Second Line Engineer
UK

The median Second Line Engineer salary in the UK is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 503 751
Rank change year-on-year +27 +248 -102
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 477 566 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.57% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.62% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 452 531 481
10th Percentile £25,950 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,375 £28,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.56% +12.28%
75th Percentile £36,000 £38,000 £35,500
90th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the UK

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the UK

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in the UK

2nd Line Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 May 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
England +39 448 £32,500 - 131
UK excluding London +6 394 £30,000 -4.76% 119
North of England +64 103 £31,750 +1.60% 23
South East -53 91 £30,500 -3.17% 33
London +26 83 £36,500 +4.29% 23
Work from Home +50 77 £32,500 - 44
East of England +30 61 £32,500 - 15
Midlands +17 57 £30,000 - 23
South West -28 56 £32,500 -10.96% 21
North West -2 47 £30,000 -10.45% 16
West Midlands +38 43 £30,000 - 19
Yorkshire +90 34 £32,500 +17.75% 6
North East +20 22 £32,250 -0.77% 1
Wales +22 16 £27,500 - 3
East Midlands -19 14 £32,000 +6.67% 4
Scotland -69 6 £31,500 +1.61% 4
Northern Ireland +33 4 £35,000 +7.69%

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 327 (68.55%) Windows
2 307 (64.36%) Microsoft 365
3 304 (63.73%) Active Directory
4 302 (63.31%) Microsoft
5 198 (41.51%) Azure
6 191 (40.04%) Social Skills
7 158 (33.12%) Windows Server
8 141 (29.56%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (28.51%) Windows 10
10 133 (27.88%) SharePoint
11 119 (24.95%) Customer Service
12 115 (24.11%) VMware
13 112 (23.48%) Microsoft Exchange
14 105 (22.01%) Firewall
15 99 (20.75%) Microsoft Office
16 89 (18.66%) Microsoft Intune
17 84 (17.61%) VMware Infrastructure
18 81 (16.98%) Entra ID
19 79 (16.56%) Hyper-V
20 71 (14.88%) ITIL
21 66 (13.84%) Wi-Fi
22 64 (13.42%) WAN
22 64 (13.42%) Microsoft Certification
23 62 (13.00%) LAN
24 61 (12.79%) DNS
25 58 (12.16%) Degree
26 55 (11.53%) Cisco
27 51 (10.69%) DHCP
28 49 (10.27%) Citrix
29 48 (10.06%) OneDrive

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 133 (27.88%) SharePoint
2 112 (23.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.52%) SharePoint 2010
3 12 (2.52%) SharePoint 2013
4 6 (1.26%) Confluence
5 4 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.42%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.21%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.21%) JOnAS
Applications
1 99 (20.75%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.42%) InfoPath
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 307 (64.36%) Microsoft 365
2 198 (41.51%) Azure
3 81 (16.98%) Entra ID
4 48 (10.06%) OneDrive
5 32 (6.71%) AWS
6 30 (6.29%) GCP
7 10 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.63%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.42%) IaaS
9 2 (0.42%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.42%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.42%) SaaS
10 1 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.21%) Dropbox
10 1 (0.21%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 105 (22.01%) Firewall
2 66 (13.84%) Wi-Fi
3 64 (13.42%) WAN
4 62 (13.00%) LAN
5 61 (12.79%) DNS
6 51 (10.69%) DHCP
7 38 (7.97%) VPN
8 31 (6.50%) VLAN
9 30 (6.29%) TCP/IP
10 27 (5.66%) Network Security
11 23 (4.82%) VoIP
12 20 (4.19%) SAN
13 15 (3.14%) Internet
13 15 (3.14%) IPsec
14 13 (2.73%) Remote Desktop
15 12 (2.52%) BGP
16 11 (2.31%) MPLS
16 11 (2.31%) Wireless
17 10 (2.10%) PBX
18 8 (1.68%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.87%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.68%) MariaDB
3 8 (1.68%) MySQL
4 4 (0.84%) Metabase
5 1 (0.21%) Power BI
5 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (2.94%) JIRA
2 4 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 191 (40.04%) Social Skills
2 46 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (8.39%) Finance
4 39 (8.18%) Organisational Skills
5 26 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 24 (5.03%) Law
7 19 (3.98%) Legal
8 18 (3.77%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.68%) Retail
11 5 (1.05%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.84%) Marketing
13 3 (0.63%) Electronics
14 2 (0.42%) Banking
14 2 (0.42%) Games
14 2 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.21%) Advertising
15 1 (0.21%) Automotive
15 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.84%) Cocoa
2 3 (0.63%) XML
3 2 (0.42%) .NET
3 2 (0.42%) COM
3 2 (0.42%) HTML
3 2 (0.42%) HTML5
3 2 (0.42%) JSON
4 1 (0.21%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.21%) CSS
4 1 (0.21%) EDI
4 1 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.34%) Driving Licence
2 27 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.19%) EPoS
4 13 (2.73%) Smartphone
5 12 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.31%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (2.10%) iPad
7 10 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.89%) Replication
9 8 (1.68%) Clustering
9 8 (1.68%) PKI
10 6 (1.26%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.84%) Raspberry Pi
12 3 (0.63%) Apple TV
12 3 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.21%) BYOD
13 1 (0.21%) Data Centre
13 1 (0.21%) Hedge funds
13 1 (0.21%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 327 (68.55%) Windows
2 158 (33.12%) Windows Server
3 136 (28.51%) Windows 10
4 45 (9.43%) Mac OS
5 33 (6.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 31 (6.50%) Linux
7 25 (5.24%) Apple iOS
8 20 (4.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (3.77%) Android
10 15 (3.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (1.47%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.05%) CentOS
12 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.63%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.42%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.21%) VMS
15 1 (0.21%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (29.56%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (24.95%) Customer Service
3 71 (14.88%) ITIL
4 41 (8.60%) Computer Science
5 26 (5.45%) Mobile Device Management
6 24 (5.03%) Incident Management
7 21 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (3.98%) Service Delivery
9 16 (3.35%) Mentoring
9 16 (3.35%) Server Virtualisation
10 15 (3.14%) Logistics
11 13 (2.73%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (2.52%) ITSM
12 12 (2.52%) Project Delivery
12 12 (2.52%) Server Management
13 11 (2.31%) Antivirus Management
13 11 (2.31%) Desktop Virtualisation
13 11 (2.31%) Kalman Filter
13 11 (2.31%) Service Management
13 11 (2.31%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.08%) PowerShell
2 16 (3.35%) SQL
3 8 (1.68%) Python
4 3 (0.63%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.42%) Bash
5 2 (0.42%) R
6 1 (0.21%) Bicep
6 1 (0.21%) C++
6 1 (0.21%) Perl
Qualifications
1 64 (13.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 58 (12.16%) Degree
3 39 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (7.97%) Security Cleared
5 36 (7.55%) DBS Check
6 33 (6.92%) A+ Certification
7 29 (6.08%) SC Cleared
8 27 (5.66%) MCP
9 21 (4.40%) CCNA
9 21 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (3.14%) CCNP
11 13 (2.73%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.52%) MCITP
12 12 (2.52%) MCSE
13 8 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (1.26%) HND
15 3 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.63%) MCDST
16 2 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.29%) SLA
2 3 (0.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 304 (63.73%) Active Directory
2 84 (17.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (16.56%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.56%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (2.52%) XenApp
6 12 (2.52%) XenDesktop
7 8 (1.68%) vSphere
8 6 (1.26%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.63%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.21%) Firmware
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 89 (18.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (8.60%) SCCM
3 8 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
3 8 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (1.47%) Autotask
5 6 (1.26%) SmoothWall
6 5 (1.05%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.63%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.63%) SCOM
8 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.21%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 302 (63.31%) Microsoft
2 115 (24.11%) VMware
3 55 (11.53%) Cisco
4 49 (10.27%) Citrix
5 27 (5.66%) Apple
5 27 (5.66%) Veeam
6 25 (5.24%) HP
7 23 (4.82%) Google
8 20 (4.19%) Dell
9 19 (3.98%) Sophos
10 15 (3.14%) Juniper
11 12 (2.52%) Bloomberg
11 12 (2.52%) Symantec
12 11 (2.31%) Meraki
13 9 (1.89%) Datto
14 6 (1.26%) ESET
15 5 (1.05%) Remedy
15 5 (1.05%) Ubiquiti
16 4 (0.84%) Sage
16 4 (0.84%) Salesforce