3rd Line Engineer Jobs in England

Third Line Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Engineer salary in England is £42,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 539 715
Rank change year-on-year +54 +176 -213
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 336 315 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.44% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.48% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 290 276 491
10th Percentile £32,000 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.64% +4.44% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South East -17 86 £42,000 -6.67% 10
North of England +29 74 £35,250 -21.23% 11
South West +27 62 £45,500 +10.98% 11
Midlands -7 44 £41,500 -12.63% 7
East of England -20 36 £45,000 -10.00% 2
London +76 34 £52,000 +4.00% 3
North East +18 32 £34,000 -5.56% 3
Yorkshire +59 23 £37,500 -6.25% 3
West Midlands -8 23 £38,000 -20.00% 5
East Midlands -9 21 £45,000 -5.26% 2
North West -18 19 £40,000 -11.11% 5
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 188 (55.95%) Microsoft
2 168 (50.00%) Azure
3 164 (48.81%) Windows
4 159 (47.32%) Microsoft 365
5 135 (40.18%) Active Directory
6 129 (38.39%) Firewall
7 118 (35.12%) Windows Server
8 117 (34.82%) VMware
9 91 (27.08%) VMware Infrastructure
10 90 (26.79%) Hyper-V
11 86 (25.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 83 (24.70%) Microsoft Exchange
13 81 (24.11%) Social Skills
14 73 (21.73%) SharePoint
15 71 (21.13%) Microsoft Intune
16 69 (20.54%) ITIL
17 66 (19.64%) SQL
18 61 (18.15%) Security Cleared
19 60 (17.86%) SQL Server
20 55 (16.37%) Cisco
20 55 (16.37%) Citrix
20 55 (16.37%) DNS
21 53 (15.77%) WAN
22 52 (15.48%) PowerShell
23 50 (14.88%) Entra ID
23 50 (14.88%) Veeam
24 45 (13.39%) LAN
24 45 (13.39%) VPN
25 44 (13.10%) Wi-Fi
26 41 (12.20%) SAN

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 83 (24.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 73 (21.73%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.57%) IIS
4 6 (1.79%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (1.49%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2000
6 4 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.60%) nginx
7 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 32 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.60%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 168 (50.00%) Azure
2 159 (47.32%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (14.88%) Entra ID
4 32 (9.52%) OneDrive
5 21 (6.25%) IaaS
6 16 (4.76%) PaaS
6 16 (4.76%) SaaS
7 14 (4.17%) AWS
8 12 (3.57%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.79%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.49%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.49%) Azure Stack
10 5 (1.49%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.19%) Azure Storage
12 3 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.89%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.60%) GCP
13 2 (0.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 129 (38.39%) Firewall
2 55 (16.37%) DNS
3 53 (15.77%) WAN
4 45 (13.39%) LAN
4 45 (13.39%) VPN
5 44 (13.10%) Wi-Fi
6 41 (12.20%) SAN
7 34 (10.12%) DHCP
8 29 (8.63%) TCP/IP
9 25 (7.44%) VLAN
10 23 (6.85%) Wireless
11 15 (4.46%) VoIP
12 14 (4.17%) SD-WAN
13 11 (3.27%) BGP
14 9 (2.68%) WLAN
15 8 (2.38%) OSPF
15 8 (2.38%) SSL
16 7 (2.08%) FTP
17 6 (1.79%) Internet
17 6 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.19%) MySQL
4 3 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (0.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.30%) Hudson
General
1 81 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 22 (6.55%) Documentation Skills
3 21 (6.25%) Law
4 16 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.98%) Finance
9 9 (2.68%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.38%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.08%) Games
12 5 (1.49%) Banking
12 5 (1.49%) Legal
13 4 (1.19%) Retail
14 3 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.30%) Electronics
15 1 (0.30%) Marketing
15 1 (0.30%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.87%) JSON
1 13 (3.87%) JSON Schema
1 13 (3.87%) KML
1 13 (3.87%) Regular Expression
1 13 (3.87%) XML
2 8 (2.38%) XML Schema
3 3 (0.89%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.89%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (0.89%) Software Packaging
4 2 (0.60%) OpenMP
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.52%) Driving Licence
2 23 (6.85%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
4 19 (5.65%) Replication
5 13 (3.87%) Clustering
6 12 (3.57%) Data Centre
7 11 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.08%) Smartphone
9 6 (1.79%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.79%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.49%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.60%) EMC VNX
12 2 (0.60%) iPad
12 2 (0.60%) iPhone
12 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 164 (48.81%) Windows
2 118 (35.12%) Windows Server
3 35 (10.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 31 (9.23%) Windows 10
5 26 (7.74%) Linux
6 17 (5.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (3.87%) Mac OS
9 10 (2.98%) Apple iOS
10 9 (2.68%) Android
11 8 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (1.79%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.89%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.89%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.60%) Debian
14 2 (0.60%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.60%) SUSE
14 2 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (25.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (20.54%) ITIL
3 39 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (8.63%) Customer Service
5 27 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (7.14%) Service Delivery
7 21 (6.25%) Incident Management
8 17 (5.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 15 (4.46%) Migration
9 15 (4.46%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 14 (4.17%) Change Control
11 13 (3.87%) Agile
11 13 (3.87%) CAD
11 13 (3.87%) Patch Management
12 12 (3.57%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (3.27%) Antivirus Management
13 11 (3.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (3.27%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (2.98%) ITSM
14 10 (2.98%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 66 (19.64%) SQL
2 52 (15.48%) PowerShell
3 3 (0.89%) Perl
3 3 (0.89%) Python
4 2 (0.60%) Bash
4 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.30%) ActionScript
5 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.82%) Degree
3 32 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 24 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (5.95%) SC Cleared
7 18 (5.36%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.46%) CCNP
9 13 (3.87%) CCNA
10 5 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.19%) CCA
11 4 (1.19%) Citrix Certification
11 4 (1.19%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.19%) MCSA
11 4 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.89%) CCDA
12 3 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.89%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.46%) SLA
2 5 (1.49%) NCSC
3 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) GxP
System Software
1 135 (40.18%) Active Directory
2 91 (27.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 90 (26.79%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.06%) vSphere
5 13 (3.87%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.49%) XenApp
9 3 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.89%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.89%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.60%) Docker
10 2 (0.60%) Lustre
10 2 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.60%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.30%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.30%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (21.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (8.33%) SCCM
3 15 (4.46%) Ansible
4 9 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (2.38%) Autotask
5 8 (2.38%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.08%) Kubernetes
6 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (1.49%) Terraform
8 4 (1.19%) SCOM
8 4 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.60%) Nagios
10 2 (0.60%) SCDPM
10 2 (0.60%) WSUS
11 1 (0.30%) MobiControl
11 1 (0.30%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 188 (55.95%) Microsoft
2 117 (34.82%) VMware
3 55 (16.37%) Cisco
3 55 (16.37%) Citrix
4 50 (14.88%) Veeam
5 20 (5.95%) Meraki
6 15 (4.46%) Sophos
7 14 (4.17%) HP
8 13 (3.87%) Datto
9 11 (3.27%) WatchGuard
10 9 (2.68%) Draytek
10 9 (2.68%) Juniper
11 7 (2.08%) Aruba
11 7 (2.08%) Dell
12 6 (1.79%) NetApp
12 6 (1.79%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.49%) IBM
14 4 (1.19%) Apple
14 4 (1.19%) EMC
14 4 (1.19%) Red Hat