3rd Line Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Third Line Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £210, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.084% - 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 - £325
75th Percentile - - £380
90th Percentile - - £385
Yorkshire median daily rate £210 - £325
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,119 549 898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 96.49% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 362 553
10th Percentile £311 £264 £289
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £661 £600 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 12 29
10th Percentile £14.25 - £11.75
25th Percentile £19.34 - £12.53
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +42.84% -25.30%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.10 £48.75
90th Percentile £51.80 £34.43 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £21.24 £15.50
% change year-on-year +21.33% +37.03% -27.91%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

3rd Line Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

3rd Line Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 2026. 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
Bradford - 1 £210 - 2
3rd Line Engineer
Yorkshire

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 West Yorkshire region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Samsung
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Samsung
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow