3rd Line Support Engineer Jobs in the South East

Third Line Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Third Line Support Engineer salary in the South East is £42,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 360 413
Rank change year-on-year +63 +53 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 89 46 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.34% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 89 40 67
10th Percentile £32,800 £35,110 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,400 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -7.80%
75th Percentile £43,750 £52,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £46,500 £55,000 £49,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £41,580 £40,000
% change year-on-year -3.80% +3.95% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

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

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 15,600 13,575 19,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.54% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,294 8,525 12,666
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +55 50 £42,000 +18.64% 8
Oxfordshire +57 44 £42,000 +20.00% 6
Hampshire -18 14 £33,350 -32.96% 1
West Sussex - 10 £35,000 -
Kent +4 7 £42,500 +10.39% 1
Berkshire +26 4 £44,500 +25.71% 2
Surrey +4 4 £42,500 +3.03% 2
East Sussex - 4 £42,500 -
Buckinghamshire -19 2 £45,000 +24.14%
3rd Line Support Engineer
England

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 3rd Line Support Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the South East region featuring 3rd Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (74.16%) Firewall
2 64 (71.91%) Windows
3 61 (68.54%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (66.29%) Microsoft
5 49 (55.06%) VMware
6 44 (49.44%) VMware Infrastructure
7 38 (42.70%) Active Directory
8 36 (40.45%) Veeam
8 36 (40.45%) Azure
9 35 (39.33%) Citrix
9 35 (39.33%) SQL Server
10 34 (38.20%) SQL
10 34 (38.20%) Windows Server
10 34 (38.20%) Social Skills
11 30 (33.71%) Degree
12 28 (31.46%) Microsoft Exchange
13 27 (30.34%) Wi-Fi
14 24 (26.97%) SharePoint
15 23 (25.84%) Hyper-V
16 21 (23.60%) Cisco
17 20 (22.47%) Microsoft Office
18 19 (21.35%) Cybersecurity
19 18 (20.22%) Replication
20 17 (19.10%) Microsoft Excel
21 16 (17.98%) DNS
21 16 (17.98%) Cisco Certification
21 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Intune
21 16 (17.98%) Change Control
22 15 (16.85%) OneDrive
22 15 (16.85%) DHCP

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 28 (31.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (26.97%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.74%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 20 (22.47%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (19.10%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 61 (68.54%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (40.45%) Azure
3 15 (16.85%) OneDrive
4 12 (13.48%) Entra ID
5 8 (8.99%) AWS
6 2 (2.25%) SaaS
7 1 (1.12%) IaaS
7 1 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (74.16%) Firewall
2 27 (30.34%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (17.98%) DNS
4 15 (16.85%) DHCP
4 15 (16.85%) VLAN
5 14 (15.73%) VPN
6 12 (13.48%) LAN
6 12 (13.48%) WAN
7 11 (12.36%) TCP/IP
8 7 (7.87%) BGP
8 7 (7.87%) FTP
8 7 (7.87%) OSPF
9 6 (6.74%) NAS
9 6 (6.74%) SAN
9 6 (6.74%) Wireless
10 5 (5.62%) HSRP
10 5 (5.62%) IPsec
11 3 (3.37%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (3.37%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (3.37%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (39.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Hudson
General
1 34 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.85%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Law
4 9 (10.11%) Games
5 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Finance
7 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.22%) Replication
2 10 (11.24%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (10.11%) Management Information System
4 8 (8.99%) Driving Licence
5 7 (7.87%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 64 (71.91%) Windows
2 34 (38.20%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.87%) Linux
4 6 (6.74%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.35%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (17.98%) Change Control
3 14 (15.73%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 13 (14.61%) ITIL
4 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (8.99%) Agile
6 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (6.74%) Customer Service
7 6 (6.74%) ERP
7 6 (6.74%) Escalation Management
7 6 (6.74%) Migration
7 6 (6.74%) Problem Management
7 6 (6.74%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 6 (6.74%) Service Delivery
7 6 (6.74%) Threat Management
7 6 (6.74%) Time Management
7 6 (6.74%) Trend Analysis
8 4 (4.49%) Mentoring
8 4 (4.49%) Project Delivery
9 3 (3.37%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 34 (38.20%) SQL
2 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (33.71%) Degree
2 16 (17.98%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (12.36%) CCNA
3 11 (12.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
5 7 (7.87%) CCNP
6 6 (6.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (6.74%) MCSE
7 3 (3.37%) MCP
7 3 (3.37%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.12%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.25%) NIST
2 1 (1.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (49.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (42.70%) Active Directory
3 23 (25.84%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.25%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (2.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (66.29%) Microsoft
2 49 (55.06%) VMware
3 36 (40.45%) Veeam
4 35 (39.33%) Citrix
5 21 (23.60%) Cisco
6 7 (7.87%) Juniper
6 7 (7.87%) Meraki
7 6 (6.74%) Draytek
8 5 (5.62%) Sophos
9 4 (4.49%) WatchGuard
10 3 (3.37%) Datto
11 2 (2.25%) Acronis
11 2 (2.25%) F5
12 1 (1.12%) 3PAR
12 1 (1.12%) Dell
12 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds