3rd Line Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Third Line Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 725 715 823
Rank change year-on-year -10 +108 -188
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Network Engineer 46 46 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.075% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.084% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 31 36 43
10th Percentile £39,250 £32,175 £32,850
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +27.66%
75th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £51,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £55,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% +22.22% +20.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,883 54,717 68,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.25% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,333 31,108 43,002
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

3rd Line Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Network Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +23 29 £49,000 -2.00% 3
Wales - 14 - -
Yorkshire +98 3 £47,500 -
North of England +45 3 £47,500 -5.00%
3rd Line Network Engineer
UK

3rd Line Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 3rd Line Network 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Network Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (89.13%) Security Cleared
2 37 (80.43%) Cisco
3 26 (56.52%) Firewall
4 25 (54.35%) SC Cleared
5 23 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (43.48%) Juniper
6 20 (43.48%) BGP
6 20 (43.48%) CCNP
7 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
7 17 (36.96%) Data Centre
8 16 (34.78%) Project Delivery
8 16 (34.78%) DNS
9 14 (30.43%) Avaya
9 14 (30.43%) Wireless
9 14 (30.43%) Network Management
9 14 (30.43%) Business Continuity
9 14 (30.43%) Mitel
9 14 (30.43%) IP Telephony
9 14 (30.43%) Incident Management
9 14 (30.43%) Actionable Insight
9 14 (30.43%) Skype for Business
10 9 (19.57%) VPN
11 8 (17.39%) OSPF
11 8 (17.39%) IPsec
12 6 (13.04%) SSL
13 5 (10.87%) Telecoms
13 5 (10.87%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (10.87%) VLAN
13 5 (10.87%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (10.87%) HSRP

3rd Line Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 14 (30.43%) Skype for Business
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.70%) Azure
2 3 (6.52%) AWS
3 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.35%) SaaS
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (56.52%) Firewall
2 20 (43.48%) BGP
3 16 (34.78%) DNS
4 14 (30.43%) IP Telephony
4 14 (30.43%) Wireless
5 9 (19.57%) VPN
6 8 (17.39%) IPsec
6 8 (17.39%) OSPF
7 6 (13.04%) SSL
8 5 (10.87%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (10.87%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (10.87%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (10.87%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (10.87%) HSRP
8 5 (10.87%) Spanning Tree
8 5 (10.87%) VLAN
9 4 (8.70%) LAN
10 3 (6.52%) SD-WAN
10 3 (6.52%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (6.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Hudson
General
1 5 (10.87%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.17%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.52%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) Project Delivery
2 14 (30.43%) Actionable Insight
2 14 (30.43%) Business Continuity
2 14 (30.43%) Incident Management
2 14 (30.43%) Network Management
3 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
4 4 (8.70%) Agile
4 4 (8.70%) ITIL
5 3 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (4.35%) Antivirus Management
6 2 (4.35%) Change Control
6 2 (4.35%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (4.35%) Decision-Making
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (4.35%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (4.35%) Process Improvement
6 2 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (4.35%) Software Deployment
6 2 (4.35%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 41 (89.13%) Security Cleared
2 25 (54.35%) SC Cleared
3 23 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (43.48%) CCNP
5 3 (6.52%) CCNA
5 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.17%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 37 (80.43%) Cisco
2 20 (43.48%) Juniper
3 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
4 14 (30.43%) Avaya
4 14 (30.43%) Mitel
5 4 (8.70%) F5
6 2 (4.35%) Acronis
6 2 (4.35%) Veeam
6 2 (4.35%) VMware
7 1 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.17%) WatchGuard