First Line Engineer
UK
The median First Line Engineer salary in the UK is £27,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2025.
The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 16 Jun 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 669 | 770 | 792 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +101 | +22 | +319 |
| Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer | 51 | 144 | 153 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 0.091% | 0.13% | 0.17% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.10% | 0.14% | 0.18% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 46 | 140 | 142 |
| 10th Percentile | £21,250 | £21,000 | £21,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £25,563 | £23,000 | £23,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £27,500 | £27,000 | £25,250 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.85% | +6.93% | +1.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £34,500 | £28,750 | £28,750 |
| 90th Percentile | £37,500 | £36,500 | £31,450 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £27,500 | £26,000 | £25,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.77% | +4.00% | +8.70% |
All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 | 50,468 | 105,033 | 83,541 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 89.90% | 94.79% | 91.16% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 26,658 | 74,081 | 54,579 |
| 10th Percentile | £27,500 | £28,500 | £32,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £39,500 | £38,572 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £52,500 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.76% | -12.50% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £73,750 | £70,000 | £80,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £95,000 | £90,000 | £100,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £50,055 | £50,000 | £53,500 |
| % change year-on-year | +0.11% | -6.54% | +6.63% |
1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings that featured 1st Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
1st Line Engineer
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer.
1st Line Engineer
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing 1st Line Engineer over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.
1st Line Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations
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 over the 6 months to 16 June 2025. 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 |
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| England | +118 | 46 | £28,000 | +9.80% | 252 |
| UK excluding London | +110 | 42 | £27,500 | +5.77% | 232 |
| South East | +74 | 21 | £33,000 | +30.69% | 52 |
| Work from Home | +112 | 8 | £32,750 | +21.30% | 109 |
| London | +90 | 8 | £27,750 | +0.91% | 30 |
| Midlands | +83 | 7 | £26,500 | +3.92% | 42 |
| Wales | +48 | 5 | £22,500 | +2.27% | 7 |
| North of England | +48 | 5 | £26,500 | +16.10% | 70 |
| Yorkshire | +68 | 4 | £25,750 | +19.77% | 19 |
| East Midlands | +51 | 4 | £24,500 | -3.92% | 20 |
| South West | +105 | 3 | £26,500 | -1.85% | 22 |
| West Midlands | +74 | 3 | £37,500 | +36.36% | 22 |
| East of England | +31 | 1 | £26,000 | +8.33% | 28 |
| North West | +3 | 1 | £26,750 | +15.05% | 43 |
1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities
For the 6 months to 16 June 2025, 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 featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.
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1st 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:
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