3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Third Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,500 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 394 430 501
Rank change year-on-year +36 +71 -144
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 435 312 398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.56% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.63% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 372 275 381
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £55,250
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,674 49,280 72,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 88.84% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 52,932 29,318 42,781
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +13 136 £42,000 -11.58% 12
North of England +32 89 £35,000 -22.22% 19
South West +24 73 £46,000 +8.24% 7
Midlands -4 60 £40,000 -23.81% 13
East of England -29 48 £42,500 -15.00% 7
West Midlands -6 38 £37,500 -24.24% 12
North East +13 35 £32,500 -5.11% 7
Yorkshire +59 31 £37,500 -13.79% 5
North West -41 23 £40,000 -15.79% 7
East Midlands -23 22 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Wales +28 19 £40,500 +12.50% 1
Scotland -61 10 £48,500 +14.12% 2
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 239 (54.94%) Microsoft
2 208 (47.82%) Azure
3 206 (47.36%) Windows
4 203 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
5 169 (38.85%) Firewall
6 161 (37.01%) VMware
7 158 (36.32%) Active Directory
8 152 (34.94%) Windows Server
9 117 (26.90%) Hyper-V
9 117 (26.90%) VMware Infrastructure
10 109 (25.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 107 (24.60%) Social Skills
12 100 (22.99%) Microsoft Exchange
13 93 (21.38%) Security Cleared
14 89 (20.46%) Cisco
15 86 (19.77%) DNS
16 82 (18.85%) SharePoint
17 80 (18.39%) ITIL
18 78 (17.93%) Citrix
19 74 (17.01%) Veeam
19 74 (17.01%) Microsoft Intune
20 73 (16.78%) SQL Server
21 64 (14.71%) SQL
21 64 (14.71%) WAN
21 64 (14.71%) SAN
22 59 (13.56%) LAN
23 56 (12.87%) Wi-Fi
24 55 (12.64%) DHCP
24 55 (12.64%) Entra ID
24 55 (12.64%) Problem-Solving

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
1 100 (22.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 82 (18.85%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.91%) IIS
4 14 (3.22%) Skype for Business
5 10 (2.30%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2000
7 5 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.46%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 39 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.46%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 208 (47.82%) Azure
2 203 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (12.64%) Entra ID
4 33 (7.59%) OneDrive
5 23 (5.29%) AWS
6 20 (4.60%) IaaS
7 17 (3.91%) PaaS
8 14 (3.22%) SaaS
9 11 (2.53%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.38%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.15%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.15%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.15%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.15%) OpenShift
12 4 (0.92%) Dropbox
12 4 (0.92%) Google Drive
12 4 (0.92%) Google Sheets
13 3 (0.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.69%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 169 (38.85%) Firewall
2 86 (19.77%) DNS
3 64 (14.71%) SAN
3 64 (14.71%) WAN
4 59 (13.56%) LAN
5 56 (12.87%) Wi-Fi
6 55 (12.64%) DHCP
7 54 (12.41%) VPN
8 43 (9.89%) Wireless
9 40 (9.20%) VLAN
10 34 (7.82%) TCP/IP
11 22 (5.06%) VoIP
12 18 (4.14%) BGP
12 18 (4.14%) WLAN
13 16 (3.68%) IP Telephony
14 13 (2.99%) IPsec
14 13 (2.99%) Remote Desktop
14 13 (2.99%) SD-WAN
15 9 (2.07%) OSPF
16 7 (1.61%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (16.78%) SQL Server
2 35 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.61%) MySQL
4 3 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Hudson
2 1 (0.23%) JIRA
General
1 107 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 22 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
2 22 (5.06%) Law
3 16 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (2.99%) Games
5 13 (2.99%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.53%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.61%) Finance
7 7 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.38%) Legal
9 4 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (0.92%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.69%) Retail
11 1 (0.23%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.99%) JSON
1 13 (2.99%) JSON Schema
1 13 (2.99%) KML
1 13 (2.99%) Regular Expression
1 13 (2.99%) XML
2 8 (1.84%) XML Schema
3 6 (1.38%) Software Packaging
4 5 (1.15%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.46%) LAMP
6 2 (0.46%) OpenMP
6 2 (0.46%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.34%) Driving Licence
2 31 (7.13%) Data Centre
3 25 (5.75%) Replication
3 25 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (5.52%) Enterprise Storage
5 13 (2.99%) Clustering
5 13 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.61%) Client/Server
6 7 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.38%) Blockchain
7 6 (1.38%) iPad
8 5 (1.15%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.15%) EMC VNX
8 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.92%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.46%) Beowulf
10 2 (0.46%) PKI
10 2 (0.46%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 206 (47.36%) Windows
2 152 (34.94%) Windows Server
3 51 (11.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 43 (9.89%) Linux
5 34 (7.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (6.44%) Windows 10
6 28 (6.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (2.53%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.30%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (1.84%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.38%) Debian
11 5 (1.15%) Android
12 4 (0.92%) CentOS
13 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.46%) SUSE
14 2 (0.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (25.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (18.39%) ITIL
3 55 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (8.97%) Incident Management
5 38 (8.74%) Customer Service
6 34 (7.82%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (5.75%) Service Delivery
8 24 (5.52%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 22 (5.06%) Migration
9 22 (5.06%) Project Delivery
10 18 (4.14%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (3.91%) Business Continuity
11 17 (3.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 15 (3.45%) Change Control
12 15 (3.45%) Network Management
13 14 (3.22%) Actionable Insight
13 14 (3.22%) Agile
13 14 (3.22%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (3.22%) Desktop Virtualisation
13 14 (3.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (14.71%) SQL
2 49 (11.26%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.46%) Bash
3 2 (0.46%) C#
3 2 (0.46%) Perl
3 2 (0.46%) Python
3 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 93 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.03%) Degree
2 48 (11.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (10.57%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (8.97%) SC Cleared
5 28 (6.44%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.98%) CCNA
7 24 (5.52%) CCNP
8 21 (4.83%) Azure Certification
9 13 (2.99%) MCSE
10 10 (2.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (1.84%) A+ Certification
12 7 (1.61%) MCSA
13 5 (1.15%) MCP
13 5 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.92%) CCA
14 4 (0.92%) Citrix Certification
14 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.92%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.99%) SLA
2 10 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.15%) NCSC
4 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) GxP
System Software
1 158 (36.32%) Active Directory
2 117 (26.90%) Hyper-V
2 117 (26.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (6.21%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (2.99%) vSphere
6 11 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.61%) Docker
7 7 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (1.38%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (1.15%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 4 (0.92%) KVM
11 2 (0.46%) Lustre
11 2 (0.46%) pfSense
11 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.23%) NFS
12 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 74 (17.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (6.44%) SCCM
3 18 (4.14%) Ansible
4 10 (2.30%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.30%) vCenter Server
5 8 (1.84%) Autotask
5 8 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (1.15%) Nagios
7 5 (1.15%) Terraform
8 4 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.69%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.69%) SCOM
9 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.46%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.46%) SCDPM
11 1 (0.23%) DatAdvantage
Vendors
1 239 (54.94%) Microsoft
2 161 (37.01%) VMware
3 89 (20.46%) Cisco
4 78 (17.93%) Citrix
5 74 (17.01%) Veeam
6 31 (7.13%) Sophos
7 24 (5.52%) HP
8 21 (4.83%) Datto
9 20 (4.60%) Meraki
10 19 (4.37%) Juniper
10 19 (4.37%) Mitel
11 17 (3.91%) Aruba
12 14 (3.22%) Avaya
12 14 (3.22%) Draytek
12 14 (3.22%) WatchGuard
13 11 (2.53%) Acronis
13 11 (2.53%) Red Hat
14 10 (2.30%) Dell
15 9 (2.07%) ConnectWise
15 9 (2.07%) Google