1st Line Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

First Line Engineer
England > Midlands

The median First Line Engineer salary in the Midlands is £25,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 276 342
Rank change year-on-year -28 +66 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 12 37 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.100% 0.41% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.45% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12 32 20
10th Percentile £22,914 £21,000 £20,000
25th Percentile £24,393 £23,500 £20,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,500 £25,000 £22,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +9.89% +8.33%
75th Percentile £26,875 £26,625 £25,000
90th Percentile £28,750 £28,675 £27,475
England median annual salary £25,500 £26,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 11,334 8,175 10,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 89.60% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,394 4,580 7,024
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,738 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured 1st Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands

1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands

1st Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands

1st Line Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
East Midlands -26 6 £25,500 +2.00% 4
West Midlands +5 5 £24,732 +0.94% 2
1st Line Engineer
England

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 1st 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 Midlands region featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
5 5 (41.67%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
7 3 (25.00%) ITSM
7 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
8 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
8 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
8 2 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
8 2 (16.67%) SLA
8 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
8 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 2 (16.67%) Agile
8 2 (16.67%) Local Government
9 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
9 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
9 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (8.33%) Workflow
9 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) Skype
1 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (16.67%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (25.00%) ITSM
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 1 (8.33%) Break/Fix
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Design
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Task-Oriented
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (8.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Avaya
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Ubiquiti
2 1 (8.33%) Veeam