1st Line Support Jobs in the West Midlands

First Line Support
England > West Midlands

The median First Line Support salary in the West Midlands is £25,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 242 260
Rank change year-on-year +55 +18 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Support 60 22 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.83% 0.34% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.38% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 58 22 29
10th Percentile £14,350 £20,500 £19,000
25th Percentile £22,500 £21,063 £19,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £24,000 £22,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% +11.39%
75th Percentile £27,438 £27,000 £24,000
90th Percentile £29,250 £27,626 £25,250
England median annual salary £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,838 5,770 6,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 90.24% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,164 3,275 4,763
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

1st Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Support in the West Midlands

1st Line Support
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for 1st Line Support in the West Midlands

1st Line Support
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st Line Support in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 1st Line Support in the West Midlands

1st Line Support
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Staffordshire -11 14 £25,000 +11.11% 1
Birmingham -5 9 £25,000 +4.17% 2
Walsall +22 8 £26,000 +23.81%
Warwickshire - 6 £25,250 - 1
Worcestershire - 6 £14,000 -
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Shropshire - 2 £12,000 -
Coventry +32 1 £27,500 +10.00% 1
Solihull -2 1 £22,700 -15.14%
Dudley - 1 £23,750 -
Herefordshire - 1 - -
1st Line Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 1st Line Support 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 West Midlands region featuring 1st Line Support in the job title.

1 33 (55.00%) Customer Service
2 32 (53.33%) Windows
2 32 (53.33%) Microsoft
3 29 (48.33%) Social Skills
4 26 (43.33%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (28.33%) SQL
6 15 (25.00%) Active Directory
7 14 (23.33%) LAN
8 13 (21.67%) Microsoft Office
9 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.67%) Finance
10 10 (16.67%) Windows 10
10 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
10 10 (16.67%) Azure
10 10 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (15.00%) .NET
11 9 (15.00%) Manufacturing
12 8 (13.33%) Firewall
12 8 (13.33%) Retail
12 8 (13.33%) JIRA
13 7 (11.67%) Mathematics
13 7 (11.67%) Confluence
13 7 (11.67%) Trello
13 7 (11.67%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (11.67%) Wireless
13 7 (11.67%) Advertising
13 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (10.00%) ITIL
14 6 (10.00%) MPLS
14 6 (10.00%) DNS

1st Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 7 (11.67%) Confluence
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (11.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.67%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (16.67%) Azure
2 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.33%) LAN
2 8 (13.33%) Firewall
3 7 (11.67%) Wireless
4 6 (10.00%) DNS
4 6 (10.00%) MPLS
4 6 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 4 (6.67%) DHCP
6 2 (3.33%) Broadband
6 2 (3.33%) WAN
7 1 (1.67%) Skype
7 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.67%) VoIP
7 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.67%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 29 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Finance
2 10 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (13.33%) Retail
5 7 (11.67%) Advertising
5 7 (11.67%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (10.00%) Local Government
7 3 (5.00%) Law
7 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.33%) Marketing
9 1 (1.67%) Games
9 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) CCTV
1 6 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.00%) Smartphone
3 2 (3.33%) EPoS
3 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 32 (53.33%) Windows
2 10 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (8.33%) Windows 7
4 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) Customer Service
2 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (11.67%) Mathematics
4 6 (10.00%) ITIL
5 4 (6.67%) Customer Experience
6 3 (5.00%) Coaching
6 3 (5.00%) CRM
6 3 (5.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (5.00%) OO
6 3 (5.00%) Time Management
7 2 (3.33%) Case Management
7 2 (3.33%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (3.33%) Fintech
7 2 (3.33%) Mentoring
7 2 (3.33%) Service Management
8 1 (1.67%) B2B
8 1 (1.67%) ERP
8 1 (1.67%) Kalman Filter
8 1 (1.67%) Quality Management
8 1 (1.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) SQL
2 1 (1.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) A+ Certification
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.33%) MCSE
3 1 (1.67%) CCNA
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Degree
3 1 (1.67%) MCP
3 1 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Server
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 32 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.67%) Adobe
3 1 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (1.67%) Cylance
3 1 (1.67%) HP
3 1 (1.67%) Sage
3 1 (1.67%) SAP
3 1 (1.67%) VMware