SharePoint Contracts

Microsoft SharePoint
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SharePoint skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SharePoint over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 102 112
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 1,062 1,433 2,147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.43% 2.38% 2.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.53% 21.50% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 1,022 1,475
10th Percentile £213 £223 £220
25th Percentile £338 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +4.44% +5.88% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 29 63
10th Percentile £12.25 £16.11 £16.05
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.50 £19.68
Median hourly rate £30.16 £22.63 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.27% +0.58% +2.93%
75th Percentile £46.18 £58.75 £36.63
90th Percentile £69.25 £79.19 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.83 £19.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +62.24% -9.52% +6.33%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

SharePoint is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,159 6,665 11,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 11.08% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 4,674 7,658
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 149 214
10th Percentile £13.03 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.25 £16.24
Median hourly rate £28.01 £40.00 £21.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.98% +82.40% -2.53%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.21
90th Percentile £67.70 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.09 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -8.19% +39.95% -6.25%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SharePoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SharePoint.

Daily rate trend for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SharePoint over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SharePoint.

Hourly rate trend for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SharePoint over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +18 881 £475 - 566
UK excluding London +11 535 £470 +4.44% 428
London +17 414 £500 - 180
Work from Home +12 364 £500 +1.01% 259
South West +13 129 £495 +4.21% 48
North of England +21 98 £350 -18.13% 108
South East -31 93 £470 -2.08% 96
Midlands +26 82 £375 -15.73% 68
Scotland +21 73 £375 -2.60% 36
North West +18 68 £395 -15.73% 63
West Midlands +49 62 £400 -10.36% 47
East of England -2 32 £506 +3.85% 55
Yorkshire +5 27 £300 -16.15% 38
Wales +8 19 £600 +14.29% 10
East Midlands +1 19 £150 -66.29% 21
Northern Ireland -3 9 £325 -7.14% 18
North East +18 3 £150 -64.07% 7

SharePoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 193 (18.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (6.21%) Confluence
3 50 (4.71%) SharePoint Server
4 20 (1.88%) Skype for Business
5 17 (1.60%) IIS
6 16 (1.51%) CMS
7 15 (1.41%) SharePoint 2013
8 11 (1.04%) Site Server
9 8 (0.75%) SAS
10 7 (0.66%) SharePoint 2010
11 5 (0.47%) Documentum
11 5 (0.47%) Mendix
12 3 (0.28%) Apache
12 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
12 3 (0.28%) WordPress
13 2 (0.19%) Drupal
13 2 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
13 2 (0.19%) Jadu
13 2 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 134 (12.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (12.05%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (7.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (2.35%) MS Visio
5 22 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (1.32%) Photoshop
7 13 (1.22%) Acrobat
8 12 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.19%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.19%) Windchill
12 1 (0.094%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.094%) InVision
12 1 (0.094%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.28%) Workfront
5 2 (0.19%) Primavera
5 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.19%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 471 (44.35%) Microsoft 365
2 379 (35.69%) Azure
3 216 (20.34%) Power Platform
4 144 (13.56%) OneDrive
5 115 (10.83%) PowerApps
6 107 (10.08%) Power Automate
7 83 (7.82%) Entra ID
8 61 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (4.71%) AWS
10 37 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
11 36 (3.39%) Azure Stack
12 24 (2.26%) GitHub
13 22 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (1.69%) Yammer
15 16 (1.51%) IaaS
15 16 (1.51%) ShareGate
16 15 (1.41%) Azure Storage
16 15 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
17 12 (1.13%) Serverless
17 12 (1.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.40%) Firewall
2 67 (6.31%) Intranet
3 47 (4.43%) DNS
4 35 (3.30%) BGP
5 31 (2.92%) VPN
6 26 (2.45%) Skype
7 20 (1.88%) DHCP
8 19 (1.79%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.60%) LAN
10 16 (1.51%) WAN
11 14 (1.32%) SAN
12 11 (1.04%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (0.75%) Wireless
15 7 (0.66%) HTTP
15 7 (0.66%) NAS
16 6 (0.56%) Internet
16 6 (0.56%) VLAN
16 6 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (11.21%) Power BI
2 72 (6.78%) SQL Server
3 36 (3.39%) Metadata
4 30 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.26%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.32%) Data Vault
7 11 (1.04%) GIS
8 10 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.85%) QlikView
9 9 (0.85%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.75%) Pentaho
10 8 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
11 7 (0.66%) EDMS
11 7 (0.66%) PowerPivot
11 7 (0.66%) Tableau
12 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Power View
12 6 (0.56%) Power Query
13 4 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 87 (8.19%) JIRA
2 12 (1.13%) Git
3 11 (1.04%) GitLab
4 9 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.38%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.19%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.19%) Selenium
7 2 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.094%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.094%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.094%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.094%) Snyk
8 1 (0.094%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 372 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 189 (17.80%) Finance
3 156 (14.69%) Public Sector
4 94 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (5.93%) Banking
6 59 (5.56%) Marketing
7 53 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
8 43 (4.05%) Manufacturing
9 42 (3.95%) Legal
9 42 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 35 (3.30%) Publishing
11 25 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.17%) Electronics
13 22 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.69%) Local Government
15 13 (1.22%) Law
15 13 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.13%) Retail
17 11 (1.04%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 143 (13.47%) Developer
2 132 (12.43%) Analyst
3 106 (9.98%) Architect
4 70 (6.59%) Administrator
5 66 (6.21%) SharePoint Developer
6 64 (6.03%) Senior
7 63 (5.93%) Project Manager
8 49 (4.61%) Consultant
9 44 (4.14%) IT Support
10 43 (4.05%) Support Engineer
11 35 (3.30%) Business Analyst
12 32 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 32 (3.01%) SharePoint Administrator
13 31 (2.92%) SharePoint Architect
14 29 (2.73%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 29 (2.73%) Power Platform Developer
15 28 (2.64%) Lead
15 28 (2.64%) Microsoft Engineer
16 27 (2.54%) Technical Architect
17 25 (2.35%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (4.52%) .NET
2 31 (2.92%) CSS
3 25 (2.35%) HTML
4 23 (2.17%) SPFx
5 21 (1.98%) REST
6 20 (1.88%) SailPoint
7 18 (1.69%) .NET Framework
8 15 (1.41%) XML
9 9 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
9 9 (0.85%) JSON
10 8 (0.75%) jQuery
10 8 (0.75%) RESTful
10 8 (0.75%) SOAP
11 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (0.56%) J2EE
13 5 (0.47%) LAMP
13 5 (0.47%) XMPP
14 4 (0.38%) React
14 4 (0.38%) SAML
14 4 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.24%) Management Information System
2 35 (3.30%) Private Cloud
3 34 (3.20%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.07%) PKI
6 20 (1.88%) Cloud Native
7 19 (1.79%) Taxonomies
8 16 (1.51%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.51%) Low-Code
9 14 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.32%) Reference Data
10 13 (1.22%) iPhone
10 13 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
11 11 (1.04%) NHS
11 11 (1.04%) Video Editing
12 10 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.85%) iPad
14 8 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 252 (23.73%) Windows
2 87 (8.19%) Windows 10
3 85 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (1.69%) Android
6 17 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (1.51%) Linux
8 15 (1.41%) Windows 7
9 14 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 14 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.75%) Mac OS X
11 6 (0.56%) VMS
12 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.19%) Unix
15 1 (0.094%) AIX
15 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (16.85%) Migration
2 170 (16.01%) Project Management
3 163 (15.35%) Agile
4 131 (12.34%) Business Intelligence
5 125 (11.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 124 (11.68%) ITIL
7 120 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (8.19%) Change Management
9 82 (7.72%) DevOps
10 70 (6.59%) Service Management
11 65 (6.12%) Data Migration
12 63 (5.93%) PRINCE2
12 63 (5.93%) Project Delivery
13 60 (5.65%) Analytics
13 60 (5.65%) Customer Service
14 54 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 47 (4.43%) Cybersecurity
17 46 (4.33%) Programme Management
18 44 (4.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 150 (14.12%) PowerShell
2 84 (7.91%) SQL
3 53 (4.99%) JavaScript
4 41 (3.86%) C#
5 34 (3.20%) Python
6 11 (1.04%) Korn
6 11 (1.04%) T-SQL
7 7 (0.66%) Java
8 6 (0.56%) C
8 6 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.56%) R
9 3 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.28%) Perl
9 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.19%) Bicep
10 2 (0.19%) PHP
10 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.19%) VB
10 2 (0.19%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 265 (24.95%) Security Cleared
2 197 (18.55%) SC Cleared
3 136 (12.81%) Degree
4 73 (6.87%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (2.35%) PMP
7 22 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.60%) MCSE
9 17 (1.60%) PMI Certification
10 14 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.22%) CCNA
11 13 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.66%) CISM
13 7 (0.66%) CISSP
14 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.56%) MCSA
14 6 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.99%) QA
2 44 (4.14%) PMO
3 35 (3.30%) Government Security Classifications
4 27 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 22 (2.07%) SLA
6 14 (1.32%) GDPR
7 12 (1.13%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.85%) NIST
10 7 (0.66%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.47%) GRC
13 4 (0.38%) GxP
13 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.38%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.28%) ISO 14001
14 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 210 (19.77%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (0.66%) vSphere
6 5 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.47%) XenApp
6 5 (0.47%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.094%) Docker
10 1 (0.094%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.094%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.094%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 80 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (4.43%) SCCM
3 37 (3.48%) SCOM
4 24 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.22%) Terraform
6 12 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.75%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.47%) Ansible
8 5 (0.47%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.38%) WSUS
10 3 (0.28%) AppManager
10 3 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.28%) OPNET
10 3 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.28%) Puppet
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 606 (57.06%) Microsoft
2 55 (5.18%) VMware
3 50 (4.71%) SAP
4 49 (4.61%) Oracle
5 39 (3.67%) Atlassian
6 33 (3.11%) Cisco
7 30 (2.82%) Citrix
8 28 (2.64%) Adobe
9 25 (2.35%) NetApp
10 20 (1.88%) Apple
10 20 (1.88%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.60%) Sparx
12 16 (1.51%) CyberArk
13 12 (1.13%) Google
13 12 (1.13%) Veeam
14 11 (1.04%) ESRI
14 11 (1.04%) Mitel
15 9 (0.85%) Informatica
15 9 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.85%) SolarWinds
664 SharePoint jobs Nationwide