3rd Line Server Engineer Contracts

Third Line Server Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £345 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 703 841
Rank change year-on-year +115 +138 -159
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Engineer 3 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.025% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.027% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £327 - £210
25th Percentile £329 £223 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £350 £343
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +2.19% +24.55%
75th Percentile £366 £375 £435
90th Percentile £372 £388 £450
UK excluding London median daily rate £345 £223 £343
% change year-on-year +54.71% -34.89% +40.51%

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

3rd Line Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Server Engineer
Top 5 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 Server Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
UK excluding London +59 2 £345 +54.71%
Work from Home +125 1 - -
England +98 1 £350 +22.16%
Scotland +40 1 £340 -2.86%
South West +23 1 £350 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 3rd Line Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Compliance Management
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) RHCE
2 1 (33.33%) BEA
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction

3rd Line Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Compliance Management
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Asset Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) RHCE
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BEA
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat