3rd Line Engineer Jobs in London

Third Line Engineer
England > London

The median Third Line Engineer salary in London is £62,500 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 370 468 525
Rank change year-on-year +98 +57 +215
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 26 40 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25 37 81
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £47,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +1.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,250 £73,450 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £42,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +4.55%

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 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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

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 9 May 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 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
South London +25 15 £65,000 +52.94%
Central London +26 5 £72,500 +20.83%
West London +34 2 £42,500 -9.09%
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (92.31%) Azure
2 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
3 16 (61.54%) SQL
4 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
5 13 (50.00%) ITIL
6 11 (42.31%) Windows
6 11 (42.31%) Proactive Monitoring
7 10 (38.46%) Entra ID
7 10 (38.46%) AWS
7 10 (38.46%) High Availability
7 10 (38.46%) Change Management
7 10 (38.46%) Google
8 9 (34.62%) Resource Management
8 9 (34.62%) C#
8 9 (34.62%) B2B
8 9 (34.62%) DevOps
8 9 (34.62%) GCP
8 9 (34.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (34.62%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (34.62%) Terraform
8 9 (34.62%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (34.62%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
9 8 (30.77%) Customer Service
9 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
9 8 (30.77%) Task Automation
9 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
10 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
11 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange

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 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 24 (92.31%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 9 (34.62%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) Azure Monitor
3 9 (34.62%) GCP
4 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (15.38%) Azure App Service
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Storage
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Table
6 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) DNS
1 5 (19.23%) WAN
2 4 (15.38%) DHCP
2 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (11.54%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) LAN
3 3 (11.54%) Wireless
4 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.85%) BGP
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (3.85%) Internet
5 1 (3.85%) Junos
5 1 (3.85%) MPLS
5 1 (3.85%) OSPF
5 1 (3.85%) VLAN
5 1 (3.85%) VoIP
5 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Law
3 3 (11.54%) Legal
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Marketing
4 2 (7.69%) Police
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) BYOD
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (7.69%) Linux
7 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
7 1 (3.85%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) ITIL
2 11 (42.31%) Proactive Monitoring
3 10 (38.46%) Change Management
3 10 (38.46%) High Availability
4 9 (34.62%) B2B
4 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 9 (34.62%) Cost Optimisation
4 9 (34.62%) DevOps
4 9 (34.62%) Resource Management
5 8 (30.77%) Customer Service
5 8 (30.77%) Task Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (15.38%) Data Management
6 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Load Balancing
6 4 (15.38%) Storage Management
7 3 (11.54%) Document Management
7 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) C#
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) JNCIA
4 1 (3.85%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (11.54%) SCCM
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Google
3 4 (15.38%) VMware
4 3 (11.54%) Citrix
4 3 (11.54%) iManage
4 3 (11.54%) Intapp
4 3 (11.54%) Riverbed
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco
5 2 (7.69%) Meraki
6 1 (3.85%) Apple
6 1 (3.85%) Dell
6 1 (3.85%) Juniper
6 1 (3.85%) Sage
6 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.85%) Zscaler