2nd Line Engineer Job Trends in London

Second Line Engineer
England > London

The median Second Line Engineer salary in London is £39,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 383 368
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 +364
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 26 78 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.40% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.42% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 23 65 115
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,850
25th Percentile £30,625 £35,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £40,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £40,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £55,100 £41,500
England median annual salary £33,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -2.94% +4.62% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 10,896 18,397 20,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 95.40% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,621 17,265
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured 2nd Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in London

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for 2nd Line Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for 2nd Line Engineer job vacancies in London

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in London

2nd Line Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
West London +46 8 £30,000 -11.76%
Central London +5 3 £42,500 - 2
East London -10 1 £31,500 -
South London - 1 £36,500 -
2nd Line Engineer
England

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 2nd Line Engineer 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 London region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (88.46%) Windows
2 17 (65.38%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
4 15 (57.69%) Azure
5 13 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
7 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
8 10 (38.46%) VPN
9 8 (30.77%) WAN
9 8 (30.77%) LAN
9 8 (30.77%) SCCM
10 7 (26.92%) Linux
10 7 (26.92%) Customer Service
11 6 (23.08%) Firewall
11 6 (23.08%) Cisco
11 6 (23.08%) ITIL
11 6 (23.08%) iPhone
11 6 (23.08%) Hyper-V
12 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
12 5 (19.23%) Data Privacy
12 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
12 5 (19.23%) Windows 10
12 5 (19.23%) Advertising
12 5 (19.23%) Asset Management
13 4 (15.38%) Google
13 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
13 4 (15.38%) MCSA
13 4 (15.38%) Juniper
13 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (15.38%) HP

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (3.85%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (57.69%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Azure AKS
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) Google Workspace
5 2 (7.69%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) VPN
2 8 (30.77%) LAN
2 8 (30.77%) WAN
3 6 (23.08%) Firewall
4 3 (11.54%) DHCP
4 3 (11.54%) DNS
4 3 (11.54%) SAN
5 1 (3.85%) VLAN
5 1 (3.85%) VoIP
5 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Advertising
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Law
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) iPhone
2 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (88.46%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Windows 10
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Customer Service
2 6 (23.08%) ITIL
3 5 (19.23%) Asset Management
3 5 (19.23%) Data Privacy
3 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
4 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
4 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (15.38%) Task Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (11.54%) Defect Management
5 3 (11.54%) Product Management
6 2 (7.69%) Change Management
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (7.69%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (3.85%) Practice Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Java
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) MCSA
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Dell Certification
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CCNA
4 1 (3.85%) CCNP
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 6 (23.08%) Hyper-V
3 4 (15.38%) Docker
4 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (3.85%) Firmware
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (3.85%) XenApp
6 1 (3.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (30.77%) SCCM
3 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Terraform
4 3 (11.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco
3 4 (15.38%) Dell
3 4 (15.38%) Google
3 4 (15.38%) HP
3 4 (15.38%) Juniper
4 3 (11.54%) Fujitsu
4 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
4 3 (11.54%) VMware
5 2 (7.69%) Citrix
5 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.69%) iManage
5 2 (7.69%) Intapp
5 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.85%) Apple
6 1 (3.85%) Aruba
6 1 (3.85%) DocuSign
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.85%) Symantec
6 1 (3.85%) Ubiquiti