3rd Line Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Third Line Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Birmingham is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 128 156
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 26 18 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% 0.89% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.96% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 24 15 36
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £35,000 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £42,688 - £47,500
90th Percentile £50,000 - £50,000
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £49,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -24.24% +10.00% +28.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,555 1,882 2,997
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 93.45% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,083 1,435 2,321
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,914 £70,800 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Birmingham

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Birmingham

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Birmingham region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (76.92%) Azure
2 18 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (65.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (65.38%) Windows
3 17 (65.38%) Active Directory
4 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (53.85%) Entra ID
4 14 (53.85%) Firewall
4 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
5 13 (50.00%) Veeam
6 12 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (46.15%) VMware
6 12 (46.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (38.46%) Windows Server
8 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
9 8 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (30.77%) Hyper-V
9 8 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (30.77%) Citrix
9 8 (30.77%) DNS
9 8 (30.77%) Cisco
9 8 (30.77%) DHCP
9 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
10 7 (26.92%) HP
10 7 (26.92%) SAN
10 7 (26.92%) Sophos
10 7 (26.92%) SCCM
11 6 (23.08%) Communications Security
11 6 (23.08%) Replication

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2010
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) Azure
2 18 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (53.85%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Google Workspace
5 2 (7.69%) Mimecast
5 2 (7.69%) OpenDNS
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) Firewall
2 8 (30.77%) DHCP
2 8 (30.77%) DNS
2 8 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (26.92%) SAN
4 5 (19.23%) LAN
4 5 (19.23%) WAN
4 5 (19.23%) WLAN
5 4 (15.38%) VLAN
6 2 (7.69%) EIGRP
6 2 (7.69%) HSRP
6 2 (7.69%) IPsec
6 2 (7.69%) iSCSI
6 2 (7.69%) OSPF
6 2 (7.69%) PBX
6 2 (7.69%) RIP
6 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (7.69%) VPN
6 2 (7.69%) VRRP
6 2 (7.69%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.54%) Law
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) LAMP
1 2 (7.69%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Replication
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Windows Server 2012
3 10 (38.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
5 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (23.08%) Communications Security
2 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (23.08%) Service Delivery
2 6 (23.08%) Virtual Environments
3 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (19.23%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (11.54%) Software Deployment
5 2 (7.69%) Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Server Management
5 2 (7.69%) Server Migrations
5 2 (7.69%) Storage Management
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security
6 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.85%) High Availability
6 1 (3.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.85%) SQL
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) Active Directory
2 12 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (30.77%) Hyper-V
3 8 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (7.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (7.69%) Docker
4 2 (7.69%) pfSense
4 2 (7.69%) Terminal Services
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (26.92%) SCCM
3 2 (7.69%) Backup Exec
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 13 (50.00%) Veeam
3 12 (46.15%) VMware
4 8 (30.77%) Cisco
4 8 (30.77%) Citrix
5 7 (26.92%) HP
5 7 (26.92%) Sophos
6 4 (15.38%) Meraki
7 2 (7.69%) Acronis
7 2 (7.69%) Aruba
7 2 (7.69%) Google
7 2 (7.69%) SonicWALL
7 2 (7.69%) Veritas
8 1 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds