3rd Line Engineer Jobs in Leicestershire

Third Line Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Leicestershire is £59,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 99 -
Rank change year-on-year +30 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 3 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 0.42% 0.46% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.49% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £41,550 - -
25th Percentile £47,625 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.75% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% +41.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 684 1,020 739
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 94.10% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 168 572 265
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £25,134
25th Percentile £32,375 £31,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,450 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Leicestershire

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Leicestershire

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in Leicestershire

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Leicester - 2 £59,500 - 2
3rd Line Engineer
East Midlands

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire

For the 6 months to 8 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 Leicestershire region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft