2nd Line Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Second Line Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Second Line Engineer salary in Birmingham is £28,500 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 133 135 189
Rank change year-on-year +2 +54 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 12 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.44% 0.15% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £26,075 - £26,150
25th Percentile £26,750 - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £27,000 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +22.33%
75th Percentile £31,875 £30,000 £34,503
90th Percentile £33,450 £31,800 £35,254
West Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £30,250 £32,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% -5.47% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,571 1,815 2,984
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 93.41% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,099 1,387 2,292
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Birmingham

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 2nd 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 Birmingham region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (58.33%) Azure
4 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (50.00%) Veeam
4 6 (50.00%) SCCM
5 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (41.67%) Firewall
5 5 (41.67%) Replication
5 5 (41.67%) VMware
5 5 (41.67%) PBX
5 5 (41.67%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
7 2 (16.67%) PKI
7 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
7 2 (16.67%) WAN
7 2 (16.67%) DHCP
7 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
7 2 (16.67%) Juniper
7 2 (16.67%) Apple
7 2 (16.67%) DNS
7 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
5 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) PBX
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) IP Telephony
3 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
1 9 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (8.33%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL
2 1 (8.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Veeam
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Apple
3 2 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (8.33%) Avaya
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Ubiquiti