3rd Line Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Third Line Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 411 463
Rank change year-on-year +98 +52 -25
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 24 56 163
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.23% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 46 108
10th Percentile £275 £298 £250
25th Percentile £300 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £420 £375
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +12.00% +19.52%
75th Percentile £344 £488 £438
90th Percentile £373 £522 £451
UK median daily rate £350 £420 £375
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.00% +15.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

3rd Line Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured 3rd Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

3rd Line Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing 3rd Line Engineer.

3rd Line Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

3rd Line Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing 3rd Line Engineer.

3rd Line Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (75.00%) Windows
2 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
3 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 11 (45.83%) VMware
5 10 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (33.33%) SLA
6 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
7 7 (29.17%) Firewall
8 6 (25.00%) Hyper-V
8 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
9 5 (20.83%) Windows 10
9 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
9 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
9 5 (20.83%) Cisco
9 5 (20.83%) WAN
9 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
9 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
9 5 (20.83%) SCCM
9 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
10 4 (16.67%) Veeam
10 4 (16.67%) Change Control
10 4 (16.67%) WAAS
10 4 (16.67%) VPN
10 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 3 (12.50%) SAN
11 3 (12.50%) LAN
11 3 (12.50%) Azure

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) WAN
3 4 (16.67%) VPN
3 4 (16.67%) WAAS
4 3 (12.50%) LAN
4 3 (12.50%) SAN
5 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
1 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 18 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (20.83%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.33%) Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
2 4 (16.67%) Change Control
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (8.33%) High Availability
3 2 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (4.17%) Application Packaging
4 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL
4 1 (4.17%) ITSM
4 1 (4.17%) Network Design
4 1 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.17%) Server Management
4 1 (4.17%) Server Migrations
4 1 (4.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) A+ Certification
3 2 (8.33%) CCENT
3 2 (8.33%) CCNA
3 2 (8.33%) CCNP
3 2 (8.33%) MCSA
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (45.83%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) Veeam
5 2 (8.33%) Meraki
6 1 (4.17%) Citrix