3rd Line Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Third Line Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 405 463
Rank change year-on-year +93 +58 +1
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 29 52 160
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.22% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.23% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 42 106
10th Percentile £275 £296 £250
25th Percentile £300 £325 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £415 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +10.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £415 £450 £438
90th Percentile £528 £534 £464
UK median daily rate £375 £388 £388
% change year-on-year -3.23% - +13.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing 3rd Line Engineer over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

3rd Line Engineer daily rate histogram 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 19 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (55.17%) Windows
1 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (41.38%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (37.93%) Firewall
3 11 (37.93%) VMware
4 9 (31.03%) Azure
4 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
5 8 (27.59%) SLA
5 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
6 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
6 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
6 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
7 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
7 6 (20.69%) SCCM
7 6 (20.69%) Customer Service
8 5 (17.24%) SD-WAN
8 5 (17.24%) Windows 10
8 5 (17.24%) AWS
8 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (17.24%) WAN
9 4 (13.79%) Veeam
9 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
9 4 (13.79%) Degree
9 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
10 3 (10.34%) WAAS
10 3 (10.34%) Change Control
10 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree

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 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) AWS
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) Firewall
2 5 (17.24%) SD-WAN
2 5 (17.24%) WAN
3 3 (10.34%) LAN
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
3 3 (10.34%) WAAS
4 2 (6.90%) Wireless
5 1 (3.45%) DNS
5 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (3.45%) SAN
5 1 (3.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Back Office
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Spring
1 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Windows
2 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.24%) Windows 10
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.90%) Linux
6 1 (3.45%) VMS
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Customer Service
2 3 (10.34%) Change Control
2 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
2 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (10.34%) Migration
3 2 (6.90%) ITIL
3 2 (6.90%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (3.45%) Asset Management
4 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (3.45%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (3.45%) ITSM
4 1 (3.45%) Line Management
4 1 (3.45%) Mentoring
4 1 (3.45%) Network Design
4 1 (3.45%) Patch Management
4 1 (3.45%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.45%) Server Building
4 1 (3.45%) Server Migrations
4 1 (3.45%) Service Management
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) CCNP
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
2 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) SCCM
2 1 (3.45%) AirWatch
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.45%) SCOM
2 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (37.93%) VMware
3 4 (13.79%) Veeam
4 2 (6.90%) Apple
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco
4 2 (6.90%) Meraki
5 1 (3.45%) Citrix
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Ivanti
5 1 (3.45%) NetApp