2nd Line Desktop Support Jobs with Work from Home Options

Second Line Desktop Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Second Line Desktop Support salary in Work from Home is £27,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 638 856
Rank change year-on-year +51 +218 -282
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Desktop Support 6 7 13
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.018% 0.017% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.018% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile - £31,084 £27,575
25th Percentile £26,500 £33,487 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £35,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £33,250 £48,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £36,250 £53,300 £53,250
UK median annual salary £32,500 £33,444 £32,250
% change year-on-year -2.82% +3.70% +11.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,868 38,380 71,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 95.92% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,148 27,302 42,471
10th Percentile £33,093 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,536 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

2nd Line Desktop Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured 2nd Line Desktop Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

2nd Line Desktop Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

2nd Line Desktop Support
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing 2nd Line Desktop Support.

2nd Line Desktop Support salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

2nd Line Desktop Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, 2nd Line Desktop Support 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 jobs with remote work options featuring 2nd Line Desktop Support in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 4 (66.67%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (50.00%) Software Deployment
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) Hardware Maintenance
3 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (50.00%) Fintech
3 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (33.33%) Inventory Management
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Marketing
5 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (16.67%) SCCM
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) Aruba
5 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V

2nd Line Desktop Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) HTTP
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Fintech
1 3 (50.00%) Hardware Maintenance
1 3 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) VMware