2nd Line Engineer Jobs in England

Second Line Engineer
UK > England

The median Second Line Engineer salary in England is £32,500 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 458 452 708
Rank change year-on-year -6 +256 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 453 537 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.64% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.70% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 425 505 469
10th Percentile £25,600 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.56% +12.28%
75th Percentile £35,250 £38,000 £36,000
90th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,200
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +12.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in England

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in England

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in England

2nd Line Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England 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
North of England +60 103 £31,750 +7.63% 25
South East -69 93 £30,250 -3.97% 28
London +27 80 £35,000 - 15
Midlands +14 62 £30,000 - 12
East of England +29 61 £32,500 -2.99% 13
South West -31 57 £32,500 -12.16% 19
North West -3 48 £30,000 -9.09% 19
West Midlands +14 46 £30,000 - 5
Yorkshire +70 34 £32,500 +17.75% 4
North East +9 21 £32,000 -1.54% 2
East Midlands -19 16 £32,000 +6.67% 7
2nd Line Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 311 (68.65%) Windows
2 287 (63.36%) Microsoft
2 287 (63.36%) Active Directory
3 286 (63.13%) Microsoft 365
4 187 (41.28%) Azure
5 170 (37.53%) Social Skills
6 148 (32.67%) Windows Server
7 133 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
8 131 (28.92%) Windows 10
9 121 (26.71%) SharePoint
10 111 (24.50%) VMware
11 110 (24.28%) Microsoft Exchange
12 109 (24.06%) Customer Service
13 97 (21.41%) Firewall
14 89 (19.65%) Microsoft Office
15 87 (19.21%) Microsoft Intune
16 80 (17.66%) Hyper-V
17 79 (17.44%) VMware Infrastructure
18 75 (16.56%) Entra ID
19 66 (14.57%) ITIL
20 65 (14.35%) WAN
21 64 (14.13%) Wi-Fi
22 62 (13.69%) Microsoft Certification
23 59 (13.02%) LAN
24 55 (12.14%) DNS
24 55 (12.14%) Cisco
25 53 (11.70%) Degree
26 52 (11.48%) Citrix
27 47 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
28 44 (9.71%) OneDrive

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 121 (26.71%) SharePoint
2 110 (24.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.09%) SharePoint 2010
3 14 (3.09%) SharePoint 2013
4 2 (0.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.44%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.22%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.22%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 89 (19.65%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 286 (63.13%) Microsoft 365
2 187 (41.28%) Azure
3 75 (16.56%) Entra ID
4 44 (9.71%) OneDrive
5 35 (7.73%) AWS
6 32 (7.06%) GCP
7 11 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.66%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.66%) IaaS
9 2 (0.44%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.44%) SaaS
10 1 (0.22%) Dropbox
10 1 (0.22%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 97 (21.41%) Firewall
2 65 (14.35%) WAN
3 64 (14.13%) Wi-Fi
4 59 (13.02%) LAN
5 55 (12.14%) DNS
6 44 (9.71%) DHCP
7 37 (8.17%) VPN
8 30 (6.62%) TCP/IP
9 27 (5.96%) Network Security
10 26 (5.74%) VLAN
11 21 (4.64%) VoIP
12 20 (4.42%) SAN
13 14 (3.09%) IPsec
14 12 (2.65%) BGP
15 11 (2.43%) MPLS
15 11 (2.43%) Wireless
16 10 (2.21%) PBX
16 10 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (1.99%) Internet
18 8 (1.77%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.77%) MariaDB
3 8 (1.77%) MySQL
4 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.55%) JIRA
General
1 170 (37.53%) Social Skills
2 47 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (8.17%) Organisational Skills
4 33 (7.28%) Finance
5 23 (5.08%) Law
6 20 (4.42%) Manufacturing
7 19 (4.19%) Legal
8 16 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.77%) Retail
11 2 (0.44%) Games
11 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.44%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.22%) Advertising
12 1 (0.22%) Automotive
12 1 (0.22%) Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.22%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.88%) Cocoa
2 2 (0.44%) .NET
3 1 (0.22%) EDI
3 1 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.28%) Driving Licence
2 28 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.42%) EPoS
4 12 (2.65%) Smartphone
5 10 (2.21%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (2.21%) PKI
5 10 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.77%) Clustering
6 8 (1.77%) Replication
7 7 (1.55%) iPad
8 6 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.66%) Apple TV
9 3 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.22%) iPhone
10 1 (0.22%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.22%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 311 (68.65%) Windows
2 148 (32.67%) Windows Server
3 131 (28.92%) Windows 10
4 44 (9.71%) Mac OS
5 32 (7.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (4.86%) Linux
7 20 (4.42%) Apple iOS
8 19 (4.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (3.75%) Android
10 13 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.10%) CentOS
11 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.88%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.44%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.22%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (24.06%) Customer Service
3 66 (14.57%) ITIL
4 39 (8.61%) Computer Science
5 24 (5.30%) Mobile Device Management
6 18 (3.97%) Server Virtualisation
6 18 (3.97%) Service Delivery
7 17 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (3.53%) Mentoring
9 14 (3.09%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (2.87%) Server Management
11 12 (2.65%) Antivirus Management
11 12 (2.65%) Incident Management
12 11 (2.43%) Logistics
12 11 (2.43%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 10 (2.21%) Desktop Virtualisation
13 10 (2.21%) Kalman Filter
14 9 (1.99%) ITSM
14 9 (1.99%) Line Management
14 9 (1.99%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (5.96%) PowerShell
2 13 (2.87%) SQL
3 8 (1.77%) Python
4 2 (0.44%) Bash
5 1 (0.22%) C++
5 1 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 62 (13.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 53 (11.70%) Degree
3 37 (8.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (7.95%) DBS Check
4 36 (7.95%) Security Cleared
5 29 (6.40%) A+ Certification
6 27 (5.96%) MCP
6 27 (5.96%) SC Cleared
7 21 (4.64%) CCNA
7 21 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (3.31%) CCNP
9 14 (3.09%) MCITP
9 14 (3.09%) MCSE
10 12 (2.65%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (1.77%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (1.32%) HND
13 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.19%) SLA
2 4 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 287 (63.36%) Active Directory
2 80 (17.66%) Hyper-V
3 79 (17.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (3.09%) XenApp
4 14 (3.09%) XenDesktop
5 10 (2.21%) vSphere
6 6 (1.32%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (0.66%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.22%) Firmware
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (19.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (9.49%) SCCM
3 8 (1.77%) Failover Clustering
3 8 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (1.55%) Autotask
5 6 (1.32%) SmoothWall
6 3 (0.66%) NetBackup
6 3 (0.66%) SCOM
7 2 (0.44%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.22%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.22%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.22%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 287 (63.36%) Microsoft
2 111 (24.50%) VMware
3 55 (12.14%) Cisco
4 52 (11.48%) Citrix
5 27 (5.96%) HP
6 25 (5.52%) Google
7 23 (5.08%) Apple
7 23 (5.08%) Veeam
8 22 (4.86%) Dell
9 20 (4.42%) Sophos
10 17 (3.75%) Juniper
11 14 (3.09%) Symantec
12 11 (2.43%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.99%) Datto
14 7 (1.55%) ESET
14 7 (1.55%) Meraki
15 5 (1.10%) Remedy
15 5 (1.10%) Ubiquiti
16 4 (0.88%) Salesforce
16 4 (0.88%) Veritas