3rd Line Engineer Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Third Line Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Buckinghamshire is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 118 105
Rank change year-on-year +33 -13 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 3 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.31% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.43% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £39,750 £38,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £41,875 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £48,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £78,125 £67,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £79,250 £67,875 £73,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £42,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -1.18% +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 863 1,840 1,221
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.51% 92.65% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 348 1,108 733
10th Percentile £26,100 £26,850 £28,954
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,375 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Buckinghamshire

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Buckinghamshire

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in Buckinghamshire

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +38 1 £35,000 -28.21%
High Wycombe - 1 £80,000 - 1
3rd Line Engineer
South East

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 7 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Smartphone
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft