3rd Line Engineer Contracts in London

Third Line Engineer
England > London

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in London is £375, 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 340 374 442
Rank change year-on-year +34 +68 +81
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 13 17 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.095% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.10% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 42
10th Percentile £198 £324 £309
25th Percentile £230 £354 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £420
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £399 £391 £475
90th Percentile £419 £500 £538
England median daily rate £467 £368 £420
% change year-on-year +26.94% -12.50% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
England median hourly rate £24.66 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +4 2 £375 -2.60%
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

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

1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
4 3 (23.08%) Cisco
4 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
4 3 (23.08%) DNS
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 3 (23.08%) Mac OS
5 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (15.38%) SCCM
5 2 (15.38%) Apple
5 2 (15.38%) PKI
5 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (15.38%) VPN
5 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
6 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
6 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) Mimecast
4 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) PBX
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) SMTP
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) WebEx
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Mac OS
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
2 1 (7.69%) Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) Application Packaging
2 1 (7.69%) Change Management
2 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
2 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
2 1 (7.69%) Migration
2 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
2 1 (7.69%) Project Management
2 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
2 1 (7.69%) Security Patching
2 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) BitLocker
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (7.69%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (7.69%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Apple
4 1 (7.69%) Canon
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) Commvault
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) McAfee