3rd Line Engineer Contracts in England

Third Line Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in England is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate 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 434 464 527
Rank change year-on-year +30 +63 +3
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 116 172 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.37% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.39% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 121 195
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £284 £313 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £388 £398
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.52% +14.39%
75th Percentile £400 £488 £438
90th Percentile £500 £538 £475
UK median daily rate £375 £388 £388
% change year-on-year -3.23% - +13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England +30 28 £378 +11.85% 18
Midlands -11 27 £288 -14.81% 13
London +49 25 £385 -3.75% 9
West Midlands +3 25 £300 -7.69% 12
North West +30 22 £400 +14.29% 6
South East +11 22 £375 - 13
South West -4 7 £350 -30.00% 7
East of England +6 5 £250 -42.86% 7
Yorkshire +13 3 £300 -4.00% 6
North East +8 3 £275 -24.14% 6
East Midlands -6 2 £275 -24.14% 1
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (40.52%) Windows
2 40 (34.48%) Security Cleared
3 39 (33.62%) VPN
4 37 (31.90%) Microsoft
5 35 (30.17%) WAN
6 33 (28.45%) BGP
7 31 (26.72%) VMware
8 30 (25.86%) Active Directory
8 30 (25.86%) MPLS
8 30 (25.86%) Azure
9 28 (24.14%) Juniper
9 28 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (23.28%) Firewall
10 27 (23.28%) IPsec
10 27 (23.28%) PKI
11 25 (21.55%) Junos
12 23 (19.83%) Windows Server
12 23 (19.83%) Load Balancing
13 22 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
15 19 (16.38%) Social Skills
16 15 (12.93%) Degree
16 15 (12.93%) Cisco Certification
17 14 (12.07%) VLAN
17 14 (12.07%) PowerShell
17 14 (12.07%) SC Cleared
18 13 (11.21%) Windows 10
18 13 (11.21%) CCNP
18 13 (11.21%) Linux
19 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.86%) nginx
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.86%) Azure
2 28 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.76%) AWS
4 7 (6.03%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.17%) GCP
6 3 (2.59%) IaaS
7 2 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.86%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.86%) PaaS
8 1 (0.86%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.86%) SaaS
8 1 (0.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (33.62%) VPN
2 35 (30.17%) WAN
3 33 (28.45%) BGP
4 30 (25.86%) MPLS
5 27 (23.28%) Firewall
5 27 (23.28%) IPsec
6 25 (21.55%) Junos
7 14 (12.07%) VLAN
8 10 (8.62%) OSPF
9 9 (7.76%) LAN
9 9 (7.76%) SAN
10 7 (6.03%) SD-WAN
10 7 (6.03%) TCP/IP
11 6 (5.17%) DNS
11 6 (5.17%) NAS
12 5 (4.31%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (4.31%) DHCP
13 4 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (3.45%) Value-Added Service
13 4 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.31%) MySQL
2 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Git
General
1 19 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.59%) Finance
4 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.86%) Back Office
6 1 (0.86%) Banking
6 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.86%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.86%) Law
6 1 (0.86%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.59%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.72%) Kafka
3 1 (0.86%) .NET
3 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.86%) Spring
3 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.28%) PKI
2 10 (8.62%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.45%) Clustering
3 4 (3.45%) Fat Client
3 4 (3.45%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (40.52%) Windows
2 23 (19.83%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.21%) Linux
3 13 (11.21%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.17%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.45%) Unix
5 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.59%) Android
7 1 (0.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.83%) Load Balancing
2 22 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
3 10 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (6.90%) Computer Science
4 8 (6.90%) Patch Management
5 7 (6.03%) Change Management
5 7 (6.03%) Customer Service
5 7 (6.03%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (4.31%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (3.45%) ITIL
7 4 (3.45%) Migration
7 4 (3.45%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (2.59%) Containerisation
8 3 (2.59%) Cost Reduction
8 3 (2.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (2.59%) Knowledge Management
8 3 (2.59%) Project Delivery
8 3 (2.59%) Project Management
8 3 (2.59%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.07%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.45%) SQL
3 3 (2.59%) Python
4 2 (1.72%) Java
4 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.86%) Bash
5 1 (0.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 40 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.93%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (12.93%) Degree
3 14 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 13 (11.21%) CCNP
5 8 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (4.31%) CCIE
7 5 (4.31%) MCSE
8 4 (3.45%) CCNA
8 4 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.45%) VCAP
8 4 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.86%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) SLA
2 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.86%) IASME
System Software
1 30 (25.86%) Active Directory
2 20 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.48%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.31%) vSphere
6 2 (1.72%) Firmware
7 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Intune
1 11 (9.48%) SCCM
2 6 (5.17%) Ansible
2 6 (5.17%) vCenter Server
3 5 (4.31%) WSUS
4 4 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (3.45%) Nessus
4 4 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (3.45%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.72%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.72%) vRealize
6 1 (0.86%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.86%) Autotask
6 1 (0.86%) Grafana
6 1 (0.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (31.90%) Microsoft
2 31 (26.72%) VMware
3 28 (24.14%) Juniper
4 11 (9.48%) Cisco
5 9 (7.76%) Veeam
6 7 (6.03%) Aruba
6 7 (6.03%) Citrix
7 6 (5.17%) Fortinet
7 6 (5.17%) SolarWinds
8 5 (4.31%) Apple
8 5 (4.31%) Oracle
8 5 (4.31%) Red Hat
9 4 (3.45%) HP
9 4 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (2.59%) Adobe
10 3 (2.59%) F5
10 3 (2.59%) Google
10 3 (2.59%) Sophos
11 2 (1.72%) Meraki
11 2 (1.72%) NetApp
73 3rd Line Engineer jobs Nationwide