1st/2nd Line Support Jobs in the City of London

1st/2nd Line Support
Central London > City of London

The median 1st/2nd Line Support salary in the City of London is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 160 223
Rank change year-on-year +30 +63 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st/2nd Line Support 9 17 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.47% 0.51% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.53% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 8
10th Percentile £31,600 £26,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,063 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +21.21% +6.45%
75th Percentile £38,000 £42,250 £36,688
90th Percentile £41,150 £46,750 £37,700
Central London median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,781 3,214 4,384
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 96.14% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 2,532 3,665
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,444
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
% change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%

1st/2nd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured 1st/2nd Line Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for 1st/2nd Line Support in the City of London

1st/2nd Line Support
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 1st/2nd Line Support in the City of London.

Salary trend for 1st/2nd Line Support in the City of London

1st/2nd Line Support
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st/2nd Line Support in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 1st/2nd Line Support in the City of London

1st/2nd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 1st/2nd Line Support 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 City of London region featuring 1st/2nd Line Support in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Customer Service
3 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
4 3 (33.33%) Linux
4 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (33.33%) ITSM
4 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 3 (33.33%) Law
4 3 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (33.33%) Bash
4 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (22.22%) Rocky
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Grafana
5 2 (22.22%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
5 2 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
5 2 (22.22%) Git
5 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu

1st/2nd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Equities
2 2 (22.22%) Fixed Income
2 2 (22.22%) Reference Data
2 2 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (11.11%) Derivative
3 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (11.11%) Handset
3 1 (11.11%) iPhone
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (22.22%) Rocky
3 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
4 1 (11.11%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Customer Service
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
4 1 (11.11%) Apple
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (11.11%) VMware