3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Third Line Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the Midlands is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 279 247
Rank change year-on-year +18 -32 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 56 45 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.48% 0.47% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.52% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 54 40 103
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,200 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £48,438 - £47,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £55,625 £49,750
England median annual salary £42,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 10,986 8,613 10,285
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 89.50% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,233 4,790 7,091
10th Percentile £26,050 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer 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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +35 39 £37,500 -24.24% 7
East Midlands -14 17 £40,000 -27.27% 4
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (60.71%) Azure
2 33 (58.93%) Windows
2 33 (58.93%) Microsoft
3 28 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (46.43%) Windows Server
5 25 (44.64%) Firewall
5 25 (44.64%) VMware
6 24 (42.86%) Active Directory
6 24 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 22 (39.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (35.71%) SAN
10 19 (33.93%) Veeam
11 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
12 15 (26.79%) Entra ID
12 15 (26.79%) HP
13 14 (25.00%) DNS
13 14 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
13 14 (25.00%) DHCP
13 14 (25.00%) Hyper-V
13 14 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
13 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (21.43%) Citrix
15 11 (19.64%) WAN
15 11 (19.64%) SharePoint
15 11 (19.64%) Sophos
16 10 (17.86%) LAN
16 10 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
17 9 (16.07%) SCCM
17 9 (16.07%) WLAN

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 14 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (19.64%) SharePoint
3 9 (16.07%) IIS
4 2 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.79%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (60.71%) Azure
2 28 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (26.79%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.14%) AWS
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.57%) Google Workspace
5 2 (3.57%) Mimecast
5 2 (3.57%) OpenDNS
6 1 (1.79%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (44.64%) Firewall
2 20 (35.71%) SAN
3 14 (25.00%) DHCP
3 14 (25.00%) DNS
4 11 (19.64%) WAN
5 10 (17.86%) LAN
6 9 (16.07%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (16.07%) WLAN
7 8 (14.29%) VoIP
7 8 (14.29%) VPN
8 7 (12.50%) VLAN
9 3 (5.36%) iSCSI
9 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
10 2 (3.57%) EIGRP
10 2 (3.57%) Internet
10 2 (3.57%) IPsec
10 2 (3.57%) OSPF
10 2 (3.57%) PBX
10 2 (3.57%) RIP
10 2 (3.57%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.57%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.57%) MySQL
General
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Law
3 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.36%) Finance
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) LAMP
1 2 (3.57%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Clustering
2 7 (12.50%) Replication
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.57%) PKI
4 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 33 (58.93%) Windows
2 26 (46.43%) Windows Server
3 14 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (16.07%) Windows 10
5 8 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (10.71%) Linux
8 2 (3.57%) Debian
8 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (16.07%) Systems Engineering
5 7 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (10.71%) Communications Security
6 6 (10.71%) High Availability
6 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
6 6 (10.71%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (8.93%) Patch Management
8 4 (7.14%) Customer Service
8 4 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (5.36%) Software Deployment
10 2 (3.57%) Cloud Security
10 2 (3.57%) E-Commerce
10 2 (3.57%) Migration
10 2 (3.57%) Open Source
10 2 (3.57%) Proactive Maintenance
10 2 (3.57%) Server Migrations
10 2 (3.57%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (5.36%) Degree
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.57%) CCA
2 2 (3.57%) CCDA
2 2 (3.57%) CCNA
2 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.57%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.79%) HP AIS
3 1 (1.79%) JNCIA
3 1 (1.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 24 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 9 (16.07%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (7.14%) Terminal Services
5 4 (7.14%) vSphere
6 2 (3.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (3.57%) Docker
6 2 (3.57%) pfSense
6 2 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.79%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (39.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (16.07%) SCCM
3 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (3.57%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.79%) Ansible
5 1 (1.79%) Autotask
5 1 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (58.93%) Microsoft
2 25 (44.64%) VMware
3 19 (33.93%) Veeam
4 15 (26.79%) HP
5 12 (21.43%) Citrix
6 11 (19.64%) Sophos
7 8 (14.29%) Cisco
8 4 (7.14%) Aruba
8 4 (7.14%) Meraki
9 3 (5.36%) Datto
9 3 (5.36%) Dell
10 2 (3.57%) Acronis
10 2 (3.57%) Google
10 2 (3.57%) SonicWALL
10 2 (3.57%) Veritas
11 1 (1.79%) Apple
11 1 (1.79%) NetApp
11 1 (1.79%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds