1st Line Engineer Jobs in Bolton

First Line Engineer
Manchester > Bolton

The median First Line Engineer salary in Bolton is £24,375 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 0.63% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,375 - -
Manchester median annual salary £25,563 £25,500 £26,500
% change year-on-year +0.25% -3.77% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bolton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bolton. 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 Bolton with a recognized job title 134 123 64
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.81% 98.40% 69.57%
Number of salaries quoted 102 81 31
10th Percentile £25,480 £31,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £52,789
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £60,000
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - -7.60% +8.23%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in Bolton

1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Bolton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in Bolton.

Salary trend for 1st Line Engineer in Bolton

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bolton

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, 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 Bolton region featuring 1st 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%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) SmoothWall
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bolton 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft