3rd Line Support Jobs in Oxfordshire

Third Line Support
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Third Line Support salary in Oxfordshire is £41,500 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 72 62 112
Rank change year-on-year -10 +50 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 5 51 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.68% 3.02% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 3.16% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 51 10
10th Percentile £39,450 £36,250 £35,200
25th Percentile £39,750 £37,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +5.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £43,250 £43,250 £42,688
90th Percentile - £43,750 £45,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 656 1,616 1,270
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.65% 95.85% 84.39%
Number of salaries quoted 345 1,282 778
10th Percentile £32,489 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £86,000 £70,000 £79,125
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

3rd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support in Oxfordshire

3rd Line Support
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support in Oxfordshire.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Support in Oxfordshire

3rd Line Support
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support within the Oxfordshire 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
Woodstock - 4 £41,500 - 1
3rd Line Support
South East

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire

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

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (80.00%) SCCM
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) VLAN
2 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (80.00%) Information Security
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Replication
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) arcserve
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (80.00%) Information Security
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) arcserve
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki