3rd Line Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Third Line Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Scotland is £48,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 206 240
Rank change year-on-year -61 +34 -
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 10 9 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.15% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.23% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £34,000 £33,250 -
25th Percentile £35,875 £36,250 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £42,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% +37.10% -
75th Percentile £50,250 £48,375 £35,594
90th Percentile - £51,150 £36,125
UK median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.58% +5.56% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,649 3,859 6,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.01% 89.70% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,920 2,101 3,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,033 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Scotland

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Scotland

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -100 5 £48,500 +1.57% 1
Edinburgh +28 2 £36,750 +13.08%
Argyll and Bute - 2 - -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 Scotland region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (40.00%) CentOS
1 4 (40.00%) RHCT
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (40.00%) KVM
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (40.00%) Debian
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) MCSE
1 4 (40.00%) MCSA
1 4 (40.00%) IIS
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Coaching
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (40.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) CentOS
1 4 (40.00%) Debian
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Agile
1 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Coaching
2 1 (10.00%) CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) MCSA
1 4 (40.00%) MCSE
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (40.00%) RHCT
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (40.00%) KVM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco