2nd Line Support Job Trends in England

Second Line Support
UK > England

The median Second Line Support salary in England is £31,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 352 269
Rank change year-on-year +148 -83 +183
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support 597 416 551
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.35% 0.69% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 0.72% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 569 269 509
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £29,750 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £33,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +3.08% +3.17%
75th Percentile £36,000 £38,750 £38,000
90th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £42,250
UK median annual salary £31,500 £33,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.54% +3.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 40,271 57,548 45,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 94.92% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,710 32,582 35,348
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

2nd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '2nd Line Support' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

2nd Line Support job vacancy trend in England

2nd Line Support
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for 2nd Line Support job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for 2nd Line Support job vacancies in England

2nd Line Support
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Support in England over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Support in England

2nd Line Support
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support within the England region over the 6 months to 8 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +152 184 £30,000 -11.76% 21
South East +41 135 £32,000 -1.54% 51
East Midlands +91 122 £29,750 -12.50% 5
South West +96 110 £31,500 +1.61% 10
North of England +34 72 £32,000 +4.92% 37
West Midlands +79 62 £31,000 -4.62% 16
East of England +27 52 £29,500 -7.81% 9
London +27 44 £36,000 -10.00% 31
Yorkshire +18 40 £30,000 - 10
North West +25 32 £32,000 -1.54% 27
2nd Line Support
UK

2nd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 2nd Line Support 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 England region featuring 2nd Line Support in the job title.

1 296 (49.58%) Windows
2 279 (46.73%) Microsoft
3 273 (45.73%) Microsoft 365
4 241 (40.37%) Problem-Solving
5 233 (39.03%) Active Directory
6 179 (29.98%) Customer Service
7 173 (28.98%) Azure
8 140 (23.45%) Windows Server
9 137 (22.95%) Firewall
10 136 (22.78%) SLA
11 125 (20.94%) DNS
12 121 (20.27%) Mentoring
13 115 (19.26%) SQL
14 106 (17.76%) DHCP
14 106 (17.76%) Entra ID
15 103 (17.25%) Microsoft Intune
15 103 (17.25%) VPN
16 98 (16.42%) Windows 10
17 97 (16.25%) ITIL
18 90 (15.08%) Security Cleared
19 86 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 79 (13.23%) SC Cleared
21 78 (13.07%) Microsoft Exchange
22 77 (12.90%) TCP/IP
23 72 (12.06%) Incident Management
23 72 (12.06%) VMware
24 71 (11.89%) SharePoint
25 70 (11.73%) Hyper-V
26 68 (11.39%) VLAN
27 62 (10.39%) LAN

2nd Line Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 78 (13.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (11.89%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.68%) IIS
4 6 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (0.84%) Confluence
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 59 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.67%) CATIA
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
2 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 273 (45.73%) Microsoft 365
2 173 (28.98%) Azure
3 106 (17.76%) Entra ID
4 47 (7.87%) SaaS
5 25 (4.19%) OneDrive
6 21 (3.52%) AWS
7 14 (2.35%) Google Workspace
8 5 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.34%) IaaS
10 2 (0.34%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.34%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.17%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 137 (22.95%) Firewall
2 125 (20.94%) DNS
3 106 (17.76%) DHCP
4 103 (17.25%) VPN
5 77 (12.90%) TCP/IP
6 68 (11.39%) VLAN
7 62 (10.39%) LAN
8 54 (9.05%) WAN
9 47 (7.87%) Remote Desktop
10 42 (7.04%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (4.36%) Wireless
12 24 (4.02%) VoIP
13 10 (1.68%) Internet
14 8 (1.34%) IPsec
15 5 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.84%) Intranet
15 5 (0.84%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.84%) NAS
15 5 (0.84%) PBX
16 4 (0.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (1.84%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.01%) MySQL
4 4 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.17%) FileMaker
6 1 (0.17%) Power BI
6 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (2.51%) JIRA
General
1 309 (51.76%) Social Skills
2 83 (13.90%) Law
3 76 (12.73%) Marketing
4 68 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (8.54%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (8.21%) Retail
7 31 (5.19%) Finance
8 21 (3.52%) Legal
9 20 (3.35%) Manufacturing
9 20 (3.35%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.01%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.68%) Advertising
12 7 (1.17%) Electronics
13 5 (0.84%) Games
13 5 (0.84%) Local Government
13 5 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.84%) Police
14 4 (0.67%) Dutch Language
14 4 (0.67%) French Language
14 4 (0.67%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.84%) LDAP
1 5 (0.84%) Software Packaging
2 3 (0.50%) Middleware
3 2 (0.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 105 (17.59%) Driving Licence
2 67 (11.22%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.01%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.68%) iSeries
6 9 (1.51%) iPhone
7 7 (1.17%) PKI
8 6 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.84%) Clustering
9 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.84%) NHS
9 5 (0.84%) Social Media
10 4 (0.67%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.67%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.50%) Life Science
11 3 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.50%) Smartphone
11 3 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (0.50%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 296 (49.58%) Windows
2 140 (23.45%) Windows Server
3 98 (16.42%) Windows 10
4 34 (5.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 29 (4.86%) Linux
6 27 (4.52%) Mac OS
7 22 (3.69%) Apple iOS
8 21 (3.52%) Android
9 11 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.01%) Windows 7
10 6 (1.01%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.50%) AIX
11 3 (0.50%) Unix
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (40.37%) Problem-Solving
2 179 (29.98%) Customer Service
3 121 (20.27%) Mentoring
4 97 (16.25%) ITIL
5 86 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (12.06%) Incident Management
7 58 (9.72%) Patch Management
7 58 (9.72%) Service Delivery
8 53 (8.88%) Logistics
9 50 (8.38%) Batch Management
10 47 (7.87%) CRM
11 44 (7.37%) ITSM
12 43 (7.20%) Analytical Thinking
12 43 (7.20%) Data Privacy
13 42 (7.04%) ERP
14 39 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (6.37%) E-Commerce
15 38 (6.37%) Root Cause Analysis
16 31 (5.19%) Mobile Device Management
17 27 (4.52%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (19.26%) SQL
2 38 (6.37%) C#
3 36 (6.03%) PowerShell
4 5 (0.84%) Bicep
4 5 (0.84%) VB
5 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.17%) Python
6 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (15.08%) Security Cleared
2 79 (13.23%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 41 (6.87%) Degree
5 28 (4.69%) MCP
6 22 (3.69%) MCITP
7 21 (3.52%) Network+ Certification
8 18 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.35%) MCSA
9 14 (2.35%) MCSE
10 12 (2.01%) CCNA
10 12 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.51%) CCA
11 9 (1.51%) Citrix Certification
12 8 (1.34%) AWS Certification
13 7 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.84%) A+ Certification
15 5 (0.84%) ACMT
15 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (22.78%) SLA
2 32 (5.36%) QA
3 18 (3.02%) GDPR
4 15 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.34%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 233 (39.03%) Active Directory
2 70 (11.73%) Hyper-V
3 53 (8.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.17%) Firmware
5 7 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.84%) Docker
7 4 (0.67%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.67%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 103 (17.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (4.69%) SCCM
3 22 (3.69%) Autotask
4 17 (2.85%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.84%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.84%) MaaS360
5 5 (0.84%) PaperCut
5 5 (0.84%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.84%) WSUS
6 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.50%) Netcool
8 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 279 (46.73%) Microsoft
2 72 (12.06%) VMware
3 52 (8.71%) Cisco
4 29 (4.86%) Datto
5 28 (4.69%) Apple
6 20 (3.35%) Sophos
7 19 (3.18%) Meraki
8 15 (2.51%) Samsung
9 14 (2.35%) Citrix
9 14 (2.35%) Veeam
10 11 (1.84%) Google
10 11 (1.84%) HP
11 9 (1.51%) McAfee
11 9 (1.51%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.34%) Oracle
12 8 (1.34%) SolarWinds
13 7 (1.17%) Adobe
14 6 (1.01%) SAP
15 5 (0.84%) Aruba
15 5 (0.84%) Sage