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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 101 116
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 -18
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 1,021 1,384 2,050
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.40% 2.42% 2.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.63% 22.20% 18.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 985 1,413
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £325 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £679 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 64
10th Percentile £12.25 £16.13 £14.70
25th Percentile £16.44 £16.25 £19.78
Median hourly rate £30.08 £26.00 £26.34
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% -1.29% +30.07%
75th Percentile £46.18 £53.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £64.70 £75.10 £68.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.83 £26.48 £20.09
% change year-on-year +16.41% +31.79% +3.90%

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 4,145 6,233 10,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 10.92% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 4,369 7,516
10th Percentile £256 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 146 221
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.45 £19.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +80.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% +37.50% +5.26%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +10 854 £475 - 596
UK excluding London +1 501 £450 - 437
London +24 415 £500 - 181
Work from Home +5 348 £495 - 256
South West +14 117 £493 +3.68% 61
North of England -8 98 £350 -18.13% 114
South East -39 81 £450 -8.16% 104
Midlands +24 79 £375 -14.04% 76
North West +10 72 £390 -15.68% 66
Scotland +34 69 £370 -4.52% 20
West Midlands +36 59 £400 -5.88% 42
East of England +4 34 £416 -12.37% 50
Yorkshire -10 24 £325 -3.70% 40
East Midlands +5 20 £169 -62.08% 34
Wales +13 16 £600 +14.29% 10
Northern Ireland -4 8 £525 +50.00% 10
North East +11 2 £150 -64.07% 8

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
1 181 (17.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (5.68%) Confluence
3 47 (4.60%) SharePoint Server
4 17 (1.67%) Skype for Business
5 16 (1.57%) SharePoint 2013
6 15 (1.47%) CMS
7 13 (1.27%) IIS
8 10 (0.98%) SAS
9 8 (0.78%) SharePoint 2010
9 8 (0.78%) Site Server
10 6 (0.59%) Documentum
11 4 (0.39%) Apache
12 3 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
12 3 (0.29%) WordPress
13 2 (0.20%) Drupal
13 2 (0.20%) Jadu
14 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2013
14 1 (0.098%) nginx
14 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
Applications
1 139 (13.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (11.07%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (8.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (2.94%) MS Visio
5 21 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (1.37%) Photoshop
7 13 (1.27%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.29%) InfoPath
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.20%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.20%) Windchill
13 1 (0.098%) InVision
13 1 (0.098%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.29%) Workfront
5 2 (0.20%) Primavera
5 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 454 (44.47%) Microsoft 365
2 362 (35.46%) Azure
3 213 (20.86%) Power Platform
4 137 (13.42%) OneDrive
5 115 (11.26%) PowerApps
6 107 (10.48%) Power Automate
7 79 (7.74%) Entra ID
8 56 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (4.51%) AWS
10 44 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
11 36 (3.53%) Azure Stack
12 22 (2.15%) GitHub
13 21 (2.06%) Yammer
14 19 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (1.86%) ShareGate
15 13 (1.27%) Azure Functions
15 13 (1.27%) IaaS
15 13 (1.27%) Serverless
16 12 (1.18%) Azure Storage
16 12 (1.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 67 (6.56%) Firewall
2 65 (6.37%) Intranet
3 38 (3.72%) DNS
4 35 (3.43%) BGP
5 31 (3.04%) VPN
6 21 (2.06%) Skype
7 19 (1.86%) DHCP
8 17 (1.67%) TCP/IP
9 16 (1.57%) LAN
10 14 (1.37%) SAN
10 14 (1.37%) WAN
11 10 (0.98%) Unified Communications
11 10 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.78%) Internet
12 8 (0.78%) Wireless
13 7 (0.69%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (0.69%) HTTP
14 6 (0.59%) NAS
14 6 (0.59%) VoIP
15 5 (0.49%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (11.75%) Power BI
2 71 (6.95%) SQL Server
3 34 (3.33%) Metadata
4 27 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.25%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.37%) Data Vault
7 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.88%) QlikView
8 9 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.78%) EDMS
9 8 (0.78%) GIS
9 8 (0.78%) Pentaho
9 8 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.69%) PowerPivot
11 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Power View
12 4 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.39%) EDRMS
12 4 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (7.84%) JIRA
2 12 (1.18%) GitLab
3 10 (0.98%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.78%) Git
5 5 (0.49%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.29%) Selenium
7 2 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.098%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.098%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.098%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.098%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.098%) Snyk
8 1 (0.098%) Subversion
General
1 369 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.73%) Finance
3 144 (14.10%) Public Sector
4 93 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.76%) Banking
6 56 (5.48%) Marketing
6 56 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
7 43 (4.21%) Legal
8 40 (3.92%) Telecoms
9 39 (3.82%) Manufacturing
10 36 (3.53%) Publishing
11 24 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.06%) Electronics
14 20 (1.96%) Local Government
15 13 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.08%) Aerospace
17 11 (1.08%) Military
17 11 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 137 (13.42%) Analyst
2 132 (12.93%) Developer
3 107 (10.48%) Architect
4 72 (7.05%) Administrator
5 61 (5.97%) Project Manager
5 61 (5.97%) Senior
6 58 (5.68%) SharePoint Developer
7 49 (4.80%) Consultant
8 37 (3.62%) Business Analyst
9 36 (3.53%) IT Support
9 36 (3.53%) Support Engineer
10 34 (3.33%) SharePoint Architect
11 33 (3.23%) SharePoint Administrator
12 32 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (2.74%) Lead
14 27 (2.64%) Microsoft Engineer
14 27 (2.64%) Power Platform Developer
15 26 (2.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 26 (2.55%) Technical Architect
16 25 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.41%) .NET
2 33 (3.23%) CSS
3 28 (2.74%) HTML
4 20 (1.96%) SailPoint
5 19 (1.86%) SPFx
6 18 (1.76%) .NET Framework
7 17 (1.67%) REST
8 10 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
8 10 (0.98%) XML
9 9 (0.88%) jQuery
10 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.69%) RESTful
11 6 (0.59%) J2EE
11 6 (0.59%) SOAP
12 5 (0.49%) JSON
12 5 (0.49%) LAMP
12 5 (0.49%) React
12 5 (0.49%) SAML
13 4 (0.39%) HTML5
13 4 (0.39%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.72%) Management Information System
2 35 (3.43%) Private Cloud
3 33 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 25 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 20 (1.96%) PKI
7 19 (1.86%) Taxonomies
8 18 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.57%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.37%) Reference Data
11 13 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
12 12 (1.18%) iPhone
13 11 (1.08%) Video Editing
14 10 (0.98%) NHS
14 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
17 7 (0.69%) iPad
17 7 (0.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 231 (22.62%) Windows
2 77 (7.54%) Windows 10
3 72 (7.05%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (1.57%) Android
6 15 (1.47%) Linux
7 14 (1.37%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.27%) Windows 7
8 13 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.69%) Mac OS X
11 6 (0.59%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.59%) VMS
12 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.20%) Unix
15 1 (0.098%) AIX
15 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (18.22%) Migration
2 169 (16.55%) Project Management
3 150 (14.69%) Agile
4 127 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
5 118 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 113 (11.07%) ITIL
7 112 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (8.62%) Change Management
9 74 (7.25%) DevOps
10 63 (6.17%) Service Management
11 62 (6.07%) Data Migration
11 62 (6.07%) PRINCE2
11 62 (6.07%) Project Delivery
12 55 (5.39%) Analytics
13 54 (5.29%) Customer Service
14 52 (5.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 48 (4.70%) Cybersecurity
17 45 (4.41%) Programme Management
18 41 (4.02%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 143 (14.01%) PowerShell
2 82 (8.03%) SQL
3 54 (5.29%) JavaScript
4 38 (3.72%) C#
5 31 (3.04%) Python
6 10 (0.98%) T-SQL
7 8 (0.78%) Java
7 8 (0.78%) Korn
8 6 (0.59%) C
9 5 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.49%) R
10 3 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.29%) Perl
11 2 (0.20%) Bicep
11 2 (0.20%) C++
11 2 (0.20%) PHP
11 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.20%) VB
11 2 (0.20%) VBA
12 1 (0.098%) Bash
Qualifications
1 249 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 182 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 136 (13.32%) Degree
4 71 (6.95%) DV Cleared
5 42 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.25%) PMP
8 21 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
9 19 (1.86%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.67%) MCSE
11 13 (1.27%) CCNA
11 13 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.88%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.59%) APMG
15 6 (0.59%) CISSP
15 6 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
15 6 (0.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.09%) QA
2 43 (4.21%) PMO
3 35 (3.43%) Government Security Classifications
4 24 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 22 (2.15%) SLA
6 15 (1.47%) GDPR
7 14 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.88%) NIST
10 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.59%) GRC
11 5 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.20%) P3O
13 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.098%) CDISC
14 1 (0.098%) HL7
System Software
1 193 (18.90%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 5 (0.49%) vSphere
6 5 (0.49%) XenApp
6 5 (0.49%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.29%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.098%) Docker
10 1 (0.098%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.098%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.098%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.098%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 68 (6.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (4.51%) SCCM
3 38 (3.72%) SCOM
4 25 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.27%) Terraform
6 12 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.78%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.39%) Ansible
8 4 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.39%) Kubernetes
9 3 (0.29%) AppManager
9 3 (0.29%) OPNET
9 3 (0.29%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.29%) WSUS
10 2 (0.20%) CASB
10 2 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.20%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.20%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 588 (57.59%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.09%) VMware
3 50 (4.90%) SAP
4 44 (4.31%) Oracle
5 38 (3.72%) Atlassian
6 28 (2.74%) Adobe
6 28 (2.74%) Cisco
7 27 (2.64%) Citrix
7 27 (2.64%) NetApp
8 19 (1.86%) Apple
8 19 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.57%) CyberArk
9 16 (1.57%) Sparx
10 12 (1.18%) Google
11 10 (0.98%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.98%) Veeam
12 9 (0.88%) Informatica
12 9 (0.88%) Mitel
13 8 (0.78%) ESRI
13 8 (0.78%) SolarWinds
673 SharePoint jobs Nationwide