2nd Line Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Second Line Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Second Line Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
7 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 71 82
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 -19
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 11 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.47% 0.68% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 0.71% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £178 £122 £190
25th Percentile £188 £126 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £163 £215
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -24.42% +87.82%
75th Percentile £213 £216 £236
90th Percentile £375 £255 £245
West Midlands median daily rate £200 £175 £195
% change year-on-year +14.29% -10.26% +70.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £15.04
25th Percentile - - £16.13
Median hourly rate - - £17.60
75th Percentile - - £17.94
90th Percentile - - £18.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 694 848 1,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 96.36% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 565 923
10th Percentile £259 £263 £213
25th Percentile £350 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £586
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.25% +5.26% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 21
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +6.25%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured 2nd Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham

2nd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham

2nd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham

2nd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 2nd Line Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) WAN
2 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (54.55%) Windows 10
3 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
4 5 (45.45%) SCCM
5 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
5 4 (36.36%) Mobile Device Management
5 4 (36.36%) DNS
6 3 (27.27%) Apple
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (27.27%) VPN
6 3 (27.27%) LAN
6 3 (27.27%) VoIP
6 3 (27.27%) Quality Management
6 3 (27.27%) Firewall
6 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (27.27%) VMware
6 3 (27.27%) Clustering
6 3 (27.27%) VLAN
6 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (27.27%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (27.27%) Driving Licence
6 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
6 3 (27.27%) Degree

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) WAN
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
3 3 (27.27%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) LAN
3 3 (27.27%) VLAN
3 3 (27.27%) VoIP
3 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (18.18%) BGP
4 2 (18.18%) IPsec
4 2 (18.18%) MPLS
4 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
4 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
1 3 (27.27%) Driving Licence
2 2 (18.18%) iPad
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows 10
3 3 (27.27%) Mac OS
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
2 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Quality Management
3 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) SCCM
2 3 (27.27%) Autotask
2 3 (27.27%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (27.27%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Apple
2 3 (27.27%) Datto
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) Fujitsu
3 2 (18.18%) Juniper
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
18 2nd Line Engineer jobs in the West Midlands