3rd Line Engineer Jobs in London

Third Line Engineer
England > London

The median Third Line Engineer salary in London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 476 549
Rank change year-on-year +95 +73 +252
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 30 34 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 29 29 34
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,400 £36,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,975
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,650 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.10% -11.58% +5.56%

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 12,016 22,838 28,662
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 94.44% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 7,314 16,762 21,940
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,679 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,875 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +14 15 £65,000 +52.94% 2
Central London +36 4 £57,500 -4.17% 4
West London +18 2 £42,500 +6.25% 2
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 27 (90.00%) Azure
2 23 (76.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (46.67%) SQL
4 13 (43.33%) Windows
5 12 (40.00%) ITIL
5 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
6 11 (36.67%) Windows Server
6 11 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
7 10 (33.33%) AWS
7 10 (33.33%) High Availability
7 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
7 10 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
7 10 (33.33%) Change Management
7 10 (33.33%) Google
8 9 (30.00%) Resource Management
8 9 (30.00%) B2B
8 9 (30.00%) C#
8 9 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (30.00%) DevOps
8 9 (30.00%) GCP
8 9 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (30.00%) Entra ID
8 9 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
8 9 (30.00%) Terraform
8 9 (30.00%) Cloud Security
9 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (26.67%) PowerShell

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 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 27 (90.00%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (33.33%) AWS
4 9 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 9 (30.00%) GCP
5 5 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (13.33%) Azure App Service
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Storage
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Table
7 1 (3.33%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) WAN
2 3 (10.00%) DNS
2 3 (10.00%) Junos
2 3 (10.00%) LAN
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.00%) Wireless
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) NetScaler
3 2 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.33%) BGP
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (3.33%) Internet
4 1 (3.33%) MPLS
4 1 (3.33%) OSPF
4 1 (3.33%) VLAN
4 1 (3.33%) VoIP
4 1 (3.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Law
3 2 (6.67%) Legal
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Advertising
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) BYOD
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.33%) Linux
6 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.33%) Mac OS X
6 1 (3.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) ITIL
2 10 (33.33%) Change Management
2 10 (33.33%) High Availability
2 10 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 9 (30.00%) B2B
3 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 9 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 9 (30.00%) Resource Management
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
5 7 (23.33%) Task Automation
6 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (16.67%) ITSM
6 5 (16.67%) Migration
7 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Data Management
7 4 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (13.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) C#
3 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) JNCIA
5 1 (3.33%) JNCIE
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (33.33%) Google
3 4 (13.33%) Citrix
4 3 (10.00%) Juniper
4 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco
5 2 (6.67%) iManage
5 2 (6.67%) Intapp
5 2 (6.67%) Meraki
5 2 (6.67%) Riverbed
6 1 (3.33%) Apple
6 1 (3.33%) Dell
6 1 (3.33%) Sage
6 1 (3.33%) Zscaler