2nd Line Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Second Line Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Second Line Engineer salary in the Midlands is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 279 325
Rank change year-on-year +14 +46 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 62 35 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.46% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 55 34 30
10th Percentile £25,950 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £25,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.90%
75th Percentile £33,750 £33,375 £31,000
90th Percentile £34,150 £33,750 £33,750
England median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +12.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 12,357 7,658 10,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.51% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,004 4,510 7,073
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,650
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,250 £67,425 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in the Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
West Midlands +14 46 £30,000 - 5
East Midlands -19 16 £32,000 +6.67% 7
2nd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 Midlands region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (61.29%) Windows
2 37 (59.68%) Active Directory
3 30 (48.39%) Social Skills
4 25 (40.32%) Windows 10
4 25 (40.32%) Microsoft
5 24 (38.71%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (32.26%) WAN
8 18 (29.03%) VMware
9 17 (27.42%) Windows Server
10 15 (24.19%) Customer Service
11 12 (19.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
11 12 (19.35%) Veeam
11 12 (19.35%) Azure
11 12 (19.35%) Degree
11 12 (19.35%) SCCM
12 11 (17.74%) Mac OS
12 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (17.74%) Entra ID
12 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Office
12 11 (17.74%) Juniper
13 10 (16.13%) IPsec
13 10 (16.13%) Firewall
13 10 (16.13%) MPLS
13 10 (16.13%) BGP
13 10 (16.13%) Hyper-V
13 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
13 10 (16.13%) PKI
14 9 (14.52%) Computer Science

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) IBM Notes
3 1 (1.61%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.71%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (19.35%) Azure
3 11 (17.74%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.68%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.84%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.61%) AWS
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.61%) IaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.61%) SaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (32.26%) WAN
2 10 (16.13%) BGP
2 10 (16.13%) Firewall
2 10 (16.13%) IPsec
2 10 (16.13%) MPLS
3 9 (14.52%) DNS
4 8 (12.90%) DHCP
4 8 (12.90%) TCP/IP
4 8 (12.90%) VPN
5 6 (9.68%) Network Security
5 6 (9.68%) SD-WAN
5 6 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (8.06%) PBX
7 4 (6.45%) LAN
8 3 (4.84%) Ethernet
8 3 (4.84%) SMTP
8 3 (4.84%) VLAN
9 1 (1.61%) IPv4
9 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.61%) Skype
General
1 30 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Law
4 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Finance
5 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) PKI
2 8 (12.90%) Replication
3 6 (9.68%) Driving Licence
3 6 (9.68%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.84%) Clustering
5 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (61.29%) Windows
2 25 (40.32%) Windows 10
3 17 (27.42%) Windows Server
4 12 (19.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (17.74%) Mac OS
6 8 (12.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (12.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (11.29%) Linux
8 5 (8.06%) CentOS
9 1 (1.61%) Android
9 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.61%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.61%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.19%) Customer Service
3 9 (14.52%) Computer Science
4 5 (8.06%) Load Balancing
4 5 (8.06%) Service Management
5 4 (6.45%) ITIL
6 3 (4.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (4.84%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (3.23%) IT Strategy
8 1 (1.61%) Fintech
8 1 (1.61%) Hardware Maintenance
8 1 (1.61%) Inventory Management
8 1 (1.61%) Issue Tracking
8 1 (1.61%) Network Management
8 1 (1.61%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (1.61%) Problem Management
8 1 (1.61%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 1 (1.61%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.61%) Software Deployment
8 1 (1.61%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.23%) SQL
3 1 (1.61%) Perl
3 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Degree
2 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) DBS Check
4 8 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (9.68%) A+ Certification
5 6 (9.68%) MCP
5 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) GDPR
1 2 (3.23%) SLA
2 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (59.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (16.13%) Hyper-V
4 8 (12.90%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (8.06%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) SCCM
2 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.84%) Autotask
3 3 (4.84%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (4.84%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (40.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (29.03%) VMware
3 12 (19.35%) Veeam
4 11 (17.74%) Juniper
5 7 (11.29%) Cisco
6 5 (8.06%) Citrix
6 5 (8.06%) Remedy
7 4 (6.45%) Apple
8 3 (4.84%) Datto
8 3 (4.84%) Draytek
8 3 (4.84%) Sage
8 3 (4.84%) Sophos
8 3 (4.84%) Webroot
9 1 (1.61%) Avaya
9 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.61%) IBM
9 1 (1.61%) Lotus
9 1 (1.61%) Meraki
9 1 (1.61%) Ubiquiti