3rd Line Support Engineer Contracts in England

Third Line Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Support Engineer daily rate in England is £333 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 572 683
Rank change year-on-year +62 +111 -115
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 31 89 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.084% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 61 85
10th Percentile £293 £225 £218
25th Percentile £303 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +15.38% +2.77%
75th Percentile £388 £488 £394
90th Percentile £501 £525 £442
UK median daily rate £325 £381 £325
% change year-on-year -14.75% +17.31% -

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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in England

3rd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in England

3rd Line Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Support Engineer in England

3rd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in England

3rd Line Support 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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
South East +14 9 £375 -25.00% 14
London +89 7 £345 -10.97% 8
West Midlands +14 7 - - 4
Midlands +12 7 - - 6
North of England +32 6 £325 - 10
North West +28 3 £325 -7.14% 6
Yorkshire +20 3 £325 - 1
South West +18 1 £300 -47.83% 5
3rd Line Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 3rd Line Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) Juniper
3 11 (35.48%) WAN
4 10 (32.26%) VPN
4 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
4 10 (32.26%) BGP
4 10 (32.26%) IPsec
4 10 (32.26%) PKI
5 9 (29.03%) Junos
5 9 (29.03%) VMware
5 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
5 9 (29.03%) Windows
6 8 (25.81%) MPLS
7 7 (22.58%) Load Balancing
7 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
7 7 (22.58%) Cisco
7 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
8 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
8 6 (19.35%) Azure
9 5 (16.13%) SAN
9 5 (16.13%) Firewall
9 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
10 4 (12.90%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (12.90%) DNS
10 4 (12.90%) LAN
10 4 (12.90%) MySQL
10 4 (12.90%) DHCP

3rd Line Support 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 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) AWS
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) IaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) WAN
2 10 (32.26%) BGP
2 10 (32.26%) IPsec
2 10 (32.26%) VPN
3 9 (29.03%) Junos
4 8 (25.81%) MPLS
5 5 (16.13%) Firewall
5 5 (16.13%) SAN
6 4 (12.90%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (12.90%) DHCP
6 4 (12.90%) DNS
6 4 (12.90%) LAN
6 4 (12.90%) VLAN
7 3 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (9.68%) NAS
7 3 (9.68%) OSPF
8 2 (6.45%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (6.45%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (6.45%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) MySQL
2 3 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.23%) Finance
2 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
2 1 (3.23%) Legal
2 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) Software Packaging
2 1 (3.23%) Spring
2 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) PKI
2 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.68%) Fat Client
3 3 (9.68%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.23%) Housing Association
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.68%) Linux
3 3 (9.68%) Ubuntu
3 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) Load Balancing
1 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (6.45%) Customer Service
3 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (6.45%) High Availability
3 2 (6.45%) Migration
3 2 (6.45%) Network Design
3 2 (6.45%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (6.45%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (6.45%) Patch Management
3 2 (6.45%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (3.23%) Business Continuity
4 1 (3.23%) Data Security
4 1 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.23%) Incident Management
4 1 (3.23%) ITIL
4 1 (3.23%) Network Management
4 1 (3.23%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) C#
3 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.68%) CCNA
4 3 (9.68%) CCNP
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.45%) A+ Certification
5 2 (6.45%) CCENT
5 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.45%) MCSA
6 1 (3.23%) Degree
6 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.23%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.23%) IASME
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) Nessus
2 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (9.68%) vCenter Server
2 3 (9.68%) WSUS
2 3 (9.68%) ZABBIX
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Juniper
2 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (29.03%) VMware
3 7 (22.58%) Cisco
4 4 (12.90%) Veeam
5 3 (9.68%) Citrix
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle
5 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.45%) F5
6 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.23%) Brio
7 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.23%) Google
7 1 (3.23%) Zscaler