3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 859 1106
Rank change year-on-year +84 +247 -391
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 113 136 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.15% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 93 116 123
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,400
25th Percentile £36,875 £42,000 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,500 £56,375 £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +55 108 £47,500 -4.04% 17
UK excluding London -12 101 £46,000 -3.16% 13
South West +2 32 £50,000 +14.94% 3
Work from Home +51 31 £47,500 -2.06% 5
Midlands +6 21 £47,500 -13.64% 1
South East +6 18 £42,250 +5.63% 3
North of England +36 15 £35,000 -23.91% 3
West Midlands +13 15 £38,500 -30.00% 1
London +113 12 £63,750 +27.50% 3
Yorkshire +84 11 £35,000 -28.21% 1
East of England -9 10 £58,000 +5.45% 2
East Midlands -12 6 £47,500 -13.64%
Wales - 4 £40,500 - 1
North West -4 3 £60,000 +30.43% 2
North East - 1 £60,000 -
Scotland - 1 £35,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 3rd Line Infrastructure 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 featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 109 (96.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (53.98%) Microsoft
3 58 (51.33%) Azure
4 56 (49.56%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (45.13%) Windows
6 43 (38.05%) VMware
7 39 (34.51%) Active Directory
8 37 (32.74%) Windows Server
9 35 (30.97%) Security Cleared
10 31 (27.43%) Firewall
10 31 (27.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (25.66%) DNS
11 29 (25.66%) VMware Infrastructure
12 27 (23.89%) WAN
13 26 (23.01%) PowerShell
13 26 (23.01%) Hyper-V
14 24 (21.24%) Citrix
15 22 (19.47%) SharePoint
15 22 (19.47%) SAN
15 22 (19.47%) Veeam
16 20 (17.70%) Social Skills
16 20 (17.70%) LAN
17 19 (16.81%) Microsoft Exchange
17 19 (16.81%) Linux
18 18 (15.93%) DHCP
18 18 (15.93%) SCCM
19 17 (15.04%) WLAN
20 16 (14.16%) Sophos
20 16 (14.16%) DV Cleared
21 15 (13.27%) Windows Server 2019

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 22 (19.47%) SharePoint
2 19 (16.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.77%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (1.77%) IIS
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Site Server
Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 58 (51.33%) Azure
2 56 (49.56%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (12.39%) AWS
4 11 (9.73%) Entra ID
5 10 (8.85%) IaaS
5 10 (8.85%) PaaS
6 9 (7.96%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.96%) SaaS
7 8 (7.08%) Nutanix
8 5 (4.42%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.77%) GCP
9 2 (1.77%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.77%) OCI
9 2 (1.77%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.77%) OpenDNS
10 1 (0.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 31 (27.43%) Firewall
2 29 (25.66%) DNS
3 27 (23.89%) WAN
4 22 (19.47%) SAN
5 20 (17.70%) LAN
6 18 (15.93%) DHCP
7 17 (15.04%) WLAN
8 12 (10.62%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (7.96%) SD-WAN
10 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
10 7 (6.19%) VPN
11 6 (5.31%) VoIP
12 3 (2.65%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.65%) VLAN
13 2 (1.77%) HSRP
13 2 (1.77%) IPsec
13 2 (1.77%) iSCSI
13 2 (1.77%) OSPF
13 2 (1.77%) RIP
13 2 (1.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.42%) MySQL
3 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 20 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.73%) Aerospace
3 9 (7.96%) Finance
4 6 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.42%) Banking
6 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Law
7 2 (1.77%) Legal
7 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.88%) Advertising
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Games
8 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) JSON
1 6 (5.31%) JSON Schema
1 6 (5.31%) KML
1 6 (5.31%) Regular Expression
1 6 (5.31%) Software Packaging
1 6 (5.31%) XML
1 6 (5.31%) XML Schema
2 2 (1.77%) LAMP
2 2 (1.77%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (6.19%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.42%) EMC VNX
4 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.77%) Clustering
5 2 (1.77%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) PKI
5 2 (1.77%) Replication
6 1 (0.88%) CCTV
6 1 (0.88%) IoT
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (45.13%) Windows
2 37 (32.74%) Windows Server
3 19 (16.81%) Linux
4 15 (13.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (10.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (6.19%) Windows 10
6 7 (6.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.77%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.88%) CentOS
9 1 (0.88%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.88%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (96.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (10.62%) ITIL
2 12 (10.62%) Root Cause Analysis
2 12 (10.62%) Service Delivery
3 9 (7.96%) Systems Engineering
3 9 (7.96%) Virtual Environments
4 8 (7.08%) Customer Service
4 8 (7.08%) ITSM
4 8 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (6.19%) Communications Security
5 7 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (6.19%) Server Management
6 6 (5.31%) Application Virtualisation
6 6 (5.31%) CAD
6 6 (5.31%) Compatibility Testing
6 6 (5.31%) Service Management
6 6 (5.31%) Software Distribution
6 6 (5.31%) Software Testing
6 6 (5.31%) Workload Management
7 5 (4.42%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.01%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.19%) SQL
3 1 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (30.97%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.16%) DV Cleared
3 13 (11.50%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.96%) Degree
5 6 (5.31%) CCNA
5 6 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.54%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) MCSA
7 1 (0.88%) MCSE
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (3.54%) SLA
2 1 (0.88%) GDPR
2 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (34.51%) Active Directory
2 29 (25.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (23.01%) Hyper-V
4 11 (9.73%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (6.19%) Docker
6 6 (5.31%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.65%) XenApp
7 3 (2.65%) XenDesktop
8 2 (1.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (1.77%) pfSense
8 2 (1.77%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.88%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 31 (27.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (15.93%) SCCM
3 12 (10.62%) Ansible
4 6 (5.31%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.42%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (4.42%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.42%) Nagios
6 2 (1.77%) Backup Exec
6 2 (1.77%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.88%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.88%) MobiControl
7 1 (0.88%) vRealize
7 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (53.98%) Microsoft
2 43 (38.05%) VMware
3 24 (21.24%) Citrix
4 22 (19.47%) Veeam
5 16 (14.16%) Sophos
6 13 (11.50%) Aruba
6 13 (11.50%) Cisco
6 13 (11.50%) HP
7 7 (6.19%) Meraki
8 6 (5.31%) Acronis
8 6 (5.31%) Datto
8 6 (5.31%) Red Hat
8 6 (5.31%) SolarWinds
9 5 (4.42%) EMC
10 4 (3.54%) Mitel
11 3 (2.65%) Fortinet
11 3 (2.65%) Oracle
12 2 (1.77%) Dell
12 2 (1.77%) NetApp
12 2 (1.77%) Veritas