2nd Line Network Engineer Jobs

Second Line Network Engineer
UK

The median Second Line Network Engineer salary in the UK is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 771 726 1040
Rank change year-on-year -45 +314 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Network Engineer 18 10 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.019% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.020% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 36
10th Percentile - £29,250 £31,625
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +15.94% +6.15%
75th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
90th Percentile £38,250 - £41,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,750 £40,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year -10.63% +17.65% +4.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 67,099 50,997 118,430
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 95.45% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 33,726 37,358 74,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,116 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

2nd Line Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Network Engineer in the UK

2nd Line Network Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Network Engineer.

Salary trend for 2nd Line Network Engineer in the UK

2nd Line Network Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 December 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 -47 15 £35,000 -12.50% 1
UK excluding London -51 13 £35,750 -10.63%
London - 5 £35,000 - 1
North of England -34 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 - -
Midlands - 4 - -
Wales - 3 - -
North West -46 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 1 £36,500 -
East of England - 1 £35,000 -

2nd Line Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 December 2024, 2nd Line Network 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 featuring 2nd Line Network Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (72.22%) CCNA
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) Juniper
3 7 (38.89%) CCNP
3 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
3 7 (38.89%) Network Monitoring
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Customer Service
5 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
5 5 (27.78%) VPN
5 5 (27.78%) OSPF
5 5 (27.78%) BGP
5 5 (27.78%) Firewall
6 4 (22.22%) PBX
6 4 (22.22%) VoIP
6 4 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (22.22%) JNCIA
6 4 (22.22%) VLAN
6 4 (22.22%) Degree
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 4 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
7 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
7 3 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (16.67%) VMware
7 3 (16.67%) Azure

2nd Line Network Engineer 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
2 5 (27.78%) BGP
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) OSPF
2 5 (27.78%) VPN
3 4 (22.22%) PBX
3 4 (22.22%) VLAN
3 4 (22.22%) VoIP
3 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (16.67%) Asterisk PBX
4 3 (16.67%) DHCP
4 3 (16.67%) DNS
5 2 (11.11%) LAN
5 2 (11.11%) WAN
6 1 (5.56%) ADSL
6 1 (5.56%) IPv4
6 1 (5.56%) IPv6
6 1 (5.56%) MPLS
6 1 (5.56%) Wireless
6 1 (5.56%) WLAN
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Network Monitoring
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 4 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (5.56%) Business Strategy
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) CCNA
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (38.89%) CCNP
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 4 (22.22%) JNCIA
4 3 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
1 1 (5.56%) Nagios
1 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) Juniper
3 3 (16.67%) Meraki
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.56%) Aruba
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds