3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Third Line Engineer
England > North of England

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the North of England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 322 345
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 29 75 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.25% 0.43% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.45% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 24 71 84
10th Percentile £32,500 - £31,775
25th Percentile £34,688 £31,250 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -23.08% +13.75%
75th Percentile £47,625 £44,375 £51,250
90th Percentile £52,850 £53,750 £58,750
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 10,621 16,613 15,344
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 94.96% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,732 12,861 8,142
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,629
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
North West +1 19 £40,000 - 7
Yorkshire +43 8 £35,000 -6.67% 2
North East +16 2 £42,500 +30.77% 8
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 North of England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (72.41%) Azure
2 19 (65.52%) Microsoft
3 17 (58.62%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
4 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (48.28%) VMware
6 13 (44.83%) Active Directory
7 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (37.93%) Windows
8 10 (34.48%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (31.03%) ITIL
10 8 (27.59%) SharePoint
10 8 (27.59%) DBS Check
10 8 (27.59%) Customer Service
11 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
11 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (24.14%) Firewall
12 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
12 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
13 5 (17.24%) Windows 10
13 5 (17.24%) Meraki
13 5 (17.24%) Degree
13 5 (17.24%) Cisco
13 5 (17.24%) Change Management
13 5 (17.24%) Citrix
14 4 (13.79%) SAN
14 4 (13.79%) Linux
14 4 (13.79%) VoIP
14 4 (13.79%) PowerShell

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (27.59%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) Azure
2 17 (58.62%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.34%) AWS
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) Datadog
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Firewall
2 4 (13.79%) SAN
2 4 (13.79%) VoIP
3 3 (10.34%) DHCP
3 3 (10.34%) DNS
3 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (6.90%) LAN
4 2 (6.90%) NAS
4 2 (6.90%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (6.90%) VLAN
4 2 (6.90%) WAN
4 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.45%) Network Security
5 1 (3.45%) PSTN
5 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.90%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Social Media
2 2 (6.90%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.24%) Windows 10
4 4 (13.79%) Linux
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (6.90%) CentOS
6 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (34.48%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (31.03%) ITIL
5 8 (27.59%) Customer Service
6 5 (17.24%) Change Management
7 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (10.34%) DevOps
7 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (10.34%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (10.34%) Patch Management
7 3 (10.34%) Server Management
7 3 (10.34%) Web Filtering
8 2 (6.90%) CI/CD
8 2 (6.90%) Containerisation
8 2 (6.90%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (6.90%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
8 2 (6.90%) Resource Allocation
8 2 (6.90%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) Bash
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) DBS Check
2 5 (17.24%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.90%) Linux+ Certification
4 2 (6.90%) RHCE
5 1 (3.45%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.90%) Docker
4 2 (6.90%) Dovecot
4 2 (6.90%) Postfix
5 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.34%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (48.28%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) Cisco
3 5 (17.24%) Citrix
3 5 (17.24%) Meraki
4 3 (10.34%) Veeam
5 2 (6.90%) Okta
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle
5 2 (6.90%) Ping Identity
5 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.90%) Sophos
5 2 (6.90%) Synology
6 1 (3.45%) SonicWALL