1st Line Engineer Jobs in the South East

First Line Engineer
England > South East

The median First Line Engineer salary in the South East is £24,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 370 457
Rank change year-on-year +4 +87 -112
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 39 39 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.28% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 39 38 20
10th Percentile - £22,000 £19,000
25th Percentile £21,250 £22,875 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,000 £25,000 £22,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% +9.76%
75th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £24,625
90th Percentile £34,500 £28,900 £28,000
England median annual salary £25,000 £25,500 £23,250
% change year-on-year -1.96% +9.68% +5.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,515 13,804 18,906
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.69% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,273 8,655 12,709
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in the South East

1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for 1st Line Engineer in the South East

1st Line Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Kent +7 9 £22,500 -4.26%
West Sussex +52 8 £24,500 +11.36% 1
Surrey +15 7 £34,000 +21.43% 3
East Sussex +13 5 £22,500 -6.25%
Thames Valley +5 5 £23,500 -16.07% 2
Hampshire -15 5 £26,500 +8.16% 4
Oxfordshire +1 3 £23,500 -11.32% 2
Berkshire +15 1 £28,000 -
Buckinghamshire -12 1 £23,000 +2.22%
1st Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 South East region featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (71.79%) Microsoft
2 27 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (61.54%) Windows
4 16 (41.03%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (38.46%) Active Directory
6 14 (35.90%) Customer Service
7 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
8 12 (30.77%) Windows Server
8 12 (30.77%) WAN
9 10 (25.64%) Windows 10
9 10 (25.64%) Azure
10 9 (23.08%) Entra ID
10 9 (23.08%) LAN
10 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
10 9 (23.08%) Cisco
10 9 (23.08%) VLAN
11 8 (20.51%) Firewall
11 8 (20.51%) VMware
11 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
12 7 (17.95%) Wireless
12 7 (17.95%) Broadband
13 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (15.38%) Finance
14 5 (12.82%) Fortinet
14 5 (12.82%) Mitel
14 5 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
14 5 (12.82%) BT
14 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
14 5 (12.82%) PMI

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (41.03%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (12.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 9 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.13%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) WAN
2 9 (23.08%) LAN
2 9 (23.08%) VLAN
3 8 (20.51%) Firewall
4 7 (17.95%) Broadband
4 7 (17.95%) Wireless
5 5 (12.82%) Unified Communications
6 4 (10.26%) ADSL
6 4 (10.26%) VPN
7 2 (5.13%) DHCP
8 1 (2.56%) DNS
8 1 (2.56%) Internet
8 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.56%) VoIP
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.69%) Games
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Driving Licence
1 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
1 5 (12.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (61.54%) Windows
2 12 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 10 (25.64%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.13%) Windows 8
5 1 (2.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Customer Service
2 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (12.82%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (12.82%) Change Management
4 4 (10.26%) Service Delivery
5 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.69%) Mathematics
5 3 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 2 (5.13%) ITIL
7 1 (2.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.56%) Customer-Centricity
7 1 (2.56%) DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Hardware Maintenance
7 1 (2.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (12.82%) MCITP
2 5 (12.82%) PMI Certification
3 4 (10.26%) CCNA
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.26%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) GDPR
1 3 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.56%) VirtualBox
4 1 (2.56%) XenApp
4 1 (2.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (71.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.08%) Cisco
3 8 (20.51%) VMware
4 5 (12.82%) BT
4 5 (12.82%) Fortinet
4 5 (12.82%) Juniper
4 5 (12.82%) Mitel
5 2 (5.13%) Apple
5 2 (5.13%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) Citrix
6 1 (2.56%) ConnectWise
6 1 (2.56%) N-able
6 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.56%) Sophos