3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the North West

Third Line Engineer
England > North West

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the North West is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 278 246
Rank change year-on-year +8 -32 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 19 17 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.24% 0.17% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.18% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 53
10th Percentile £34,125 £29,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +11.85%
75th Percentile £50,063 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £52,850 £59,500 £63,750
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 West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,314 9,309 7,031
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 94.56% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,013 7,154 4,104
10th Percentile £26,955 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,345 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North West

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the North West

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the North West

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester +51 11 £40,000 -23.81% 4
Cheshire +5 5 £39,500 +4.64%
Lancashire - 2 £53,000 - 2
Merseyside - 1 £40,000 - 1
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 West region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (89.47%) Microsoft
2 16 (84.21%) Azure
3 12 (63.16%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
5 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (47.37%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
6 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
6 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (42.11%) VMware
6 8 (42.11%) DBS Check
7 7 (36.84%) ITIL
8 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
9 5 (26.32%) Meraki
9 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
9 5 (26.32%) Windows
9 5 (26.32%) Citrix
9 5 (26.32%) Change Management
9 5 (26.32%) Cisco
9 5 (26.32%) Degree
10 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
11 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
11 3 (15.79%) Web Filtering
11 3 (15.79%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (15.79%) DevOps
11 3 (15.79%) Kalman Filter
11 3 (15.79%) Server Management
11 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (10.53%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DHCP
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (10.53%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (10.53%) SAN
2 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
2 2 (10.53%) VoIP
3 1 (5.26%) LAN
3 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.26%) VLAN
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (47.37%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (36.84%) ITIL
3 5 (26.32%) Change Management
3 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (15.79%) Server Management
4 3 (15.79%) Web Filtering
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.53%) Patch Management
5 2 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (10.53%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) DBS Check
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (10.53%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
4 2 (10.53%) Docker
4 2 (10.53%) Dovecot
4 2 (10.53%) Postfix
5 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.79%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) VMware
3 5 (26.32%) Cisco
3 5 (26.32%) Citrix
3 5 (26.32%) Meraki
4 3 (15.79%) Veeam
5 2 (10.53%) Okta
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle
5 2 (10.53%) Ping Identity
5 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
5 2 (10.53%) Sophos
5 2 (10.53%) Synology