3rd Line Engineer Contracts in England

Third Line Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in England is £359 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate 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 432 487 494
Rank change year-on-year +55 +7 +2
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 113 172 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.36% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 129 203
10th Percentile £256 £263 £225
25th Percentile £299 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £420 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +12.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £388 £500 £438
90th Percentile £475 £550 £475
UK median daily rate £350 £420 £375
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.00% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer within the England region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +40 31 £325 -7.14% 33
Midlands +7 28 £325 - 11
West Midlands +26 27 £350 +14.75% 7
South East +18 23 £375 -25.00% 22
North West +30 22 £394 -19.23% 19
London +77 17 £375 -10.71% 15
Yorkshire +21 7 £325 - 9
South West +18 7 £300 -40.00% 10
East of England +7 5 £250 -47.37% 11
North East - 2 £275 - 5
East Midlands +6 1 £275 -24.14% 4
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (39.82%) Windows
1 45 (39.82%) Security Cleared
2 38 (33.63%) VPN
3 34 (30.09%) WAN
3 34 (30.09%) VMware
4 33 (29.20%) Active Directory
4 33 (29.20%) BGP
5 32 (28.32%) Juniper
5 32 (28.32%) Microsoft
6 30 (26.55%) MPLS
7 28 (24.78%) IPsec
7 28 (24.78%) PKI
8 25 (22.12%) Junos
8 25 (22.12%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (21.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (20.35%) Windows Server
10 23 (20.35%) VMware Infrastructure
10 23 (20.35%) Load Balancing
11 21 (18.58%) Firewall
12 19 (16.81%) Azure
12 19 (16.81%) Cisco
13 16 (14.16%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (13.27%) SC Cleared
15 14 (12.39%) Windows 10
16 13 (11.50%) VLAN
16 13 (11.50%) SAN
16 13 (11.50%) Linux
17 12 (10.62%) CCNP
17 12 (10.62%) Public Sector
17 12 (10.62%) Social Skills

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.12%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (16.81%) Azure
3 7 (6.19%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.31%) AWS
5 5 (4.42%) GCP
6 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.77%) IaaS
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.88%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.88%) OCI
7 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.88%) PaaS
7 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (33.63%) VPN
2 34 (30.09%) WAN
3 33 (29.20%) BGP
4 30 (26.55%) MPLS
5 28 (24.78%) IPsec
6 25 (22.12%) Junos
7 21 (18.58%) Firewall
8 13 (11.50%) SAN
8 13 (11.50%) VLAN
9 9 (7.96%) DNS
9 9 (7.96%) OSPF
10 7 (6.19%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (6.19%) DHCP
10 7 (6.19%) LAN
10 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
11 6 (5.31%) NAS
12 5 (4.42%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (3.54%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (3.54%) SD-WAN
13 4 (3.54%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.42%) MySQL
3 4 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
General
1 12 (10.62%) Public Sector
1 12 (10.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.88%) Back Office
4 1 (0.88%) Banking
4 1 (0.88%) Finance
4 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
4 1 (0.88%) Law
4 1 (0.88%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.88%) .NET
2 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.88%) Kafka
2 1 (0.88%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.88%) Spring
2 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.78%) PKI
2 6 (5.31%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.54%) Fat Client
3 4 (3.54%) Thin Client
4 3 (2.65%) Clustering
4 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.88%) LIMS
5 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 45 (39.82%) Windows
2 23 (20.35%) Windows Server
3 14 (12.39%) Windows 10
4 13 (11.50%) Linux
5 6 (5.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.54%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.54%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.65%) Android
7 3 (2.65%) Unix
8 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.88%) CentOS
9 1 (0.88%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (20.35%) Load Balancing
3 10 (8.85%) Mentoring
4 9 (7.96%) Patch Management
4 9 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (6.19%) Customer Service
5 7 (6.19%) Network Virtualisation
6 6 (5.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (5.31%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (4.42%) Change Management
7 5 (4.42%) High Availability
8 4 (3.54%) Change Control
8 4 (3.54%) Computer Science
8 4 (3.54%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (2.65%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (2.65%) Knowledge Management
9 3 (2.65%) Migration
9 3 (2.65%) Project Management
10 2 (1.77%) Agile
10 2 (1.77%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.77%) Java
2 2 (1.77%) SQL
3 1 (0.88%) Bash
3 1 (0.88%) C#
3 1 (0.88%) Python
3 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (39.82%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.16%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.62%) CCNP
5 11 (9.73%) Degree
6 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.19%) DV Cleared
8 6 (5.31%) CCNA
9 5 (4.42%) MCSE
10 4 (3.54%) CCIE
10 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.65%) VCAP
12 2 (1.77%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.77%) CCENT
12 2 (1.77%) MCSA
13 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.88%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.08%) SLA
2 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.88%) IASME
System Software
1 33 (29.20%) Active Directory
2 23 (20.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.08%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.19%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.42%) vSphere
6 2 (1.77%) Firmware
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.88%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (8.85%) SCCM
2 7 (6.19%) vCenter Server
3 4 (3.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (3.54%) Ansible
3 4 (3.54%) Nessus
3 4 (3.54%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (3.54%) WSUS
3 4 (3.54%) ZABBIX
4 3 (2.65%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.88%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.88%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (30.09%) VMware
2 32 (28.32%) Juniper
2 32 (28.32%) Microsoft
3 19 (16.81%) Cisco
4 10 (8.85%) Veeam
5 6 (5.31%) Citrix
5 6 (5.31%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.42%) HP
6 5 (4.42%) Oracle
6 5 (4.42%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.54%) Apple
7 4 (3.54%) Aruba
7 4 (3.54%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.65%) Adobe
8 3 (2.65%) F5
8 3 (2.65%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (2.65%) NetApp
8 3 (2.65%) Sophos
9 2 (1.77%) Meraki
9 2 (1.77%) Refinitiv