3rd Line Engineer Jobs in Swindon

Third Line Engineer
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Swindon is £34,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 50 42
Rank change year-on-year +24 -8 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 2 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swindon 1.46% 1.11% 2.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.18% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - - £34,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £47,500 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £50,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +12.36% +21.92%
75th Percentile £35,750 £52,500 £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median annual salary £34,500 £50,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -31.00% +13.64% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swindon. 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 Swindon with a recognized job title 124 425 380
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.51% 94.03% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 97 364 284
10th Percentile £31,750 £26,250 £30,150
25th Percentile £48,165 £33,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,568 £57,762 £57,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £74,701
Wiltshire median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -1.55%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Swindon

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Swindon

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Swindon

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Swindon region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Ubiquiti
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CCTV
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) Ubiquiti
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware