3rd Line Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Third Line Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £260, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 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
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 95 182
Rank change year-on-year -32 +87 -20
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 9 48 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 1.73% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 1.83% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 26
10th Percentile - £290 £259
25th Percentile £255 £306 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £325 £338
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.70% +5.47%
75th Percentile £280 £350 £397
90th Percentile £289 £365 £448
England median daily rate £413 £350 £375
% change year-on-year +17.86% -6.67% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.09 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +155.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,467 2,619 4,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.21% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,830 3,207
10th Percentile £230 £213 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 120 132
10th Percentile £12.69 £13.93 £11.81
25th Percentile £15.10 £16.63 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.82 £20.00 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +13.90% +15.79%
75th Percentile £32.60 £34.50 £20.80
90th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £41.29
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +50.00% +50.00%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
West Midlands -33 8 £260 -20.00% 6
East Midlands -2 1 - - 3
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 Midlands region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) WAN
2 6 (66.67%) VPN
2 6 (66.67%) Juniper
2 6 (66.67%) MPLS
2 6 (66.67%) BGP
2 6 (66.67%) IPsec
2 6 (66.67%) PKI
2 6 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) Junos
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 2 (22.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (22.22%) System Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Softphone
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 2 (22.22%) BCP
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 2 (22.22%) SAN
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) SharePoint

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) WAN
2 6 (66.67%) BGP
2 6 (66.67%) IPsec
2 6 (66.67%) Junos
2 6 (66.67%) MPLS
2 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) Softphone
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) BCP
2 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
2 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Change Control
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) System Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Juniper
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Veeam
3 1 (11.11%) VMware