3rd Line Infrastructure Support Contract Job Trends in England

Third Line Infrastructure Support
UK > England

The median Third Line Infrastructure Support daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 - 565
Rank change year-on-year - - +156
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 6 0 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.020% - 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% - 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile £373 - £262
25th Percentile £406 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £313
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.81%
75th Percentile £512 - £388
90th Percentile £578 - £493
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £313
% change year-on-year +2.86% +40.00% -1.57%
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 27,286 28,665 37,074
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 92.97% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,533 17,518 25,682
10th Percentile £281 £300 £295
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
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 1,618 1,075 1,417
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.15 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £53.59 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.82 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +60.48%

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

3rd Line Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in England

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in England over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in England

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
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 Support within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 - 1 £450 -
South East - 1 £615 -
South West - 1 £450 - 1
East of England - 1 £350 -
3rd Line Infrastructure Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
4 3 (50.00%) Firewall
4 3 (50.00%) HP
4 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (50.00%) SAN
4 3 (50.00%) WAN
5 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (33.33%) DHCP
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (33.33%) Middleware
5 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
6 1 (16.67%) AWS
6 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) DFS Replication
6 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel

3rd Line Infrastructure Support 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:

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%) 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
General
1 2 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
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
3 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
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%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Patching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) DFS Replication
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) Veritas