3rd Line Engineer Contract Job Trends in Fareham

Third Line Engineer
Hampshire > Fareham

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in Fareham is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Fareham 1.10% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £338 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £475 £500 -
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Fareham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Fareham. 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 Fareham with a recognized job title 80 34 41
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.91% 85.00% 97.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 17 14
10th Percentile - - £319
25th Percentile £263 £256 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £675 £488 £572
90th Percentile £700 £517 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 14
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.17 £20.94
Median hourly rate £14.41 £16.34 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -75.34% -
75th Percentile £15.47 £16.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £35.29 £17.44 £78.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £68.75
% change year-on-year +52.09% -63.42% +30.95%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Fareham

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

3rd Line Engineer job vacancy trend in Fareham

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Fareham

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

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

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Fareham

For the 6 months to 12 October 2026, 3rd Line 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 Fareham region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Fareham 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware