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 £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 88 167
Rank change year-on-year -63 +79 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 9 17 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.21% 1.15% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 1.22% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 16
10th Percentile £42,250 - £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +36.00% -20.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £52,813
90th Percentile - - £53,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -5.56%

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 3,989 1,388 3,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 94.04% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,452 943 2,968
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £55,298
90th Percentile £77,375 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.37%

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
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer 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 19 April 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
Nottinghamshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
Northamptonshire -25 3 £50,000 -14.89%
Leicestershire -32 2 £45,000 -24.37% 2
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Firewall
3 5 (55.56%) IaaS
4 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
4 4 (44.44%) DNS
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) AWS
5 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
5 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (33.33%) Azure Storage
5 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 3 (33.33%) High Availability
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 3 (33.33%) LAN
5 3 (33.33%) Linux
5 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) VMware
5 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (33.33%) WAN
5 3 (33.33%) Windows
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server

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 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) IaaS
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 3 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) BGP
4 2 (22.22%) OSPF
4 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (11.11%) DHCP
5 1 (11.11%) Internet
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (11.11%) SAN
5 1 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (44.44%) Law
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 3 (33.33%) High Availability
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) ITSM
2 2 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (22.22%) Presales
2 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Web Filtering
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 1 (11.11%) Server Management
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (22.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
3 2 (22.22%) Progress
4 1 (11.11%) SonicWALL
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam