2nd Line Engineer Contracts in England

Second Line Engineer
UK > England

The median Second Line Engineer daily rate in England is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 412 450
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 +76
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 130 233 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.49% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.52% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 181 253
10th Percentile £150 £150 £133
25th Percentile £164 £178 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £210 £200
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £241 £288 £250
90th Percentile £288 £350 £338
UK median daily rate £200 £210 £200
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 30
10th Percentile - £21.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.38 £15.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.50 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +33.75% -5.03%
75th Percentile £22.84 £26.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £23.53 £28.00 £24.02
UK median hourly rate £20.11 £23.50 £17.57
% change year-on-year -14.43% +33.75% -2.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,105 44,948 67,278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.59% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,534 31,954 48,043
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.91%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,319 1,809
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +91.49% +9.30%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in England

2nd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for 2nd Line Engineer in England

2nd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in England

2nd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for 2nd Line Engineer in England

2nd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +54 36 £200 -4.76% 18
North of England +36 26 £195 +2.63% 23
Midlands 0 26 £200 -28.57% 16
South East -29 23 £255 +20.00% 32
West Midlands +10 17 £200 +15.94% 9
North West +27 15 £220 +10.00% 17
South West -6 11 £190 -13.14% 19
East Midlands -4 9 £210 -37.78% 7
Yorkshire +15 8 £190 +1.33% 4
East of England 0 8 £213 +13.33% 15
North East +11 3 £195 - 2
2nd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 England region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (66.92%) Windows
2 66 (50.77%) Microsoft
3 64 (49.23%) Active Directory
4 58 (44.62%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (38.46%) Social Skills
6 36 (27.69%) Windows 10
6 36 (27.69%) Microsoft Office
7 33 (25.38%) SCCM
8 31 (23.85%) Customer Service
9 25 (19.23%) Azure
9 25 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (17.69%) Security Cleared
11 21 (16.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (16.15%) Cisco
12 20 (15.38%) WAN
12 20 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 20 (15.38%) Firewall
12 20 (15.38%) Degree
13 19 (14.62%) ITIL
13 19 (14.62%) VPN
14 18 (13.85%) Windows Server
15 16 (12.31%) Proactive Monitoring
16 15 (11.54%) DNS
16 15 (11.54%) SLA
16 15 (11.54%) VMware
17 14 (10.77%) TCP/IP
17 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
18 13 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
18 13 (10.00%) PowerShell
18 13 (10.00%) SC Cleared

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.77%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 36 (27.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 58 (44.62%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (19.23%) Azure
3 7 (5.38%) OneDrive
4 3 (2.31%) Asana
4 3 (2.31%) AWS
4 3 (2.31%) Slack
4 3 (2.31%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.77%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.77%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.38%) Firewall
1 20 (15.38%) WAN
2 19 (14.62%) VPN
3 15 (11.54%) DNS
4 14 (10.77%) TCP/IP
5 13 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 13 (10.00%) VLAN
6 10 (7.69%) VoIP
7 9 (6.92%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (6.15%) LAN
9 6 (4.62%) Wireless
10 5 (3.85%) BGP
10 5 (3.85%) Internet
10 5 (3.85%) IPsec
10 5 (3.85%) MPLS
11 3 (2.31%) Ethernet
11 3 (2.31%) Junos
12 2 (1.54%) DHCP
12 2 (1.54%) FTP
12 2 (1.54%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (6.15%) JIRA
General
1 50 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (7.69%) Finance
4 7 (5.38%) Manufacturing
4 7 (5.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.85%) Legal
6 5 (3.85%) Marketing
7 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.54%) Automotive
9 2 (1.54%) Law
9 2 (1.54%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.77%) Banking
10 1 (0.77%) Local Government
10 1 (0.77%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.31%) Middleware
2 1 (0.77%) Rendezvous
2 1 (0.77%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Driving Licence
2 8 (6.15%) Clustering
3 6 (4.62%) iPad
4 5 (3.85%) PKI
5 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.08%) Smartphone
6 3 (2.31%) NHS
6 3 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.77%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.77%) BYOD
8 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.77%) Social Media
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (66.92%) Windows
2 36 (27.69%) Windows 10
3 18 (13.85%) Windows Server
4 13 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 12 (9.23%) Linux
6 10 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (5.38%) Apple iOS
8 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (3.85%) Windows 7
10 3 (2.31%) Android
11 1 (0.77%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.77%) Unix
11 1 (0.77%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.85%) Customer Service
2 25 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (14.62%) ITIL
4 16 (12.31%) Proactive Monitoring
5 12 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (8.46%) Mobile Device Management
6 11 (8.46%) Service Management
7 10 (7.69%) Asset Management
7 10 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
7 10 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
8 8 (6.15%) Decision-Making
8 8 (6.15%) Service Delivery
9 7 (5.38%) Migration
9 7 (5.38%) PRINCE2
10 6 (4.62%) Customer Experience
10 6 (4.62%) Quality Management
11 5 (3.85%) Customer Requirements
11 5 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (3.85%) Software Deployment
11 5 (3.85%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
2 3 (2.31%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.38%) Degree
3 13 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.15%) CCNA
4 8 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.08%) CCNP
6 4 (3.08%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.08%) MCSA
6 4 (3.08%) MCSE
7 3 (2.31%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.54%) MCP
9 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) SLA
2 10 (7.69%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 64 (49.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.15%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.85%) vSphere
5 3 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.54%) Firmware
6 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (25.38%) SCCM
2 21 (16.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (6.92%) Autotask
3 9 (6.92%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (6.15%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (3.85%) Nessus
5 5 (3.85%) WSUS
6 4 (3.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.77%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.77%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 66 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.15%) Cisco
3 15 (11.54%) VMware
4 13 (10.00%) Apple
5 7 (5.38%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.62%) Datto
7 5 (3.85%) Juniper
7 5 (3.85%) Qualys
8 4 (3.08%) Dell
8 4 (3.08%) Fujitsu
9 3 (2.31%) Avaya
9 3 (2.31%) NetApp
9 3 (2.31%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.31%) Remedy
9 3 (2.31%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.54%) Autodesk
10 2 (1.54%) Citrix
10 2 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.54%) Meraki
10 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
130 2nd Line Engineer jobs Nationwide