3rd Line Engineer Jobs in Basingstoke

Third Line Engineer
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Basingstoke is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 32 43 45
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 23 18 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 5.20% 3.22% 3.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.65% 3.31% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 10
10th Percentile £45,500 - £38,488
25th Percentile £49,250 £46,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +3.16% +15.85%
75th Percentile £54,500 £52,250 £51,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £53,750 £54,050
Hampshire median annual salary £52,250 £49,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +6.63% -1.01% +20.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Basingstoke

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Basingstoke. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Basingstoke with a recognized job title 407 544 344
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 97.32% 92.47%
Number of salaries quoted 355 456 236
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,942 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.87% -3.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £85,250
Hampshire median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +8.00% -2.44% -2.38%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Basingstoke

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Basingstoke.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Basingstoke

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 3rd Line Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Basingstoke region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (73.91%) SC Cleared
3 16 (69.57%) DV Cleared
3 16 (69.57%) Cisco
4 14 (60.87%) Fortinet
4 14 (60.87%) OSPF
4 14 (60.87%) BGP
4 14 (60.87%) EIGRP
4 14 (60.87%) Firewall
5 11 (47.83%) Network Security
6 6 (26.09%) Advertising
6 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
6 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
7 5 (21.74%) Windows
7 5 (21.74%) Linux
7 5 (21.74%) Replication
7 5 (21.74%) VMware
7 5 (21.74%) Juniper
7 5 (21.74%) SAN
7 5 (21.74%) DNS
7 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (21.74%) Azure
7 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
8 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
8 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
8 4 (17.39%) NAS
8 4 (17.39%) Veeam

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (4.35%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
1 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (60.87%) BGP
1 14 (60.87%) EIGRP
1 14 (60.87%) Firewall
1 14 (60.87%) OSPF
2 11 (47.83%) Network Security
3 5 (21.74%) DNS
3 5 (21.74%) SAN
4 4 (17.39%) DHCP
4 4 (17.39%) iSCSI
4 4 (17.39%) NAS
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (13.04%) DMVPN
5 3 (13.04%) WAN
6 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
7 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (4.35%) LAN
7 1 (4.35%) VPN
7 1 (4.35%) Wireless
7 1 (4.35%) WLAN
General
1 6 (26.09%) Advertising
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.35%) CentOS
3 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (13.04%) Boundary Protection
2 3 (13.04%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (8.70%) ITIL
4 1 (4.35%) Batch Scripting
4 1 (4.35%) Change Management
4 1 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (4.35%) Customer Service
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.35%) Edge Virtualization
4 1 (4.35%) High Availability
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (4.35%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.35%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (73.91%) SC Cleared
3 16 (69.57%) DV Cleared
4 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (13.04%) Degree
6 1 (4.35%) CCNA
6 1 (4.35%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 4 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.35%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Cisco
2 14 (60.87%) Fortinet
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
4 5 (21.74%) Juniper
4 5 (21.74%) VMware
5 4 (17.39%) Veeam
6 1 (4.35%) ADVA
6 1 (4.35%) Apple