1st Line Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

First Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median First Line Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £27,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 636 633
Rank change year-on-year +94 -3 +123
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 49 121 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 46 120 116
10th Percentile £21,250 £21,000 £21,250
25th Percentile £25,500 £22,500 £23,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,250 £25,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% +2.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £34,500 £28,750 £28,000
90th Percentile £37,500 £36,500 £28,750
UK median annual salary £27,500 £26,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% +3.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,162 67,952 52,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.86% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,671 47,990 30,170
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East +81 25 £31,250 +25.00% 20
Midlands +59 12 £28,000 +9.80% 1
West Midlands +62 7 £35,000 +41.52%
Wales +41 5 £22,500 +2.27%
East Midlands +23 5 £26,500 +3.92% 1
North of England +29 4 £25,500 +11.29% 9
Yorkshire +73 3 £25,000 +16.28% 2
East of England +36 3 £26,000 +2.97% 1
South West +90 2 £26,000 - 6
North West -25 1 £26,000 +13.04% 4
1st Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 UK excluding London region featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (61.22%) Windows
2 23 (46.94%) Social Skills
3 20 (40.82%) Microsoft
4 19 (38.78%) Active Directory
4 19 (38.78%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (34.69%) Customer Service
6 16 (32.65%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (30.61%) LAN
7 15 (30.61%) WAN
8 14 (28.57%) Cisco
9 13 (26.53%) CCNA
9 13 (26.53%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (22.45%) MS Visio
10 11 (22.45%) Juniper
10 11 (22.45%) Fortinet
11 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (20.41%) OSPF
11 10 (20.41%) BGP
12 8 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
12 8 (16.33%) Data Centre
12 8 (16.33%) Driving Licence
12 8 (16.33%) VMware
12 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (16.33%) ITIL
12 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Office
13 7 (14.29%) VLAN
14 6 (12.24%) VoIP
14 6 (12.24%) Firewall
14 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
15 5 (10.20%) Wi-Fi

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (22.45%) MS Visio
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (8.16%) Azure
2 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.12%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.04%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.61%) LAN
1 15 (30.61%) WAN
2 10 (20.41%) BGP
2 10 (20.41%) OSPF
3 7 (14.29%) VLAN
4 6 (12.24%) Firewall
4 6 (12.24%) VoIP
5 5 (10.20%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (8.16%) Broadband
7 3 (6.12%) HTTP
8 2 (4.08%) VPN
9 1 (2.04%) Network Security
9 1 (2.04%) PBX
9 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.04%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
9 1 (2.04%) Unified Communications
9 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
General
1 23 (46.94%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Electronics
3 2 (4.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.04%) Law
4 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.04%) Marketing
4 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Data Centre
1 8 (16.33%) Driving Licence
2 5 (10.20%) PMI
3 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.08%) Fat Client
4 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.04%) PlayStation
5 1 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (61.22%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Mac OS
2 5 (10.20%) Windows 10
2 5 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.12%) Linux
3 3 (6.12%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.04%) Android
4 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (34.69%) Customer Service
3 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (16.33%) ITIL
5 5 (10.20%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (10.20%) Presales
5 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (8.16%) Service Delivery
7 3 (6.12%) CAD
7 3 (6.12%) Containerisation
7 3 (6.12%) Hardware Maintenance
7 3 (6.12%) Incident Management
8 2 (4.08%) Asset Management
8 2 (4.08%) Data Protection
8 2 (4.08%) Inventory Control
8 2 (4.08%) Inventory Management
8 2 (4.08%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 2 (4.08%) System Testing
8 2 (4.08%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.12%) Bash
1 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
1 3 (6.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) CCNA
1 13 (26.53%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.20%) A+ Certification
3 5 (10.20%) PMI Certification
4 4 (8.16%) Degree
5 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.08%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) SLA
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (38.78%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) SCCM
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (40.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (28.57%) Cisco
3 11 (22.45%) Fortinet
3 11 (22.45%) Juniper
4 8 (16.33%) VMware
5 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.08%) Citrix
6 2 (4.08%) Meraki
7 1 (2.04%) Nexthink
7 1 (2.04%) SAP
7 1 (2.04%) Snow
7 1 (2.04%) Veeam