3rd Line Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Third Line Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 85 83
Rank change year-on-year +29 -2 +21
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 13 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.74% 0.62% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 0.69% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 15
10th Percentile - £291 £340
25th Percentile £550 £349 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £481 £581
90th Percentile £600 £506 £588
South East median daily rate £575 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +53.33% -25.00% +29.87%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 712 1,451 1,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 90.12% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 824 865
10th Percentile £280 £363 £232
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £620
90th Percentile £661 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 173 106
10th Percentile £20.03 £13.40 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £33.75 £22.51
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +141.38%
75th Percentile £71.25 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Basingstoke +35 13 £575 +27.78% 3
3rd Line Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Hampshire region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) Windows Server
2 11 (84.62%) vCenter Server
3 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
3 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (76.92%) DHCP
3 10 (76.92%) VPN
3 10 (76.92%) DNS
4 8 (61.54%) Firewall
4 8 (61.54%) Nagios
4 8 (61.54%) Symantec
4 8 (61.54%) VMware
4 8 (61.54%) Clustering
4 8 (61.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (61.54%) Google
4 8 (61.54%) PKI
4 8 (61.54%) Linux
4 8 (61.54%) SMTP
4 8 (61.54%) Terminal Services
4 8 (61.54%) HP
4 8 (61.54%) Citrix
4 8 (61.54%) Hyper-V
4 8 (61.54%) Puppet
4 8 (61.54%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (61.54%) PowerShell

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (15.38%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (15.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) GCP
1 8 (61.54%) IaaS
1 8 (61.54%) OpenShift
1 8 (61.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) DHCP
1 10 (76.92%) DNS
1 10 (76.92%) VPN
2 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) SMTP
3 2 (15.38%) DDNS
3 2 (15.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (61.54%) Big Data
1 8 (61.54%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Clustering
1 8 (61.54%) Data Centre
1 8 (61.54%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Windows Server
3 8 (61.54%) Linux
4 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
1 8 (61.54%) Software Deployment
2 3 (23.08%) ITSM
2 3 (23.08%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) Content Management
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Content Management
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Search
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
3 2 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (61.54%) BitLocker
2 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 8 (61.54%) Hyper-V
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (61.54%) Terminal Services
2 8 (61.54%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Brightmail
3 2 (15.38%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) vCenter Server
2 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (61.54%) Nagios
2 8 (61.54%) Puppet
2 8 (61.54%) vMotion
3 3 (23.08%) SCCM
3 3 (23.08%) SCOM
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (61.54%) Citrix
2 8 (61.54%) Google
2 8 (61.54%) HP
2 8 (61.54%) Symantec
2 8 (61.54%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
4 2 (15.38%) McAfee