3rd Line Engineer Contracts

Third Line Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in the UK is £370 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 506 546
Rank change year-on-year +65 +40 +29
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 131 183 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.34% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 128 226
10th Percentile £250 £263 £236
25th Percentile £300 £325 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £400 £386
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +3.56% +18.85%
75th Percentile £395 £488 £438
90th Percentile £494 £546 £475
UK excluding London median daily rate £345 £375 £398
% change year-on-year -8.00% -5.66% +22.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,817 53,094 83,517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 94.62% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,817 37,082 58,793
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,473 1,982
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +7.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +45 121 £375 -6.25% 76
UK excluding London +15 101 £345 -8.00% 70
North of England +38 31 £375 +7.14% 21
Midlands -9 31 £288 -14.81% 14
West Midlands +3 29 £300 -7.69% 9
Work from Home +93 28 £344 -17.17% 29
North West +35 24 £400 -6.43% 8
London +54 23 £385 -7.23% 11
South East +9 22 £375 -5.06% 16
South West -5 7 £350 -30.00% 7
Yorkshire +15 5 £325 +4.00% 8
East of England +11 5 £250 -48.72% 5
Scotland +35 4 £325 -7.14% 4
North East +8 2 £275 -24.14% 5
East Midlands +1 2 £275 -24.14% 5
Wales - 1 £365 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (41.22%) Windows
2 45 (34.35%) Security Cleared
3 43 (32.82%) Microsoft
4 41 (31.30%) VPN
5 39 (29.77%) WAN
6 37 (28.24%) Active Directory
6 37 (28.24%) BGP
7 35 (26.72%) VMware
8 34 (25.95%) MPLS
9 32 (24.43%) Juniper
9 32 (24.43%) Azure
10 31 (23.66%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (23.66%) IPsec
10 31 (23.66%) PKI
11 28 (21.37%) Windows Server
11 28 (21.37%) Firewall
11 28 (21.37%) Junos
12 26 (19.85%) Load Balancing
12 26 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (16.79%) VMware Infrastructure
14 17 (12.98%) SC Cleared
15 16 (12.21%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (12.21%) Linux
15 16 (12.21%) Social Skills
16 15 (11.45%) Windows 10
17 14 (10.69%) VLAN
17 14 (10.69%) Public Sector
18 13 (9.92%) Degree
18 13 (9.92%) PowerShell
18 13 (9.92%) CCNP

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.43%) Azure
2 31 (23.66%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (6.87%) AWS
4 8 (6.11%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.58%) GCP
6 3 (2.29%) IaaS
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.53%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.76%) OCI
8 1 (0.76%) PaaS
8 1 (0.76%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.76%) SaaS
8 1 (0.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 41 (31.30%) VPN
2 39 (29.77%) WAN
3 37 (28.24%) BGP
4 34 (25.95%) MPLS
5 31 (23.66%) IPsec
6 28 (21.37%) Firewall
6 28 (21.37%) Junos
7 14 (10.69%) VLAN
8 11 (8.40%) SAN
9 10 (7.63%) OSPF
10 9 (6.87%) DNS
10 9 (6.87%) LAN
11 8 (6.11%) TCP/IP
12 7 (5.34%) DHCP
13 6 (4.58%) NAS
14 5 (3.82%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (3.82%) SD-WAN
15 4 (3.05%) Value-Added Service
15 4 (3.05%) WAAS
15 4 (3.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.82%) MySQL
2 5 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Power BI
5 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Git
1 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 16 (12.21%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.69%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.29%) Finance
4 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.53%) Back Office
6 1 (0.76%) Banking
6 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.76%) Law
6 1 (0.76%) Legal
6 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.53%) Kafka
3 1 (0.76%) .NET
3 1 (0.76%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.76%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.76%) Spring
3 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.66%) PKI
2 10 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.05%) Clustering
3 4 (3.05%) Fat Client
3 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.05%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.76%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.76%) LIMS
4 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 54 (41.22%) Windows
2 28 (21.37%) Windows Server
3 16 (12.21%) Linux
4 15 (11.45%) Windows 10
5 9 (6.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (6.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (4.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (3.82%) Mac OS
9 4 (3.05%) Ubuntu
9 4 (3.05%) Unix
10 3 (2.29%) Android
11 2 (1.53%) CentOS
11 2 (1.53%) Debian
11 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 26 (19.85%) Load Balancing
2 10 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (6.87%) Customer Service
3 9 (6.87%) Mentoring
4 8 (6.11%) Patch Management
5 7 (5.34%) Change Management
5 7 (5.34%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (4.58%) Computer Science
6 6 (4.58%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (3.82%) ITIL
7 5 (3.82%) Migration
8 4 (3.05%) Change Control
8 4 (3.05%) High Availability
8 4 (3.05%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (3.05%) Server Management
9 3 (2.29%) Containerisation
9 3 (2.29%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (2.29%) Network Design
9 3 (2.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.92%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.58%) SQL
3 3 (2.29%) Python
4 2 (1.53%) Java
4 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.76%) Bash
5 1 (0.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 45 (34.35%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.21%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (9.92%) CCNP
4 13 (9.92%) Degree
5 10 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.34%) MCSE
7 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.82%) CCIE
8 5 (3.82%) CCNA
9 4 (3.05%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.05%) VCAP
9 4 (3.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.29%) MCSA
11 2 (1.53%) RHCT
12 1 (0.76%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.76%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.76%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) SLA
2 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.76%) IASME
System Software
1 37 (28.24%) Active Directory
2 22 (16.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.16%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (4.58%) vSphere
5 3 (2.29%) KVM
6 2 (1.53%) Firmware
6 2 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (9.16%) SCCM
2 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.58%) vCenter Server
4 5 (3.82%) Ansible
4 5 (3.82%) WSUS
5 4 (3.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.05%) Nessus
5 4 (3.05%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (3.05%) ZABBIX
6 3 (2.29%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.76%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.76%) Grafana
8 1 (0.76%) SCOM
8 1 (0.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (32.82%) Microsoft
2 35 (26.72%) VMware
3 32 (24.43%) Juniper
4 13 (9.92%) Cisco
5 10 (7.63%) Citrix
5 10 (7.63%) Veeam
6 8 (6.11%) Red Hat
7 7 (5.34%) Aruba
7 7 (5.34%) Fortinet
8 6 (4.58%) Oracle
8 6 (4.58%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.82%) Apple
9 5 (3.82%) HP
10 4 (3.05%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (2.29%) Adobe
11 3 (2.29%) F5
11 3 (2.29%) Google
11 3 (2.29%) NetApp
11 3 (2.29%) Sophos
12 2 (1.53%) Bloomberg
83 3rd Line Engineer jobs Nationwide