1st Line Engineer Jobs in Oxfordshire

First Line Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median First Line Engineer salary in Oxfordshire is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 108 116
Rank change year-on-year +35 +8 -
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 2 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.27% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £22,950 £24,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £23,250 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £24,500 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% -7.55% -
75th Percentile £33,750 £25,750 £28,250
90th Percentile - £26,050 £28,850
South East median annual salary £31,250 £24,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year +27.55% -2.00% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 665 1,610 1,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.55% 95.83% 84.75%
Number of salaries quoted 356 1,288 796
10th Percentile £32,491 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £34,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £79,375
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in Oxfordshire

1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for 1st Line Engineer in Oxfordshire

1st Line Engineer
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Banbury - 1 - -
1st Line Engineer
South East

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 9 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 Oxfordshire region featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Snow
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Snow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware