2nd/3rd Line Support Jobs

2nd/3rd Line Support
UK

The median 2nd/3rd Line Support salary in the UK is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 750 838 1175
Rank change year-on-year +88 +337 -222
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd/3rd Line Support 92 49 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.061% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.066% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 85 48 94
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,725 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £51,750 £90,000 £53,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +5.26%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

2nd/3rd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured 2nd/3rd Line Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd/3rd Line Support in the UK

2nd/3rd Line Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 2nd/3rd Line Support in the UK

2nd/3rd Line Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd/3rd Line Support over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for 2nd/3rd Line Support in the UK

2nd/3rd Line Support
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd/3rd Line Support within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +75 85 £35,000 -6.67% 12
UK excluding London +20 75 £33,000 -5.71% 11
Work from Home +73 39 £32,500 -13.33% 3
North of England +36 33 £32,500 +4.42% 3
North East +11 23 £32,500 - 2
South East +14 18 £33,000 -10.81% 7
London +72 12 £40,000 -17.95%
South West +5 12 £50,500 +53.03%
West Midlands +1 7 £30,000 -14.29% 1
Midlands -17 7 £30,000 -16.08% 1
Yorkshire +61 5 £37,000 +29.26% 1
North West -6 5 £32,000 -14.67%
East of England -3 3 £45,000 +28.57%
Scotland -42 1 £35,000 +7.69%
Wales - 1 £30,000 -

2nd/3rd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 2nd/3rd 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/3rd Line Support in the job title.

1 55 (59.78%) Windows
2 53 (57.61%) Azure
3 51 (55.43%) Active Directory
4 50 (54.35%) Microsoft
5 39 (42.39%) ITIL
6 37 (40.22%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (35.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (31.52%) Hyper-V
9 28 (30.43%) Incident Management
9 28 (30.43%) Firewall
9 28 (30.43%) Social Skills
10 27 (29.35%) Windows Server
11 23 (25.00%) VMware
12 22 (23.91%) Driving Licence
12 22 (23.91%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (22.83%) VMware Infrastructure
14 19 (20.65%) DNS
14 19 (20.65%) SharePoint
15 18 (19.57%) PowerShell
16 17 (18.48%) Enterprise Storage
16 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Exchange
16 17 (18.48%) SAN
17 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (16.30%) Cisco
18 15 (16.30%) Cisco Certification
19 14 (15.22%) SQL
20 13 (14.13%) SQL Server
20 13 (14.13%) WAN
20 13 (14.13%) TCP/IP
20 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineering

2nd/3rd 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 19 (20.65%) SharePoint
2 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 53 (57.61%) Azure
2 37 (40.22%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (13.04%) Entra ID
3 12 (13.04%) IaaS
4 11 (11.96%) PaaS
4 11 (11.96%) Power Platform
4 11 (11.96%) SaaS
5 10 (10.87%) Google Workspace
6 7 (7.61%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (6.52%) AWS
7 6 (6.52%) OneDrive
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (30.43%) Firewall
2 19 (20.65%) DNS
3 17 (18.48%) SAN
4 13 (14.13%) TCP/IP
4 13 (14.13%) WAN
5 12 (13.04%) SD-WAN
6 8 (8.70%) DHCP
6 8 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (5.43%) LAN
7 5 (5.43%) VoIP
7 5 (5.43%) Wireless
8 4 (4.35%) VLAN
8 4 (4.35%) WLAN
9 3 (3.26%) FIX Connectivity
9 3 (3.26%) Internet
9 3 (3.26%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (2.17%) Ethernet
10 2 (2.17%) SMTP
11 1 (1.09%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (1.09%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.13%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.35%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (6.52%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Finance
6 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.09%) Games
8 1 (1.09%) Legal
8 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.91%) Driving Licence
2 17 (18.48%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (5.43%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (3.26%) Eurex
5 3 (3.26%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.17%) EPoS
6 2 (2.17%) iPad
6 2 (2.17%) iPhone
7 1 (1.09%) Replication
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (59.78%) Windows
2 27 (29.35%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.96%) Windows 10
4 8 (8.70%) Linux
5 6 (6.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.43%) Android
6 5 (5.43%) Apple iOS
7 4 (4.35%) Mac OS
7 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.26%) CentOS
8 3 (3.26%) Solaris
8 3 (3.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.26%) Unix
9 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (42.39%) ITIL
2 28 (30.43%) Incident Management
3 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (14.13%) Mentoring
5 11 (11.96%) Proactive Maintenance
6 10 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (10.87%) Process Improvement
6 10 (10.87%) Project Management
6 10 (10.87%) Strategic Planning
7 8 (8.70%) Desktop Virtualisation
8 7 (7.61%) Customer Service
8 7 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.61%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 6 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (5.43%) ERP
11 4 (4.35%) Containerisation
11 4 (4.35%) CRM
11 4 (4.35%) Proactive Monitoring
11 4 (4.35%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.57%) PowerShell
2 14 (15.22%) SQL
3 3 (3.26%) Bash
3 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.26%) Perl
3 3 (3.26%) Python
3 3 (3.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (35.87%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (16.30%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (10.87%) CCNP
3 10 (10.87%) MCSE
4 8 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.43%) CCNA
5 5 (5.43%) Degree
6 4 (4.35%) MCSA
6 4 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.17%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.17%) GDPR
1 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (55.43%) Active Directory
2 29 (31.52%) Hyper-V
3 21 (22.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.09%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (23.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.26%) Autotask
3 2 (2.17%) SCCM
4 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.09%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 50 (54.35%) Microsoft
2 23 (25.00%) VMware
3 15 (16.30%) Cisco
4 7 (7.61%) Datto
5 6 (6.52%) Draytek
5 6 (6.52%) Google
6 5 (5.43%) Sophos
7 4 (4.35%) CheckPoint
7 4 (4.35%) ESET
7 4 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.26%) Bloomberg
8 3 (3.26%) ConnectWise
8 3 (3.26%) CQG
8 3 (3.26%) Reuters
8 3 (3.26%) Trayport
8 3 (3.26%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (3.26%) WatchGuard
8 3 (3.26%) Webroot