3rd Line Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Third Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £345, 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 307 314 317
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +47
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 94 116 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.51% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.54% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 74 131
10th Percentile £208 £236 £250
25th Percentile £272 £303 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £363 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% -9.38% +18.52%
75th Percentile £388 £488 £438
90th Percentile £408 £543 £450
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +52 4 £325 -7.14% 2
Yorkshire +13 3 £300 -4.00% 6
North East +8 3 £275 -24.14% 6
East Midlands -6 2 £275 -24.14% 1
Wales - 1 £365 - 1
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (40.43%) Windows
1 38 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 37 (39.36%) VPN
3 32 (34.04%) Microsoft
3 32 (34.04%) VMware
4 30 (31.91%) BGP
5 28 (29.79%) Active Directory
5 28 (29.79%) WAN
6 27 (28.72%) MPLS
6 27 (28.72%) PKI
7 26 (27.66%) IPsec
8 25 (26.60%) Juniper
9 23 (24.47%) Junos
9 23 (24.47%) Load Balancing
10 22 (23.40%) Windows Server
11 21 (22.34%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
13 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 18 (19.15%) Azure
14 18 (19.15%) Firewall
15 15 (15.96%) Linux
16 14 (14.89%) Social Skills
16 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
17 13 (13.83%) Hyper-V
18 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
19 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
19 11 (11.70%) VLAN
19 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Exchange
19 11 (11.70%) SLA
19 11 (11.70%) Cisco Certification

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

Application Platforms
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.13%) IIS
4 1 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.34%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (19.15%) Azure
3 6 (6.38%) GCP
4 5 (5.32%) AWS
5 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.13%) IaaS
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.06%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.06%) PaaS
7 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.06%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (39.36%) VPN
2 30 (31.91%) BGP
3 28 (29.79%) WAN
4 27 (28.72%) MPLS
5 26 (27.66%) IPsec
6 23 (24.47%) Junos
7 18 (19.15%) Firewall
8 11 (11.70%) VLAN
9 10 (10.64%) SAN
10 7 (7.45%) OSPF
11 6 (6.38%) NAS
11 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
12 5 (5.32%) DHCP
12 5 (5.32%) DNS
13 4 (4.26%) Value-Added Service
13 4 (4.26%) Wireshark
14 3 (3.19%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (3.19%) Cisco Firepower
14 3 (3.19%) Spanning Tree
14 3 (3.19%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.26%) MySQL
1 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (14.89%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.06%) Back Office
5 1 (1.06%) Banking
5 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.06%) Law
5 1 (1.06%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.19%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.72%) PKI
2 6 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.32%) Clustering
4 4 (4.26%) Fat Client
4 4 (4.26%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.06%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (40.43%) Windows
2 22 (23.40%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.96%) Linux
4 9 (9.57%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.19%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.13%) CentOS
8 2 (2.13%) Debian
8 2 (2.13%) Unix
8 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.06%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.47%) Load Balancing
2 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (7.45%) Customer Service
4 7 (7.45%) Mentoring
5 6 (6.38%) Change Management
5 6 (6.38%) Patch Management
6 5 (5.32%) Computer Science
6 5 (5.32%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (4.26%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (4.26%) ITIL
7 4 (4.26%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (3.19%) Change Control
8 3 (3.19%) High Availability
8 3 (3.19%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (3.19%) Project Delivery
8 3 (3.19%) Project Management
8 3 (3.19%) Server Management
9 2 (2.13%) Incident Management
9 2 (2.13%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.64%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.06%) Bash
2 1 (1.06%) Python
2 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (10.64%) Degree
5 9 (9.57%) CCNP
6 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (7.45%) MCSE
8 5 (5.32%) CCIE
8 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (4.26%) VCAP
9 4 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (3.19%) CCNA
10 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.13%) MCSA
11 2 (2.13%) RHCT
12 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 1 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (1.06%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (29.79%) Active Directory
2 20 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (13.83%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.32%) vSphere
6 3 (3.19%) KVM
7 2 (2.13%) Firmware
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (7.45%) SCCM
3 6 (6.38%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.26%) Ansible
4 4 (4.26%) Nessus
4 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (4.26%) WSUS
4 4 (4.26%) ZABBIX
5 2 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) Autotask
6 1 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.06%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (34.04%) Microsoft
1 32 (34.04%) VMware
2 25 (26.60%) Juniper
3 9 (9.57%) Veeam
4 8 (8.51%) Cisco
4 8 (8.51%) Red Hat
5 7 (7.45%) Citrix
6 6 (6.38%) Aruba
7 4 (4.26%) HP
7 4 (4.26%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (4.26%) Oracle
7 4 (4.26%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.19%) F5
8 3 (3.19%) Google
8 3 (3.19%) Sophos
9 2 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.13%) Meraki
9 2 (2.13%) NetApp
10 1 (1.06%) Apple
10 1 (1.06%) Brocade