3rd Line Support Engineer Jobs in the North East

Third Line Support Engineer
England > North East

The median Third Line Support Engineer salary in the North East is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 90 109
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 1 26 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.13% 1.39% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 1.46% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 26 4
10th Percentile - - £29,675
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £34,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -5.11% +10.48%
75th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £39,000
90th Percentile - £36,875 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £41,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -4.19% +4.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 712 1,785 1,009
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 95.76% 79.95%
Number of salaries quoted 391 1,435 595
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,650
25th Percentile £26,375 £35,920 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £65,552 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the North East

3rd Line Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the North East

3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Durham - 1 £40,000 -
3rd Line Support Engineer
England

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 3rd Line Support 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 North East region featuring 3rd Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware