1st Line Engineer Job Trends in Lancashire

First Line Engineer
North West > Lancashire

The median First Line Engineer salary in Lancashire 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 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - -
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 - - -
North West median annual salary £26,250 £24,500 -
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 671 1,060 421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.76% 96.45% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 313 668 309
10th Percentile £24,625 £29,250 £25,400
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,384 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,110 £61,250
90th Percentile £64,178 £70,000 £72,500
North West median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +4.76%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '1st Line Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

1st Line Engineer job vacancy trend in Lancashire

1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for 1st Line Engineer job vacancies in Lancashire.

Salary distribution trend for 1st Line Engineer job vacancies in Lancashire

1st Line Engineer
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Engineer within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Chorley - 1 £26,250 - 1
1st Line Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, 1st Line 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 Lancashire region featuring 1st Line 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 Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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