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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 111 96
Rank change year-on-year -8 -15 +56
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,261 1,287 2,159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.82% 2.72% 2.86%
As % of the Application Platforms category 34.64% 28.47% 26.87%
Number of salaries quoted 883 838 1,849
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,625 £32,466
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,000 £58,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £41,389 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.81% +3.47% -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 3,640 4,520 8,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.26% 9.55% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,421 2,701 6,065
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,500 £45,628 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.24% +7.36% -10.53%

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 24 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 24 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 -11 1,053 £42,500 -11.72% 335
UK excluding London +1 850 £36,500 -11.81% 318
Work from Home +15 390 £47,500 - 134
London -20 329 £60,000 - 101
North of England -14 187 £41,500 -9.05% 71
Midlands -6 183 £40,000 -5.88% 37
South East -24 156 £43,750 -2.78% 103
Scotland +18 114 £35,000 +7.69% 24
South West +25 109 £32,500 -29.73% 36
West Midlands -4 109 £45,000 -15.57% 20
North West -4 107 £44,250 -12.92% 49
East of England -19 83 £34,000 +6.25% 40
East Midlands -24 74 £35,000 +14.75% 17
Yorkshire -16 73 £33,000 -17.50% 18
Wales -10 12 £41,740 -12.13% 9
North East -10 7 £67,500 +132.76% 6
Northern Ireland -38 6 £47,250 -10.00% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £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
1 391 (31.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (2.46%) Confluence
3 9 (0.71%) CMS
4 7 (0.56%) IIS
4 7 (0.56%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.48%) WordPress
6 4 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.24%) govService
8 2 (0.16%) Moodle
8 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.079%) Apache
9 1 (0.079%) Appian
9 1 (0.079%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 203 (16.10%) Microsoft Office
2 198 (15.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 101 (8.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.87%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.71%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.16%) InDesign
9 1 (0.079%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.079%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 41 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
3 7 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
7 3 (0.24%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.079%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.079%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.079%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.079%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 872 (69.15%) Microsoft 365
2 562 (44.57%) Azure
3 371 (29.42%) Entra ID
4 265 (21.02%) OneDrive
5 263 (20.86%) Power Platform
6 147 (11.66%) Power Automate
7 136 (10.79%) PowerApps
8 80 (6.34%) Dynamics 365
9 65 (5.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 57 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 54 (4.28%) SaaS
12 43 (3.41%) Mimecast
13 33 (2.62%) Azure Logic Apps
14 28 (2.22%) AWS
15 27 (2.14%) Copilot Studio
16 25 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
16 25 (1.98%) PaaS
17 23 (1.82%) Serverless
18 22 (1.74%) IaaS
19 21 (1.67%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 218 (17.29%) DNS
2 192 (15.23%) DHCP
3 179 (14.20%) Firewall
4 174 (13.80%) VPN
5 104 (8.25%) WAN
6 95 (7.53%) VLAN
7 91 (7.22%) LAN
8 87 (6.90%) TCP/IP
9 68 (5.39%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (3.17%) VoIP
11 37 (2.93%) Network Security
12 27 (2.14%) Wireless
13 19 (1.51%) SD-WAN
14 17 (1.35%) Intranet
15 13 (1.03%) Internet
15 13 (1.03%) IPsec
15 13 (1.03%) SAN
16 10 (0.79%) DKIM
16 10 (0.79%) DMARC
17 9 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (12.05%) Power BI
2 52 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.95%) Metadata
4 11 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.63%) MySQL
7 7 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.56%) Power Query
8 6 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.40%) DTS
10 4 (0.32%) GIS
10 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.24%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.24%) Tableau
12 2 (0.16%) DataStage
12 2 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (4.36%) 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 (0.079%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.079%) GitLab
4 1 (0.079%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.079%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.079%) Selenium
4 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 578 (45.84%) Social Skills
2 197 (15.62%) Finance
3 97 (7.69%) Law
4 84 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (6.58%) Organisational Skills
6 75 (5.95%) Legal
7 63 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 48 (3.81%) Manufacturing
9 35 (2.78%) Retail
10 26 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.90%) Marketing
13 16 (1.27%) Games
13 16 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.11%) Banking
15 13 (1.03%) German Language
16 12 (0.95%) Advertising
16 12 (0.95%) French Language
16 12 (0.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 266 (21.09%) IT Support
2 200 (15.86%) Support Engineer
3 184 (14.59%) Senior
4 157 (12.45%) Analyst
5 150 (11.90%) IT Engineer
6 121 (9.60%) IT Support Engineer
7 107 (8.49%) Developer
8 93 (7.38%) Support Analyst
9 76 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 69 (5.47%) Senior Manager
11 67 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
11 67 (5.31%) IT Analyst
11 67 (5.31%) Quality Manager
12 65 (5.15%) Support Technician
13 64 (5.08%) QA Manager
13 64 (5.08%) Senior QA Manager
13 64 (5.08%) Senior Quality Manager
14 58 (4.60%) Consultant
15 53 (4.20%) Power Platform Developer
16 51 (4.04%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.30%) .NET
2 23 (1.82%) REST
3 20 (1.59%) HTML
3 20 (1.59%) HTML5 Canvas
4 16 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
5 13 (1.03%) CSS
6 12 (0.95%) JSON
7 11 (0.87%) SPFx
8 10 (0.79%) Web Services
9 9 (0.71%) Middleware
9 9 (0.71%) XML
10 8 (0.63%) EDI
11 7 (0.56%) React
12 6 (0.48%) Node.js
12 6 (0.48%) SOAP
13 5 (0.40%) .NET Framework
13 5 (0.40%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.40%) OAuth
13 5 (0.40%) OpenID
14 3 (0.24%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.86%) Driving Licence
2 94 (7.45%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.70%) Low-Code
7 28 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
8 26 (2.06%) Replication
9 23 (1.82%) IoT
10 21 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.59%) CMDB
11 20 (1.59%) Product Ownership
12 19 (1.51%) Cloud Native
13 12 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.87%) AI Agents
14 11 (0.87%) FMCG
14 11 (0.87%) iPhone
15 10 (0.79%) iPad
15 10 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 476 (37.75%) Windows
2 249 (19.75%) Windows Server
3 166 (13.16%) Windows 10
4 56 (4.44%) Mac OS
5 52 (4.12%) Apple iOS
6 40 (3.17%) Android
7 33 (2.62%) Linux
8 20 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.079%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
2 246 (19.51%) Customer Service
3 228 (18.08%) ITIL
4 221 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 146 (11.58%) Coaching
6 143 (11.34%) Agile
6 143 (11.34%) Project Management
7 141 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 127 (10.07%) Service Delivery
10 100 (7.93%) Disaster Recovery
11 97 (7.69%) Mentoring
12 89 (7.06%) AI
13 85 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 84 (6.66%) Migration
15 81 (6.42%) CRM
16 80 (6.34%) ITSM
17 76 (6.03%) Customer Experience
18 74 (5.87%) Change Management
19 73 (5.79%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (10.86%) PowerShell
2 101 (8.01%) SQL
3 47 (3.73%) JavaScript
4 44 (3.49%) Python
5 43 (3.41%) C#
6 24 (1.90%) VBA
7 10 (0.79%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.63%) Java
8 8 (0.63%) R
9 7 (0.56%) Bash
9 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.24%) Bicep
12 2 (0.16%) PHP
12 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.079%) VB
13 1 (0.079%) X++
13 1 (0.079%) XAML
Qualifications
1 194 (15.38%) Degree
2 103 (8.17%) Security Cleared
3 97 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 69 (5.47%) SC Cleared
5 64 (5.08%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 38 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 19 (1.51%) Azure Certification
11 19 (1.51%) PMI Certification
11 19 (1.51%) PMP
12 17 (1.35%) DBS Check
12 17 (1.35%) HND
12 17 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (1.27%) A+ Certification
14 15 (1.19%) MBA
15 13 (1.03%) APMP
16 11 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.74%) QA
2 70 (5.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 60 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (3.97%) SLA
5 48 (3.81%) GDPR
6 32 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.51%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.35%) PMO
9 16 (1.27%) NIST
10 13 (1.03%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.79%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.48%) GRC
13 5 (0.40%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.32%) NCSC
14 4 (0.32%) PMBOK
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) MiFID
15 2 (0.16%) P3O
15 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 468 (37.11%) Active Directory
2 84 (6.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (5.63%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (0.95%) vSphere
6 9 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.48%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.32%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.16%) Docker
10 2 (0.16%) Firmware
10 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.16%) XenApp
11 1 (0.079%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 325 (25.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.85%) SCCM
3 28 (2.22%) Terraform
4 20 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.79%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.71%) Backup Exec
8 9 (0.71%) vRealize
9 7 (0.56%) WSUS
10 6 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.48%) Nagios
11 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
11 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.24%) Nessus
12 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.16%) Autotask
13 2 (0.16%) Kubernetes
13 2 (0.16%) Plesk
Vendors
1 976 (77.40%) Microsoft
2 108 (8.56%) VMware
3 74 (5.87%) Apple
4 44 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 39 (3.09%) Veeam
6 34 (2.70%) Cisco
7 25 (1.98%) Meraki
8 24 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.90%) Sophos
9 22 (1.74%) Citrix
10 21 (1.67%) Adobe
11 20 (1.59%) Google
12 18 (1.43%) Datto
13 17 (1.35%) ConnectWise
14 16 (1.27%) SAP
15 15 (1.19%) iManage
16 14 (1.11%) Intapp
17 13 (1.03%) Oracle
18 10 (0.79%) HP
19 9 (0.71%) Progress