36 66 £30,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -22 63 £37,500 -2.60% 18
Wales -24 43 £32,000 -20.99% 6
Northern Ireland - 32 £63,500 - 5
North East -40 30 £47,500 +48.44% 6
Isle of Man -3 1 £45,000 +30.43%

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
1 602 (34.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (2.21%) CMS
3 37 (2.15%) Confluence
4 27 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
5 19 (1.10%) IIS
6 14 (0.81%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.35%) Apache
7 6 (0.35%) nginx
8 5 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.29%) WordPress
9 4 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.23%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.17%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.058%) WebLogic
Applications
1 163 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (8.66%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.76%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.58%) CorelDRAW
8 8 (0.46%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.29%) DaVinci Resolve
11 2 (0.12%) Revit
11 2 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.058%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.058%) InDesign
12 1 (0.058%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.058%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 54 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.10%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.70%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.58%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.35%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.23%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 1 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.058%) Eikon
9 1 (0.058%) FLEXCUBE
9 1 (0.058%) Primavera
9 1 (0.058%) Sage 50
9 1 (0.058%) Shopify
9 1 (0.058%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.058%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,284 (74.61%) Microsoft 365
2 758 (44.04%) Azure
3 582 (33.82%) Entra ID
4 488 (28.36%) Power Platform
5 374 (21.73%) OneDrive
6 265 (15.40%) PowerApps
7 264 (15.34%) Power Automate
8 187 (10.87%) Microsoft Copilot
9 114 (6.62%) SaaS
10 95 (5.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 87 (5.06%) Dynamics 365
12 70 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
13 57 (3.31%) Mimecast
14 47 (2.73%) Copilot Studio
15 45 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
16 41 (2.38%) AWS
17 33 (1.92%) Google Workspace
18 29 (1.69%) IaaS
19 26 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
20 21 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 306 (17.78%) Firewall
2 275 (15.98%) DNS
3 233 (13.54%) DHCP
4 175 (10.17%) VPN
5 148 (8.60%) Wi-Fi
6 133 (7.73%) VLAN
7 102 (5.93%) TCP/IP
8 92 (5.35%) VoIP
9 84 (4.88%) LAN
10 81 (4.71%) Wireless
11 80 (4.65%) WAN
12 41 (2.38%) Network Security
13 37 (2.15%) Intranet
14 19 (1.10%) SSL
15 17 (0.99%) Internet
16 15 (0.87%) Skype
17 14 (0.81%) SAN
18 12 (0.70%) Broadband
19 10 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
19 10 (0.58%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (13.19%) Power BI
2 85 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (1.22%) Metadata
5 16 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.46%) Power Query
10 6 (0.35%) GIS
11 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.29%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.12%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.12%) EDRMS
13 2 (0.12%) MySQL
14 1 (0.058%) EDMS
14 1 (0.058%) PowerPivot
14 1 (0.058%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 103 (5.98%) JIRA
2 16 (0.93%) Git
3 5 (0.29%) Postman
4 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.17%) Selenium
5 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.12%) JUnit
6 2 (0.12%) Mockito
6 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.058%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.058%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 805 (46.78%) Social Skills
2 261 (15.17%) Finance
3 173 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (8.02%) Legal
5 128 (7.44%) Organisational Skills
6 102 (5.93%) Law
7 70 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 69 (4.01%) Manufacturing
9 56 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 47 (2.73%) Retail
11 45 (2.61%) Marketing
12 41 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
13 34 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 30 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.74%) Publishing
15 29 (1.69%) Banking
16 21 (1.22%) Local Government
17 17 (0.99%) Legal Technology
18 15 (0.87%) Games
19 14 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 405 (23.53%) IT Support
2 285 (16.56%) Senior
3 273 (15.86%) Support Engineer
4 246 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 222 (12.90%) IT Support Engineer
6 189 (10.98%) Analyst
7 179 (10.40%) Developer
8 114 (6.62%) Support Analyst
9 108 (6.28%) Consultant
10 102 (5.93%) IT Technician
11 95 (5.52%) 2nd Line Support
12 89 (5.17%) Lead
13 86 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 80 (4.65%) Administrator
15 79 (4.59%) IT Analyst
16 76 (4.42%) Support Technician
17 68 (3.95%) IT Support Technician
18 67 (3.89%) IT Support Analyst
19 64 (3.72%) 2nd Line Engineer
20 63 (3.66%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (3.89%) .NET
1 67 (3.89%) HTML
2 58 (3.37%) CSS
3 53 (3.08%) Microsoft Graph
4 42 (2.44%) REST
4 42 (2.44%) SPFx
5 41 (2.38%) HTML5 Canvas
6 28 (1.63%) React
7 26 (1.51%) JSON
8 24 (1.39%) .NET Core
9 21 (1.22%) ASP.NET
10 14 (0.81%) .NET Framework
11 11 (0.64%) Middleware
12 10 (0.58%) RESTful
12 10 (0.58%) Terraform
13 8 (0.46%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (0.41%) Node.js
14 7 (0.41%) Razor View Engine
14 7 (0.41%) XML
15 6 (0.35%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.47%) Onboarding
2 159 (9.24%) Driving Licence
3 132 (7.67%) Management Information System
4 99 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 35 (2.03%) AI Agents
7 30 (1.74%) Blog
7 30 (1.74%) Low-Code
8 28 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
9 25 (1.45%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 23 (1.34%) Video Conferencing
12 21 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.16%) Clustering
14 19 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.05%) CMDB
15 18 (1.05%) Web Conferencing
16 15 (0.87%) Replication
17 14 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 656 (38.12%) Windows
2 304 (17.66%) Windows Server
3 150 (8.72%) Windows 10
4 121 (7.03%) Mac OS
5 48 (2.79%) Apple iOS
6 47 (2.73%) Linux
7 44 (2.56%) Android
8 32 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.41%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.17%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
2 407 (23.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 260 (15.11%) Customer Service
4 249 (14.47%) ITIL
5 242 (14.06%) AI
6 228 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
7 197 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
8 179 (10.40%) Service Delivery
9 177 (10.28%) Project Delivery
10 159 (9.24%) User Experience
11 149 (8.66%) Disaster Recovery
11 149 (8.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 149 (8.66%) Workflow
12 145 (8.43%) Agile
12 145 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 141 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 132 (7.67%) Service Management
15 130 (7.55%) Project Management
16 129 (7.50%) CRM
17 126 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 234 (13.60%) PowerShell
2 168 (9.76%) SQL
3 98 (5.69%) C#
4 95 (5.52%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.27%) Python
6 31 (1.80%) R
6 31 (1.80%) TypeScript
7 21 (1.22%) VBA
8 8 (0.46%) Ruby
9 7 (0.41%) C
9 7 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.29%) Bicep
10 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.23%) Bash
12 3 (0.17%) C++
12 3 (0.17%) Java
12 3 (0.17%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.12%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 241 (14.00%) Degree
2 157 (9.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 90 (5.23%) Security Cleared
4 74 (4.30%) SC Cleared
5 48 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 34 (1.98%) DBS Check
7 32 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.28%) CCNA
10 20 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
11 19 (1.10%) HND
12 15 (0.87%) A+ Certification
13 14 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 14 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.64%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.58%) HNC
15 10 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.52%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 86 (5.00%) GDPR
2 82 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (3.95%) SLA
4 40 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.32%) QA
5 33 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 26 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 22 (1.28%) PMO
8 14 (0.81%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.46%) NIST
10 7 (0.41%) NCSC
11 5 (0.29%) COSHH
11 5 (0.29%) ISO 14001
11 5 (0.29%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.23%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.17%) MiFID
13 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 610 (35.44%) Active Directory
2 138 (8.02%) Hyper-V
3 135 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (1.22%) vSphere
6 17 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 11 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.58%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.12%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.058%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.058%) Docker
11 1 (0.058%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.058%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 404 (23.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (2.56%) SCCM
3 43 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
4 27 (1.57%) FortiGate
5 26 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (1.16%) Autotask
7 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.29%) Ansible
9 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.17%) cPanel
10 3 (0.17%) Plesk
10 3 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
11 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.12%) Puppet
11 2 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,429 (83.03%) Microsoft
2 165 (9.59%) VMware
3 105 (6.10%) Cisco
4 73 (4.24%) Apple
5 72 (4.18%) Veeam
6 54 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 47 (2.73%) SonicWALL
8 44 (2.56%) Adobe
8 44 (2.56%) Google
9 43 (2.50%) Meraki
10 34 (1.98%) Datto
10 34 (1.98%) HP
11 33 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
12 31 (1.80%) Aruba
13 27 (1.57%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.57%) Sitecore
13 27 (1.57%) Ubiquiti
14 19 (1.10%) Citrix
15 16 (0.93%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.93%) Palo Alto