2nd Line Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Second Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Second Line Engineer salary in the UK excluding London 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 411 411 508
Rank change year-on-year 0 +97 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 403 379 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.75% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 379 356 319
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,600 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £31,875 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +7.14%
75th Percentile £35,000 £36,500 £34,000
90th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +12.28%

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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

2nd 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 2nd Line Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
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
Wales +22 16 £27,500 -
East Midlands -19 16 £32,000 +6.67% 7
Scotland -69 7 £31,500 +5.00% 6
Northern Ireland +23 4 £35,000 +7.69%
2nd Line Engineer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 252 (62.53%) Windows
2 251 (62.28%) Microsoft
3 245 (60.79%) Microsoft 365
4 239 (59.31%) Active Directory
5 170 (42.18%) Azure
6 167 (41.44%) Social Skills
7 119 (29.53%) Windows Server
8 117 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (26.80%) Customer Service
10 107 (26.55%) Windows 10
11 104 (25.81%) SharePoint
12 98 (24.32%) VMware
13 91 (22.58%) Firewall
13 91 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
14 78 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
15 72 (17.87%) Microsoft Intune
15 72 (17.87%) VMware Infrastructure
16 71 (17.62%) Hyper-V
17 70 (17.37%) Entra ID
18 58 (14.39%) Microsoft Certification
19 57 (14.14%) ITIL
20 54 (13.40%) WAN
20 54 (13.40%) Degree
21 51 (12.66%) DNS
22 48 (11.91%) Wi-Fi
23 47 (11.66%) Cisco
24 45 (11.17%) Mac OS
25 44 (10.92%) OneDrive
26 41 (10.17%) Computer Science
27 40 (9.93%) DHCP

2nd 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
1 104 (25.81%) SharePoint
2 91 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.74%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (1.74%) SharePoint 2013
4 5 (1.24%) Confluence
5 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.25%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.25%) JOnAS
6 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 78 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.50%) InfoPath
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 245 (60.79%) Microsoft 365
2 170 (42.18%) Azure
3 70 (17.37%) Entra ID
4 44 (10.92%) OneDrive
5 28 (6.95%) AWS
6 25 (6.20%) GCP
7 5 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.74%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.74%) IaaS
9 2 (0.50%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.50%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.50%) SaaS
10 1 (0.25%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 91 (22.58%) Firewall
2 54 (13.40%) WAN
3 51 (12.66%) DNS
4 48 (11.91%) Wi-Fi
5 40 (9.93%) DHCP
6 37 (9.18%) LAN
7 32 (7.94%) VPN
8 31 (7.69%) TCP/IP
9 29 (7.20%) VLAN
10 27 (6.70%) Network Security
11 23 (5.71%) VoIP
12 20 (4.96%) SAN
13 14 (3.47%) IPsec
14 13 (3.23%) Internet
15 12 (2.98%) BGP
15 12 (2.98%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (2.73%) MPLS
16 11 (2.73%) Wireless
17 10 (2.48%) PBX
18 9 (2.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.70%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.99%) MariaDB
3 8 (1.99%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) Metabase
5 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (3.23%) JIRA
2 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 167 (41.44%) Social Skills
2 28 (6.95%) Manufacturing
3 27 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (5.46%) Finance
6 18 (4.47%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.98%) Legal
8 11 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.73%) Law
9 7 (1.74%) Retail
10 4 (0.99%) Marketing
11 3 (0.74%) Electronics
11 3 (0.74%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.25%) Games
12 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.99%) Cocoa
2 3 (0.74%) XML
3 2 (0.50%) .NET
3 2 (0.50%) COM
3 2 (0.50%) HTML
3 2 (0.50%) HTML5
3 2 (0.50%) JSON
4 1 (0.25%) CSS
4 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.68%) Driving Licence
2 27 (6.70%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.98%) Smartphone
4 10 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.48%) PKI
5 9 (2.23%) Replication
5 9 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.99%) Clustering
6 8 (1.99%) EPoS
7 7 (1.74%) iPad
8 6 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.74%) Apple TV
9 3 (0.74%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.25%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.25%) iPhone
11 1 (0.25%) Life Science
11 1 (0.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 252 (62.53%) Windows
2 119 (29.53%) Windows Server
3 107 (26.55%) Windows 10
4 45 (11.17%) Mac OS
5 27 (6.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (6.45%) Linux
7 21 (5.21%) Apple iOS
8 18 (4.47%) Android
9 17 (4.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.24%) CentOS
11 5 (1.24%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.50%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.25%) VMS
13 1 (0.25%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 108 (26.80%) Customer Service
3 57 (14.14%) ITIL
4 41 (10.17%) Computer Science
5 20 (4.96%) Incident Management
6 19 (4.71%) Mobile Device Management
7 15 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (3.72%) Mentoring
8 14 (3.47%) Logistics
9 13 (3.23%) Service Delivery
10 12 (2.98%) Antivirus Management
10 12 (2.98%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (2.98%) Project Delivery
10 12 (2.98%) Server Management
11 10 (2.48%) Desktop Virtualisation
11 10 (2.48%) ITSM
11 10 (2.48%) Kalman Filter
12 9 (2.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (2.23%) Server Virtualisation
12 9 (2.23%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.95%) PowerShell
2 14 (3.47%) SQL
3 7 (1.74%) Python
4 3 (0.74%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.50%) R
6 1 (0.25%) Bash
6 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 58 (14.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 54 (13.40%) Degree
3 39 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (8.93%) DBS Check
5 32 (7.94%) A+ Certification
6 31 (7.69%) Security Cleared
7 27 (6.70%) MCP
7 27 (6.70%) SC Cleared
8 16 (3.97%) CCNA
8 16 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (3.23%) CCNP
10 12 (2.98%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (1.74%) MCITP
12 7 (1.74%) MCSE
13 6 (1.49%) HND
14 3 (0.74%) MCDST
15 1 (0.25%) JNCIA
15 1 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.21%) SLA
2 4 (0.99%) GDPR
3 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 239 (59.31%) Active Directory
2 72 (17.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (17.62%) Hyper-V
4 13 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.48%) vSphere
6 7 (1.74%) XenApp
6 7 (1.74%) XenDesktop
7 6 (1.49%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 72 (17.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (7.20%) SCCM
3 8 (1.99%) Failover Clustering
3 8 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (1.74%) Autotask
5 6 (1.49%) SmoothWall
6 3 (0.74%) SCOM
7 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.25%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 251 (62.28%) Microsoft
2 98 (24.32%) VMware
3 47 (11.66%) Cisco
4 38 (9.43%) Citrix
5 25 (6.20%) Veeam
6 22 (5.46%) Apple
7 20 (4.96%) Sophos
8 18 (4.47%) Google
8 18 (4.47%) HP
9 17 (4.22%) Juniper
10 13 (3.23%) Dell
11 11 (2.73%) Meraki
12 7 (1.74%) Datto
12 7 (1.74%) ESET
12 7 (1.74%) Symantec
13 5 (1.24%) Remedy
14 4 (0.99%) Draytek
14 4 (0.99%) Sage
14 4 (0.99%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.99%) Ubiquiti