3rd Line Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Third Line Engineer
England > North of England

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £378, 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 157 187 199
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 -14
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 28 15 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.28% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.29% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 35
10th Percentile £263 £230 £227
25th Percentile £275 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £338 £325
Median % change year-on-year +11.85% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £400 £394 £438
90th Percentile £473 £475 £445
England median daily rate £375 £388 £398
% change year-on-year -3.23% -2.52% +14.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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 West +30 22 £400 +14.29% 6
Yorkshire +13 3 £300 -4.00% 6
North East +8 3 £275 -24.14% 6
3rd Line Engineer
England

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (42.86%) Windows
3 10 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (32.14%) Azure
5 8 (28.57%) SLA
6 7 (25.00%) VPN
6 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 7 (25.00%) Firewall
7 6 (21.43%) VMware
7 6 (21.43%) CCNP
7 6 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (21.43%) Linux
7 6 (21.43%) Hyper-V
7 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (17.86%) Customer Service
8 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
8 5 (17.86%) VLAN
8 5 (17.86%) Degree
8 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
9 4 (14.29%) BGP
9 4 (14.29%) CCIE
9 4 (14.29%) MPLS
9 4 (14.29%) OSPF
9 4 (14.29%) Wireshark
9 4 (14.29%) Change Management

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Firewall
1 7 (25.00%) VPN
2 5 (17.86%) VLAN
3 4 (14.29%) BGP
3 4 (14.29%) MPLS
3 4 (14.29%) OSPF
3 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 4 (14.29%) Value-Added Service
3 4 (14.29%) Wireshark
4 3 (10.71%) WAAS
4 3 (10.71%) WAN
5 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.57%) LAN
6 1 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (3.57%) VoIP
6 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Clustering
1 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Linux
3 4 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
1 5 (17.86%) Customer Service
1 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (14.29%) Change Management
2 4 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (10.71%) Change Control
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (3.57%) Decision-Making
4 1 (3.57%) Low Latency
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (3.57%) Quality Management
4 1 (3.57%) Secure Coding
4 1 (3.57%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.57%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.57%) Bash
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) CCNP
1 6 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Degree
3 4 (14.29%) CCIE
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (21.43%) Hyper-V
2 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (3.57%) Autotask
2 1 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) VMware
3 4 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 3 (10.71%) Veeam
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco
5 2 (7.14%) Meraki
6 1 (3.57%) Aruba
6 1 (3.57%) Brio
6 1 (3.57%) Datto
6 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.57%) Sophos