3rd Line Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Third Line Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 182 254
Rank change year-on-year -57 +72 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 15 32 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.74% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 15 32 54
10th Percentile £42,500 - £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £58,125 £61,250 £49,688
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £52,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 11,026 4,308 10,396
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 89.58% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,908 2,743 8,087
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £33,602
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,741
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '3rd Line Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

3rd Line Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
East Midlands -56 8 £53,750 -9.66% 4
West Midlands -26 7 £47,000 -6.00% 1
3rd Line Engineer
England

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 April 2026, 3rd Line Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 5 (33.33%) IaaS
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 4 (26.67%) DNS
5 4 (26.67%) LAN
5 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (26.67%) VMware
5 4 (26.67%) WAN
6 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 3 (20.00%) AWS
6 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Storage
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
6 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (20.00%) Linux
6 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) IaaS
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) LAN
2 4 (26.67%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) BGP
3 2 (13.33%) OSPF
3 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (26.67%) Law
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.67%) Android
5 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (20.00%) High Availability
2 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Information Security
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) ITSM
3 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (13.33%) Presales
3 2 (13.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Web Filtering
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) Runbook
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (13.33%) CCNP
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (13.33%) vSphere
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) Progress