2nd/3rd Line Support Technician Jobs

2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
UK

The median 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician salary in the UK is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 977 1213
Rank change year-on-year +90 +236 -338
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.001% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.001% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £28,000 - £30,575
25th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £32,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +16.28% +11.21%
75th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £33,688
90th Percentile £37,000 - £33,725
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% +12.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician in the UK

2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician.

Salary trend for 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician in the UK

2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +115 2 £32,500 -13.33%
UK excluding London +3 1 £35,000 -6.67%
London - 1 £30,000 -
Midlands - 1 £35,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £35,000 -

2nd/3rd Line Support Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician 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 featuring 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Datto
2 1 (50.00%) N-able
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Webroot
2 1 (50.00%) Draytek
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) VMware

2nd/3rd Line Support Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos
2 1 (50.00%) Datto
2 1 (50.00%) Draytek
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) N-able
2 1 (50.00%) Sage
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Webroot