3rd Line Engineer Jobs in Kent

Third Line Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Kent is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 99 88
Rank change year-on-year +37 -11 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 3 8 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.41% 0.54% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.58% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +25.00% +6.25%
75th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £36,000
90th Percentile - £46,625 £41,300
South East median annual salary £52,500 £42,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -1.18% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 525 1,385 982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 71.23% 92.89% 85.69%
Number of salaries quoted 322 1,031 548
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,250 £26,925
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,250 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £59,361 £58,750 £60,825
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
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 Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Kent

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Kent

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 3 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
West Malling - 1 £55,000 -
3rd Line Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Kent region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) SUSE
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) SUSE
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Apple