2nd Line Engineer Contracts in London

Second Line Engineer
England > London

The median Second Line Engineer daily rate in London is £203 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 416 500
Rank change year-on-year +63 +84 -60
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 41 76 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.30% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 57 79
10th Percentile £140 £158 £130
25th Percentile £163 £175 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £203 £225 £215
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.65% +16.22%
75th Percentile £255 £275 £250
90th Percentile £300 £305 £301
England median daily rate £200 £210 £200
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £19.35 - £21.98
25th Percentile £19.97 £22.75 £22.71
Median hourly rate £21.01 £23.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -1.71% -
75th Percentile £22.05 £25.13 £32.71
90th Percentile £22.67 £25.65 £37.98
England median hourly rate £20.72 £23.50 £17.70
% change year-on-year -11.85% +32.77% +1.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,468 24,945 36,702
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 18,104 26,876
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 282 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.79 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.64%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £79.80 £68.19
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in London

2nd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for 2nd Line Engineer in London

2nd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in London

2nd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for 2nd Line Engineer in London

2nd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East London -2 3 £160 +3.23% 3
Central London +40 2 £173 -18.92% 2
West London +21 1 £150 -37.50% 1
South London - 1 £200 - 2
2nd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 2nd Line Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the London region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (65.85%) Windows
2 25 (60.98%) Active Directory
3 24 (58.54%) Microsoft
4 22 (53.66%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
6 16 (39.02%) Microsoft Office
7 12 (29.27%) Customer Service
8 11 (26.83%) Azure
9 10 (24.39%) Windows 10
10 8 (19.51%) ITIL
11 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (17.07%) Degree
11 7 (17.07%) SCCM
12 6 (14.63%) Smartphone
12 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
12 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
12 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (14.63%) VPN
13 5 (12.20%) Migration
13 5 (12.20%) Finance
13 5 (12.20%) JIRA
13 5 (12.20%) WhatsApp
13 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
14 4 (9.76%) Onboarding
14 4 (9.76%) Mobile Device Management
14 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
14 4 (9.76%) Legal
14 4 (9.76%) Firewall
14 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
14 4 (9.76%) ITIL Certification

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (26.83%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) WhatsApp
4 3 (7.32%) Asana
4 3 (7.32%) Slack
5 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.88%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.44%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) VPN
2 4 (9.76%) Firewall
2 4 (9.76%) Internet
3 3 (7.32%) FTP
3 3 (7.32%) LAN
3 3 (7.32%) VoIP
3 3 (7.32%) WAN
3 3 (7.32%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.88%) DHCP
4 2 (4.88%) DNS
4 2 (4.88%) Intranet
4 2 (4.88%) VLAN
4 2 (4.88%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Hudson
General
1 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Legal
4 3 (7.32%) Multimedia
5 2 (4.88%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Local Government
6 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Middleware
1 1 (2.44%) Rendezvous
1 1 (2.44%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Smartphone
2 4 (9.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.32%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (4.88%) Clustering
4 2 (4.88%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.44%) iPad
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (65.85%) Windows
2 10 (24.39%) Windows 10
3 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.32%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.88%) Android
5 2 (4.88%) Linux
5 2 (4.88%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.44%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.44%) Unix
6 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) Customer Service
2 8 (19.51%) ITIL
3 5 (12.20%) Migration
3 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (9.76%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (7.32%) Investment Management
5 3 (7.32%) Proactive Maintenance
5 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery
5 3 (7.32%) Software Distribution
5 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.88%) Change Management
6 2 (4.88%) Decision-Making
6 2 (4.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (4.88%) High Availability
6 2 (4.88%) ITSM
6 2 (4.88%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (4.88%) Runbook
6 2 (4.88%) Service Management
6 2 (4.88%) Ticket Management
6 2 (4.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Degree
2 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (7.32%) A+ Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.88%) MCP
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (60.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Firmware
2 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) SCCM
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.88%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (4.88%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.44%) PaperCut
4 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (58.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Palo Alto
2 3 (7.32%) Zscaler
3 2 (4.88%) Citrix
3 2 (4.88%) Dell
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe
4 1 (2.44%) Apple
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) TIBCO