2nd Line Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Second Line Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Second Line Engineer salary in Manchester is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 218 248
Rank change year-on-year +22 +30 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 30 23 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.58% 0.47% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.51% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 30 23 8
10th Percentile £24,250 £26,000 £24,400
25th Percentile £28,125 £26,250 £26,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £40,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £33,750 - £38,750
90th Percentile - - £40,250
North West median annual salary £30,000 £33,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year -10.45% +11.67% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 4,904 4,476 5,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 91.68% 96.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,784 2,634 3,604
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,941 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.99% +4.65% +10.53%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Manchester

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Manchester

2nd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford - 1 £28,500 -
2nd Line Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 Manchester region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (73.33%) Active Directory
3 18 (60.00%) Windows
3 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 16 (53.33%) Firewall
5 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (46.67%) Windows 10
7 12 (40.00%) DNS
8 10 (33.33%) Cisco
9 8 (26.67%) EPoS
9 8 (26.67%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (23.33%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (23.33%) Finance
10 7 (23.33%) Azure
10 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
10 7 (23.33%) VPN
10 7 (23.33%) SharePoint
10 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
11 6 (20.00%) DHCP
11 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (20.00%) CCNA
12 5 (16.67%) Email Filtering
12 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (16.67%) ESET
12 5 (16.67%) Antivirus Management
12 5 (16.67%) Server Management
12 5 (16.67%) Storage Management

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (23.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 16 (53.33%) Firewall
2 12 (40.00%) DNS
3 8 (26.67%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (23.33%) VPN
5 6 (20.00%) DHCP
6 5 (16.67%) NAS
6 5 (16.67%) SAN
6 5 (16.67%) VLAN
7 2 (6.67%) WAN
7 2 (6.67%) Wireless
8 1 (3.33%) LAN
8 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (3.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) EPoS
2 1 (3.33%) iPhone
2 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (60.00%) Windows
2 14 (46.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (16.67%) Antivirus Management
2 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (16.67%) Email Filtering
2 5 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
2 5 (16.67%) Server Management
2 5 (16.67%) Storage Management
3 1 (3.33%) Biomedicine
3 1 (3.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (3.33%) ITIL
3 1 (3.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 1 (3.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (3.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) CCNA
1 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (16.67%) CCNP
2 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (33.33%) Cisco
3 5 (16.67%) ESET
3 5 (16.67%) Juniper
3 5 (16.67%) Sophos
4 2 (6.67%) Dell
4 2 (6.67%) Veeam
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Apple
5 1 (3.33%) Aruba
5 1 (3.33%) Meraki
5 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds