2nd/3rd Line Support Jobs with Work from Home Options

2nd/3rd Line Support
UK > Work from Home

The median 2nd/3rd Line Support salary in Work from Home is £32,500 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 540 653 823
Rank change year-on-year +113 +170 -284
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd/3rd Line Support 36 27 12
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.062% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.064% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 36 27 12
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,825
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,875 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £38,750 £40,500 £37,500
90th Percentile £47,500 £42,200 £39,975
UK median annual salary £33,000 £37,500 £35,250
% change year-on-year -12.00% +6.38% +3.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,441 41,897 64,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,951 29,614 41,885
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

2nd/3rd Line Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured 2nd/3rd Line Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

2nd/3rd Line Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

2nd/3rd Line Support
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing 2nd/3rd Line Support.

2nd/3rd Line Support salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

2nd/3rd Line Support
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing 2nd/3rd Line Support over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

2nd/3rd Line Support salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

2nd/3rd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 jobs with remote work options featuring 2nd/3rd Line Support in the job title.

1 32 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 31 (86.11%) Azure
3 27 (75.00%) Active Directory
4 26 (72.22%) Social Skills
5 24 (66.67%) ITIL
6 20 (55.56%) Driving Licence
7 19 (52.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (50.00%) SAN
9 17 (47.22%) Incident Management
9 17 (47.22%) Enterprise Storage
9 17 (47.22%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (44.44%) Azure Certification
10 16 (44.44%) Desktop Virtualisation
10 16 (44.44%) SQL Server
11 15 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (36.11%) Hyper-V
12 13 (36.11%) Windows
13 11 (30.56%) Microsoft Exchange
14 9 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (22.22%) VMware
16 7 (19.44%) Windows 10
17 6 (16.67%) Windows Server
17 6 (16.67%) Entra ID
17 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
17 6 (16.67%) Firewall
18 5 (13.89%) Degree
18 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
18 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
18 5 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
18 5 (13.89%) SharePoint

2nd/3rd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (30.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2000
4 1 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (86.11%) Azure
2 15 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) AWS
4 3 (8.33%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (50.00%) SAN
2 6 (16.67%) Firewall
3 5 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (11.11%) Wireless
5 2 (5.56%) DHCP
5 2 (5.56%) DNS
5 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.56%) WAN
6 1 (2.78%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.78%) VLAN
6 1 (2.78%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 26 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 17 (47.22%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Games
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Driving Licence
2 17 (47.22%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) iPad
5 1 (2.78%) iPhone
5 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.78%) Replication
5 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Windows
2 7 (19.44%) Windows 10
3 6 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.78%) Linux
5 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) ITIL
2 17 (47.22%) Incident Management
3 16 (44.44%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 5 (13.89%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
5 4 (11.11%) Migration
6 3 (8.33%) Agile
6 3 (8.33%) ERP
6 3 (8.33%) Escalation Management
6 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (8.33%) Problem Management
6 3 (8.33%) Threat Management
6 3 (8.33%) Time Management
6 3 (8.33%) Trend Analysis
7 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (5.56%) Service Management
7 2 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (2.78%) Asset Management
8 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (44.44%) Azure Certification
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (5.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (36.11%) Hyper-V
3 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.78%) NFS
4 1 (2.78%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.56%) Autotask
3 1 (2.78%) SCCM
3 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.78%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 32 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.22%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 3 (8.33%) Draytek
3 3 (8.33%) WatchGuard
4 2 (5.56%) Datto
5 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce