3rd Line Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sunderland

Third Line Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in Sunderland is £288, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sunderland 11.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £235 - -
25th Percentile £250 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile £360 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £288 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sunderland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sunderland. 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 Sunderland with a recognized job title 14 8 10
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 77.78% 100.00% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £223 - £333
25th Percentile £300 £188 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £323 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -30.27% +2.78%
75th Percentile £375 £474 £625
90th Percentile - £523 £693
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £464 £450
% change year-on-year -2.96% +3.06% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.50 - -
75th Percentile £39.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £17.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +268.79% -64.75% +104.08%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

3rd Line Engineer job vacancy trend in Sunderland

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sunderland

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

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

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sunderland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Sunderland over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in Sunderland

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland

For the 6 months to 29 August 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 Sunderland region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Okta
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Server Migrations
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Okta
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware