3rd Line Engineer Job Trends in London

Third Line Engineer
England > London

The median Third Line Engineer salary in London is £51,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 429 462
Rank change year-on-year +72 +33 +290
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 25 32 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 25 22 34
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £57,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 10,852 18,229 21,545
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 95.44% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,081 11,665 17,754
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in London over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 September 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 London +28 14 £65,000 +52.94%
Central London +36 1 £40,500 -26.36%
West London - 1 £42,500 -
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (92.00%) Azure
2 21 (84.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (56.00%) SQL
4 10 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 10 (40.00%) ITIL
5 9 (36.00%) C#
5 9 (36.00%) B2B
5 9 (36.00%) Change Management
5 9 (36.00%) Resource Management
5 9 (36.00%) Google
5 9 (36.00%) AWS
5 9 (36.00%) DevOps
5 9 (36.00%) GCP
5 9 (36.00%) High Availability
5 9 (36.00%) Terraform
5 9 (36.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (36.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 9 (36.00%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (36.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 9 (36.00%) Cloud Security
6 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
6 8 (32.00%) Windows
7 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
8 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
8 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
8 6 (24.00%) Entra ID

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (92.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 9 (36.00%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (36.00%) Azure Monitor
2 9 (36.00%) GCP
3 8 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (24.00%) Entra ID
5 5 (20.00%) Azure App Service
5 5 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (16.00%) Azure Storage
6 4 (16.00%) Azure Table
7 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) WAN
2 2 (8.00%) Junos
2 2 (8.00%) LAN
2 2 (8.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (4.00%) Firewall
3 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Advertising
2 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) BYOD
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.00%) Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) ITIL
2 9 (36.00%) B2B
2 9 (36.00%) Change Management
2 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (36.00%) Cloud Security
2 9 (36.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 9 (36.00%) DevOps
2 9 (36.00%) High Availability
2 9 (36.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 9 (36.00%) Resource Management
3 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
5 5 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (20.00%) Data Management
5 5 (20.00%) ITSM
5 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 5 (20.00%) Storage Management
6 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.00%) Load Balancing
6 4 (16.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
2 9 (36.00%) C#
3 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (36.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Citrix
3 2 (8.00%) Juniper
3 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Apple
4 1 (4.00%) Meraki