3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 519 539
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 +159
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 6 8 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.020% 0.026% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.028% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 16
10th Percentile £337 £344 £257
25th Percentile £345 £375 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £300
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +37.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £493 £469 £363
90th Percentile £571 £509 £425
UK median daily rate £400 £431 £300
% change year-on-year -7.25% +43.75% -10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 27,858 28,874 36,736
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.96% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,854 17,655 25,362
10th Percentile £281 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,695 1,080 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £56.60 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +50.00%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in England

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in England

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 21 November 2025. 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
London -10 2 £394 -1.56% 4
South East 0 1 £615 +44.71% 6
East of England - 1 £350 -
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) HP
3 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (50.00%) SAN
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (33.33%) Middleware
4 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Canon
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) DFS Replication

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) DFS Replication
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) Canon
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) Veritas