3rd Line Server Engineer Jobs in England

Third Line Server Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Server Engineer salary in England is £46,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 836 918
Rank change year-on-year +180 +82 +195
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Engineer 5 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.006% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.006% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile £41,100 £32,200 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £35,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -33.33% +40.00%
75th Percentile £46,500 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £46,950 - -
UK median annual salary £46,000 £35,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +31.43% -33.33% +40.00%

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 42,028 80,606 84,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,667 60,286 53,585
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,435 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

3rd Line Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in England

3rd Line Server Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in England

3rd Line Server 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 Server Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East - 4 £46,000 -
East of England - 1 £42,000 -
3rd Line Server Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 3rd Line Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) Replication
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 3 (60.00%) NAS
3 3 (60.00%) Veeam
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) iSCSI
3 3 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) PKI
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management

3rd Line Server 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
3 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (60.00%) NAS
2 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Server Building
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Veeam
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds