1st Line Support Engineer Jobs

First Line Support Engineer
UK

The median First Line Support Engineer salary in the UK is £26,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 771 845 1118
Rank change year-on-year +74 +273 -269
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Engineer 119 132 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.15% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 114 123 114
10th Percentile £21,000 £21,400 £19,575
25th Percentile £22,500 £23,250 £21,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,500 £25,000 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £28,750 £28,750 £27,250
90th Percentile £36,500 £30,950 £29,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,500 £25,000 £22,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% +11.11% +2.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

1st Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Support Engineer in the UK

1st Line Support Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer.

Salary trend for 1st Line Support Engineer in the UK

1st Line Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 1st Line Support Engineer in the UK

1st Line Support Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
UK excluding London -36 96 £25,500 +2.00% 32
England +46 83 £25,125 +0.50% 33
Work from Home +45 31 £27,000 +8.00% 9
South East +5 27 £24,000 -2.04% 13
North of England +60 21 £22,826 -12.21% 7
London +103 20 £27,500 -6.78% 6
Northern Ireland - 16 £35,000 - 1
North West +16 15 £22,826 -14.67% 6
Scotland -55 12 £27,500 +20.88% 2
South West -28 7 £25,000 -7.41% 2
Midlands -38 5 £27,500 +10.00% 5
North East - 5 £22,000 -
Wales - 5 £22,000 - 2
West Midlands +6 3 £27,500 +14.58% 1
East of England -10 3 £25,500 +2.00% 1
Yorkshire +75 1 £21,500 -17.31% 1
East Midlands -32 1 £22,500 -10.00% 4

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 1st Line Support 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 featuring 1st Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (60.50%) Windows
1 72 (60.50%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 51 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 49 (41.18%) Social Skills
4 47 (39.50%) Microsoft
5 32 (26.89%) Windows Server
6 25 (21.01%) Azure
7 21 (17.65%) Finance
8 19 (15.97%) Manufacturing
8 19 (15.97%) SharePoint
9 18 (15.13%) Windows 10
10 16 (13.45%) Mentoring
10 16 (13.45%) Coaching
10 16 (13.45%) Incident Management
10 16 (13.45%) Microsoft Office
10 16 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (13.45%) Telecoms
10 16 (13.45%) Customer Experience
11 15 (12.61%) Public Sector
11 15 (12.61%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (12.61%) Degree
12 14 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
12 14 (11.76%) Marketing
12 14 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (11.76%) SAP
12 14 (11.76%) Electronics
12 14 (11.76%) Programme Management
12 14 (11.76%) Entra ID
13 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (15.97%) SharePoint
2 15 (12.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.36%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (3.36%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 16 (13.45%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (60.50%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (21.01%) Azure
3 14 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.72%) AWS
5 7 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.36%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.68%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.84%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.08%) VoIP
2 11 (9.24%) VPN
3 9 (7.56%) Firewall
4 5 (4.20%) WAN
4 5 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (3.36%) DHCP
5 4 (3.36%) DNS
5 4 (3.36%) VLAN
5 4 (3.36%) Wireless
6 3 (2.52%) Broadband
6 3 (2.52%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.68%) Internet
7 2 (1.68%) IPsec
7 2 (1.68%) LAN
7 2 (1.68%) Network Security
8 1 (0.84%) Intranet
8 1 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.84%) Skype
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) JIRA
General
1 49 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.65%) Finance
3 19 (15.97%) Manufacturing
4 16 (13.45%) Telecoms
5 15 (12.61%) Public Sector
6 14 (11.76%) Electronics
6 14 (11.76%) Marketing
7 11 (9.24%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.20%) Retail
9 4 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.52%) Games
11 1 (0.84%) Automotive
11 1 (0.84%) Legal
11 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.56%) Driving Licence
2 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.84%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 72 (60.50%) Windows
2 32 (26.89%) Windows Server
3 18 (15.13%) Windows 10
4 9 (7.56%) Linux
5 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (3.36%) Debian
6 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.68%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.84%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 16 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (13.45%) Coaching
2 16 (13.45%) Customer Experience
2 16 (13.45%) Incident Management
2 16 (13.45%) Mentoring
3 14 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
3 14 (11.76%) Programme Management
4 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (6.72%) ITIL
5 8 (6.72%) Service Delivery
6 6 (5.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (5.04%) Customer-Centricity
7 5 (4.20%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 5 (4.20%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (4.20%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (4.20%) Web Design
8 4 (3.36%) Service Management
8 4 (3.36%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.20%) SQL
2 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (12.61%) Degree
2 5 (4.20%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.36%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.52%) CCNA
4 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.68%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.84%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) GDPR
1 4 (3.36%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.36%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.84%) Firmware
4 1 (0.84%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.84%) XenApp
4 1 (0.84%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (39.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.76%) SAP
3 7 (5.88%) VMware
4 6 (5.04%) Apple
5 4 (3.36%) Cisco
6 2 (1.68%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.68%) Progress
6 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.84%) Aruba
7 1 (0.84%) Avaya
7 1 (0.84%) Citrix
7 1 (0.84%) HP
7 1 (0.84%) Remedy
7 1 (0.84%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (0.84%) Veeam