1st Line Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

First Line Engineer
England > Midlands

The median First Line Engineer salary in the Midlands is £28,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 310 285
Rank change year-on-year +62 -25 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 12 11 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.17% 0.093% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.098% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 31
10th Percentile £21,250 £24,393 £23,250
25th Percentile £25,750 £24,571 £23,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £25,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £26,750
90th Percentile £38,750 £28,750 £28,750
England median annual salary £28,000 £25,375 £26,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -2.40% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 6,421 11,194 8,325
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 94.31% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,804 8,318 4,674
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £60,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured 1st Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands

1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands

1st Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 1st Line Engineer in the Midlands

1st Line Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 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 Midlands +57 7 £35,000 +34.02%
East Midlands +32 5 £26,500 +3.92% 1
1st Line Engineer
England

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, 1st 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 Midlands region featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) LAN
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (25.00%) WAN
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (25.00%) SCCM
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
6 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
6 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 2 (16.67%) Electronics
6 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (16.67%) Finance
6 2 (16.67%) Firewall

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) LAN
1 3 (25.00%) WAN
1 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) PBX
3 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (8.33%) VoIP
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Electronics
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) PlayStation
2 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Android
3 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Logistics
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (8.33%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Nexthink
3 1 (8.33%) SAP