3rd Line Engineer Contracts in England

Third Line Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in England is £385, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 420 542
Rank change year-on-year -39 +122 -9
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 75 189 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.47% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 98 197
10th Percentile £261 £271 £257
25th Percentile £348 £300 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £466 £422 £450
90th Percentile £538 £500 £488
UK median daily rate £385 £350 £394
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +15.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £27.76 - -
25th Percentile £33.14 - -
Median hourly rate £42.09 - £60.00
75th Percentile £51.05 - -
90th Percentile £56.42 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.18 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +155.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 30,503 40,030 67,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 94.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,997 27,956 48,305
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,457 1,375 1,623
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +73.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.80 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £44.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -3.37% +71.15% +30.00%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
London +51 23 £420 +8.39% 5
Midlands -49 15 £260 -25.71% 9
South East +9 14 £375 +20.00% 11
West Midlands -38 14 £260 -20.61% 8
North of England +23 9 £413 +26.92% 13
North West +21 8 £450 +46.34% 6
South West +4 8 £375 -25.00% 11
East of England +24 3 £425 +1.19% 4
North East -5 1 £300 -17.24% 3
East Midlands -9 1 - - 1
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (48.00%) Windows
2 33 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 28 (37.33%) Security Cleared
4 27 (36.00%) Azure
5 25 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 24 (32.00%) VPN
7 23 (30.67%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (29.33%) WAN
9 21 (28.00%) VMware
9 21 (28.00%) Windows Server
10 20 (26.67%) PKI
11 18 (24.00%) BGP
12 17 (22.67%) MPLS
12 17 (22.67%) VMware Infrastructure
13 16 (21.33%) Juniper
13 16 (21.33%) Firewall
14 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
15 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 14 (18.67%) SCCM
16 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
16 13 (17.33%) PowerShell
16 13 (17.33%) IPsec
16 13 (17.33%) SharePoint
17 12 (16.00%) Load Balancing
17 12 (16.00%) Junos
17 12 (16.00%) Windows 10
18 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Exchange
18 11 (14.67%) LAN
19 10 (13.33%) SQL
19 10 (13.33%) AWS

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 13 (17.33%) SharePoint
2 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.67%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (2.67%) nginx
3 2 (2.67%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.33%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) Azure
2 23 (30.67%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (13.33%) AWS
4 7 (9.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.33%) GCP
6 3 (4.00%) IaaS
6 3 (4.00%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.33%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.33%) PaaS
8 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (32.00%) VPN
2 22 (29.33%) WAN
3 18 (24.00%) BGP
4 17 (22.67%) MPLS
5 16 (21.33%) Firewall
6 13 (17.33%) IPsec
7 12 (16.00%) Junos
8 11 (14.67%) LAN
9 8 (10.67%) DNS
10 7 (9.33%) VLAN
11 6 (8.00%) OSPF
11 6 (8.00%) Remote Desktop
11 6 (8.00%) SAN
12 5 (6.67%) DHCP
12 5 (6.67%) Skype
12 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
13 4 (5.33%) NAS
13 4 (5.33%) Value-Added Service
13 4 (5.33%) Wireless
13 4 (5.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.00%) MySQL
3 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.33%) MS Access
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Git
General
1 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Finance
2 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.33%) Manufacturing
4 6 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.33%) Electronics
6 4 (5.33%) Marketing
7 3 (4.00%) Military
8 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Legal
9 1 (1.33%) Back Office
9 1 (1.33%) Banking
9 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) 802.1X
1 2 (2.67%) Kafka
2 1 (1.33%) .NET
2 1 (1.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.33%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.33%) Spring
2 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.67%) PKI
2 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.33%) Clustering
3 4 (5.33%) Fat Client
3 4 (5.33%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 36 (48.00%) Windows
2 21 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (16.00%) Windows 10
4 8 (10.67%) Linux
5 7 (9.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (5.33%) Android
8 3 (4.00%) Mac OS X
8 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.67%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.67%) Unix
10 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.33%) VMS
10 1 (1.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (16.00%) Load Balancing
3 8 (10.67%) Incident Management
4 7 (9.33%) Computer Science
4 7 (9.33%) ITIL
4 7 (9.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 7 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (8.00%) Change Management
5 6 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
5 6 (8.00%) Patch Management
6 5 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (5.33%) Customer Service
7 4 (5.33%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (5.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (5.33%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (5.33%) Mentoring
7 4 (5.33%) Programme Management
7 4 (5.33%) Server Management
8 3 (4.00%) Database Mirroring
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.33%) PowerShell
2 10 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (2.67%) Java
3 2 (2.67%) Python
3 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.33%) C#
4 1 (1.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (37.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.67%) Degree
5 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (8.00%) CCNP
6 6 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.33%) CCIE
7 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (5.33%) VCAP
8 3 (4.00%) MCSE
9 2 (2.67%) ACSP
10 1 (1.33%) JNCIP
10 1 (1.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.67%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.33%) IASME
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 17 (22.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.67%) vSphere
5 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.33%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (18.67%) SCCM
2 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.33%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (5.33%) WSUS
4 3 (4.00%) Ansible
4 3 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.67%) AirWatch
5 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.67%) vRealize
6 1 (1.33%) Autotask
6 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.33%) Grafana
6 1 (1.33%) Nessus
6 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.33%) SCOM
6 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (28.00%) VMware
3 16 (21.33%) Juniper
4 7 (9.33%) Apple
5 6 (8.00%) Cisco
5 6 (8.00%) Citrix
6 5 (6.67%) Aruba
6 5 (6.67%) SolarWinds
7 4 (5.33%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (5.33%) SAP
8 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.00%) Veeam
9 2 (2.67%) Adobe
9 2 (2.67%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.67%) Google
9 2 (2.67%) NetApp
9 2 (2.67%) Oracle
10 1 (1.33%) HP
10 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
59 3rd Line Engineer jobs Nationwide