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 £30,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 418 535
Rank change year-on-year +4 +117 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 394 383 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.65% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.72% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 380 361 294
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,600 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,250 £31,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £35,000 £36,500 £33,750
90th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
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 67,720 52,840 68,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,860 30,029 42,498
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +69 103 £31,500 +0.80% 19
South East -62 90 £31,250 -0.79% 29
East of England +31 63 £32,500 - 16
Midlands +19 56 £30,000 - 19
South West -34 56 £32,500 -10.96% 19
North West -1 47 £30,000 -10.45% 13
West Midlands +36 42 £30,000 - 16
Yorkshire +85 33 £32,500 +17.75% 5
North East - 23 £32,000 - 1
Wales +20 16 £27,500 - 2
East Midlands -9 14 £32,000 +6.67% 3
Scotland -71 6 £31,500 -1.56% 4
Northern Ireland +28 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 16 May 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.

1 254 (64.47%) Windows
2 245 (62.18%) Microsoft
3 243 (61.68%) Active Directory
4 242 (61.42%) Microsoft 365
5 173 (43.91%) Azure
6 169 (42.89%) Social Skills
7 121 (30.71%) Windows Server
8 118 (29.95%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (27.92%) Windows 10
10 109 (27.66%) Customer Service
11 106 (26.90%) SharePoint
12 100 (25.38%) VMware
13 92 (23.35%) Microsoft Exchange
14 89 (22.59%) Firewall
15 80 (20.30%) Microsoft Office
16 74 (18.78%) VMware Infrastructure
17 72 (18.27%) Entra ID
18 70 (17.77%) Microsoft Intune
19 69 (17.51%) Hyper-V
20 62 (15.74%) ITIL
21 60 (15.23%) Microsoft Certification
22 55 (13.96%) Degree
23 51 (12.94%) DNS
24 50 (12.69%) WAN
25 49 (12.44%) Wi-Fi
26 46 (11.68%) Cisco
27 45 (11.42%) Mac OS
27 45 (11.42%) OneDrive
28 42 (10.66%) DHCP
29 41 (10.41%) Computer Science

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
1 106 (26.90%) SharePoint
2 92 (23.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.78%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (1.78%) SharePoint 2013
4 5 (1.27%) Confluence
5 3 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.25%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.25%) JOnAS
6 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 80 (20.30%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.51%) InfoPath
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 242 (61.42%) Microsoft 365
2 173 (43.91%) Azure
3 72 (18.27%) Entra ID
4 45 (11.42%) OneDrive
5 27 (6.85%) AWS
6 25 (6.35%) GCP
7 5 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.76%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.51%) IaaS
9 2 (0.51%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.51%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.51%) SaaS
10 1 (0.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 89 (22.59%) Firewall
2 51 (12.94%) DNS
3 50 (12.69%) WAN
4 49 (12.44%) Wi-Fi
5 42 (10.66%) DHCP
6 36 (9.14%) LAN
7 32 (8.12%) VPN
8 31 (7.87%) VLAN
9 29 (7.36%) TCP/IP
10 27 (6.85%) Network Security
11 24 (6.09%) VoIP
12 20 (5.08%) SAN
13 15 (3.81%) IPsec
14 14 (3.55%) Internet
15 12 (3.05%) BGP
15 12 (3.05%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (2.79%) MPLS
16 11 (2.79%) Wireless
17 10 (2.54%) PBX
18 8 (2.03%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.11%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.03%) MariaDB
3 8 (2.03%) MySQL
4 3 (0.76%) Metabase
5 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (3.30%) JIRA
2 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 169 (42.89%) Social Skills
2 28 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.35%) Manufacturing
3 25 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
4 23 (5.84%) Finance
5 16 (4.06%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.05%) Law
6 12 (3.05%) Legal
7 11 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.78%) Retail
9 4 (1.02%) Marketing
10 3 (0.76%) Electronics
10 3 (0.76%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.02%) Cocoa
2 3 (0.76%) XML
3 2 (0.51%) .NET
3 2 (0.51%) COM
3 2 (0.51%) HTML
3 2 (0.51%) HTML5
3 2 (0.51%) JSON
4 1 (0.25%) CSS
4 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.88%) Driving Licence
2 27 (6.85%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.30%) Smartphone
4 11 (2.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.28%) Replication
7 8 (2.03%) Clustering
7 8 (2.03%) EPoS
8 7 (1.78%) iPad
8 7 (1.78%) PKI
9 6 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.76%) Apple TV
10 3 (0.76%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
12 1 (0.25%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.25%) iPhone
12 1 (0.25%) Life Science
12 1 (0.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 254 (64.47%) Windows
2 121 (30.71%) Windows Server
3 110 (27.92%) Windows 10
4 45 (11.42%) Mac OS
5 29 (7.36%) Linux
6 27 (6.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (5.58%) Apple iOS
8 19 (4.82%) Android
9 17 (4.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (1.52%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.27%) CentOS
13 2 (0.51%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.25%) VMS
14 1 (0.25%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.95%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (27.66%) Customer Service
3 62 (15.74%) ITIL
4 41 (10.41%) Computer Science
5 24 (6.09%) Incident Management
6 19 (4.82%) Mobile Device Management
7 15 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (3.81%) Mentoring
7 15 (3.81%) Service Delivery
8 14 (3.55%) Logistics
9 13 (3.30%) ITSM
10 12 (3.05%) Project Delivery
11 11 (2.79%) Antivirus Management
11 11 (2.79%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (2.79%) Desktop Virtualisation
11 11 (2.79%) Kalman Filter
11 11 (2.79%) Server Management
11 11 (2.79%) Service Management
12 9 (2.28%) Line Management
12 9 (2.28%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.11%) PowerShell
2 11 (2.79%) SQL
3 7 (1.78%) Python
4 3 (0.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.51%) R
6 1 (0.25%) Bash
6 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 60 (15.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 55 (13.96%) Degree
3 39 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (9.14%) DBS Check
5 33 (8.38%) A+ Certification
6 32 (8.12%) Security Cleared
7 29 (7.36%) SC Cleared
8 27 (6.85%) MCP
9 16 (4.06%) CCNA
9 16 (4.06%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (3.55%) Azure Certification
11 13 (3.30%) CCNP
12 8 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (2.03%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (1.78%) MCITP
13 7 (1.78%) MCSE
14 6 (1.52%) HND
15 3 (0.76%) MCDST
16 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
16 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.09%) SLA
2 3 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 243 (61.68%) Active Directory
2 74 (18.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (17.51%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.06%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (2.03%) vSphere
7 7 (1.78%) XenApp
7 7 (1.78%) XenDesktop
8 6 (1.52%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 70 (17.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (7.87%) SCCM
3 8 (2.03%) Failover Clustering
3 8 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (1.78%) Autotask
5 6 (1.52%) SmoothWall
6 4 (1.02%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.76%) SCOM
8 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.25%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 245 (62.18%) Microsoft
2 100 (25.38%) VMware
3 46 (11.68%) Cisco
4 38 (9.64%) Citrix
5 25 (6.35%) Veeam
6 23 (5.84%) Apple
7 19 (4.82%) Sophos
8 18 (4.57%) Google
8 18 (4.57%) HP
9 14 (3.55%) Juniper
10 13 (3.30%) Dell
11 10 (2.54%) Meraki
12 7 (1.78%) Datto
12 7 (1.78%) Symantec
13 6 (1.52%) ESET
13 6 (1.52%) Remedy
14 4 (1.02%) Draytek
14 4 (1.02%) Sage
14 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
14 4 (1.02%) Ubiquiti