1st Line Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

First Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median First Line Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £25,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 642 648 756
Rank change year-on-year +6 +108 -117
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 119 122 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.23% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 119 116 89
10th Percentile £21,000 £21,250 £19,500
25th Percentile £22,500 £23,250 £20,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,500 £25,000 £23,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +8.70% +6.98%
75th Percentile £28,750 £28,000 £26,500
90th Percentile £36,500 £28,750 £28,800
UK median annual salary £26,500 £25,000 £24,500
% change year-on-year +6.00% +2.04% +11.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 1st Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +10 32 £24,500 -2.00% 17
North of England +46 25 £23,000 -11.54% 10
North West +11 19 £23,000 -11.54% 8
Northern Ireland - 16 £35,000 - 1
South West -13 13 £27,000 - 6
Midlands -34 12 £25,500 +2.00% 7
Scotland -50 12 £27,500 +20.88% 2
East Midlands -25 6 £25,500 +2.00% 5
West Midlands +1 5 £24,732 +0.94% 2
Wales - 5 £22,000 - 1
North East - 5 £22,000 -
East of England -7 4 £25,250 +1.00% 2
Yorkshire +73 1 £21,500 -17.31% 2
1st Line Engineer
UK

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 1st 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 UK excluding London region featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (61.34%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (55.46%) Windows
3 65 (54.62%) Microsoft
4 54 (45.38%) Social Skills
5 51 (42.86%) Customer Service
6 47 (39.50%) Active Directory
7 29 (24.37%) Windows Server
8 24 (20.17%) Finance
8 24 (20.17%) Azure
9 21 (17.65%) Mentoring
10 19 (15.97%) Manufacturing
11 18 (15.13%) SharePoint
11 18 (15.13%) Incident Management
12 16 (13.45%) Coaching
12 16 (13.45%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (13.45%) Customer Experience
12 16 (13.45%) Public Sector
12 16 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (13.45%) Microsoft Office
12 16 (13.45%) ITIL
12 16 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (13.45%) Telecoms
13 14 (11.76%) Service Delivery
13 14 (11.76%) Firewall
13 14 (11.76%) Electronics
13 14 (11.76%) SLA
13 14 (11.76%) SAP
13 14 (11.76%) Programme Management
13 14 (11.76%) Marketing
13 14 (11.76%) Digital Marketing

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 18 (15.13%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (13.45%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 73 (61.34%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (20.17%) Azure
3 13 (10.92%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.68%) OneDrive
4 2 (1.68%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.84%) AWS
5 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.84%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.76%) Firewall
2 12 (10.08%) VoIP
2 12 (10.08%) VPN
3 10 (8.40%) WAN
4 9 (7.56%) VLAN
5 8 (6.72%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (5.88%) LAN
7 5 (4.20%) Unified Communications
7 5 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.52%) Broadband
8 3 (2.52%) DHCP
8 3 (2.52%) DNS
8 3 (2.52%) Internet
8 3 (2.52%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.52%) Wireless
9 2 (1.68%) IPsec
9 2 (1.68%) Network Security
10 1 (0.84%) Intranet
10 1 (0.84%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) JIRA
General
1 54 (45.38%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.17%) Finance
3 19 (15.97%) Manufacturing
4 16 (13.45%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 16 (13.45%) Telecoms
5 14 (11.76%) Electronics
5 14 (11.76%) Marketing
6 8 (6.72%) Retail
7 4 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Games
9 2 (1.68%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.84%) Automotive
10 1 (0.84%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.56%) Driving Licence
2 7 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.20%) PMI
4 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.84%) Replication
5 1 (0.84%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 66 (55.46%) Windows
2 29 (24.37%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.92%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.04%) Linux
4 6 (5.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.36%) Debian
6 2 (1.68%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.84%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 21 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 18 (15.13%) Incident Management
4 16 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (13.45%) Coaching
4 16 (13.45%) Customer Experience
4 16 (13.45%) ITIL
4 16 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
5 14 (11.76%) Programme Management
5 14 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 12 (10.08%) Customer-Centricity
7 11 (9.24%) Service Management
8 8 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (5.04%) Change Management
9 6 (5.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (4.20%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (4.20%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (4.20%) ITSM
10 5 (4.20%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.20%) SQL
2 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (9.24%) Degree
1 11 (9.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 5 (4.20%) DBS Check
3 5 (4.20%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.52%) A+ Certification
4 3 (2.52%) CCNA
4 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.84%) CCNP
5 1 (0.84%) MCP
5 1 (0.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.76%) SLA
2 4 (3.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 47 (39.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.84%) Firmware
4 1 (0.84%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.84%) vSphere
4 1 (0.84%) XenApp
4 1 (0.84%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (54.62%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.76%) SAP
3 10 (8.40%) VMware
4 9 (7.56%) Cisco
5 7 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 6 (5.04%) Apple
7 5 (4.20%) BT
7 5 (4.20%) Juniper
7 5 (4.20%) Mitel
8 2 (1.68%) Citrix
8 2 (1.68%) Progress
8 2 (1.68%) Veeam
9 1 (0.84%) Aruba
9 1 (0.84%) Avaya
9 1 (0.84%) HP
9 1 (0.84%) Remedy
9 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.84%) Ubiquiti