3rd Line Engineer Jobs in South London

Third Line Engineer
London > South London

The median Third Line Engineer salary in South London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 87 83
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 15 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 2.09% 0.11% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.68% 0.12% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 8
10th Percentile £50,750 - -
25th Percentile £51,813 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -8.11% +32.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £43,750 £58,125
90th Percentile - - £60,000
London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +0.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 560 845 686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.21% 95.16% 93.59%
Number of salaries quoted 165 409 374
10th Percentile £30,350 £27,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in South London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in South London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in South London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in South London

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Kingston Upon Thames - 14 £65,000 -
Merton - 1 £60,000 -
Bromley - 1 - -
3rd Line Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (86.67%) SQL
3 10 (66.67%) ITIL
3 10 (66.67%) Change Management
3 10 (66.67%) High Availability
4 9 (60.00%) DevOps
4 9 (60.00%) GCP
4 9 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (60.00%) Terraform
4 9 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 9 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 9 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (60.00%) Google
4 9 (60.00%) Resource Management
4 9 (60.00%) AWS
4 9 (60.00%) C#
4 9 (60.00%) B2B
5 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
6 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
7 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
7 5 (33.33%) Task Automation
7 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
8 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
8 4 (26.67%) Storage Management
8 4 (26.67%) Azure App Service
8 4 (26.67%) Azure Storage

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
2 9 (60.00%) GCP
3 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (26.67%) Azure App Service
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Storage
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Table
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
1 1 (6.67%) WLAN
General
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Change Management
1 10 (66.67%) High Availability
1 10 (66.67%) ITIL
2 9 (60.00%) B2B
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 9 (60.00%) Resource Management
3 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 5 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Data Management
4 4 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
4 4 (26.67%) Storage Management
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) SQL
2 9 (60.00%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (60.00%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Apple