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 17 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 215 277
Rank change year-on-year -20 +62 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 16 12 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.19% 0.24% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.25% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 55
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,688 £35,125 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,875 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -1.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £43,125 £56,500 -
England median annual salary £42,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +12.50%

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 7,925 4,709 8,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 93.45% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,708 3,202 5,590
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

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 17 September 2024.

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 17 September 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
Manchester +11 12 £40,000 -16.88% 2
Cumbria -18 3 £32,000 -4.48%
Lancashire - 1 £35,000 - 3
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 17 September 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 North West region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) ITIL
4 6 (37.50%) Windows
4 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
5 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
5 5 (31.25%) PaaS
5 5 (31.25%) IaaS
5 5 (31.25%) Cisco
5 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
5 5 (31.25%) Terraform
5 5 (31.25%) Azure AKS
5 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
6 4 (25.00%) HP
7 3 (18.75%) Driving Licence
7 3 (18.75%) Ubiquiti
7 3 (18.75%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
7 3 (18.75%) VoIP
7 3 (18.75%) Draytek
7 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (18.75%) Wireless

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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure AKS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) IaaS
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) Internet
1 3 (18.75%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (18.75%) VoIP
1 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (18.75%) Wireless
2 2 (12.50%) DHCP
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) LAN
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) VSAN
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
General
1 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Driving Licence
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
1 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (18.75%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 2 (12.50%) Service Management
5 1 (6.25%) Break/Fix
5 1 (6.25%) Business Strategy
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.25%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (6.25%) ITSM
5 1 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) Software Deployment
5 1 (6.25%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco
3 4 (25.00%) HP
4 3 (18.75%) ConnectWise
4 3 (18.75%) Datto
4 3 (18.75%) Draytek
4 3 (18.75%) ESET
4 3 (18.75%) Sophos
4 3 (18.75%) Ubiquiti
4 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 1 (6.25%) Dell
5 1 (6.25%) Meraki
5 1 (6.25%) NetApp
5 1 (6.25%) Veeam