3rd Line Support Contract Job Trends in London

Third Line Support
England > London

The median Third Line Support daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 364 403
Rank change year-on-year +8 +39 +155
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 11 18 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.082% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 27
10th Percentile £296 £231 £225
25th Percentile £375 £296 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £388
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +8.39% +10.71%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £400
90th Percentile - £542 £450
England median daily rate £450 £375 £325
% change year-on-year +20.00% +15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 -
% change year-on-year -3.23% - -

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 12,372 15,124 19,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.07% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,262 9,866 14,212
10th Percentile £335 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 173 212
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.15 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.89 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.17% -13.58% +22.73%
75th Percentile £49.00 £58.75 £61.59
90th Percentile £67.75 £78.75 £76.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +66.53%

3rd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

3rd Line Support job vacancy trend in London

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Support job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Support job vacancies in London

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Support in London

3rd Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Support job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Support job vacancies in London

3rd Line Support
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 Support within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 +6 1 £375 -14.29% 1
North London -1 1 £510 +100.00%
3rd Line Support
England

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, 3rd Line Support 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 London region featuring 3rd Line Support in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (36.36%) Mac OS
3 4 (36.36%) Apple
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 4 (36.36%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (27.27%) AirWatch
4 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 3 (27.27%) Bash
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (18.18%) Adobe
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
5 2 (18.18%) Break/Fix
5 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Mac OS
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) Break/Fix
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
2 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
2 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Coaching
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (36.36%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (27.27%) AirWatch
4 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Apple
3 2 (18.18%) Adobe
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 1 (9.09%) VMware