1st Line Support Engineer Job Trends in Chorley

First Line Support Engineer
Lancashire > Chorley

The median First Line Support Engineer salary in Chorley is £26,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Chorley 2.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,250 - -
75th Percentile £26,625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £26,250 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chorley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chorley. 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 Chorley with a recognized job title 40 41 70
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 93.18% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 35 30 68
10th Percentile £22,425 £49,000 £33,375
25th Percentile £23,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,750 £53,750 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -53.95% - +26.47%
75th Percentile £36,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £57,250 £86,250 £65,375
Lancashire median annual salary £42,384 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.23% - +13.64%

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chorley

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, 1st Line Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Chorley region featuring 1st Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Autotask
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) ESET
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chorley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
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
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Autotask
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ESET
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware