3rd Line Engineer Job Trends in North London

Third Line Engineer
London > North London

The median Third Line Engineer salary in North London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 February 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in North London 2.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
London median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in North 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 North London with a recognized job title 81 140 132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 80.46% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 53 28 115
10th Percentile £34,400 £45,000 £29,400
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,438 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile - £70,075 £84,500
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -0.81%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

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 North London.

3rd Line Engineer job vacancy trend in North London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in North London

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in North London.

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in North London

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North London

For the 6 months to 20 February 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 North London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) ConnectWise
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Draytek
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) ConnectWise
2 1 (50.00%) Draytek
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet