3rd Line Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Third Line Engineer
England > North of England

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £350, 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 160 154 202
Rank change year-on-year -6 +48 -22
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 6 31 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.65% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.70% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 17
10th Percentile £264 £263 £260
25th Percentile £296 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile - £394 £508
90th Percentile - £415 £550
England median daily rate £467 £368 £420
% change year-on-year +26.94% -12.50% +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West 0 5 £350 -11.11% 7
Yorkshire +2 1 £245 -24.62% 1
3rd Line Engineer
England

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) SAN
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) vCenter Server
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (66.67%) LAN
4 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (50.00%) ITIL
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (50.00%) WLAN
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (50.00%) Symantec
4 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
4 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (50.00%) Data Management
4 3 (50.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (50.00%) OneDrive
4 3 (50.00%) Network Security

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) WLAN
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) VoIP
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) Unix
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) E-Discovery
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (33.33%) MCSE
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) vCenter Server
2 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
3 2 (33.33%) WSUS
4 1 (16.67%) AppManager
4 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Symantec
2 3 (50.00%) Veeam
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Ivanti