3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Third Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 451 483
Rank change year-on-year +56 +32 -166
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 406 335 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.54% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.61% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 357 303 398
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.78% +4.38%
75th Percentile £47,500 £54,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £46,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
South East +70 144 £42,000 -1.18% 21
South West +48 73 £44,250 +4.12% 10
North of England +38 72 £35,000 -22.22% 34
Midlands +19 56 £40,000 -27.27% 11
West Midlands +34 39 £37,500 -24.24% 7
East of England -28 35 £42,500 -15.00% 12
Yorkshire +98 31 £37,500 -11.76% 10
North East +19 26 £32,500 - 5
Wales +30 18 £40,500 +1.25% 1
East Midlands -11 17 £40,000 -27.27% 4
North West -27 15 £40,000 -13.04% 19
Scotland -61 8 £48,500 +7.78% 2
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 226 (55.67%) Microsoft
2 202 (49.75%) Windows
3 198 (48.77%) Microsoft 365
4 197 (48.52%) Azure
5 166 (40.89%) Firewall
6 155 (38.18%) Active Directory
7 152 (37.44%) VMware
8 145 (35.71%) Windows Server
9 112 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
10 105 (25.86%) Hyper-V
11 104 (25.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 101 (24.88%) Social Skills
13 91 (22.41%) Microsoft Exchange
14 87 (21.43%) DNS
14 87 (21.43%) Cisco
14 87 (21.43%) Security Cleared
15 80 (19.70%) ITIL
16 73 (17.98%) SharePoint
17 72 (17.73%) SQL Server
17 72 (17.73%) Citrix
17 72 (17.73%) Veeam
18 70 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
19 60 (14.78%) LAN
20 59 (14.53%) WAN
20 59 (14.53%) SAN
21 57 (14.04%) DHCP
21 57 (14.04%) SQL
22 54 (13.30%) VPN
22 54 (13.30%) Wi-Fi
23 53 (13.05%) Entra ID

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 91 (22.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 73 (17.98%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.45%) IIS
3 14 (3.45%) Skype for Business
4 10 (2.46%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2000
6 5 (1.23%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (9.85%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 198 (48.77%) Microsoft 365
2 197 (48.52%) Azure
3 53 (13.05%) Entra ID
4 31 (7.64%) OneDrive
5 26 (6.40%) AWS
6 13 (3.20%) IaaS
6 13 (3.20%) PaaS
7 10 (2.46%) SaaS
8 9 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.48%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.48%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.23%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.23%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.99%) Azure Stack
11 4 (0.99%) Dropbox
11 4 (0.99%) Google Drive
11 4 (0.99%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 166 (40.89%) Firewall
2 87 (21.43%) DNS
3 60 (14.78%) LAN
4 59 (14.53%) SAN
4 59 (14.53%) WAN
5 57 (14.04%) DHCP
6 54 (13.30%) VPN
6 54 (13.30%) Wi-Fi
7 40 (9.85%) VLAN
8 38 (9.36%) Wireless
9 29 (7.14%) TCP/IP
10 22 (5.42%) BGP
11 20 (4.93%) VoIP
11 20 (4.93%) WLAN
12 16 (3.94%) IP Telephony
12 16 (3.94%) IPsec
13 12 (2.96%) OSPF
13 12 (2.96%) Remote Desktop
14 11 (2.71%) SD-WAN
15 9 (2.22%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (17.73%) SQL Server
2 35 (8.62%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.72%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.49%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Hudson
2 1 (0.25%) JIRA
General
1 101 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 22 (5.42%) Law
3 19 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (3.20%) Games
5 13 (3.20%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.71%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.72%) Finance
8 4 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (0.99%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.74%) Retail
10 2 (0.49%) Legal
10 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.25%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.20%) JSON
1 13 (3.20%) JSON Schema
1 13 (3.20%) KML
1 13 (3.20%) Regular Expression
1 13 (3.20%) XML
2 8 (1.97%) XML Schema
3 6 (1.48%) Software Packaging
4 5 (1.23%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.49%) LAMP
6 2 (0.49%) OpenMP
6 2 (0.49%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.59%) Driving Licence
2 31 (7.64%) Data Centre
3 25 (6.16%) Replication
4 23 (5.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 21 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.22%) Clustering
8 7 (1.72%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.48%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.48%) iPad
10 5 (1.23%) EMC VNX
10 5 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.74%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.49%) Beowulf
13 2 (0.49%) Life Science
13 2 (0.49%) PKI
13 2 (0.49%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 202 (49.75%) Windows
2 145 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 47 (11.58%) Linux
4 46 (11.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (7.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (5.91%) Windows 10
8 10 (2.46%) Mac OS
9 9 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (1.23%) Debian
11 4 (0.99%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.99%) CentOS
12 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.49%) Android
13 2 (0.49%) SUSE
13 2 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.49%) Unix
13 2 (0.49%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (25.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (19.70%) ITIL
3 51 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (9.36%) Customer Service
5 37 (9.11%) Incident Management
6 35 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
7 24 (5.91%) Project Delivery
7 24 (5.91%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 21 (5.17%) Migration
8 21 (5.17%) Service Delivery
9 17 (4.19%) Business Continuity
9 17 (4.19%) Desktop Virtualisation
9 17 (4.19%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 17 (4.19%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (3.94%) Change Control
10 16 (3.94%) Mentoring
10 16 (3.94%) Network Management
11 15 (3.69%) Agile
12 14 (3.45%) Actionable Insight
13 13 (3.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (14.04%) SQL
2 46 (11.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.49%) Bash
3 2 (0.49%) C#
3 2 (0.49%) Perl
3 2 (0.49%) Python
3 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 87 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.82%) Cisco Certification
3 45 (11.08%) Degree
4 44 (10.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (9.85%) SC Cleared
6 28 (6.90%) CCNP
7 24 (5.91%) CCNA
8 22 (5.42%) Azure Certification
9 17 (4.19%) DV Cleared
10 13 (3.20%) MCSE
11 11 (2.71%) A+ Certification
12 10 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (1.48%) MCSA
15 5 (1.23%) MCP
15 5 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.99%) DBS Check
17 3 (0.74%) RHCT
18 2 (0.49%) CCA
18 2 (0.49%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.71%) SLA
2 8 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.23%) NCSC
4 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.74%) NIST
5 2 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) GxP
System Software
1 155 (38.18%) Active Directory
2 112 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (25.86%) Hyper-V
4 28 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (2.46%) vSphere
7 7 (1.72%) Docker
7 7 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.99%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.99%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.74%) KVM
11 2 (0.49%) Lustre
11 2 (0.49%) pfSense
11 2 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.49%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.25%) NFS
12 1 (0.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 70 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (6.40%) SCCM
3 19 (4.68%) Ansible
4 9 (2.22%) vCenter Server
5 8 (1.97%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.48%) Autotask
6 6 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (1.23%) Nagios
8 3 (0.74%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.74%) SCOM
8 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.74%) Terraform
9 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.49%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.49%) SCDPM
9 2 (0.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 226 (55.67%) Microsoft
2 152 (37.44%) VMware
3 87 (21.43%) Cisco
4 72 (17.73%) Citrix
4 72 (17.73%) Veeam
5 28 (6.90%) Sophos
6 24 (5.91%) HP
7 22 (5.42%) Juniper
8 18 (4.43%) Meraki
8 18 (4.43%) Mitel
9 17 (4.19%) Datto
10 14 (3.45%) Aruba
10 14 (3.45%) Avaya
10 14 (3.45%) WatchGuard
11 12 (2.96%) Draytek
12 11 (2.71%) Dell
12 11 (2.71%) Red Hat
13 10 (2.46%) Acronis
13 10 (2.46%) SolarWinds
14 9 (2.22%) Google