2nd Line Engineer Jobs in Wales

Second Line Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Second Line Engineer salary in Wales is £27,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 125 131
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 16 3 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.79% 0.18% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.21% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £27,500 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -24.29%
75th Percentile £30,438 £28,750 £33,000
90th Percentile £31,325 - £37,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +12.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,868 1,432 1,794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 85.85% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,268 822 1,148
10th Percentile £26,425 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,688 £35,156 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,533 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Wales

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in Wales

2nd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 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
South Wales - 8 £30,000 - 2
North Wales - 8 £27,500 - 1
2nd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 2nd Line 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 across the Wales region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
4 9 (56.25%) Firewall
5 8 (50.00%) Windows
6 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
7 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
8 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
8 5 (31.25%) VMware
8 5 (31.25%) Linux
8 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
8 5 (31.25%) SLA
8 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (31.25%) Azure
9 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (25.00%) Meraki
9 4 (25.00%) Cisco
9 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity
9 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
9 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
9 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
10 3 (18.75%) Metabase
10 3 (18.75%) Internet
10 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (18.75%) Logistics
10 3 (18.75%) WAN
10 3 (18.75%) DHCP
10 3 (18.75%) DNS

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
1 3 (18.75%) Jupyter
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) DHCP
2 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) Internet
2 3 (18.75%) LAN
2 3 (18.75%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) VLAN
3 2 (12.50%) VoIP
4 1 (6.25%) Intranet
4 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Metabase
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
1 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Linux
4 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
5 1 (6.25%) Android
5 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (18.75%) Logistics
3 3 (18.75%) Network Management
4 1 (6.25%) Break/Fix
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
4 1 (6.25%) ERP
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
1 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco
3 4 (25.00%) Meraki
4 3 (18.75%) Veeam
5 2 (12.50%) SonicWALL