1st Line Support Engineer Job Trends in Hove

First Line Support Engineer
East Sussex > Hove

The median First Line Support Engineer salary in Hove is £26,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Hove 8.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.09% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 - -
75th Percentile £26,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Sussex median annual salary £26,000 - £30,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hove

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hove. 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 Hove with a recognized job title 11 6 12
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 100.00% 80.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £27,300 £41,925 £59,143
25th Percentile £31,085 £42,938 £63,423
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,620 £45,250 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -30.76% +4.96%
75th Percentile £40,000 £46,938 £67,070
90th Percentile £60,000 £47,575 £72,433
East Sussex median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hove

For the 6 months to 20 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 Hove region featuring 1st Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hove 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft