3rd Line Engineer Contracts in England

Third Line Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in England is £371 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 496 509
Rank change year-on-year +65 +13 -8
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 117 174 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.36% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 131 204
10th Percentile £250 £263 £225
25th Percentile £299 £319 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 £420 £375
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% +12.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £392 £500 £438
90th Percentile £500 £550 £475
UK median daily rate £350 £420 £375
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.00% +16.28%
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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
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 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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 25 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 25 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 +45 30 £325 -7.14% 31
Midlands +6 28 £325 - 11
West Midlands +23 27 £350 +14.75% 7
South East +7 26 £375 -25.00% 22
North West +25 21 £394 -19.23% 18
London +74 19 £375 -10.71% 12
Yorkshire +28 7 £325 - 8
South West +16 7 £300 -40.00% 11
East of England +4 5 £250 -47.37% 11
North East - 2 £275 - 5
East Midlands +3 1 £275 -26.67% 4
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 47 (40.17%) Windows
1 47 (40.17%) Security Cleared
2 38 (32.48%) VMware
3 37 (31.62%) VPN
4 35 (29.91%) WAN
5 34 (29.06%) Juniper
6 33 (28.21%) Active Directory
6 33 (28.21%) Microsoft
7 32 (27.35%) BGP
8 29 (24.79%) MPLS
9 28 (23.93%) IPsec
9 28 (23.93%) PKI
10 27 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
11 26 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (21.37%) Junos
12 25 (21.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 24 (20.51%) Windows Server
14 23 (19.66%) Load Balancing
14 23 (19.66%) Firewall
15 22 (18.80%) Cisco
16 20 (17.09%) Azure
17 16 (13.68%) SC Cleared
18 15 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
19 14 (11.97%) SAN
19 14 (11.97%) Windows 10
20 13 (11.11%) Public Sector
20 13 (11.11%) Linux
21 12 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
21 12 (10.26%) VLAN
21 12 (10.26%) 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 12 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (17.09%) Azure
3 7 (5.98%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.27%) AWS
5 4 (3.42%) GCP
6 2 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.71%) IaaS
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.85%) OCI
7 1 (0.85%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.85%) PaaS
7 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (31.62%) VPN
2 35 (29.91%) WAN
3 32 (27.35%) BGP
4 29 (24.79%) MPLS
5 28 (23.93%) IPsec
6 25 (21.37%) Junos
7 23 (19.66%) Firewall
8 14 (11.97%) SAN
9 12 (10.26%) VLAN
10 10 (8.55%) DNS
11 9 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (6.84%) DHCP
12 8 (6.84%) OSPF
12 8 (6.84%) TCP/IP
13 7 (5.98%) LAN
14 6 (5.13%) NAS
15 5 (4.27%) Cisco Nexus
16 4 (3.42%) Cisco ASA
16 4 (3.42%) SD-WAN
16 4 (3.42%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.27%) MySQL
3 4 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
General
1 13 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 12 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 3 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.85%) Back Office
5 1 (0.85%) Banking
5 1 (0.85%) Finance
5 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.85%) Law
5 1 (0.85%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.56%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.85%) .NET
2 1 (0.85%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.85%) Kafka
2 1 (0.85%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.85%) Spring
2 1 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.93%) PKI
2 6 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.42%) Fat Client
3 4 (3.42%) Thin Client
4 3 (2.56%) Clustering
4 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.85%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.85%) LIMS
5 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 47 (40.17%) Windows
2 24 (20.51%) Windows Server
3 14 (11.97%) Windows 10
4 13 (11.11%) Linux
5 7 (5.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.42%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.42%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.56%) Android
7 3 (2.56%) Unix
7 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.85%) CentOS
9 1 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (19.66%) Load Balancing
3 11 (9.40%) Mentoring
4 9 (7.69%) Patch Management
5 8 (6.84%) Network Virtualisation
5 8 (6.84%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (5.98%) Customer Service
7 6 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (5.13%) Performance Monitoring
8 5 (4.27%) High Availability
8 5 (4.27%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (3.42%) Change Control
9 4 (3.42%) Change Management
9 4 (3.42%) Migration
10 3 (2.56%) Computer Science
10 3 (2.56%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (2.56%) Knowledge Management
10 3 (2.56%) Project Management
10 3 (2.56%) Server Management
11 2 (1.71%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.71%) Java
2 2 (1.71%) SQL
3 1 (0.85%) Bash
3 1 (0.85%) C#
3 1 (0.85%) Python
3 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (40.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (9.40%) CCNP
5 10 (8.55%) Degree
6 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.98%) DV Cleared
8 6 (5.13%) CCNA
9 5 (4.27%) MCSE
10 4 (3.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.56%) CCIE
11 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.71%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.71%) CCENT
12 2 (1.71%) MCSA
12 2 (1.71%) VCAP
13 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.85%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) SLA
2 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.85%) IASME
System Software
1 33 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 27 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.55%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.98%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (5.13%) vSphere
6 2 (1.71%) Firmware
6 2 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (8.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (8.55%) SCCM
2 7 (5.98%) vCenter Server
3 4 (3.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (3.42%) Ansible
3 4 (3.42%) Nessus
3 4 (3.42%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (3.42%) WSUS
3 4 (3.42%) ZABBIX
4 3 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.71%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.85%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.85%) Grafana
6 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 38 (32.48%) VMware
2 34 (29.06%) Juniper
3 33 (28.21%) Microsoft
4 22 (18.80%) Cisco
5 10 (8.55%) Veeam
6 6 (5.13%) Citrix
6 6 (5.13%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.27%) Aruba
7 5 (4.27%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.27%) HP
7 5 (4.27%) Oracle
8 4 (3.42%) Apple
8 4 (3.42%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.56%) Adobe
9 3 (2.56%) F5
9 3 (2.56%) Meraki
9 3 (2.56%) NetApp
9 3 (2.56%) Sophos
10 2 (1.71%) Google
10 2 (1.71%) LogicMonitor