3rd Line Engineer Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Third Line Engineer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.89% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £325 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £300 - £275
% change year-on-year - - -24.14%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 214 256 273
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.11% 95.88% 96.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 221 199
10th Percentile £363 £263 £323
25th Percentile £402 £346 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £390 £445
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -12.36% +7.23%
75th Percentile £575 £451 £550
90th Percentile £588 £525 £620
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £414 £428
% change year-on-year +14.80% -3.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 20
10th Percentile - £17.57 £10.90
25th Percentile £14.13 - £11.83
Median hourly rate £20.50 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +52.79% -43.62%
75th Percentile £25.50 - £26.94
90th Percentile £40.90 £38.20 £44.13
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £21.39 £18.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% +18.83% -17.56%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

3rd Line Engineer job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in Northamptonshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in Northamptonshire

3rd Line Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in Northamptonshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in Northamptonshire

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Daventry - 2 £300 -
3rd Line Engineer
East Midlands

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire

For the 6 months to 9 July 2026, 3rd Line 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 Northamptonshire region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft