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 to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 564 651
Rank change year-on-year +115 +87 -220
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 422 409 529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.45% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.50% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 385 371 514
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.58% +5.56% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +37 140 £42,000 -4.00% 24
North of England +45 75 £35,000 -22.22% 31
South West +31 72 £45,000 +5.88% 10
Midlands +2 56 £40,000 -27.27% 13
London +57 40 £60,000 +20.00% 17
West Midlands +21 39 £37,500 -24.24% 9
East of England -17 39 £42,500 -15.00% 5
Yorkshire +93 30 £37,500 -13.79% 11
North East +20 28 £32,500 -5.11% 6
East Midlands -13 17 £40,000 -27.27% 4
North West -22 17 £40,000 -13.04% 14
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 236 (55.92%) Microsoft
2 218 (51.66%) Azure
3 214 (50.71%) Windows
4 213 (50.47%) Microsoft 365
5 173 (41.00%) Active Directory
6 155 (36.73%) Firewall
7 154 (36.49%) VMware
8 149 (35.31%) Windows Server
9 118 (27.96%) VMware Infrastructure
10 115 (27.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 108 (25.59%) Hyper-V
12 106 (25.12%) Social Skills
13 104 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
14 87 (20.62%) ITIL
15 82 (19.43%) SharePoint
16 80 (18.96%) SQL Server
17 79 (18.72%) Citrix
17 79 (18.72%) Microsoft Intune
18 77 (18.25%) Cisco
18 77 (18.25%) Security Cleared
19 76 (18.01%) DNS
20 68 (16.11%) Veeam
21 62 (14.69%) SQL
22 61 (14.45%) DHCP
23 58 (13.74%) Entra ID
24 57 (13.51%) SAN
24 57 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
24 57 (13.51%) PowerShell
25 54 (12.80%) WAN
25 54 (12.80%) LAN

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
1 104 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 82 (19.43%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.37%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (2.37%) IIS
4 6 (1.42%) Exchange Server 2000
5 5 (1.18%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.47%) WordPress
8 1 (0.24%) Confluence
8 1 (0.24%) Site Server
Applications
1 42 (9.95%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.47%) Abaqus
3 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 218 (51.66%) Azure
2 213 (50.47%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (13.74%) Entra ID
4 35 (8.29%) OneDrive
5 32 (7.58%) AWS
6 17 (4.03%) IaaS
7 16 (3.79%) PaaS
8 12 (2.84%) SaaS
9 10 (2.37%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (2.13%) Nutanix
11 8 (1.90%) Mimecast
12 6 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (1.42%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.18%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.95%) Azure Stack
14 4 (0.95%) Dropbox
14 4 (0.95%) GCP
14 4 (0.95%) Google Drive
14 4 (0.95%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 155 (36.73%) Firewall
2 76 (18.01%) DNS
3 61 (14.45%) DHCP
4 57 (13.51%) SAN
4 57 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
5 54 (12.80%) LAN
5 54 (12.80%) WAN
6 53 (12.56%) VPN
7 40 (9.48%) VLAN
8 36 (8.53%) TCP/IP
9 28 (6.64%) Wireless
10 21 (4.98%) BGP
11 20 (4.74%) WLAN
12 19 (4.50%) VoIP
13 15 (3.55%) IPsec
13 15 (3.55%) Remote Desktop
14 11 (2.61%) OSPF
14 11 (2.61%) SD-WAN
15 7 (1.66%) FTP
15 7 (1.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (18.96%) SQL Server
2 36 (8.53%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.66%) MySQL
4 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.47%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (0.71%) JIRA
2 2 (0.47%) Hudson
3 1 (0.24%) MSI
General
1 106 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 24 (5.69%) Law
3 21 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (3.79%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.55%) Finance
7 15 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.32%) Games
9 11 (2.61%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.13%) Legal
11 7 (1.66%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.18%) Banking
12 5 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.71%) Retail
15 1 (0.24%) Advertising
15 1 (0.24%) Electronics
15 1 (0.24%) Marketing
15 1 (0.24%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.08%) JSON
1 13 (3.08%) JSON Schema
1 13 (3.08%) KML
1 13 (3.08%) Regular Expression
1 13 (3.08%) XML
2 8 (1.90%) XML Schema
3 6 (1.42%) Software Packaging
4 5 (1.18%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.47%) LAMP
6 2 (0.47%) OpenMP
6 2 (0.47%) V-Ray
7 1 (0.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.43%) Driving Licence
2 26 (6.16%) Replication
3 24 (5.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 24 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (4.50%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.13%) Clustering
7 7 (1.66%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.66%) iPad
7 7 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.42%) Blockchain
8 6 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.18%) EMC VNX
9 5 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.95%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.71%) Smartphone
12 2 (0.47%) Beowulf
12 2 (0.47%) Life Science
12 2 (0.47%) PKI
12 2 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 214 (50.71%) Windows
2 149 (35.31%) Windows Server
3 48 (11.37%) Linux
4 46 (10.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (8.06%) Windows 10
5 34 (8.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (6.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (3.79%) Mac OS
8 8 (1.90%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.90%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (1.18%) Android
10 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.71%) Unix
12 2 (0.47%) Debian
12 2 (0.47%) SUSE
12 2 (0.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.47%) VMS
12 2 (0.47%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (27.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 87 (20.62%) ITIL
3 53 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (8.53%) Customer Service
6 26 (6.16%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 25 (5.92%) Incident Management
8 24 (5.69%) Project Delivery
9 23 (5.45%) Migration
10 22 (5.21%) Service Delivery
11 17 (4.03%) Desktop Virtualisation
11 17 (4.03%) Mentoring
11 17 (4.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 17 (4.03%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (3.79%) Change Control
13 15 (3.55%) Agile
14 14 (3.32%) Patch Management
14 14 (3.32%) Service Management
15 13 (3.08%) CAD
15 13 (3.08%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 62 (14.69%) SQL
2 57 (13.51%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.47%) Bash
3 2 (0.47%) C#
3 2 (0.47%) Perl
3 2 (0.47%) Python
3 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.61%) Degree
3 45 (10.66%) Cisco Certification
4 44 (10.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (7.11%) Azure Certification
6 26 (6.16%) CCNP
7 25 (5.92%) SC Cleared
8 23 (5.45%) CCNA
8 23 (5.45%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 10 (2.37%) MCSE
10 6 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.18%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.18%) MCP
11 5 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.71%) JNCIA
12 3 (0.71%) MCSA
13 2 (0.47%) CCA
13 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.32%) SLA
2 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.18%) NCSC
3 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.71%) NIST
5 2 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 173 (41.00%) Active Directory
2 118 (27.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (25.59%) Hyper-V
4 28 (6.64%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (2.61%) vSphere
8 7 (1.66%) Docker
8 7 (1.66%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (1.18%) Terminal Services
10 5 (1.18%) XenApp
11 4 (0.95%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.71%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.47%) Lustre
13 2 (0.47%) pfSense
13 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.47%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (18.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (8.06%) SCCM
3 19 (4.50%) Ansible
4 10 (2.37%) Terraform
5 9 (2.13%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.13%) vCenter Server
6 8 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (1.66%) Autotask
8 5 (1.18%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (1.18%) Nagios
8 5 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.95%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 3 (0.71%) SCDPM
10 3 (0.71%) SCOM
10 3 (0.71%) WSUS
11 2 (0.47%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 236 (55.92%) Microsoft
2 154 (36.49%) VMware
3 79 (18.72%) Citrix
4 77 (18.25%) Cisco
5 68 (16.11%) Veeam
6 26 (6.16%) Sophos
7 25 (5.92%) HP
8 24 (5.69%) Juniper
9 21 (4.98%) Meraki
10 14 (3.32%) Datto
10 14 (3.32%) WatchGuard
11 13 (3.08%) Draytek
11 13 (3.08%) SolarWinds
12 11 (2.61%) Aruba
12 11 (2.61%) Google
13 10 (2.37%) Dell
14 9 (2.13%) Apple
14 9 (2.13%) ConnectWise
14 9 (2.13%) NetApp
15 8 (1.90%) Red Hat