2nd Line Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Second Line Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Second Line Engineer salary in Cheshire is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 56 115
Rank change year-on-year -15 +59 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 6 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.54% 1.41% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.52% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £25,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,375 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +9.23% +20.37%
75th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £33,750
90th Percentile - £39,375 £33,825
North West median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +30.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,060 462 1,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.75% 93.33% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 678 339 655
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,830 £23,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,950 £68,353
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Cheshire

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in Cheshire.

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Cheshire

2nd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ellesmere Port - 4 £32,500 -
Warrington -26 1 - - 1
Chester - 1 £30,000 - 1
2nd Line Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, 2nd Line Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 10
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) DHCP
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (66.67%) Patch Management
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (66.67%) VPN
3 4 (66.67%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (66.67%) Veeam
3 4 (66.67%) WSUS
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) Lotus
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows 10
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 4 (66.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
3 4 (66.67%) Veeam
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (16.67%) Lotus