3rd Line Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Third Line Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Surrey is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 145 108
Rank change year-on-year +31 -37 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 2 3 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 0.15% 0.12% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 13
10th Percentile - - £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -20.35%
75th Percentile £48,750 £49,375 £47,500
90th Percentile - £52,750 -
South East median annual salary £50,750 £42,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 1,159 2,224 1,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.14% 91.86% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 683 1,406 1,003
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £86,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Surrey

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Surrey

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 23 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
Guildford - 1 £47,500 - 1
Woking - 1 - -
3rd Line Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Surrey region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) VMware