3rd Line Engineer Contracts in Basingstoke

Third Line Engineer
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in Basingstoke is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 49 37
Rank change year-on-year +35 -12 +14
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 13 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 9.63% 0.93% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.00% 0.95% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile - £323 -
25th Percentile £550 £362 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £475 £488
90th Percentile £600 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Basingstoke

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basingstoke. 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 Basingstoke with a recognized job title 130 422 207
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.30% 98.60% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 238 133
10th Percentile £456 £421 £228
25th Percentile £519 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £650 £738 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 5
10th Percentile £22.00 £13.64 £15.86
25th Percentile £22.92 £27.50 £16.84
Median hourly rate £24.70 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.01% +150.00% -15.56%
75th Percentile £26.72 £48.75 £21.50
90th Percentile £27.79 - £34.85
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +141.38%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Basingstoke

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Basingstoke

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 3rd Line 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 across the Basingstoke region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) Windows Server
2 11 (84.62%) vCenter Server
3 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
3 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (76.92%) DHCP
3 10 (76.92%) VPN
3 10 (76.92%) DNS
4 8 (61.54%) Firewall
4 8 (61.54%) Nagios
4 8 (61.54%) Symantec
4 8 (61.54%) VMware
4 8 (61.54%) Clustering
4 8 (61.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (61.54%) Google
4 8 (61.54%) PKI
4 8 (61.54%) Linux
4 8 (61.54%) SMTP
4 8 (61.54%) Terminal Services
4 8 (61.54%) HP
4 8 (61.54%) Citrix
4 8 (61.54%) Hyper-V
4 8 (61.54%) Puppet
4 8 (61.54%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (61.54%) PowerShell

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (15.38%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (15.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) GCP
1 8 (61.54%) IaaS
1 8 (61.54%) OpenShift
1 8 (61.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) DHCP
1 10 (76.92%) DNS
1 10 (76.92%) VPN
2 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) SMTP
3 2 (15.38%) DDNS
3 2 (15.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (61.54%) Big Data
1 8 (61.54%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Clustering
1 8 (61.54%) Data Centre
1 8 (61.54%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Windows Server
3 8 (61.54%) Linux
4 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
1 8 (61.54%) Software Deployment
2 3 (23.08%) ITSM
2 3 (23.08%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) Content Management
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Content Management
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Search
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
3 2 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (61.54%) BitLocker
2 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 8 (61.54%) Hyper-V
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (61.54%) Terminal Services
2 8 (61.54%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Brightmail
3 2 (15.38%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) vCenter Server
2 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (61.54%) Nagios
2 8 (61.54%) Puppet
2 8 (61.54%) vMotion
3 3 (23.08%) SCCM
3 3 (23.08%) SCOM
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (61.54%) Citrix
2 8 (61.54%) Google
2 8 (61.54%) HP
2 8 (61.54%) Symantec
2 8 (61.54%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
4 2 (15.38%) McAfee