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 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 415 535
Rank change year-on-year +9 +120 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 409 371 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.75% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 381 349 325
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,600 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £33,750
90th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
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 74,776 49,490 72,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.82% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 29,308 43,150
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 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 8 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 8 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 +43 104 £32,000 +8.47% 25
South East -66 95 £30,250 -3.97% 24
Midlands -7 63 £30,000 -0.83% 13
East of England +21 61 £32,500 -4.41% 12
South West -33 59 £32,500 -12.16% 18
North West -3 49 £30,000 -9.09% 17
West Midlands +24 45 £30,000 -0.83% 6
Yorkshire +76 35 £32,500 +17.75% 6
North East +2 20 £31,000 -4.62% 2
East Midlands -30 18 £32,000 +3.23% 7
Wales +21 16 £27,500 -
Scotland -62 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 8 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.

1 256 (62.59%) Windows
2 255 (62.35%) Microsoft
3 248 (60.64%) Microsoft 365
4 240 (58.68%) Active Directory
5 170 (41.56%) Azure
6 167 (40.83%) Social Skills
7 119 (29.10%) Windows Server
8 118 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
9 112 (27.38%) Customer Service
10 107 (26.16%) Windows 10
11 104 (25.43%) SharePoint
12 100 (24.45%) VMware
13 93 (22.74%) Firewall
14 91 (22.25%) Microsoft Exchange
15 75 (18.34%) Microsoft Office
15 75 (18.34%) VMware Infrastructure
16 73 (17.85%) Hyper-V
16 73 (17.85%) Microsoft Intune
17 71 (17.36%) Entra ID
18 58 (14.18%) WAN
18 58 (14.18%) Microsoft Certification
19 54 (13.20%) ITIL
19 54 (13.20%) Degree
20 53 (12.96%) DNS
21 48 (11.74%) Cisco
21 48 (11.74%) Wi-Fi
22 45 (11.00%) Mac OS
23 43 (10.51%) OneDrive
24 41 (10.02%) LAN
24 41 (10.02%) Computer Science

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 (25.43%) SharePoint
2 91 (22.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.96%) SharePoint 2010
3 8 (1.96%) SharePoint 2013
4 5 (1.22%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.24%) JOnAS
6 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 75 (18.34%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) InfoPath
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 248 (60.64%) Microsoft 365
2 170 (41.56%) Azure
3 71 (17.36%) Entra ID
4 43 (10.51%) OneDrive
5 30 (7.33%) AWS
6 26 (6.36%) GCP
7 5 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.98%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.73%) IaaS
9 3 (0.73%) SaaS
10 2 (0.49%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.49%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.49%) Serverless
11 1 (0.24%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 93 (22.74%) Firewall
2 58 (14.18%) WAN
3 53 (12.96%) DNS
4 48 (11.74%) Wi-Fi
5 41 (10.02%) LAN
6 40 (9.78%) DHCP
7 33 (8.07%) VPN
8 31 (7.58%) TCP/IP
9 29 (7.09%) VLAN
10 27 (6.60%) Network Security
11 23 (5.62%) VoIP
12 18 (4.40%) SAN
13 14 (3.42%) IPsec
14 13 (3.18%) Internet
15 12 (2.93%) BGP
15 12 (2.93%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (2.69%) MPLS
16 11 (2.69%) Wireless
17 10 (2.44%) PBX
18 9 (2.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.96%) MariaDB
3 8 (1.96%) MySQL
4 3 (0.73%) Metabase
5 1 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (3.18%) JIRA
2 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 167 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 28 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (6.85%) Manufacturing
3 22 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
4 20 (4.89%) Finance
5 18 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 12 (2.93%) Legal
7 11 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.69%) Law
8 7 (1.71%) Retail
9 4 (0.98%) Marketing
10 3 (0.73%) Electronics
10 3 (0.73%) Games
10 3 (0.73%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.24%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.98%) Cocoa
2 3 (0.73%) XML
3 2 (0.49%) .NET
3 2 (0.49%) COM
3 2 (0.49%) HTML
3 2 (0.49%) HTML5
3 2 (0.49%) JSON
4 1 (0.24%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.56%) Driving Licence
2 27 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.18%) Smartphone
4 10 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.44%) PKI
5 9 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (2.20%) Replication
5 9 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.96%) Clustering
6 8 (1.96%) EPoS
7 7 (1.71%) iPad
8 6 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.73%) Apple TV
9 3 (0.73%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.49%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.24%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.24%) iPhone
11 1 (0.24%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 256 (62.59%) Windows
2 119 (29.10%) Windows Server
3 107 (26.16%) Windows 10
4 45 (11.00%) Mac OS
5 27 (6.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (6.36%) Linux
7 21 (5.13%) Apple iOS
8 18 (4.40%) Android
9 17 (4.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.22%) CentOS
11 5 (1.22%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.49%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.24%) VMS
13 1 (0.24%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (27.38%) Customer Service
3 54 (13.20%) ITIL
4 41 (10.02%) Computer Science
5 20 (4.89%) Mobile Device Management
6 19 (4.65%) Incident Management
7 15 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (3.67%) Mentoring
8 14 (3.42%) Logistics
9 13 (3.18%) Service Delivery
10 12 (2.93%) Antivirus Management
10 12 (2.93%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (2.93%) Project Delivery
10 12 (2.93%) Server Management
11 10 (2.44%) ITSM
11 10 (2.44%) Kalman Filter
11 10 (2.44%) Server Virtualisation
12 9 (2.20%) Desktop Virtualisation
12 9 (2.20%) Line Management
12 9 (2.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (7.09%) PowerShell
2 14 (3.42%) SQL
3 7 (1.71%) Python
4 3 (0.73%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.49%) R
6 1 (0.24%) Bash
6 1 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 58 (14.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 54 (13.20%) Degree
3 39 (9.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (9.05%) DBS Check
5 34 (8.31%) Security Cleared
6 32 (7.82%) A+ Certification
7 29 (7.09%) SC Cleared
8 27 (6.60%) MCP
9 17 (4.16%) CCNA
9 17 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (3.18%) CCNP
11 11 (2.69%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (1.96%) MCITP
12 8 (1.96%) MCSE
12 8 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (1.47%) HND
14 3 (0.73%) MCDST
15 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.13%) SLA
2 6 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 240 (58.68%) Active Directory
2 75 (18.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (17.85%) Hyper-V
4 13 (3.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (3.18%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (2.93%) vSphere
6 8 (1.96%) XenApp
6 8 (1.96%) XenDesktop
7 5 (1.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 73 (17.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (7.09%) SCCM
3 8 (1.96%) Failover Clustering
3 8 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (1.71%) Autotask
5 6 (1.47%) SmoothWall
6 2 (0.49%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.49%) SCOM
7 1 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 255 (62.35%) Microsoft
2 100 (24.45%) VMware
3 48 (11.74%) Cisco
4 38 (9.29%) Citrix
5 24 (5.87%) Veeam
6 21 (5.13%) Apple
7 20 (4.89%) Google
7 20 (4.89%) Sophos
8 19 (4.65%) HP
9 17 (4.16%) Juniper
10 14 (3.42%) Dell
11 11 (2.69%) Meraki
12 8 (1.96%) Symantec
13 7 (1.71%) Datto
13 7 (1.71%) ESET
14 5 (1.22%) Remedy
15 4 (0.98%) Draytek
15 4 (0.98%) Sage
15 4 (0.98%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.98%) Ubiquiti