2nd Line Engineer Jobs in the South West

Second Line Engineer
England > South West

The median Second Line Engineer salary in the South West is £33,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 237 205
Rank change year-on-year +66 -32 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 12 55 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.33% 0.59% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.62% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12 52 60
10th Percentile £30,738 £26,375 £26,125
25th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £30,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £32,750 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -10.27% +21.67%
75th Percentile £36,813 £37,000 £40,000
90th Percentile £40,600 - £43,375
England median annual salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +1.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,366 8,908 5,965
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 96.25% 89.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,014 6,534 3,700
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the South West

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the South West

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in the South West

2nd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Wiltshire +39 4 £34,250 +7.87% 1
Devon +16 3 £32,500 +12.07%
Gloucestershire +62 1 £28,500 -8.06% 2
Bristol +52 1 £40,000 +17.65% 6
Dorset +32 1 £37,000 - 8
Cornwall +6 1 £32,000 +6.67%
Somerset +5 1 £40,000 +37.93%
2nd Line Engineer
England

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 South West region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (66.67%) VMware
3 8 (66.67%) Windows
3 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (58.33%) Driving Licence
4 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (58.33%) VLAN
4 7 (58.33%) LAN
4 7 (58.33%) WAN
5 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
6 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
6 5 (41.67%) ITIL
6 5 (41.67%) VPN
6 5 (41.67%) DNS
6 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
6 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (33.33%) DHCP
7 4 (33.33%) IPsec
7 4 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (33.33%) OneDrive
8 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
8 3 (25.00%) Firewall
8 3 (25.00%) Agile
9 2 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (33.33%) OneDrive
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) LAN
1 7 (58.33%) VLAN
1 7 (58.33%) WAN
2 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 4 (33.33%) DHCP
3 4 (33.33%) IPsec
3 4 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (25.00%) Firewall
5 2 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (16.67%) Network Security
6 1 (8.33%) IP Telephony
6 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (8.33%) SAN
6 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (8.33%) Facilities Management
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM
3 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Server Management
3 1 (8.33%) Service Management
3 1 (8.33%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) MCP
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Apple
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Thales
3 1 (8.33%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam