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 £51,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 274 270
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +139
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 35 114 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.66% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.70% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 25 111 89
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £36,750 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.62% -6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% -8.70% +2.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 9,120 16,283 11,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 94.28% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,059 11,498 7,509
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,102 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
Hampshire +62 18 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Thames Valley -11 9 £52,500 +25.00% 5
Berkshire +19 6 £52,500 +35.48% 1
Kent +29 3 £55,000 +46.67% 2
Surrey +49 2 £47,500 +11.76% 3
West Sussex +24 2 £50,000 +33.33%
Oxfordshire +5 2 £40,500 -3.57% 4
Buckinghamshire +18 1 £35,000 -22.22%
East Sussex +15 1 - - 3
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 16 July 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 South East region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (51.43%) Windows
4 17 (48.57%) Entra ID
5 15 (42.86%) Active Directory
6 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
7 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
7 11 (31.43%) ITIL
7 11 (31.43%) WAN
8 10 (28.57%) Service Delivery
8 10 (28.57%) Change Management
8 10 (28.57%) Cisco
8 10 (28.57%) Windows 10
8 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
9 9 (25.71%) Customer Service
9 9 (25.71%) VMware
9 9 (25.71%) Firewall
9 9 (25.71%) Linux
9 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
9 9 (25.71%) Apple iOS
10 8 (22.86%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (22.86%) Mac OS
10 8 (22.86%) Problem Management
10 8 (22.86%) LAN
10 8 (22.86%) WLAN
10 8 (22.86%) Juniper
10 8 (22.86%) Apple
10 8 (22.86%) Wireless

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 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (2.86%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.86%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 17 (48.57%) Entra ID
3 13 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.86%) AWS
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.86%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) WAN
2 9 (25.71%) Firewall
3 8 (22.86%) LAN
3 8 (22.86%) Wireless
3 8 (22.86%) WLAN
4 7 (20.00%) DNS
5 6 (17.14%) BGP
5 6 (17.14%) DHCP
5 6 (17.14%) OSPF
5 6 (17.14%) SAN
6 5 (14.29%) iSCSI
6 5 (14.29%) NAS
6 5 (14.29%) VLAN
7 4 (11.43%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (11.43%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (11.43%) Internet
7 4 (11.43%) VPN
8 3 (8.57%) EIGRP
8 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Advertising
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.86%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Replication
2 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (51.43%) Windows
2 10 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 9 (25.71%) Apple iOS
3 9 (25.71%) Linux
4 8 (22.86%) Mac OS
5 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
7 2 (5.71%) Debian
7 2 (5.71%) SUSE
7 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.86%) Android
8 1 (2.86%) CentOS
8 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) ITIL
2 10 (28.57%) Change Management
2 10 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 9 (25.71%) Customer Service
4 8 (22.86%) Problem Management
4 8 (22.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.43%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
6 3 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.57%) High Availability
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (8.57%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (5.71%) ITSM
7 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
7 2 (5.71%) Project Delivery
8 1 (2.86%) Batch Scripting
8 1 (2.86%) Edge Virtualization
8 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Maintenance
8 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) Bash
1 1 (2.86%) PHP
1 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (11.43%) CCNP
5 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (11.43%) Degree
6 2 (5.71%) CCNA
7 1 (2.86%) MCSE
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.71%) Firmware
5 2 (5.71%) vSphere
6 1 (2.86%) Docker
6 1 (2.86%) ISA Server
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.86%) Podman
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) Cisco
3 9 (25.71%) VMware
4 8 (22.86%) Apple
4 8 (22.86%) Juniper
5 4 (11.43%) Veeam
6 3 (8.57%) F5
6 3 (8.57%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.71%) Dell
7 2 (5.71%) HP
7 2 (5.71%) Meraki
7 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.86%) ADVA
8 1 (2.86%) Citrix
8 1 (2.86%) NetApp
8 1 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.86%) Sophos
8 1 (2.86%) Splunk