1st Line Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

First Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median First Line Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £26,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 662 616 778
Rank change year-on-year -46 +162 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 118 112 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 118 106 90
10th Percentile £21,000 £21,250 £19,500
25th Percentile £22,500 £23,250 £20,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £25,000 £23,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +6.98%
75th Percentile £28,750 £28,000 £26,875
90th Percentile £36,500 £28,750 £28,775
UK median annual salary £27,000 £25,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +13.64%

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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
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%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 1st Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st 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 1st Line Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East -23 34 £25,250 +1.00% 16
North of England +21 24 £22,826 -12.21% 9
North West -13 18 £23,250 -10.58% 3
Northern Ireland - 16 £35,000 - 2
South West -36 13 £27,000 +8.00% 3
Scotland -60 12 £27,500 +20.88% 1
Midlands -63 9 £25,500 +2.00% 4
East Midlands -46 6 £25,500 +2.00% 4
East of England -24 5 £24,000 -4.00% 6
North East - 5 £22,000 - 1
Wales - 5 £22,000 -
West Midlands -19 3 £27,500 +13.40%
Yorkshire +61 1 £21,500 -21.82% 5
1st Line Engineer
UK

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 1st 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 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (55.93%) Microsoft 365
1 66 (55.93%) Windows
2 59 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 56 (47.46%) Social Skills
4 49 (41.53%) Customer Service
5 42 (35.59%) Active Directory
6 32 (27.12%) Windows Server
7 23 (19.49%) Finance
7 23 (19.49%) Azure
8 21 (17.80%) Mentoring
9 19 (16.10%) Manufacturing
10 18 (15.25%) Firewall
10 18 (15.25%) SharePoint
11 16 (13.56%) Customer Experience
11 16 (13.56%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (13.56%) Coaching
11 16 (13.56%) Degree
11 16 (13.56%) Incident Management
11 16 (13.56%) VoIP
11 16 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (13.56%) Telecoms
12 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
13 14 (11.86%) Electronics
13 14 (11.86%) Programme Management
13 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Office
13 14 (11.86%) SAP
13 14 (11.86%) ITIL
13 14 (11.86%) VLAN
13 14 (11.86%) Marketing
13 14 (11.86%) Digital Marketing

1st 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 18 (15.25%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 66 (55.93%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (19.49%) Azure
3 12 (10.17%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.69%) OneDrive
4 2 (1.69%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.85%) AWS
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.25%) Firewall
2 16 (13.56%) VoIP
3 14 (11.86%) VLAN
4 11 (9.32%) VPN
5 10 (8.47%) WAN
6 9 (7.63%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (6.78%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (6.78%) TCP/IP
8 7 (5.93%) Internet
8 7 (5.93%) LAN
9 5 (4.24%) Unified Communications
10 3 (2.54%) Broadband
10 3 (2.54%) DHCP
10 3 (2.54%) DNS
10 3 (2.54%) Wireless
11 2 (1.69%) IPsec
11 2 (1.69%) Network Security
12 1 (0.85%) Intranet
12 1 (0.85%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 56 (47.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.49%) Finance
3 19 (16.10%) Manufacturing
4 16 (13.56%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (13.56%) Telecoms
5 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
6 14 (11.86%) Electronics
6 14 (11.86%) Marketing
7 8 (6.78%) Retail
8 4 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.54%) Games
10 2 (1.69%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.85%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Driving Licence
2 7 (5.93%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.24%) PMI
4 2 (1.69%) NHS
5 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 66 (55.93%) Windows
2 32 (27.12%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.32%) Linux
4 8 (6.78%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.39%) Debian
7 2 (1.69%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.85%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.53%) Customer Service
2 21 (17.80%) Mentoring
3 16 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (13.56%) Coaching
3 16 (13.56%) Customer Experience
3 16 (13.56%) Incident Management
4 14 (11.86%) Digital Marketing
4 14 (11.86%) ITIL
4 14 (11.86%) Programme Management
5 13 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (10.17%) Customer-Centricity
7 11 (9.32%) Service Delivery
7 11 (9.32%) Service Management
8 7 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (5.08%) Change Management
10 5 (4.24%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (4.24%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (4.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (4.24%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 5 (4.24%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.24%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) Degree
2 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (5.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 5 (4.24%) DBS Check
4 5 (4.24%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.54%) CCNA
5 3 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.69%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) CCNP
7 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) SLA
2 4 (3.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 42 (35.59%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) Firmware
4 1 (0.85%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.85%) XenApp
4 1 (0.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.86%) SAP
3 13 (11.02%) Cisco
4 8 (6.78%) VMware
5 7 (5.93%) Progress
6 6 (5.08%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.24%) Apple
7 5 (4.24%) BT
7 5 (4.24%) Juniper
7 5 (4.24%) Mitel
8 1 (0.85%) Aruba
8 1 (0.85%) Citrix
8 1 (0.85%) HP
8 1 (0.85%) Remedy
8 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow