Second Line Support
UK

The median Second Line Support salary in the UK is £30,500 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 343 382 513
Rank change year-on-year +39 +131 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support 816 891 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.85% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.93% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 754 804 953
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £31,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
90th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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%

2nd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Support in the UK

2nd Line Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Support in the UK

2nd Line Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Support over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Support in the UK

2nd Line Support
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support within the UK 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
England +44 737 £31,000 -1.59% 116
UK excluding London +31 661 £30,000 - 107
South East -9 183 £30,000 -1.64% 29
Work from Home +11 175 £31,000 -1.59% 32
London +16 136 £35,000 +6.72% 20
North of England +63 135 £30,000 +5.26% 18
East of England +62 108 £31,000 -4.62% 16
Midlands +23 98 £29,500 +1.72% 22
South West +7 80 £33,500 -4.29% 13
North West +13 65 £30,000 +3.45% 12
West Midlands +17 57 £29,500 +6.31% 14
Yorkshire +92 48 £31,125 +9.21% 6
Scotland -51 43 £28,800 +15.20% 7
East Midlands +9 41 £30,000 - 8
North East +7 22 £32,250 -0.77%
Wales +13 12 £27,500 - 5
Northern Ireland +31 2 £38,750 +26.02%

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 2nd Line 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 featuring 2nd Line Support in the job title.

1 521 (63.85%) Windows
2 496 (60.78%) Microsoft
3 488 (59.80%) Microsoft 365
4 484 (59.31%) Active Directory
5 316 (38.73%) Social Skills
6 254 (31.13%) Windows Server
7 250 (30.64%) Azure
8 238 (29.17%) Customer Service
9 223 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
10 211 (25.86%) Windows 10
11 187 (22.92%) Microsoft Exchange
12 186 (22.79%) VMware
13 164 (20.10%) Microsoft Office
13 164 (20.10%) ITIL
14 158 (19.36%) Firewall
15 143 (17.52%) VMware Infrastructure
16 131 (16.05%) SharePoint
17 119 (14.58%) Microsoft Intune
18 110 (13.48%) DNS
19 107 (13.11%) Entra ID
20 105 (12.87%) Hyper-V
21 89 (10.91%) DHCP
22 86 (10.54%) SLA
23 85 (10.42%) Citrix
24 80 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
25 79 (9.68%) WAN
26 78 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
27 76 (9.31%) LAN
28 71 (8.70%) Security Cleared
29 70 (8.58%) Driving Licence

2nd Line Support 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
1 187 (22.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 131 (16.05%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.35%) IIS
4 7 (0.86%) SharePoint 2010
4 7 (0.86%) SharePoint 2013
5 5 (0.61%) Confluence
6 4 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.12%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 164 (20.10%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.25%) InCopy
4 2 (0.25%) InDesign
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.37%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 3 (0.37%) Shopify
3 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 488 (59.80%) Microsoft 365
2 250 (30.64%) Azure
3 107 (13.11%) Entra ID
4 49 (6.00%) OneDrive
5 42 (5.15%) AWS
6 24 (2.94%) GCP
7 16 (1.96%) Google Workspace
8 14 (1.72%) Mimecast
9 12 (1.47%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (0.98%) SaaS
12 1 (0.12%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.12%) OpenDNS
12 1 (0.12%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.12%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 158 (19.36%) Firewall
2 110 (13.48%) DNS
3 89 (10.91%) DHCP
4 79 (9.68%) WAN
5 76 (9.31%) LAN
6 64 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
7 52 (6.37%) TCP/IP
8 46 (5.64%) VLAN
9 44 (5.39%) VPN
10 37 (4.53%) Internet
10 37 (4.53%) VoIP
11 25 (3.06%) Remote Desktop
12 22 (2.70%) Network Security
12 22 (2.70%) Wireless
13 21 (2.57%) SAN
14 18 (2.21%) Intranet
15 15 (1.84%) WLAN
16 9 (1.10%) Structured Cabling
17 8 (0.98%) Broadband
17 8 (0.98%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.98%) MariaDB
3 8 (0.98%) MySQL
3 8 (0.98%) Power BI
4 4 (0.49%) Metabase
5 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (1.59%) JIRA
2 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.25%) Hudson
General
1 316 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 78 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (7.84%) Finance
4 62 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
5 34 (4.17%) Law
6 28 (3.43%) Legal
7 26 (3.19%) Manufacturing
8 23 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 20 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.23%) Public Sector
11 8 (0.98%) Marketing
12 7 (0.86%) Retail
13 6 (0.74%) Banking
14 5 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.61%) Publishing
15 4 (0.49%) Advertising
16 3 (0.37%) French Language
17 2 (0.25%) Games
17 2 (0.25%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.35%) .NET
2 4 (0.49%) Cocoa
3 3 (0.37%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.25%) CSS
5 1 (0.12%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.12%) EDI
5 1 (0.12%) HTML
5 1 (0.12%) Web Services
5 1 (0.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.58%) Driving Licence
2 29 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.33%) EPoS
5 18 (2.21%) iPad
5 18 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
6 14 (1.72%) Smartphone
7 13 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.47%) iPhone
9 11 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
10 8 (0.98%) Clustering
11 7 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (0.74%) BYOD
13 5 (0.61%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.49%) Raspberry Pi
15 3 (0.37%) Apple TV
15 3 (0.37%) CMDB
15 3 (0.37%) Handset
15 3 (0.37%) Replication
15 3 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 521 (63.85%) Windows
2 254 (31.13%) Windows Server
3 211 (25.86%) Windows 10
4 58 (7.11%) Linux
5 52 (6.37%) Apple iOS
6 43 (5.27%) Mac OS
7 42 (5.15%) Windows 7
8 41 (5.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 40 (4.90%) Android
10 38 (4.66%) Windows Server 2012
11 33 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
12 21 (2.57%) Windows 8
13 15 (1.84%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.86%) Unix
15 6 (0.74%) Mac OS X
15 6 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.61%) CentOS
17 4 (0.49%) VMS
18 2 (0.25%) AIX
19 1 (0.12%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (29.17%) Customer Service
2 223 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
3 164 (20.10%) ITIL
4 48 (5.88%) Service Delivery
5 45 (5.51%) Mobile Device Management
6 44 (5.39%) ITSM
7 43 (5.27%) Incident Management
8 35 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (3.06%) Change Management
9 25 (3.06%) Computer Science
9 25 (3.06%) Mentoring
10 24 (2.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (2.94%) Line Management
10 24 (2.94%) Service Management
11 23 (2.82%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (2.70%) CRM
12 22 (2.70%) Problem Management
13 21 (2.57%) Asset Management
14 20 (2.45%) Time Management
15 18 (2.21%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 66 (8.09%) SQL
2 44 (5.39%) PowerShell
3 4 (0.49%) Python
4 3 (0.37%) C#
5 2 (0.25%) Bash
6 1 (0.12%) Bicep
6 1 (0.12%) C++
6 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
2 71 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 66 (8.09%) Degree
4 37 (4.53%) A+ Certification
4 37 (4.53%) SC Cleared
5 32 (3.92%) DBS Check
6 27 (3.31%) MCP
7 24 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 19 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (1.59%) CCNA
9 13 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.59%) MCSE
10 12 (1.47%) MCITP
11 10 (1.23%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.74%) HND
15 5 (0.61%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (10.54%) SLA
2 14 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (0.98%) GDPR
4 6 (0.74%) QA
5 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 484 (59.31%) Active Directory
2 143 (17.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (12.87%) Hyper-V
4 30 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 28 (3.43%) XenApp
6 26 (3.19%) XenDesktop
7 23 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (2.57%) vSphere
9 14 (1.72%) VirtualBox
10 10 (1.23%) VMware Workstation
11 7 (0.86%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.12%) Firmware
13 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 119 (14.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (5.51%) SCCM
3 19 (2.33%) WSUS
4 16 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (1.47%) vCenter Server
6 8 (0.98%) Autotask
6 8 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.86%) McAfee ePO
8 6 (0.74%) SmoothWall
9 3 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 3 (0.37%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.37%) SCDPM
10 2 (0.25%) Ansible
10 2 (0.25%) Nessus
10 2 (0.25%) Puppet
10 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.12%) cPanel
11 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 496 (60.78%) Microsoft
2 186 (22.79%) VMware
3 85 (10.42%) Citrix
4 50 (6.13%) Cisco
5 42 (5.15%) Apple
6 34 (4.17%) Google
7 29 (3.55%) HP
8 28 (3.43%) Sophos
9 26 (3.19%) Veeam
10 22 (2.70%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.57%) Dell
12 13 (1.59%) Symantec
13 12 (1.47%) Avaya
14 11 (1.35%) Adobe
14 11 (1.35%) Datto
15 8 (0.98%) Acronis
15 8 (0.98%) Remedy
16 7 (0.86%) McAfee
16 7 (0.86%) Meraki
16 7 (0.86%) Ubiquiti