3rd Line Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Third Line Engineer
England > North of England

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 195 196
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 -16
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 32 18 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.68% 0.32% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.33% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 34
10th Percentile £263 £260 £194
25th Percentile £275 £313 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £350 £258
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +35.92% +11.96%
75th Percentile £394 £508 £388
90th Percentile £415 £550 £438
England median daily rate £350 £410 £375
% change year-on-year -14.63% +9.33% +15.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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 West +35 23 £394 -19.23% 14
Yorkshire +29 7 £325 - 9
North East +17 2 £275 -15.38% 5
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 North of England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (53.13%) Windows
2 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
4 9 (28.13%) VMware
4 9 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (25.00%) Azure
5 8 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (25.00%) SLA
6 7 (21.88%) VPN
6 7 (21.88%) Firewall
6 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
7 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (18.75%) Cisco
7 6 (18.75%) Linux
7 6 (18.75%) CCNP
8 5 (15.63%) WAN
8 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
8 5 (15.63%) Hyper-V
8 5 (15.63%) AWS
8 5 (15.63%) Degree
8 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
8 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
8 5 (15.63%) Customer Service
8 5 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (15.63%) Windows 10
8 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (12.50%) GCP
9 4 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (12.50%) VCAP

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) AWS
4 4 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.25%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) OCI
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) Firewall
1 7 (21.88%) VPN
2 5 (15.63%) WAN
3 4 (12.50%) BGP
3 4 (12.50%) MPLS
3 4 (12.50%) OSPF
3 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.50%) Value-Added Service
3 4 (12.50%) VLAN
3 4 (12.50%) WAAS
3 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
4 3 (9.38%) LAN
4 3 (9.38%) SAN
5 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.13%) DHCP
6 1 (3.13%) DNS
6 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
6 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Back Office
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
1 1 (3.13%) LIMS
1 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.75%) Linux
4 5 (15.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
2 5 (15.63%) Customer Service
3 4 (12.50%) Change Control
3 4 (12.50%) Change Management
3 4 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.25%) High Availability
5 1 (3.13%) Database Migration
5 1 (3.13%) Low Latency
5 1 (3.13%) Secure Coding
5 1 (3.13%) Server Management
5 1 (3.13%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.13%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) Bash
2 1 (3.13%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (18.75%) CCNP
3 5 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (15.63%) Degree
4 4 (12.50%) CCIE
4 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) VCAP
5 2 (6.25%) A+ Certification
5 2 (6.25%) CCENT
5 2 (6.25%) CCNA
5 2 (6.25%) MCSA
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (15.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.13%) vSphere
4 1 (3.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (28.13%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Cisco
4 4 (12.50%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 3 (9.38%) Veeam
6 2 (6.25%) Meraki
7 1 (3.13%) Aruba
7 1 (3.13%) Brio
7 1 (3.13%) Citrix
7 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.13%) HP
7 1 (3.13%) NetApp
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle
7 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.13%) Sophos