1st Line Support Analyst Jobs

First Line Support Analyst
UK

The median First Line Support Analyst salary in the UK is £24,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 780 865 978
Rank change year-on-year +85 +113 -168
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Analyst 114 120 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 109 113 199
10th Percentile £21,000 £21,800 £19,313
25th Percentile £23,000 £23,250 £21,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,500 £26,000 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £29,000 £30,250 £27,750
90th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £30,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £24,000 £25,000 £23,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

1st Line Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured 1st Line Support Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Support Analyst in the UK

1st Line Support Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Support Analyst.

Salary trend for 1st Line Support Analyst in the UK

1st Line Support Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st Line Support Analyst over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for 1st Line Support Analyst in the UK

1st Line Support Analyst
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +123 111 £24,500 -5.77% 9
UK excluding London +14 89 £24,000 -4.00% 8
South East +19 48 £24,000 -4.00% 3
London +163 25 £32,500 +8.33% 2
North of England +71 24 £24,000 +1.05% 3
Work from Home +66 19 £27,750 +6.73% 2
Yorkshire +106 17 £24,500 -27.94%
East of England +25 6 £23,750 +3.26% 2
North West +14 6 £22,000 +11.39% 3
Midlands -8 5 £26,250 +5.00%
West Midlands +25 3 £26,500 +6.00%
South West -17 3 £22,000 -37.14%
East Midlands -22 2 £26,000 +0.97%
Northern Ireland - 2 £31,500 - 1
North East +4 1 £20,000 -27.27%
Scotland -64 1 - -

1st Line Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 1st Line Support Analyst 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 featuring 1st Line Support Analyst in the job title.

1 77 (67.54%) Windows
2 68 (59.65%) Active Directory
3 67 (58.77%) Microsoft Office
4 65 (57.02%) Microsoft
5 63 (55.26%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (44.74%) Social Skills
7 41 (35.96%) Customer Service
8 37 (32.46%) SLA
9 32 (28.07%) Windows 10
10 28 (24.56%) SharePoint
11 20 (17.54%) DHCP
11 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (16.67%) Degree
13 18 (15.79%) DNS
13 18 (15.79%) ITIL
14 17 (14.91%) ITSM
14 17 (14.91%) Finance
15 16 (14.04%) Azure
16 15 (13.16%) Firewall
16 15 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
17 14 (12.28%) Cisco
17 14 (12.28%) Management Information System
17 14 (12.28%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (11.40%) Microsoft Excel
18 13 (11.40%) Security Cleared
18 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
19 12 (10.53%) ServiceNow
19 12 (10.53%) Incident Management
19 12 (10.53%) WatchGuard
20 11 (9.65%) Apple

1st Line Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (24.56%) SharePoint
2 15 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 67 (58.77%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (11.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (9.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) assyst
2 1 (0.88%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 63 (55.26%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (14.04%) Azure
3 11 (9.65%) Mimecast
4 6 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (1.75%) AWS
6 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.54%) DHCP
2 18 (15.79%) DNS
3 15 (13.16%) Firewall
4 10 (8.77%) VoIP
5 8 (7.02%) LAN
6 7 (6.14%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (4.39%) TCP/IP
7 5 (4.39%) WAN
8 4 (3.51%) Wireless
9 3 (2.63%) ADSL
9 3 (2.63%) Broadband
9 3 (2.63%) VLAN
9 3 (2.63%) VPN
10 2 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.88%) NAS
11 1 (0.88%) Network Security
11 1 (0.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (0.88%) MySQL
2 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) JIRA
General
1 51 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Finance
3 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.89%) Law
4 9 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.14%) Banking
5 7 (6.14%) Front Office
6 5 (4.39%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.51%) Marketing
8 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.63%) Retail
9 2 (1.75%) Electronics
9 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Back Office
10 1 (0.88%) Games
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.14%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.28%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.77%) Driving Licence
3 9 (7.89%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.51%) iPad
5 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.75%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) CMDB
7 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.88%) Life Science
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (67.54%) Windows
2 32 (28.07%) Windows 10
3 11 (9.65%) Apple iOS
3 11 (9.65%) Windows Server
4 9 (7.89%) Linux
5 4 (3.51%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (2.63%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.63%) Windows 8
7 2 (1.75%) Android
7 2 (1.75%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.96%) Customer Service
2 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (15.79%) ITIL
4 17 (14.91%) ITSM
5 12 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 10 (8.77%) Proactive Monitoring
7 9 (7.89%) Business Continuity
7 9 (7.89%) Gamification
8 8 (7.02%) Service Management
9 6 (5.26%) Analytics
9 6 (5.26%) Customer Experience
9 6 (5.26%) Information Security
10 5 (4.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (3.51%) Cloud Security
11 4 (3.51%) Service Delivery
11 4 (3.51%) Time Management
12 2 (1.75%) Business Intelligence
12 2 (1.75%) Computer Science
12 2 (1.75%) Configuration Management
12 2 (1.75%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.77%) SQL
2 1 (0.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (16.67%) Degree
2 14 (12.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (11.40%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.14%) A+ Certification
4 7 (6.14%) MCDST
5 5 (4.39%) MCITP
6 3 (2.63%) CCNA
6 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.88%) MCP
7 1 (0.88%) MCSA
7 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (32.46%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (59.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (57.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.28%) Cisco
3 12 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 12 (10.53%) WatchGuard
4 11 (9.65%) Apple
5 9 (7.89%) Dell
5 9 (7.89%) HP
5 9 (7.89%) NetApp
6 5 (4.39%) VMware
7 4 (3.51%) Veeam
8 3 (2.63%) SAP
9 2 (1.75%) ConnectWise
9 2 (1.75%) N-able
9 2 (1.75%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.75%) Sophos
10 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.88%) Citrix
10 1 (0.88%) Sage
10 1 (0.88%) Salesforce