3rd Line Server Engineer Jobs in the South East

Third Line Server Engineer
England > South East

The median Third Line Server Engineer salary in the South East is £46,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 - 412
Rank change year-on-year - - +77
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Engineer 4 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.046% - 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% - 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £42,525 - -
25th Percentile £44,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £46,688 - -
90th Percentile £47,025 - -
England median annual salary £46,000 £35,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +31.43% -33.33% +33.76%

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 7,510 15,676 13,489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.19% 93.90% 90.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,466 11,332 8,452
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

3rd Line Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

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

3rd Line Server Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Server 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 Server Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Hampshire - 3 £46,000 -
West Sussex - 1 £42,500 -
3rd Line Server Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, 3rd Line Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) NAS
2 3 (75.00%) Veeam
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service

3rd Line Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (75.00%) NAS
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Veeam
1 3 (75.00%) VMware