3rd Line Network Engineer Jobs

Third Line Network Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Network Engineer salary in the UK is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 843 924 1163
Rank change year-on-year +81 +239 -325
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Network Engineer 51 69 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.066% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.072% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 35 62 45
10th Percentile £39,550 £35,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £51,500 £65,000 £51,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £70,000 £55,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year -2.00% +14.29% +21.11%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

3rd Line Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

3rd Line Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Network Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Network Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
UK excluding London +5 48 £49,000 -2.00% 4
England +106 37 £49,000 -10.09% 5
South East +37 31 £49,000 -1.51% 1
Wales - 14 - -
London +133 3 £43,750 -37.50% 1
North of England +35 3 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £47,500 -
Work from Home +61 1 £52,500 -12.50% 3

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring 3rd Line Network Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (90.20%) Security Cleared
2 39 (76.47%) Cisco
3 28 (54.90%) Firewall
4 25 (49.02%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (49.02%) Juniper
4 25 (49.02%) SC Cleared
5 22 (43.14%) BGP
5 22 (43.14%) CCNP
6 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 17 (33.33%) Data Centre
7 16 (31.37%) Project Delivery
7 16 (31.37%) DNS
8 14 (27.45%) Wireless
8 14 (27.45%) Avaya
8 14 (27.45%) Incident Management
8 14 (27.45%) Business Continuity
8 14 (27.45%) Mitel
8 14 (27.45%) IP Telephony
8 14 (27.45%) Network Management
8 14 (27.45%) Skype for Business
8 14 (27.45%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (19.61%) OSPF
10 9 (17.65%) VPN
11 8 (15.69%) IPsec
12 7 (13.73%) HSRP
13 6 (11.76%) SSL
13 6 (11.76%) Agile
14 5 (9.80%) VLAN
14 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
14 5 (9.80%) Cisco ASA

3rd Line Network 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 14 (27.45%) Skype for Business
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.84%) Azure
2 3 (5.88%) AWS
3 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.92%) SaaS
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (54.90%) Firewall
2 22 (43.14%) BGP
3 16 (31.37%) DNS
4 14 (27.45%) IP Telephony
4 14 (27.45%) Wireless
5 10 (19.61%) OSPF
6 9 (17.65%) VPN
7 8 (15.69%) IPsec
8 7 (13.73%) HSRP
9 6 (11.76%) SSL
10 5 (9.80%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (9.80%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (9.80%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (9.80%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (9.80%) Spanning Tree
10 5 (9.80%) VLAN
11 4 (7.84%) Junos
11 4 (7.84%) LAN
11 4 (7.84%) NetScaler
12 3 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Hudson
General
1 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.96%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.88%) Driving Licence
2 3 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) Project Delivery
2 14 (27.45%) Actionable Insight
2 14 (27.45%) Business Continuity
2 14 (27.45%) Incident Management
2 14 (27.45%) Network Management
3 6 (11.76%) Agile
4 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
5 4 (7.84%) ITIL
5 4 (7.84%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (7.84%) Patch Management
6 3 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (3.92%) Antivirus Management
7 2 (3.92%) Change Control
7 2 (3.92%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (3.92%) Decision-Making
7 2 (3.92%) Line Management
7 2 (3.92%) Process Improvement
7 2 (3.92%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (3.92%) Software Deployment
7 2 (3.92%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 46 (90.20%) Security Cleared
2 25 (49.02%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (49.02%) SC Cleared
3 22 (43.14%) CCNP
4 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.88%) CCNA
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.96%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
1 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 39 (76.47%) Cisco
2 25 (49.02%) Juniper
3 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 14 (27.45%) Avaya
4 14 (27.45%) Mitel
5 4 (7.84%) Citrix
5 4 (7.84%) F5
5 4 (7.84%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.92%) Acronis
6 2 (3.92%) Veeam
6 2 (3.92%) VMware
7 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.96%) WatchGuard