3rd Line Engineer Contracts in Kent

Third Line Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in Kent is £615, 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 17 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 3.81% 0.99% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.21% 1.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £556 £202 -
25th Percentile £589 £216 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £243 -
Median % change year-on-year +153.61% - -
75th Percentile £623 £271 -
90th Percentile - £285 -
South East median daily rate £575 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +53.33% -25.00% +29.87%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 95 187 214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.57% 97.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 118 175
10th Percentile £180 £203 £129
25th Percentile £205 £211 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £388 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +10.71% -17.65%
75th Percentile £529 £523 £491
90th Percentile £668 £575 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 7
10th Percentile £16.19 £11.45 £37.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.50 £42.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £55.20 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -60.15% -1.84% +69.79%
75th Percentile £80.10 £78.58 £57.12
90th Percentile £88.58 £82.43 £61.35
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 Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Kent

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Kent

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent 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
Maidstone -1 4 £615 +215.38%
3rd Line Engineer
South East

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent

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 Kent region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) SLA
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) IaaS
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Fibre Channel

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) IaaS
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Fibre Channel
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Security Patching
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware