3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the South East

Third Line Engineer
England > South East

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the South East is £42,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 307 373
Rank change year-on-year +49 +66 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 144 103 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.86% 0.69% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.76% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 143 95 104
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,200 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +9.68% -3.13%
75th Percentile £47,500 £53,875 £44,063
90th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £45,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.18% +6.47% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,633 13,568 19,141
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 90.53% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,320 8,524 12,657
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Thames Valley +57 66 £42,000 +11.41% 10
Oxfordshire +60 46 £42,000 +20.00% 7
Hampshire -24 35 £49,000 -1.01% 5
Berkshire +20 12 £38,750 +9.46% 2
West Sussex +52 11 £35,000 -33.33%
Surrey +14 11 £50,000 +21.21% 2
East Sussex - 11 £37,500 -
Kent -9 8 £42,500 +25.00% 1
Buckinghamshire -17 8 £48,750 -9.30% 1
Sussex - 2 £30,000 -
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 South East region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (61.11%) Windows
2 79 (54.86%) Firewall
2 79 (54.86%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (51.39%) Microsoft
4 61 (42.36%) VMware
5 58 (40.28%) Azure
6 56 (38.89%) Active Directory
7 49 (34.03%) VMware Infrastructure
8 48 (33.33%) Windows Server
9 43 (29.86%) Cisco
10 39 (27.08%) Social Skills
11 38 (26.39%) SQL Server
12 37 (25.69%) SQL
13 36 (25.00%) Veeam
14 35 (24.31%) Citrix
15 34 (23.61%) Security Cleared
15 34 (23.61%) Hyper-V
16 33 (22.92%) Microsoft Exchange
17 31 (21.53%) Wi-Fi
18 30 (20.83%) Degree
18 30 (20.83%) SharePoint
18 30 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
19 28 (19.44%) VPN
20 25 (17.36%) Entra ID
21 23 (15.97%) Cybersecurity
21 23 (15.97%) DNS
21 23 (15.97%) Microsoft Office
22 22 (15.28%) Juniper
22 22 (15.28%) BGP
22 22 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineering

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 33 (22.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (20.83%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.17%) Exchange Server 2000
4 3 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 23 (15.97%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (11.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 79 (54.86%) Microsoft 365
2 58 (40.28%) Azure
3 25 (17.36%) Entra ID
4 20 (13.89%) OneDrive
5 9 (6.25%) AWS
6 3 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.08%) Azure Stack
6 3 (2.08%) Azure Storage
6 3 (2.08%) Dropbox
6 3 (2.08%) Google Drive
6 3 (2.08%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.39%) IaaS
7 2 (1.39%) PaaS
7 2 (1.39%) SaaS
7 2 (1.39%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 79 (54.86%) Firewall
2 31 (21.53%) Wi-Fi
3 28 (19.44%) VPN
4 23 (15.97%) DNS
5 22 (15.28%) BGP
6 21 (14.58%) VLAN
7 18 (12.50%) LAN
8 17 (11.81%) TCP/IP
9 16 (11.11%) DHCP
10 14 (9.72%) WAN
11 10 (6.94%) OSPF
12 9 (6.25%) Wireless
13 8 (5.56%) IPsec
14 7 (4.86%) FTP
14 7 (4.86%) HSRP
14 7 (4.86%) SAN
15 6 (4.17%) NAS
15 6 (4.17%) SSL
16 5 (3.47%) Cisco ASA
16 5 (3.47%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (26.39%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Hudson
General
1 39 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.42%) Documentation Skills
3 12 (8.33%) Games
4 11 (7.64%) Law
5 6 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.08%) Retail
6 3 (2.08%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.39%) Finance
7 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.69%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.47%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.50%) Replication
2 13 (9.03%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.56%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.86%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 88 (61.11%) Windows
2 48 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.56%) Linux
4 7 (4.86%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.08%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.08%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.69%) CentOS
8 1 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.69%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (15.97%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (11.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 17 (11.81%) Project Delivery
5 16 (11.11%) Change Control
6 13 (9.03%) ITIL
7 11 (7.64%) Customer Service
7 11 (7.64%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 10 (6.94%) Agile
9 9 (6.25%) Service Delivery
10 7 (4.86%) Mentoring
10 7 (4.86%) Migration
10 7 (4.86%) Problem Management
11 6 (4.17%) ERP
11 6 (4.17%) Escalation Management
11 6 (4.17%) Server Building
11 6 (4.17%) Threat Management
11 6 (4.17%) Time Management
11 6 (4.17%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 37 (25.69%) SQL
2 13 (9.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (20.83%) Degree
3 21 (14.58%) CCNP
4 11 (7.64%) CCNA
4 11 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (6.94%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (4.17%) MCSE
7 4 (2.78%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.08%) MCP
8 3 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.69%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.39%) NIST
2 1 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 56 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 49 (34.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (23.61%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.69%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 19 (13.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.78%) Autotask
3 3 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.39%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (1.39%) SCCM
5 1 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 74 (51.39%) Microsoft
2 61 (42.36%) VMware
3 43 (29.86%) Cisco
4 36 (25.00%) Veeam
5 35 (24.31%) Citrix
6 22 (15.28%) Juniper
7 9 (6.25%) Draytek
8 7 (4.86%) Datto
8 7 (4.86%) Meraki
9 5 (3.47%) Sophos
10 4 (2.78%) F5
10 4 (2.78%) WatchGuard
11 3 (2.08%) Apple
11 3 (2.08%) ConnectWise
11 3 (2.08%) Google
11 3 (2.08%) Webroot
12 2 (1.39%) Acronis
12 2 (1.39%) Dell
12 2 (1.39%) NetApp
13 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds