3rd Line Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Third Line Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 124 120
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 11 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.44% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 4
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £39,787
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,813 £41,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £44,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +31.28% -22.17%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £49,688
90th Percentile - - £51,375
England median annual salary £45,250 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +0.56% +2.27% -2.22%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,295 2,111 1,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 95.69% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,540 934 1,464
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.02% -3.07%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '3rd Line Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

3rd Line Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Lincolnshire - 6 £55,000 -
Leicestershire +5 2 £45,000 +12.50% 1
Northamptonshire +4 2 £50,000 -23.08%
3rd Line Engineer
England

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, 3rd Line Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Logistics
1 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
1 6 (54.55%) Network Management
1 6 (54.55%) Network Monitoring
1 6 (54.55%) Service Desk Management
2 5 (45.45%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) CCNP
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (27.27%) LAN
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) WAN
5 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) BGP
5 2 (18.18%) FortiGate
5 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
5 2 (18.18%) IaaS
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) ITSM
5 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (18.18%) Linux
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (18.18%) OSPF
5 2 (18.18%) Presales
5 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) IaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) LAN
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) BGP
3 2 (18.18%) OSPF
3 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (9.09%) IPv4
4 1 (9.09%) IPv6
4 1 (9.09%) MPLS
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (9.09%) VLAN
4 1 (9.09%) VPLS
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
General
1 6 (54.55%) Automotive
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Logistics
1 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
1 6 (54.55%) Network Management
1 6 (54.55%) Network Monitoring
1 6 (54.55%) Service Desk Management
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Information Security
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (18.18%) Presales
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Web Filtering
4 1 (9.09%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCNP
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (18.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Progress
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Aruba
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper