3rd Line Support Contracts in London

Third Line Support
England > London

The median Third Line Support daily rate in London is £345 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 452 544
Rank change year-on-year +71 +92 -123
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 11 43 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.062% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 30 45
10th Percentile £296 £323 £250
25th Percentile £311 £350 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% +3.33% +15.74%
75th Percentile £481 £450 £394
90th Percentile £511 £465 £450
England median daily rate £375 £384 £320
% change year-on-year -2.28% +19.92% +2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
England median hourly rate - £34.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +70.00% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,618 25,758 37,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,017 18,663 27,056
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

3rd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support in London

3rd Line Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support in London.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Support in London

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Support in London

3rd Line Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support in London.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Support in London

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, 3rd Line Support 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 London region featuring 3rd Line Support in the job title.

1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
2 2 (18.18%) CCNP
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Juniper
2 2 (18.18%) VLAN
2 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Junos
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) Runbook
2 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (9.09%) Zscaler
3 1 (9.09%) Okta
3 1 (9.09%) Housing Association
3 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Containerisation

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Junos
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) VLAN
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) FTP
3 1 (9.09%) HTTP
3 1 (9.09%) IPsec
3 1 (9.09%) NetScaler
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) SMTP
3 1 (9.09%) SNMP
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Housing Association
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
1 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
1 2 (18.18%) Migration
1 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (18.18%) Runbook
2 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
2 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
2 1 (9.09%) Network Management
2 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
2 1 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) CCNP
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (9.09%) IASME
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Citrix
1 2 (18.18%) Juniper
1 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Okta
2 1 (9.09%) Veeam
2 1 (9.09%) Zscaler