2nd Line Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Second Line Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Second Line Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 618 803
Rank change year-on-year -22 +185 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Network Engineer 30 10 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.051% 0.027% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.028% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 18 10 39
10th Percentile - £34,625 £31,600
25th Percentile £25,950 £35,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £39,250 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +15.44% +4.62%
75th Percentile £35,000 £43,438 £37,500
90th Percentile £37,500 £45,125 £41,250
UK median annual salary £32,500 £39,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year -17.20% +12.14% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 56,175 35,323 68,428
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 94.08% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 30,795 24,269 41,326
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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

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

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

2nd Line Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

2nd Line Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

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

2nd Line Network 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 Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +5 8 £32,500 -18.75%
West Midlands - 8 £26,900 - 1
Midlands - 8 £26,900 - 1
North West -14 6 £32,500 -18.75%
South East -25 4 £35,000 -9.09%
East of England - 4 £35,000 - 2
South West -3 3 £36,500 -5.81%
Wales - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
2nd Line Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, 2nd Line Network 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (46.67%) CCNA
1 14 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (36.67%) Cisco
3 10 (33.33%) BGP
3 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (30.00%) Degree
4 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 8 (26.67%) Firewall
5 8 (26.67%) CCNP
5 8 (26.67%) Juniper
5 8 (26.67%) WAN
5 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
5 8 (26.67%) Customer Service
6 7 (23.33%) MPLS
6 7 (23.33%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
6 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
7 6 (20.00%) IPsec
7 6 (20.00%) VPN
7 6 (20.00%) Windows
7 6 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
8 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
8 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
9 4 (13.33%) Wireless
9 4 (13.33%) Azure
9 4 (13.33%) DNS
9 4 (13.33%) DHCP

2nd Line Network 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 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) BGP
2 8 (26.67%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 8 (26.67%) WAN
3 7 (23.33%) MPLS
3 7 (23.33%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (20.00%) IPsec
4 6 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 6 (20.00%) VPN
5 4 (13.33%) DHCP
5 4 (13.33%) DNS
5 4 (13.33%) OSPF
5 4 (13.33%) PBX
5 4 (13.33%) VoIP
5 4 (13.33%) Wireless
6 3 (10.00%) 4G
6 3 (10.00%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (10.00%) DSL
6 3 (10.00%) LTE
6 3 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Legal
2 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (10.00%) Smartphone
3 2 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Android
2 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (26.67%) Customer Service
4 6 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (10.00%) Logistics
5 3 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (6.67%) ITIL
6 2 (6.67%) ITSM
6 2 (6.67%) Problem Management
6 2 (6.67%) Service Management
7 1 (3.33%) Business Strategy
7 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (3.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) CCNA
1 14 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (30.00%) Degree
3 8 (26.67%) CCNP
4 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (10.00%) JNCIA
5 3 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (3.33%) Nagios
1 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Cisco
2 8 (26.67%) Juniper
3 3 (10.00%) Citrix
3 3 (10.00%) Meraki
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Aruba
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.33%) VMware