3rd Line Engineer Jobs in Hampshire

Third Line Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Hampshire is £52,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 157 127
Rank change year-on-year +53 -30 +113
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 26 34 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.29% 0.85% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 0.90% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 22 34 40
10th Percentile £45,500 £27,000 £34,635
25th Percentile £46,625 £33,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £45,750 £49,625
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -7.81% +18.86%
75th Percentile £54,500 £51,500 £54,500
90th Percentile £58,850 £52,850 £55,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £42,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,925 3,784 2,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 94.53% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 2,960 2,001
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,975 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Basingstoke +9 23 £53,000 +8.16% 3
Southampton - 1 - -
3rd Line Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 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 Hampshire region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (65.38%) SC Cleared
3 16 (61.54%) DV Cleared
3 16 (61.54%) Cisco
4 14 (53.85%) Fortinet
4 14 (53.85%) Firewall
4 14 (53.85%) OSPF
4 14 (53.85%) BGP
4 14 (53.85%) EIGRP
5 11 (42.31%) Network Security
6 8 (30.77%) Azure
6 8 (30.77%) Windows
7 7 (26.92%) Linux
7 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
7 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
7 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (26.92%) VMware
7 7 (26.92%) DNS
8 6 (23.08%) Advertising
8 6 (23.08%) Entra ID
9 5 (19.23%) Replication
9 5 (19.23%) Juniper
9 5 (19.23%) SAN
10 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (15.38%) WAN
10 4 (15.38%) DHCP
10 4 (15.38%) iSCSI
10 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
10 4 (15.38%) NAS
10 4 (15.38%) Veeam

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (3.85%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) BGP
1 14 (53.85%) EIGRP
1 14 (53.85%) Firewall
1 14 (53.85%) OSPF
2 11 (42.31%) Network Security
3 7 (26.92%) DNS
4 5 (19.23%) SAN
5 4 (15.38%) DHCP
5 4 (15.38%) iSCSI
5 4 (15.38%) NAS
5 4 (15.38%) WAN
6 3 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (11.54%) DMVPN
7 2 (7.69%) IPsec
7 2 (7.69%) LAN
7 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
7 2 (7.69%) VLAN
7 2 (7.69%) Wireless
7 2 (7.69%) WLAN
8 1 (3.85%) VPN
General
1 6 (23.08%) Advertising
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Replication
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Linux
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
4 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.85%) CentOS
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (11.54%) Boundary Protection
2 3 (11.54%) ITIL
2 3 (11.54%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (7.69%) Change Management
3 2 (7.69%) Customer Service
3 2 (7.69%) Presales
3 2 (7.69%) Problem Management
3 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery
3 2 (7.69%) Tech Ops
4 1 (3.85%) Batch Scripting
4 1 (3.85%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (3.85%) DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.85%) Edge Virtualization
4 1 (3.85%) High Availability
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (65.38%) SC Cleared
3 16 (61.54%) DV Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (11.54%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) CCNA
6 1 (3.85%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
1 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 4 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.85%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.54%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.69%) Proxmox
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Cisco
2 14 (53.85%) Fortinet
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 7 (26.92%) VMware
4 5 (19.23%) Juniper
5 4 (15.38%) Veeam
6 2 (7.69%) Apple
7 1 (3.85%) ADVA