2nd Line Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Second Line Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Second Line Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 235 300
Rank change year-on-year +17 +65 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 45 18 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.31% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.35% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 39 17 8
10th Percentile £25,950 £26,000 £24,638
25th Percentile £26,375 £27,000 £25,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £32,750 £33,750 £29,875
90th Percentile £35,200 - £34,002
England median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +12.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 8,050 5,197 7,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.93% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 3,200 4,854
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,256
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the West Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the West Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in the West Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham -7 16 £29,250 +8.33% 1
Solihull +8 11 £26,900 -8.03% 4
Staffordshire -28 6 £30,000 -7.69% 1
Warwickshire - 4 £34,000 -
Worcestershire - 3 £30,000 -
Coventry +25 1 £33,500 +4.69%
Dudley +1 1 £27,500 -11.29%
Sutton Coldfield - 1 £27,000 -
Walsall - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £32,500 - 1
2nd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 West Midlands region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (55.56%) Windows
1 25 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 21 (46.67%) Windows 10
3 20 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (44.44%) WAN
4 19 (42.22%) VMware
5 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
6 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 13 (28.89%) Windows Server
7 13 (28.89%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (26.67%) Veeam
8 12 (26.67%) Azure
8 12 (26.67%) SCCM
9 11 (24.44%) Juniper
9 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (24.44%) Hyper-V
9 11 (24.44%) Entra ID
9 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (22.22%) MPLS
10 10 (22.22%) BGP
10 10 (22.22%) PKI
10 10 (22.22%) Firewall
10 10 (22.22%) IPsec
11 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
11 9 (20.00%) Customer Service
12 8 (17.78%) VMware ESXi
12 8 (17.78%) Replication
12 8 (17.78%) VPN
12 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Exchange

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (26.67%) Azure
3 11 (24.44%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.89%) OneDrive
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (6.67%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.22%) IaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (44.44%) WAN
2 10 (22.22%) BGP
2 10 (22.22%) Firewall
2 10 (22.22%) IPsec
2 10 (22.22%) MPLS
3 8 (17.78%) VPN
4 6 (13.33%) DNS
4 6 (13.33%) SD-WAN
4 6 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (11.11%) DHCP
5 5 (11.11%) PBX
5 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 4 (8.89%) LAN
7 3 (6.67%) Ethernet
7 3 (6.67%) SMTP
7 3 (6.67%) VLAN
8 1 (2.22%) IPv4
8 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.22%) Skype
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Law
3 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) PKI
2 8 (17.78%) Replication
3 3 (6.67%) Clustering
3 3 (6.67%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (55.56%) Windows
2 21 (46.67%) Windows 10
3 13 (28.89%) Windows Server
4 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (15.56%) Linux
6 5 (11.11%) CentOS
6 5 (11.11%) Mac OS
6 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.22%) Android
8 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
8 1 (2.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 5 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 5 (11.11%) Service Management
4 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (2.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.22%) Fintech
5 1 (2.22%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (2.22%) Identity Management
5 1 (2.22%) Inventory Management
5 1 (2.22%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (2.22%) Migration
5 1 (2.22%) Network Management
5 1 (2.22%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (2.22%) Service Delivery
5 1 (2.22%) Software Deployment
5 1 (2.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) GDPR
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 13 (28.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (24.44%) Hyper-V
4 8 (17.78%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (4.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) SCCM
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.67%) Autotask
3 3 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (42.22%) VMware
2 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (26.67%) Veeam
4 11 (24.44%) Juniper
5 7 (15.56%) Cisco
6 5 (11.11%) Citrix
6 5 (11.11%) Remedy
7 3 (6.67%) Apple
7 3 (6.67%) Datto
7 3 (6.67%) Draytek
7 3 (6.67%) Sage
7 3 (6.67%) Sophos
7 3 (6.67%) Webroot
8 1 (2.22%) Avaya
8 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.22%) Meraki
8 1 (2.22%) Ubiquiti