3rd Line Engineer Contracts

Third Line Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in the UK is £370 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
9 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 519 570
Rank change year-on-year +44 +51 +15
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 127 177 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.34% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 124 218
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £299 £325 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £394 £388
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +1.61% +13.97%
75th Percentile £400 £488 £438
90th Percentile £500 £542 £475
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £375 £400
% change year-on-year -9.33% -6.25% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +44 117 £375 -3.23% 63
UK excluding London +21 95 £340 -9.33% 58
Work from Home +89 29 £363 -12.65% 25
North of England +38 29 £375 +7.14% 17
Midlands -6 27 £288 -14.81% 14
London +53 25 £385 -5.52% 8
West Midlands -2 25 £300 -7.69% 13
North West +28 23 £400 +14.29% 7
South East +11 22 £375 - 13
South West +6 7 £350 -30.00% 4
East of England +3 5 £250 -42.86% 6
Scotland +43 4 £325 -7.14% 2
North East +12 3 £275 -24.14% 6
Yorkshire +11 3 £300 -4.00% 4
East Midlands -1 2 £275 -24.14% 1
Wales - 1 £365 - 1

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, 3rd Line Engineer contract 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 contract job ads featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (41.73%) Windows
2 43 (33.86%) Security Cleared
3 42 (33.07%) Microsoft
4 39 (30.71%) VPN
5 36 (28.35%) Active Directory
6 35 (27.56%) WAN
6 35 (27.56%) VMware
6 35 (27.56%) Azure
7 33 (25.98%) BGP
8 31 (24.41%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (23.62%) MPLS
10 28 (22.05%) Juniper
10 28 (22.05%) Firewall
11 27 (21.26%) IPsec
11 27 (21.26%) PKI
11 27 (21.26%) Windows Server
12 25 (19.69%) Junos
13 24 (18.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (18.11%) Load Balancing
15 22 (17.32%) VMware Infrastructure
16 20 (15.75%) Social Skills
17 17 (13.39%) SC Cleared
18 16 (12.60%) Linux
19 15 (11.81%) Cisco Certification
19 15 (11.81%) Windows 10
19 15 (11.81%) Degree
20 14 (11.02%) PowerShell
20 14 (11.02%) VLAN
21 13 (10.24%) CCNP
21 13 (10.24%) Hyper-V

3rd 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 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.79%) nginx
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.56%) Azure
2 31 (24.41%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (7.87%) AWS
4 8 (6.30%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.72%) GCP
6 3 (2.36%) IaaS
6 3 (2.36%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.57%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.79%) PaaS
8 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.79%) SaaS
8 1 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (30.71%) VPN
2 35 (27.56%) WAN
3 33 (25.98%) BGP
4 30 (23.62%) MPLS
5 28 (22.05%) Firewall
6 27 (21.26%) IPsec
7 25 (19.69%) Junos
8 14 (11.02%) VLAN
9 10 (7.87%) OSPF
9 10 (7.87%) SAN
10 9 (7.09%) LAN
11 7 (5.51%) SD-WAN
11 7 (5.51%) TCP/IP
12 6 (4.72%) DNS
12 6 (4.72%) NAS
13 5 (3.94%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (3.94%) DHCP
14 4 (3.15%) Value-Added Service
14 4 (3.15%) Wireless
14 4 (3.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.94%) MySQL
2 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Git
2 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 20 (15.75%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.24%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.36%) Finance
4 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.79%) Back Office
5 1 (0.79%) Banking
5 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.79%) Law
5 1 (0.79%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.36%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.57%) Kafka
3 1 (0.79%) .NET
3 1 (0.79%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.79%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.79%) Spring
3 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.26%) PKI
2 12 (9.45%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.94%) Clustering
4 4 (3.15%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.15%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.79%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (41.73%) Windows
2 27 (21.26%) Windows Server
3 16 (12.60%) Linux
4 15 (11.81%) Windows 10
5 8 (6.30%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (6.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.72%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (3.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (3.15%) Unix
9 3 (2.36%) Android
10 2 (1.57%) CentOS
10 2 (1.57%) Debian
10 2 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.79%) Solaris
11 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (18.11%) Load Balancing
3 11 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (7.87%) Mentoring
5 8 (6.30%) Computer Science
5 8 (6.30%) Customer Service
5 8 (6.30%) Patch Management
6 7 (5.51%) Change Management
6 7 (5.51%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (3.94%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (3.94%) ITIL
7 5 (3.94%) Migration
8 4 (3.15%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (3.15%) Server Management
9 3 (2.36%) Change Control
9 3 (2.36%) Cost Reduction
9 3 (2.36%) High Availability
9 3 (2.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (2.36%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (2.36%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.02%) PowerShell
2 5 (3.94%) SQL
3 3 (2.36%) Python
4 2 (1.57%) Java
4 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.79%) Bash
5 1 (0.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 43 (33.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.81%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (11.81%) Degree
4 13 (10.24%) CCNP
5 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.51%) MCSE
8 5 (3.94%) CCIE
9 4 (3.15%) CCNA
9 4 (3.15%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.15%) VCAP
9 4 (3.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.57%) MCSA
10 2 (1.57%) RHCT
11 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.79%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.66%) SLA
2 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.79%) IASME
System Software
1 36 (28.35%) Active Directory
2 22 (17.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.24%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.94%) vSphere
6 3 (2.36%) KVM
7 2 (1.57%) Firmware
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 12 (9.45%) SCCM
2 6 (4.72%) Ansible
2 6 (4.72%) vCenter Server
3 5 (3.94%) WSUS
4 4 (3.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (3.15%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (3.15%) Nessus
4 4 (3.15%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (3.15%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.57%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.57%) vRealize
6 1 (0.79%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.79%) Autotask
6 1 (0.79%) Grafana
6 1 (0.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 42 (33.07%) Microsoft
2 35 (27.56%) VMware
3 28 (22.05%) Juniper
4 11 (8.66%) Cisco
5 9 (7.09%) Citrix
5 9 (7.09%) Veeam
6 8 (6.30%) Red Hat
7 7 (5.51%) Aruba
8 6 (4.72%) Fortinet
8 6 (4.72%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.94%) Apple
9 5 (3.94%) Oracle
10 4 (3.15%) HP
10 4 (3.15%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (2.36%) Adobe
11 3 (2.36%) F5
11 3 (2.36%) Google
11 3 (2.36%) Sophos
12 2 (1.57%) Meraki
12 2 (1.57%) NetApp
69 3rd Line Engineer jobs Nationwide