3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 382 430
Rank change year-on-year +69 +48 +17
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 23 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.082% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.088% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 27
10th Percentile £356 £216 £313
25th Percentile £463 £263 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £365 £475
Median % change year-on-year +57.53% -23.16% +19.50%
75th Percentile £594 £388 £525
90th Percentile £623 £395 £588
UK median daily rate £572 £370 £450
% change year-on-year +54.53% -17.78% +12.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

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

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

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

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +51 12 £575 +53.33% 3
North West +21 5 £350 -17.65% 1
North of England +20 5 £350 +7.69% 1
East of England +30 3 £467 +119.53%
Wales +2 2 £365 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 3rd Line Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Windows
1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (95.65%) VMware
2 22 (95.65%) Active Directory
3 18 (78.26%) Windows Server
4 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
4 16 (69.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (56.52%) Firewall
5 13 (56.52%) Linux
5 13 (56.52%) vCenter Server
6 12 (52.17%) ITIL
7 11 (47.83%) DNS
7 11 (47.83%) DHCP
7 11 (47.83%) SAN
7 11 (47.83%) IaaS
8 10 (43.48%) PaaS
8 10 (43.48%) Docker
8 10 (43.48%) DevOps
8 10 (43.48%) Symantec
8 10 (43.48%) Hyper-V
8 10 (43.48%) Clustering
9 9 (39.13%) Azure
9 9 (39.13%) Citrix
9 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (39.13%) Data Centre
9 9 (39.13%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (34.78%) DV Cleared
10 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
11 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
11 7 (30.43%) AWS

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) IaaS
2 10 (43.48%) PaaS
3 9 (39.13%) Azure
4 7 (30.43%) AWS
4 7 (30.43%) GCP
4 7 (30.43%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.70%) Nutanix
5 2 (8.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) Firewall
2 11 (47.83%) DHCP
2 11 (47.83%) DNS
2 11 (47.83%) SAN
3 7 (30.43%) SMTP
3 7 (30.43%) VPN
4 6 (26.09%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (13.04%) LAN
5 3 (13.04%) Network Security
5 3 (13.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (30.43%) Big Data
1 7 (30.43%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Legal
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Clustering
2 9 (39.13%) Data Centre
3 7 (30.43%) PKI
4 3 (13.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (78.26%) Windows Server
3 13 (56.52%) Linux
4 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (52.17%) ITIL
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps
4 7 (30.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (30.43%) Machine Learning
4 7 (30.43%) Software Deployment
5 6 (26.09%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (17.39%) Security Patching
7 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
7 3 (13.04%) Capacity Management
7 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
7 3 (13.04%) Proactive Management
7 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.04%) Storage Management
7 3 (13.04%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (13.04%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) DV Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) Degree
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (13.04%) DBS Check
5 2 (8.70%) MCSE
5 2 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (95.65%) Active Directory
2 16 (69.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (43.48%) Docker
3 10 (43.48%) Hyper-V
4 9 (39.13%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (30.43%) BitLocker
5 7 (30.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (30.43%) Terminal Services
6 4 (17.39%) DFS Replication
6 4 (17.39%) vSphere
7 3 (13.04%) VMware NSX
8 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) vCenter Server
2 7 (30.43%) Ansible
2 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Nagios
2 7 (30.43%) Puppet
2 7 (30.43%) vMotion
3 3 (13.04%) Backup Exec
3 3 (13.04%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (13.04%) Podman
4 2 (8.70%) WSUS
5 1 (4.35%) SCCM
5 1 (4.35%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) VMware
2 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
3 10 (43.48%) Symantec
4 9 (39.13%) Citrix
5 7 (30.43%) Google
5 7 (30.43%) HP
6 3 (13.04%) Cisco
6 3 (13.04%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (13.04%) Veeam
7 1 (4.35%) McAfee
7 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds