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

6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 100 115
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 -18
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 1,023 1,381 2,089
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.40% 2.41% 2.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.54% 22.00% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 977 1,440
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £331 £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 57 35 64
10th Percentile £12.25 £16.13 £14.70
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.88 £19.78
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £26.34
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.29% +31.70%
75th Percentile £46.18 £54.38 £52.78
90th Percentile £62.14 £71.01 £68.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.41 £26.48 £20.09
% change year-on-year +14.85% +31.79% +5.75%

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 4,168 6,276 11,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 10.96% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 4,396 7,629
10th Percentile £257 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +7.37%
75th Percentile £613 £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 161 152 223
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.13 £13.87
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £16.24
Median hourly rate £30.00 £46.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +92.71% +12.54%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.81 £53.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +41.03% +2.63%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +14 861 £475 - 651
UK excluding London +2 501 £450 - 493
London +25 420 £500 - 219
Work from Home +6 345 £495 -0.35% 297
South West +13 116 £490 +3.16% 80
North of England -2 98 £370 -12.94% 112
South East -33 82 £450 -10.00% 121
Midlands +10 79 £388 -9.36% 80
North West +5 73 £390 -15.68% 67
Scotland +23 66 £375 -9.09% 36
West Midlands +38 60 £400 -5.88% 39
East of England +4 37 £420 -11.58% 46
Yorkshire -12 23 £394 +10.05% 39
East Midlands +6 19 £150 -66.29% 41
Wales +10 16 £600 +14.29% 13
Northern Ireland -7 8 £525 +50.00% 12
North East +12 2 £150 -64.07% 6

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
1 176 (17.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (5.57%) Confluence
3 47 (4.59%) SharePoint Server
4 16 (1.56%) SharePoint 2013
4 16 (1.56%) Skype for Business
5 15 (1.47%) CMS
6 13 (1.27%) IIS
7 10 (0.98%) SAS
8 9 (0.88%) Site Server
9 8 (0.78%) SharePoint 2010
10 7 (0.68%) 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%) Apache Spark
14 1 (0.098%) nginx
14 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
Applications
1 143 (13.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (11.14%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (8.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (2.93%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.96%) 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 14 (1.37%) 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
1 451 (44.09%) Microsoft 365
2 357 (34.90%) Azure
3 212 (20.72%) Power Platform
4 139 (13.59%) OneDrive
5 116 (11.34%) PowerApps
6 107 (10.46%) Power Automate
7 76 (7.43%) Entra ID
8 57 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (4.69%) AWS
10 47 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
11 36 (3.52%) Azure Stack
12 21 (2.05%) GitHub
13 20 (1.96%) Yammer
14 19 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (1.76%) ShareGate
16 14 (1.37%) IaaS
17 12 (1.17%) Azure Functions
17 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
17 12 (1.17%) Serverless
17 12 (1.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.35%) Firewall
1 65 (6.35%) Intranet
2 38 (3.71%) DNS
3 35 (3.42%) BGP
4 30 (2.93%) VPN
5 21 (2.05%) Skype
6 19 (1.86%) DHCP
7 17 (1.66%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.47%) LAN
8 15 (1.47%) SAN
9 13 (1.27%) WAN
10 11 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.98%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.78%) Internet
12 8 (0.78%) Wireless
13 7 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (0.68%) HTTP
13 7 (0.68%) NAS
14 6 (0.59%) VoIP
15 5 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (11.63%) Power BI
2 72 (7.04%) SQL Server
3 32 (3.13%) Metadata
4 27 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.27%) Data Vault
7 11 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.88%) EDMS
9 9 (0.88%) GIS
9 9 (0.88%) QlikView
10 8 (0.78%) Pentaho
10 8 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
11 7 (0.68%) PowerPivot
12 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Power View
13 5 (0.49%) Tableau
14 4 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.39%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 80 (7.82%) JIRA
2 11 (1.08%) 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
1 365 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 180 (17.60%) Finance
3 144 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 92 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.65%) Banking
6 56 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
7 54 (5.28%) Marketing
8 43 (4.20%) Legal
9 39 (3.81%) Telecoms
10 37 (3.62%) Manufacturing
11 35 (3.42%) Publishing
12 24 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.96%) Local Government
15 19 (1.86%) Electronics
16 13 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.08%) Aerospace
17 11 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.08%) Retail
18 10 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 138 (13.49%) Analyst
2 134 (13.10%) Developer
3 107 (10.46%) Architect
4 72 (7.04%) Administrator
5 61 (5.96%) Senior
6 59 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 58 (5.67%) SharePoint Developer
8 49 (4.79%) Consultant
9 37 (3.62%) Business Analyst
10 35 (3.42%) IT Support
11 34 (3.32%) SharePoint Architect
11 34 (3.32%) Support Engineer
12 33 (3.23%) SharePoint Administrator
13 32 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (2.83%) Lead
15 28 (2.74%) Power Platform Developer
16 27 (2.64%) Microsoft Engineer
17 26 (2.54%) Technical Architect
18 25 (2.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 25 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.40%) .NET
2 32 (3.13%) CSS
3 27 (2.64%) HTML
4 20 (1.96%) SailPoint
5 18 (1.76%) .NET Framework
5 18 (1.76%) REST
6 17 (1.66%) SPFx
7 10 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
7 10 (0.98%) XML
8 8 (0.78%) jQuery
9 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.68%) RESTful
10 6 (0.59%) J2EE
10 6 (0.59%) SOAP
11 5 (0.49%) JSON
11 5 (0.49%) LAMP
11 5 (0.49%) React
11 5 (0.49%) SAML
12 4 (0.39%) HTML5
12 4 (0.39%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (3.91%) Management Information System
2 35 (3.42%) Private Cloud
3 32 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 24 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.05%) PKI
6 20 (1.96%) Cloud Native
7 18 (1.76%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.76%) Taxonomies
8 16 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.56%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.27%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
10 12 (1.17%) iPhone
11 11 (1.08%) Video Editing
12 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.88%) NHS
14 8 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.68%) iPad
15 7 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 230 (22.48%) Windows
2 77 (7.53%) Windows 10
3 72 (7.04%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (1.56%) Android
6 15 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.47%) Linux
7 13 (1.27%) Windows 7
7 13 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.68%) Mac OS X
10 6 (0.59%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.59%) VMS
11 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.20%) Unix
14 1 (0.098%) AIX
14 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (17.99%) Migration
2 171 (16.72%) Project Management
3 151 (14.76%) Agile
4 128 (12.51%) Business Intelligence
5 115 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 112 (10.95%) ITIL
7 110 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (8.70%) Change Management
9 75 (7.33%) DevOps
10 64 (6.26%) PRINCE2
11 62 (6.06%) Project Delivery
11 62 (6.06%) Service Management
12 59 (5.77%) Data Migration
13 56 (5.47%) Analytics
14 54 (5.28%) Customer Service
15 52 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 47 (4.59%) Cybersecurity
18 43 (4.20%) Programme Management
19 39 (3.81%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 142 (13.88%) PowerShell
2 88 (8.60%) SQL
3 55 (5.38%) JavaScript
4 37 (3.62%) C#
5 35 (3.42%) Python
6 12 (1.17%) T-SQL
7 9 (0.88%) Korn
8 8 (0.78%) Java
9 7 (0.68%) R
10 6 (0.59%) C
11 5 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.49%) VBA
12 4 (0.39%) VB
13 3 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.29%) Perl
14 2 (0.20%) Bicep
14 2 (0.20%) C++
14 2 (0.20%) PHP
14 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.098%) Bash
Qualifications
1 249 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 181 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 135 (13.20%) Degree
4 70 (6.84%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.35%) PMP
7 20 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.66%) MCSE
9 13 (1.27%) CCNA
9 13 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.68%) CISM
12 7 (0.68%) MCSA
12 7 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.59%) CISSP
13 6 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.08%) QA
2 43 (4.20%) PMO
3 35 (3.42%) Government Security Classifications
4 24 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.05%) SLA
6 16 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.47%) GDPR
8 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.78%) NIST
10 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.49%) GRC
11 5 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
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%) GMP
14 1 (0.098%) HL7
System Software
1 190 (18.57%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (0.59%) vSphere
7 5 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (0.49%) XenApp
7 5 (0.49%) XenDesktop
8 4 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.29%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.098%) Docker
11 1 (0.098%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.098%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.098%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 67 (6.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (4.50%) SCCM
3 38 (3.71%) SCOM
4 25 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.27%) Terraform
6 12 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.78%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.39%) Ansible
9 4 (0.39%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.29%) AppManager
10 3 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.29%) OPNET
10 3 (0.29%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.29%) WSUS
11 2 (0.20%) CASB
11 2 (0.20%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 591 (57.77%) Microsoft
2 51 (4.99%) VMware
3 48 (4.69%) SAP
4 44 (4.30%) Oracle
5 38 (3.71%) Atlassian
6 28 (2.74%) Adobe
7 27 (2.64%) Cisco
7 27 (2.64%) NetApp
8 25 (2.44%) Citrix
9 19 (1.86%) Apple
9 19 (1.86%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.56%) CyberArk
11 15 (1.47%) Sparx
12 12 (1.17%) Google
13 10 (0.98%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.98%) Veeam
14 9 (0.88%) ESRI
14 9 (0.88%) Informatica
14 9 (0.88%) Mitel
15 8 (0.78%) SolarWinds
734 SharePoint jobs Nationwide