2nd Line Engineer Jobs in Cambridge

Second Line Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Second Line Engineer salary in Cambridge is £27,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 77 85
Rank change year-on-year +35 +8 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 2 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.75% 0.70% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.72% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile - £25,200 £26,125
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £35,000 £27,250
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +28.44% -11.38%
75th Percentile £28,750 £38,750 £28,750
90th Percentile - £41,500 £31,875
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £27,500 £35,000 £27,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +29.63% -22.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 246 974 796
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 97.11% 84.77%
Number of salaries quoted 155 750 384
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £31,150
25th Percentile £38,125 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,625 £73,250 £75,625
90th Percentile £82,250 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Cambridge

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Cambridge

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 Cambridge region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Reduction

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware