3rd Line Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Third Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £345 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 318 319
Rank change year-on-year +24 +1 +60
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 98 119 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.53% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.56% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 75 138
10th Percentile £208 £240 £231
25th Percentile £275 £313 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £375 £398
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -5.66% +17.78%
75th Percentile £388 £500 £438
90th Percentile £403 £550 £475
UK median daily rate £375 £400 £388
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,293 21,279 29,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.28% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,580 14,791 20,569
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,073 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.00 £14.86
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.21
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 June 2024. 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 of England +33 30 £375 +7.14% 19
Midlands -6 29 £288 -14.81% 10
West Midlands +3 27 £300 -7.69% 7
North West +32 23 £400 +14.29% 6
South East +21 22 £375 -5.06% 15
South West +3 7 £350 -30.00% 7
Yorkshire +19 5 £325 +4.00% 6
East of England +7 5 £250 -50.00% 5
Scotland +48 4 £325 -7.14% 3
North East +8 2 £275 -24.14% 7
East Midlands -3 2 £275 -24.14% 3
Wales - 1 £365 - 1
3rd Line Engineer
UK

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 June 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (40.82%) Windows
2 39 (39.80%) Security Cleared
3 38 (38.78%) VPN
4 33 (33.67%) Microsoft
4 33 (33.67%) VMware
5 32 (32.65%) BGP
6 31 (31.63%) WAN
7 29 (29.59%) Active Directory
7 29 (29.59%) MPLS
7 29 (29.59%) PKI
8 28 (28.57%) IPsec
9 27 (27.55%) Juniper
10 25 (25.51%) Junos
10 25 (25.51%) Load Balancing
11 23 (23.47%) Windows Server
12 21 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
13 18 (18.37%) Firewall
13 18 (18.37%) Azure
14 15 (15.31%) Linux
15 14 (14.29%) SC Cleared
16 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
17 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
17 12 (12.24%) Hyper-V
17 12 (12.24%) Cisco Certification
18 11 (11.22%) SLA
18 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Exchange
18 11 (11.22%) SAN
19 10 (10.20%) Cisco

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) IIS
4 1 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.02%) nginx
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (18.37%) Azure
3 6 (6.12%) AWS
3 6 (6.12%) GCP
4 4 (4.08%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.04%) IaaS
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.02%) OCI
6 1 (1.02%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.02%) PaaS
6 1 (1.02%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.02%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (38.78%) VPN
2 32 (32.65%) BGP
3 31 (31.63%) WAN
4 29 (29.59%) MPLS
5 28 (28.57%) IPsec
6 25 (25.51%) Junos
7 18 (18.37%) Firewall
8 11 (11.22%) SAN
9 10 (10.20%) VLAN
10 7 (7.14%) DNS
10 7 (7.14%) OSPF
11 6 (6.12%) DHCP
11 6 (6.12%) NAS
11 6 (6.12%) TCP/IP
12 4 (4.08%) Value-Added Service
12 4 (4.08%) Wireshark
13 3 (3.06%) Cisco Firepower
13 3 (3.06%) LAN
13 3 (3.06%) Spanning Tree
13 3 (3.06%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.08%) MySQL
2 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
General
1 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.04%) Back Office
6 1 (1.02%) Banking
6 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.02%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.02%) Law
6 1 (1.02%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.06%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.02%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 29 (29.59%) PKI
2 6 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.08%) Clustering
3 4 (4.08%) Fat Client
3 4 (4.08%) Thin Client
4 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.02%) LIMS
5 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (40.82%) Windows
2 23 (23.47%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.31%) Linux
4 9 (9.18%) Windows 10
5 6 (6.12%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (6.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (5.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.08%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.04%) CentOS
8 2 (2.04%) Debian
8 2 (2.04%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.04%) Unix
8 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.02%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.51%) Load Balancing
2 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 7 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 6 (6.12%) Change Management
5 6 (6.12%) Patch Management
6 5 (5.10%) Computer Science
6 5 (5.10%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (4.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (4.08%) High Availability
7 4 (4.08%) ITIL
7 4 (4.08%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (3.06%) Change Control
8 3 (3.06%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (3.06%) Project Delivery
8 3 (3.06%) Project Management
8 3 (3.06%) Server Management
9 2 (2.04%) Asset Management
9 2 (2.04%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.04%) SQL
3 1 (1.02%) Bash
3 1 (1.02%) Python
Qualifications
1 39 (39.80%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.24%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (10.20%) Degree
5 9 (9.18%) CCNP
5 9 (9.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (7.14%) MCSE
7 5 (5.10%) CCIE
7 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.08%) CCNA
8 4 (4.08%) VCAP
8 4 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.06%) MCSA
10 2 (2.04%) RHCT
11 1 (1.02%) A+ Certification
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.02%) CCENT
11 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.02%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.22%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (29.59%) Active Directory
2 21 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (12.24%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (6.12%) vSphere
5 3 (3.06%) KVM
6 2 (2.04%) Firmware
6 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.02%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.12%) SCCM
2 6 (6.12%) vCenter Server
3 4 (4.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (4.08%) Ansible
3 4 (4.08%) Nessus
3 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (4.08%) WSUS
3 4 (4.08%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.02%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (33.67%) Microsoft
1 33 (33.67%) VMware
2 27 (27.55%) Juniper
3 10 (10.20%) Cisco
4 9 (9.18%) Veeam
5 8 (8.16%) Citrix
5 8 (8.16%) Red Hat
6 6 (6.12%) Aruba
7 5 (5.10%) HP
7 5 (5.10%) Oracle
8 4 (4.08%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (4.08%) SolarWinds
9 3 (3.06%) F5
9 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.06%) Google
9 3 (3.06%) NetApp
9 3 (3.06%) Sophos
10 2 (2.04%) Meraki
11 1 (1.02%) Brocade
11 1 (1.02%) Ivanti