3rd Line Engineer Contracts in London

Third Line Engineer
England > London

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in London is £385 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 437 520
Rank change year-on-year +68 +83 -70
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 24 56 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 47 64
10th Percentile £338 £325 £313
25th Percentile £363 £354 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £415 £388
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +7.10% +19.23%
75th Percentile £500 £450 £450
90th Percentile £545 £538 £488
England median daily rate £375 £388 £389
% change year-on-year -3.23% -0.32% +15.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +29 4 £385 +16.14% 3
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (45.83%) Azure
1 11 (45.83%) Firewall
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) LAN
2 7 (29.17%) WAN
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 4 (16.67%) SCCM
5 4 (16.67%) CCNP
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (16.67%) Apple
5 4 (16.67%) VLAN
5 4 (16.67%) Fortinet
6 3 (12.50%) Degree
6 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Management
6 3 (12.50%) Cisco
6 3 (12.50%) Finance
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Juniper
6 3 (12.50%) MPLS
6 3 (12.50%) OSPF
6 3 (12.50%) BGP
6 3 (12.50%) EIGRP

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) Firewall
2 7 (29.17%) LAN
2 7 (29.17%) WAN
3 4 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 4 (16.67%) VLAN
4 3 (12.50%) BGP
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (12.50%) EIGRP
4 3 (12.50%) MPLS
4 3 (12.50%) OSPF
5 2 (8.33%) DNS
5 2 (8.33%) Junos
5 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.33%) VPN
5 2 (8.33%) Wireless
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
6 1 (4.17%) IPsec
6 1 (4.17%) SSL
6 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Android
3 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 2 (8.33%) Unix
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (8.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (8.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (4.17%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (4.17%) Security Patching
4 1 (4.17%) Server Building
4 1 (4.17%) Server Management
4 1 (4.17%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) CCNP
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) JNCIA
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.17%) IASME
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) SCCM
2 3 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) AirWatch
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) vRealize
4 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Apple
2 4 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 3 (12.50%) Adobe
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco
3 3 (12.50%) Juniper
4 2 (8.33%) Bloomberg
4 2 (8.33%) Citrix
4 2 (8.33%) Refinitiv
4 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.17%) Aruba
5 1 (4.17%) BigPanda
5 1 (4.17%) Commvault
5 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Sybase
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam
5 1 (4.17%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Zscaler