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 leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 251 412
Rank change year-on-year -17 +161 -117
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 86 111 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.57% 0.96% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.05% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 83 95 95
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £35,575 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +18.42%
75th Percentile £44,375 £53,875 £52,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
England median annual salary £42,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +12.50%

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 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +33 46 £42,000 -15.15% 2
Oxfordshire +14 28 £42,000 +5.00% 1
Hampshire -54 23 £42,500 -14.14% 3
Buckinghamshire +17 11 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Berkshire -8 7 £39,375 -20.65%
Kent -9 7 £37,500 +10.29% 4
East Sussex - 6 £37,500 -
Surrey -31 4 £48,750 +8.33%
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 26 July 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 59 (68.60%) Windows
2 56 (65.12%) Firewall
2 56 (65.12%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (62.79%) Microsoft
4 48 (55.81%) Active Directory
5 41 (47.67%) VMware
6 37 (43.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 37 (43.02%) Azure
7 34 (39.53%) SQL
8 32 (37.21%) Citrix
9 31 (36.05%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (34.88%) SQL Server
10 30 (34.88%) Windows Server
10 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
11 29 (33.72%) SharePoint
11 29 (33.72%) Microsoft Exchange
12 27 (31.40%) Veeam
13 25 (29.07%) Hyper-V
13 25 (29.07%) Cisco
14 23 (26.74%) Entra ID
15 22 (25.58%) Degree
16 20 (23.26%) VPN
16 20 (23.26%) OneDrive
17 18 (20.93%) Microsoft Office
17 18 (20.93%) Security Cleared
18 17 (19.77%) Cybersecurity
18 17 (19.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
19 14 (16.28%) DNS
19 14 (16.28%) PowerShell
19 14 (16.28%) Self-Motivation

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 29 (33.72%) Microsoft Exchange
1 29 (33.72%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.65%) Exchange Server 2000
3 2 (2.33%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (2.33%) nginx
4 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (20.93%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (15.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.12%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (43.02%) Azure
3 23 (26.74%) Entra ID
4 20 (23.26%) OneDrive
5 5 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.49%) AWS
6 3 (3.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (3.49%) Azure Stack
6 3 (3.49%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.16%) Dropbox
7 1 (1.16%) Google Drive
7 1 (1.16%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (65.12%) Firewall
2 31 (36.05%) Wi-Fi
3 20 (23.26%) VPN
4 14 (16.28%) DNS
5 12 (13.95%) VLAN
6 11 (12.79%) LAN
7 10 (11.63%) WAN
8 9 (10.47%) Wireless
9 8 (9.30%) DHCP
9 8 (9.30%) SSL
9 8 (9.30%) TCP/IP
10 7 (8.14%) BGP
11 5 (5.81%) FTP
11 5 (5.81%) IPsec
11 5 (5.81%) OSPF
12 4 (4.65%) 4G
12 4 (4.65%) DSL
12 4 (4.65%) LTE
13 3 (3.49%) Cisco Firepower
13 3 (3.49%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (34.88%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.79%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Hudson
General
1 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.28%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (12.79%) Law
4 6 (6.98%) Games
5 5 (5.81%) Legal
5 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.33%) Finance
6 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Military
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.49%) 802.1X
1 3 (3.49%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.28%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (13.95%) Replication
3 6 (6.98%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.81%) Client/Server
4 5 (5.81%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.81%) Smartphone
5 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Clustering
7 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.16%) EPoS
7 1 (1.16%) PKI
7 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (68.60%) Windows
2 30 (34.88%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.63%) Windows 10
4 7 (8.14%) Apple iOS
5 6 (6.98%) Android
6 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.77%) Cybersecurity
1 17 (19.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 14 (16.28%) Change Control
3 10 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (9.30%) ITIL
4 8 (9.30%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 7 (8.14%) Agile
5 7 (8.14%) Customer Service
6 6 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (6.98%) Server Building
6 6 (6.98%) Service Delivery
7 5 (5.81%) Logistics
7 5 (5.81%) Problem Management
8 4 (4.65%) Client Onboarding
8 4 (4.65%) Escalation Management
8 4 (4.65%) Mentoring
8 4 (4.65%) Migration
8 4 (4.65%) Threat Management
8 4 (4.65%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (39.53%) SQL
2 14 (16.28%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.16%) ActionScript
3 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (25.58%) Degree
2 18 (20.93%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.47%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (8.14%) CCNP
6 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.65%) CCNA
7 4 (4.65%) DBS Check
7 4 (4.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (3.49%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.16%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.16%) MCP
10 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (55.81%) Active Directory
2 37 (43.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (29.07%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (4.65%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.49%) vSphere
6 2 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.16%) OpenSSH
7 1 (1.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.65%) Autotask
3 3 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.33%) SCCM
4 2 (2.33%) SCOM
4 2 (2.33%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.16%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.16%) IBM BigFix
5 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 54 (62.79%) Microsoft
2 41 (47.67%) VMware
3 32 (37.21%) Citrix
4 27 (31.40%) Veeam
5 25 (29.07%) Cisco
6 6 (6.98%) Juniper
7 5 (5.81%) Datto
7 5 (5.81%) Draytek
7 5 (5.81%) Meraki
8 2 (2.33%) Apple
8 2 (2.33%) F5
9 1 (1.16%) Acronis
9 1 (1.16%) ConnectWise
9 1 (1.16%) Dell
9 1 (1.16%) Google
9 1 (1.16%) HP
9 1 (1.16%) IBM
9 1 (1.16%) Sophos
9 1 (1.16%) WatchGuard
9 1 (1.16%) Webroot