3rd Line Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Third Line Support Engineer
England > North of England

The median Third Line Support Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £345, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 - 167
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.068% - 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £228 - £255
25th Percentile £255 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £427 - £356
90th Percentile £475 - £375
England median daily rate £300 £550 £369
% change year-on-year -45.45% +49.15% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £24.18
England median hourly rate - - £24.18

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 6,730 3,626 3,923
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 92.64% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,917 2,338 2,425
10th Percentile £313 £252 £263
25th Percentile £404 £367 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £465 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% -5.10% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £580
90th Percentile £675 £639 £666
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 232 300
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.82 £11.44
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.32 £26.76
Median % change year-on-year +101.66% -16.61% +17.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £46.42 £49.06
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.79 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +71.10% -38.84% -

3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

3rd Line Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

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

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

3rd Line Support 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 Support Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 July 2026. 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 - 3 £448 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £305 -
North East - 1 £290 -
3rd Line Support Engineer
England

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 31 July 2026, 3rd Line Support Engineer 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 North of England region featuring 3rd Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Adobe
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) Clearswift
3 1 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) GxP
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) SMTP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Biotechnology
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GxP
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Clearswift
2 1 (20.00%) Proofpoint
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) Samsung