3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 362 390
Rank change year-on-year -39 +28 +72
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 2 7 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.042% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.046% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile £376 £360 £253
25th Percentile £414 £431 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £438 £313
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +40.00% -5.30%
75th Percentile £554 £480 £350
90th Percentile £595 £515 £405
UK median daily rate £400 £431 £300
% change year-on-year -7.25% +43.75% -10.45%

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 15,808 15,256 19,359
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.81% 92.29% 93.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,768 8,742 12,768
10th Percentile £209 £217 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,575 1,049 1,267
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.43
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +83.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +50.00%

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

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

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

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 21 November 2025.

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

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 21 November 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 0 1 £615 +44.71% 6
East of England - 1 £350 -
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, 3rd Line Infrastructure 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DFS Replication
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas