2nd Line Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Second Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Second Line Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 421 528
Rank change year-on-year +24 +107 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 403 391 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.63% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.71% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 388 369 286
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,600 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £35,000 £36,500 £33,750
90th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £37,625
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +12.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

2nd 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 2nd Line Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
North of England +79 102 £31,500 -3.08% 25
South East -26 99 £30,000 -4.76% 30
East of England +40 69 £32,500 - 11
South West -11 54 £31,500 -13.70% 19
Midlands +23 53 £30,000 - 21
North West +9 47 £30,000 -10.45% 20
West Midlands +42 38 £30,000 -1.64% 16
Yorkshire +99 32 £32,500 +13.84% 4
North East +19 23 £32,000 - 1
Wales +26 16 £27,500 - 4
East Midlands -15 15 £32,500 +8.33% 5
Scotland -67 6 £29,000 -9.38% 5
Northern Ireland +33 4 £35,000 +7.69%
2nd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 265 (65.76%) Windows
2 249 (61.79%) Microsoft
2 249 (61.79%) Active Directory
3 236 (58.56%) Microsoft 365
4 172 (42.68%) Azure
5 171 (42.43%) Social Skills
6 125 (31.02%) Windows Server
7 121 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (28.29%) Customer Service
9 108 (26.80%) Windows 10
10 105 (26.05%) VMware
11 104 (25.81%) SharePoint
12 89 (22.08%) Microsoft Exchange
12 89 (22.08%) Firewall
13 84 (20.84%) Microsoft Office
14 78 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
15 72 (17.87%) Entra ID
16 70 (17.37%) Microsoft Intune
17 67 (16.63%) Hyper-V
17 67 (16.63%) ITIL
18 63 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
19 57 (14.14%) Degree
20 51 (12.66%) DNS
21 49 (12.16%) WAN
22 47 (11.66%) Wi-Fi
23 46 (11.41%) Mac OS
24 45 (11.17%) Cisco
25 43 (10.67%) OneDrive
26 42 (10.42%) DHCP
27 40 (9.93%) Linux

2nd 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
1 104 (25.81%) SharePoint
2 89 (22.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.24%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (1.24%) SharePoint 2013
4 4 (0.99%) Confluence
5 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.25%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.25%) JOnAS
Applications
1 84 (20.84%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.50%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 236 (58.56%) Microsoft 365
2 172 (42.68%) Azure
3 72 (17.87%) Entra ID
4 43 (10.67%) OneDrive
5 24 (5.96%) AWS
6 22 (5.46%) GCP
7 4 (0.99%) Mimecast
8 3 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.74%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.50%) SaaS
10 1 (0.25%) IaaS
10 1 (0.25%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 89 (22.08%) Firewall
2 51 (12.66%) DNS
3 49 (12.16%) WAN
4 47 (11.66%) Wi-Fi
5 42 (10.42%) DHCP
6 36 (8.93%) LAN
7 34 (8.44%) VLAN
7 34 (8.44%) VPN
8 29 (7.20%) TCP/IP
9 27 (6.70%) Network Security
10 26 (6.45%) VoIP
11 19 (4.71%) SAN
12 15 (3.72%) Internet
12 15 (3.72%) IPsec
13 14 (3.47%) Remote Desktop
14 12 (2.98%) BGP
14 12 (2.98%) Wireless
15 11 (2.73%) MPLS
16 8 (1.99%) NAS
17 7 (1.74%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.99%) MariaDB
3 8 (1.99%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) Metabase
5 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (2.48%) JIRA
2 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 171 (42.43%) Social Skills
2 28 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (6.70%) Finance
4 25 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.72%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.23%) Legal
8 11 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.73%) Law
9 6 (1.49%) Retail
10 4 (0.99%) Marketing
11 3 (0.74%) Electronics
11 3 (0.74%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.99%) Cocoa
2 2 (0.50%) .NET
2 2 (0.50%) COM
2 2 (0.50%) HTML
2 2 (0.50%) HTML5
3 1 (0.25%) CSS
3 1 (0.25%) Web Services
3 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.19%) Driving Licence
2 27 (6.70%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.98%) Smartphone
4 11 (2.73%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.23%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.99%) Clustering
6 8 (1.99%) EPoS
6 8 (1.99%) PKI
7 7 (1.74%) iPad
8 6 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.49%) Replication
9 3 (0.74%) Apple TV
9 3 (0.74%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.50%) Life Science
11 1 (0.25%) iPhone
11 1 (0.25%) New Media
11 1 (0.25%) Tandem
11 1 (0.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 265 (65.76%) Windows
2 125 (31.02%) Windows Server
3 108 (26.80%) Windows 10
4 46 (11.41%) Mac OS
5 40 (9.93%) Linux
6 24 (5.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (4.96%) Apple iOS
8 18 (4.47%) Android
9 17 (4.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (2.23%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.24%) CentOS
13 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.25%) VMS
14 1 (0.25%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.25%) Windows Mobile
14 1 (0.25%) Windows NT
14 1 (0.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (28.29%) Customer Service
3 67 (16.63%) ITIL
4 40 (9.93%) Computer Science
5 34 (8.44%) Incident Management
6 20 (4.96%) Mobile Device Management
7 17 (4.22%) Service Delivery
8 16 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (3.72%) ITSM
9 15 (3.72%) Mentoring
9 15 (3.72%) Problem Management
10 14 (3.47%) Change Management
11 13 (3.23%) Logistics
11 13 (3.23%) Service Management
12 12 (2.98%) Project Delivery
12 12 (2.98%) Server Management
13 11 (2.73%) Antivirus Management
13 11 (2.73%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (2.73%) Desktop Virtualisation
13 11 (2.73%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 31 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 7 (1.74%) Python
2 7 (1.74%) SQL
3 3 (0.74%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.50%) R
5 1 (0.25%) Bash
5 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 63 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 57 (14.14%) Degree
3 40 (9.93%) Security Cleared
4 39 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (8.93%) A+ Certification
6 35 (8.68%) DBS Check
6 35 (8.68%) SC Cleared
7 27 (6.70%) MCP
8 17 (4.22%) CCNA
8 17 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (3.72%) Azure Certification
10 13 (3.23%) CCNP
11 10 (2.48%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (1.49%) HND
13 6 (1.49%) MCSE
14 5 (1.24%) MCDST
14 5 (1.24%) MCITP
15 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.25%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.45%) SLA
2 3 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 249 (61.79%) Active Directory
2 78 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (16.63%) Hyper-V
4 21 (5.21%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (2.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.99%) vSphere
7 6 (1.49%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (1.24%) XenApp
8 5 (1.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 70 (17.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (6.70%) SCCM
3 12 (2.98%) vCenter Server
4 8 (1.99%) Failover Clustering
4 8 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (1.74%) Autotask
6 6 (1.49%) SmoothWall
7 3 (0.74%) SCOM
8 2 (0.50%) Ansible
8 2 (0.50%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.25%) Nagios
9 1 (0.25%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 249 (61.79%) Microsoft
2 105 (26.05%) VMware
3 45 (11.17%) Cisco
4 35 (8.68%) Citrix
5 23 (5.71%) Veeam
6 22 (5.46%) Apple
7 21 (5.21%) Sophos
8 17 (4.22%) HP
9 15 (3.72%) Google
10 13 (3.23%) Juniper
11 12 (2.98%) Dell
12 10 (2.48%) Meraki
13 8 (1.99%) Datto
14 7 (1.74%) Remedy
14 7 (1.74%) ServiceNow
15 6 (1.49%) ESET
16 5 (1.24%) Draytek
16 5 (1.24%) Symantec
17 4 (0.99%) Sage
17 4 (0.99%) SonicWALL