3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Third Line Engineer
England > North of England

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the North of England is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 349 409
Rank change year-on-year +45 +60 -132
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 83 80 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.54% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 79 80 54
10th Percentile - £31,250 £30,263
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,938 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £43,125 £51,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £47,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.58% +5.56% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

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

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 17,141 14,889 17,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 89.44% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,241 8,013 10,916
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +87 32 £37,500 -16.20% 12
North East +21 31 £32,500 -5.11% 5
North West -24 20 £40,000 -14.44% 9
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 25 May 2024, 3rd Line Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (66.27%) Microsoft
2 51 (61.45%) Azure
3 48 (57.83%) Active Directory
4 41 (49.40%) ITIL
5 36 (43.37%) VMware
6 33 (39.76%) Social Skills
6 33 (39.76%) Hyper-V
7 32 (38.55%) Driving Licence
8 30 (36.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (34.94%) Windows
10 28 (33.73%) SAN
11 25 (30.12%) Enterprise Storage
12 24 (28.92%) VMware Infrastructure
12 24 (28.92%) Windows Server
13 23 (27.71%) Microsoft 365
14 21 (25.30%) Incident Management
14 21 (25.30%) Azure Certification
15 19 (22.89%) SQL Server
15 19 (22.89%) Firewall
16 18 (21.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 16 (19.28%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (19.28%) Desktop Virtualisation
17 16 (19.28%) Cisco
18 12 (14.46%) Amazon RDS
19 11 (13.25%) LAN
20 10 (12.05%) Customer Service
21 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
21 9 (10.84%) DHCP
21 9 (10.84%) SQL
21 9 (10.84%) DNS

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 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (61.45%) Azure
2 23 (27.71%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.02%) Azure AKS
3 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
3 5 (6.02%) IaaS
3 5 (6.02%) PaaS
4 1 (1.20%) AWS
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Stack
4 1 (1.20%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 28 (33.73%) SAN
2 19 (22.89%) Firewall
3 11 (13.25%) LAN
4 9 (10.84%) DHCP
4 9 (10.84%) DNS
5 8 (9.64%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (7.23%) VoIP
6 6 (7.23%) WAN
6 6 (7.23%) WLAN
7 5 (6.02%) Wireless
8 4 (4.82%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (4.82%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.82%) VLAN
8 4 (4.82%) VSAN
9 3 (3.61%) Internet
9 3 (3.61%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (3.61%) VPN
10 2 (2.41%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (1.20%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.20%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.89%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 33 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.61%) Law
6 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.41%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 32 (38.55%) Driving Licence
2 25 (30.12%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (9.64%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.41%) Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) Life Science
5 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 29 (34.94%) Windows
2 24 (28.92%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (7.23%) Linux
5 5 (6.02%) Windows 10
5 5 (6.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.82%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.41%) Android
8 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.41%) Unix
8 2 (2.41%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.20%) VMS
9 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (49.40%) ITIL
2 21 (25.30%) Incident Management
3 18 (21.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (19.28%) Desktop Virtualisation
5 10 (12.05%) Customer Service
6 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (8.43%) DevOps
8 6 (7.23%) Service Delivery
9 5 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (6.02%) Data Engineering
9 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (6.02%) Project Delivery
10 4 (4.82%) Cloud Security
10 4 (4.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (4.82%) Performance Monitoring
10 4 (4.82%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 3 (3.61%) Data Privacy
11 3 (3.61%) Decision-Making
11 3 (3.61%) Kalman Filter
11 3 (3.61%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.84%) SQL
2 8 (9.64%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (36.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (25.30%) Azure Certification
3 9 (10.84%) Security Cleared
4 8 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.02%) CCNP
5 5 (6.02%) Degree
6 3 (3.61%) CCNA
6 3 (3.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.41%) MCSA
7 2 (2.41%) MCSE
8 1 (1.20%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.20%) CCENT
8 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) SLA
2 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (57.83%) Active Directory
2 33 (39.76%) Hyper-V
3 24 (28.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (7.23%) vSphere
5 5 (6.02%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.20%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.02%) Terraform
3 4 (4.82%) SCCM
4 3 (3.61%) SCOM
5 2 (2.41%) Autotask
5 2 (2.41%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.20%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 55 (66.27%) Microsoft
2 36 (43.37%) VMware
3 16 (19.28%) Cisco
4 9 (10.84%) Sophos
5 8 (9.64%) Citrix
6 7 (8.43%) HP
7 5 (6.02%) Datto
7 5 (6.02%) Veeam
8 4 (4.82%) Dell
8 4 (4.82%) NetApp
9 3 (3.61%) ConnectWise
9 3 (3.61%) Draytek
9 3 (3.61%) ESET
9 3 (3.61%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (2.41%) Aruba
10 2 (2.41%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (2.41%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.41%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds