3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the South West

Third Line Engineer
England > South West

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the South West is £45,500 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 201 228 295
Rank change year-on-year +27 +67 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 62 30 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.71% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.54% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 40 26 33
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,375 £34,438 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £41,000 £39,550
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% +3.67% -4.70%
75th Percentile £51,750 £44,125 £48,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £49,500 £55,200
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 West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 8,426 5,578 8,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 89.64% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,017 3,752 5,360
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,438 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,288 £36,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,725 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 West

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

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

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the South West

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the South West

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +7 27 £50,500 +42.25% 3
Gloucestershire +20 21 £39,250 -6.55% 4
Dorset -21 7 £42,500 +1.80% 2
Devon 0 4 £37,500 -
Bristol +8 2 £50,000 +17.65% 1
Somerset +6 1 £45,000 +45.16% 1
3rd Line Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (54.84%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (46.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (41.94%) Azure
4 24 (38.71%) Firewall
5 19 (30.65%) WAN
5 19 (30.65%) Security Cleared
6 17 (27.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (27.42%) Windows
6 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
7 16 (25.81%) Linux
7 16 (25.81%) Windows Server
8 15 (24.19%) Ansible
8 15 (24.19%) ITIL
8 15 (24.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (22.58%) DNS
9 14 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (22.58%) PowerShell
10 13 (20.97%) Regular Expression
10 13 (20.97%) KML
10 13 (20.97%) IaaS
10 13 (20.97%) JSON Schema
10 13 (20.97%) XML
10 13 (20.97%) CAD
10 13 (20.97%) SharePoint
10 13 (20.97%) JSON
11 12 (19.35%) SaaS
11 12 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (17.74%) SD-WAN
12 11 (17.74%) Power Platform
12 11 (17.74%) PaaS

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (20.97%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (54.84%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (41.94%) Azure
3 13 (20.97%) IaaS
4 12 (19.35%) SaaS
5 11 (17.74%) PaaS
5 11 (17.74%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.23%) AWS
7 2 (3.23%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.23%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.61%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 24 (38.71%) Firewall
2 19 (30.65%) WAN
3 14 (22.58%) DNS
4 11 (17.74%) SD-WAN
5 8 (12.90%) LAN
5 8 (12.90%) Wireless
6 2 (3.23%) DHCP
6 2 (3.23%) VLAN
6 2 (3.23%) WLAN
7 1 (1.61%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.61%) FTP
7 1 (1.61%) Gigabit Ethernet
7 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.61%) SAN
7 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.61%) VPN
7 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
General
1 12 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (12.90%) Aerospace
3 4 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) JSON
1 13 (20.97%) JSON Schema
1 13 (20.97%) KML
1 13 (20.97%) Regular Expression
1 13 (20.97%) XML
2 8 (12.90%) XML Schema
3 3 (4.84%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Blockchain
2 2 (3.23%) EMC VNX
2 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.42%) Windows
2 16 (25.81%) Linux
2 16 (25.81%) Windows Server
3 15 (24.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.84%) Windows 8
5 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.61%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.61%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (24.19%) ITIL
3 13 (20.97%) CAD
4 8 (12.90%) Antivirus Management
4 8 (12.90%) Migration
5 5 (8.06%) Customer Service
6 4 (6.45%) Service Management
7 3 (4.84%) Application Virtualisation
7 3 (4.84%) Compatibility Testing
7 3 (4.84%) Presales
7 3 (4.84%) Proactive Maintenance
7 3 (4.84%) Software Distribution
7 3 (4.84%) Software Testing
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (4.84%) Workload Management
8 2 (3.23%) ITSM
8 2 (3.23%) Security Patching
8 2 (3.23%) Server Management
9 1 (1.61%) Data Loss Prevention
9 1 (1.61%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.84%) MCSA
5 2 (3.23%) Degree
6 1 (1.61%) CCA
6 1 (1.61%) CCNA
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.61%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) NCSC
2 4 (6.45%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.06%) Hyper-V
2 5 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.23%) Docker
5 1 (1.61%) DFS Replication
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 17 (27.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (24.19%) Ansible
3 6 (9.68%) SCCM
4 3 (4.84%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.23%) Nagios
6 1 (1.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) Citrix
2 5 (8.06%) VMware
3 4 (6.45%) Veeam
4 2 (3.23%) Aruba
4 2 (3.23%) EMC
4 2 (3.23%) Meraki
4 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.61%) Draytek
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) Sage
5 1 (1.61%) WatchGuard