2nd Line Technical Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Second Line Technical Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Second Line Technical Support salary in the UK excluding London is £32,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 748 740
Rank change year-on-year +184 -8 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Technical Support 9 11 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.015% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.016% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 8
10th Percentile £25,500 - £25,988
25th Percentile £28,875 £26,750 £26,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £30,000 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +5.26% -1.72%
75th Percentile £34,250 £30,250 £33,500
90th Percentile £35,225 £32,500 £33,950
UK median annual salary £33,500 £30,000 £27,500
% change year-on-year +11.67% +9.09% -11.29%

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 35,390 67,294 53,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 94.80% 89.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,871 47,619 30,421
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -

2nd Line Technical Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

2nd Line Technical Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Technical Support in the UK excluding London

2nd Line Technical Support
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 Technical Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England +62 4 £29,375 +3.07%
South East - 3 £33,500 - 3
North West -1 2 £32,750 +14.91%
Yorkshire - 2 £26,000 -
East of England +40 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £35,000 -
Midlands - 1 £35,000 -
2nd Line Technical Support
UK

2nd Line Technical Support Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 2nd Line Technical Support 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 Technical Support in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) VoIP
3 2 (22.22%) SLA
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) CCNA
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
4 1 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V

2nd Line Technical Support 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCNA
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco