3rd Line Support Technician Jobs in England

Third Line Support Technician
UK > England

The median Third Line Support Technician salary in England is £41,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 818 921
Rank change year-on-year +151 +103 +206
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Technician 6 14 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.016% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.017% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £37,625 £30,650 -
25th Percentile £39,750 £32,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £43,250 £42,188 £38,750
90th Percentile £43,500 £45,000 £39,500
UK median annual salary £41,500 £35,000 £36,250
% change year-on-year +18.57% -3.45% +11.54%

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 43,811 81,137 82,278
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,794 60,555 52,271
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,280 £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 £71,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -

3rd Line Support Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support Technician in England

3rd Line Support Technician
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Support Technician in England

3rd Line Support Technician
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 Support Technician within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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 +101 6 £41,500 -7.78%
3rd Line Support Technician
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 3rd Line Support Technician 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 Support Technician in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) VLAN
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) SAN
3 4 (66.67%) arcserve
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Replication
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) Business Continuity
3 4 (66.67%) Information Security
3 4 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2013
3 4 (66.67%) SCCM
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure

3rd Line Support Technician 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 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) VLAN
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) VoLTE
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) arcserve
2 4 (66.67%) VMware