2nd Line Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Second Line Engineer
England > North of England

The median Second Line Engineer salary in the North of England is £31,750 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 281 345 408
Rank change year-on-year +64 +63 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 103 75 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.50% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 102 72 52
10th Percentile £24,250 £26,025 £23,600
25th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,750 £31,250 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +4.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £33,906
90th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £39,450
England median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +12.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 16,792 15,127 17,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 89.57% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12,971 8,097 11,000
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the North of England

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the North of England

2nd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in the North of England

2nd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region 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
North West -2 47 £30,000 -10.45% 16
Yorkshire +90 34 £32,500 +17.75% 5
North East +20 22 £32,250 -0.77% 1
2nd Line Engineer
England

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 across the North of England region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (60.19%) Active Directory
2 59 (57.28%) Microsoft
3 56 (54.37%) Social Skills
4 52 (50.49%) Windows
5 48 (46.60%) Microsoft 365
6 41 (39.81%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (37.86%) Azure
8 28 (27.18%) Windows 10
9 26 (25.24%) Firewall
10 25 (24.27%) Microsoft Office
10 25 (24.27%) Cisco
11 21 (20.39%) Customer Service
12 20 (19.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (19.42%) Degree
13 19 (18.45%) ITIL
13 19 (18.45%) SAN
13 19 (18.45%) Driving Licence
14 18 (17.48%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (17.48%) SQL Server
14 18 (17.48%) VMware
15 17 (16.50%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (16.50%) VoIP
16 15 (14.56%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (14.56%) DNS
16 15 (14.56%) Mac OS
16 15 (14.56%) Computer Science
17 14 (13.59%) VPN
17 14 (13.59%) CCNA
17 14 (13.59%) Cisco Certification
17 14 (13.59%) Computer Science Degree

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (10.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (10.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (24.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.94%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 48 (46.60%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (37.86%) Azure
3 7 (6.80%) AWS
3 7 (6.80%) GCP
4 6 (5.83%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.85%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.94%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (25.24%) Firewall
2 19 (18.45%) SAN
3 17 (16.50%) VoIP
4 15 (14.56%) DNS
4 15 (14.56%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (13.59%) VPN
6 13 (12.62%) VLAN
7 11 (10.68%) WAN
8 10 (9.71%) LAN
9 9 (8.74%) DHCP
10 8 (7.77%) Network Security
10 8 (7.77%) TCP/IP
11 7 (6.80%) NAS
11 7 (6.80%) Wireless
12 5 (4.85%) ADSL
12 5 (4.85%) Broadband
12 5 (4.85%) PBX
13 2 (1.94%) Internet
13 2 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (1.94%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
General
1 56 (54.37%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.48%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Finance
4 6 (5.83%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.85%) Retail
6 1 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.94%) .NET
2 1 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.45%) Driving Licence
2 11 (10.68%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (7.77%) EPoS
3 8 (7.77%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.83%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.85%) Clustering
6 1 (0.97%) iPhone
6 1 (0.97%) New Media
6 1 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 52 (50.49%) Windows
2 28 (27.18%) Windows 10
3 15 (14.56%) Mac OS
4 13 (12.62%) Windows Server
5 10 (9.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (4.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.97%) Linux
8 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (20.39%) Customer Service
3 19 (18.45%) ITIL
4 15 (14.56%) Computer Science
5 11 (10.68%) Desktop Virtualisation
5 11 (10.68%) Incident Management
6 6 (5.83%) Antivirus Management
6 6 (5.83%) Server Management
6 6 (5.83%) Storage Management
7 5 (4.85%) Decision-Making
7 5 (4.85%) Email Filtering
7 5 (4.85%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (4.85%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (3.88%) Quality Management
9 3 (2.91%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (2.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (2.91%) Service Delivery
10 2 (1.94%) Fintech
10 2 (1.94%) Migration
11 1 (0.97%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.71%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.83%) Python
3 2 (1.94%) SQL
4 1 (0.97%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (19.42%) Degree
1 20 (19.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (13.59%) CCNA
2 14 (13.59%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (13.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (12.62%) CCNP
4 12 (11.65%) Azure Certification
4 12 (11.65%) DBS Check
5 8 (7.77%) A+ Certification
5 8 (7.77%) MCP
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.97%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) SLA
2 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (60.19%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.68%) Hyper-V
3 10 (9.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.94%) vSphere
5 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 17 (16.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.80%) SCCM
3 5 (4.85%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (4.85%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (3.88%) Autotask
5 1 (0.97%) SCOM
5 1 (0.97%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 59 (57.28%) Microsoft
2 25 (24.27%) Cisco
3 18 (17.48%) VMware
4 8 (7.77%) Sophos
5 6 (5.83%) ESET
5 6 (5.83%) Juniper
5 6 (5.83%) Meraki
6 5 (4.85%) Apple
7 4 (3.88%) Datto
7 4 (3.88%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.91%) Veeam
9 2 (1.94%) Citrix
9 2 (1.94%) Dell
10 1 (0.97%) Aruba
10 1 (0.97%) Commvault
10 1 (0.97%) Draytek
10 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.97%) SolarWinds