3rd Line Engineer Contracts in England

Third Line Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in England is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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

 6 months to
28 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 470 501
Rank change year-on-year +50 +31 +7
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 121 177 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.39% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 124 210
10th Percentile £250 £263 £230
25th Percentile £299 £325 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £386
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.56% +18.85%
75th Percentile £397 £493 £438
90th Percentile £493 £548 £475
UK median daily rate £370 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -7.50% +6.67% +15.38%
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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,037 45,024 67,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.58% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,551 32,010 48,394
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.79% +7.05%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,522 1,314 1,828
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.74
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +93.05% +8.42%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.01 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%

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 28 May 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
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 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England +43 31 £375 +7.14% 20
Midlands 0 31 £288 -17.86% 17
West Midlands -1 29 £300 -7.69% 11
North West +38 24 £400 -6.43% 8
London +51 23 £385 -7.23% 12
South East +9 22 £375 -5.06% 20
South West 0 7 £350 -30.00% 9
Yorkshire +16 5 £325 +4.00% 8
East of England +5 5 £250 -48.72% 6
North East +11 2 £275 -31.25% 4
East Midlands +1 2 £275 -24.14% 6
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 49 (40.50%) Windows
2 42 (34.71%) Security Cleared
3 41 (33.88%) VPN
4 39 (32.23%) Microsoft
4 39 (32.23%) WAN
5 37 (30.58%) BGP
6 34 (28.10%) MPLS
7 32 (26.45%) Active Directory
7 32 (26.45%) Juniper
8 31 (25.62%) IPsec
8 31 (25.62%) VMware
8 31 (25.62%) PKI
9 28 (23.14%) Azure
9 28 (23.14%) Junos
9 28 (23.14%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (22.31%) Firewall
11 26 (21.49%) Load Balancing
12 24 (19.83%) Windows Server
12 24 (19.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (16.53%) VMware Infrastructure
14 16 (13.22%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (12.40%) Social Skills
16 14 (11.57%) VLAN
16 14 (11.57%) Windows 10
16 14 (11.57%) SC Cleared
17 13 (10.74%) PowerShell
17 13 (10.74%) Degree
17 13 (10.74%) CCNP
17 13 (10.74%) Cisco
17 13 (10.74%) Linux

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 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.83%) nginx
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.14%) Azure
1 28 (23.14%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (6.61%) AWS
3 7 (5.79%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.96%) GCP
5 3 (2.48%) IaaS
6 2 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.83%) OCI
7 1 (0.83%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.83%) PaaS
7 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.83%) SaaS
7 1 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 41 (33.88%) VPN
2 39 (32.23%) WAN
3 37 (30.58%) BGP
4 34 (28.10%) MPLS
5 31 (25.62%) IPsec
6 28 (23.14%) Junos
7 27 (22.31%) Firewall
8 14 (11.57%) VLAN
9 10 (8.26%) OSPF
9 10 (8.26%) SAN
10 9 (7.44%) DNS
10 9 (7.44%) LAN
11 8 (6.61%) TCP/IP
12 7 (5.79%) DHCP
13 6 (4.96%) NAS
14 5 (4.13%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (4.13%) SD-WAN
15 4 (3.31%) Cisco ASA
15 4 (3.31%) WAAS
15 4 (3.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.13%) MySQL
2 5 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Git
General
1 15 (12.40%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.74%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.48%) Finance
5 2 (1.65%) Back Office
5 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.83%) Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.83%) Law
6 1 (0.83%) Legal
6 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.48%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.65%) Kafka
3 1 (0.83%) .NET
3 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.83%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.83%) Spring
3 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (25.62%) PKI
2 8 (6.61%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.31%) Fat Client
3 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.31%) Thin Client
4 3 (2.48%) Clustering
5 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.83%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.83%) LIMS
5 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 49 (40.50%) Windows
2 24 (19.83%) Windows Server
3 14 (11.57%) Windows 10
4 13 (10.74%) Linux
5 5 (4.13%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (4.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.31%) Unix
6 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.49%) Load Balancing
2 24 (19.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (7.44%) Mentoring
3 9 (7.44%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (6.61%) Customer Service
4 8 (6.61%) Patch Management
5 7 (5.79%) Change Management
5 7 (5.79%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (4.96%) Computer Science
6 6 (4.96%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (3.31%) Change Control
7 4 (3.31%) ITIL
7 4 (3.31%) Migration
7 4 (3.31%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (2.48%) High Availability
8 3 (2.48%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (2.48%) Knowledge Management
8 3 (2.48%) Project Delivery
8 3 (2.48%) Project Management
8 3 (2.48%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.74%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.13%) SQL
3 3 (2.48%) Python
4 2 (1.65%) Java
4 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.83%) Bash
5 1 (0.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 42 (34.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.22%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (11.57%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.74%) CCNP
4 13 (10.74%) Degree
5 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.13%) CCIE
7 5 (4.13%) CCNA
7 5 (4.13%) MCSE
8 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.31%) VCAP
8 4 (3.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.83%) CCENT
9 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.83%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.83%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.44%) SLA
2 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.83%) IASME
System Software
1 32 (26.45%) Active Directory
2 20 (16.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.26%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.96%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (4.96%) vSphere
5 2 (1.65%) Firmware
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.83%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 11 (9.09%) SCCM
2 6 (4.96%) vCenter Server
3 5 (4.13%) Ansible
3 5 (4.13%) WSUS
4 4 (3.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (3.31%) Nessus
4 4 (3.31%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (3.31%) ZABBIX
5 3 (2.48%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.65%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.83%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.83%) Grafana
7 1 (0.83%) SCOM
7 1 (0.83%) vRealize
Vendors
1 39 (32.23%) Microsoft
2 32 (26.45%) Juniper
3 31 (25.62%) VMware
4 13 (10.74%) Cisco
5 10 (8.26%) Veeam
6 8 (6.61%) Citrix
7 7 (5.79%) Aruba
7 7 (5.79%) Fortinet
8 6 (4.96%) Oracle
8 6 (4.96%) SolarWinds
9 5 (4.13%) Apple
9 5 (4.13%) HP
9 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
10 4 (3.31%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (2.48%) Adobe
11 3 (2.48%) F5
11 3 (2.48%) Google
11 3 (2.48%) NetApp
11 3 (2.48%) Sophos
12 2 (1.65%) Bloomberg
89 3rd Line Engineer jobs Nationwide