2nd Line Engineer Contracts in Southend-on-Sea

Second Line Engineer
Essex > Southend-on-Sea

The median Second Line Engineer daily rate in Southend-on-Sea is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southend-on-Sea 33.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - -
Essex median daily rate £194 - £250

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Southend-on-Sea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Southend-on-Sea. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Southend-on-Sea with a recognized job title 3 7 16
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 63.64% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £128 £205
25th Percentile - £142 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £156 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.88% -67.07% -7.77%
75th Percentile - £222 £538
90th Percentile - £329 £583
Essex median daily rate £388 £440 £500
% change year-on-year -11.83% -12.10% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £12.90 £36.99
25th Percentile - £14.05 £38.10
Median hourly rate £200.00 £15.98 £39.94
Median % change year-on-year +1151.56% -59.99% +99.80%
75th Percentile - £17.99 £41.79
90th Percentile - £19.20 £42.89
Essex median hourly rate £30.08 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.32% -4.35% +102.39%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southend-on-Sea

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Southend-on-Sea

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southend-on-Sea

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, 2nd Line Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Southend-on-Sea region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southend-on-Sea 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware