3rd Line Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Third Line Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 54 68
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 +9
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.33% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.36% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £366 £213
25th Percentile £513 £372 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £275
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% +40.91% -5.98%
75th Percentile £538 £397 £313
90th Percentile - £399 £328
South East median daily rate £575 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +53.33% -25.00% +29.87%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 289 548 654
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.70% 92.72% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 406 483
10th Percentile £188 £200 £200
25th Percentile £278 £368 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £540 £617 £616
90th Percentile £659 £691 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 56 38
10th Percentile £20.00 £12.38 £19.53
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.37 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -36.97% +109.64%
75th Percentile £36.16 £57.63 £61.49
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £64.13
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +142.00%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Surrey

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Surrey

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Surrey

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 3 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
Leatherhead - 1 £525 - 1
3rd Line Engineer
South East

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 3 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 Surrey region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft