3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Third Line Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 179 237
Rank change year-on-year +20 +58 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 11 65 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.36% 0.97% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 1.02% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9 64 26
10th Percentile £37,900 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,875 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,000 £37,700
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +11.41% -11.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £43,750 £52,094
90th Percentile £77,000 £47,500 £62,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £42,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -1.18% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,511 6,377 5,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.90% 94.70% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 4,541 3,210
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the Thames Valley

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the Thames Valley

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the Thames Valley

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire +37 6 £52,500 +35.48% 3
Buckinghamshire +36 3 £72,500 +48.72% 2
Oxfordshire -3 2 £40,500 -3.57% 2
3rd Line Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Thames Valley region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Juniper
3 4 (36.36%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (27.27%) VLAN
4 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (27.27%) F5
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (27.27%) HSRP
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (27.27%) Spanning Tree
4 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
4 3 (27.27%) 802.1X
4 3 (27.27%) WAN
4 3 (27.27%) VPN
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco
4 3 (27.27%) CCNP
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (27.27%) OSPF
4 3 (27.27%) BGP

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) BGP
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (27.27%) HSRP
2 3 (27.27%) IPsec
2 3 (27.27%) OSPF
2 3 (27.27%) Spanning Tree
2 3 (27.27%) VLAN
2 3 (27.27%) VPN
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security
3 2 (18.18%) Wireless
3 2 (18.18%) WLAN
4 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Smartphone
2 1 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
2 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
3 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (9.09%) Android
4 1 (9.09%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
1 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) Change Management
2 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) Presales
2 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
2 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) ITSM
3 1 (9.09%) Logistics
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) CCNP
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Juniper
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) F5
4 2 (18.18%) Apple
5 1 (9.09%) Citrix
5 1 (9.09%) Meraki
5 1 (9.09%) VMware