3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 646 656 766
Rank change year-on-year +10 +110 -251
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 96 108 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 79 90 88
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,400 £33,050
25th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +1.19%
75th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £49,063
90th Percentile £52,750 - £56,625
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,250
% change year-on-year -1.04% +1.59% +11.18%

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 65,737 55,972 67,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.35% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 46,859 31,643 43,312
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,738 £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 £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

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

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

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

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

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

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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 West +19 30 £50,000 +17.65% 4
Midlands +17 22 £47,500 -13.64%
South East -7 19 £42,500 +6.25% 3
West Midlands +34 16 £43,000 -21.82%
North of England +50 15 £35,000 -23.91% 2
Yorkshire +102 11 £35,000 -26.32% 1
East Midlands -14 6 £47,500 -13.64%
East of England +7 4 £42,250 -23.18% 4
Wales - 4 £40,500 -
North West +5 3 £60,000 +30.43% 1
Scotland - 2 £42,500 - 1
North East - 1 £60,000 -
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 3rd Line Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 50 (52.08%) Azure
3 50 (52.08%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (46.88%) Windows
5 39 (40.63%) VMware
6 33 (34.38%) Active Directory
7 31 (32.29%) Windows Server
8 30 (31.25%) Security Cleared
9 28 (29.17%) Firewall
10 26 (27.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (26.04%) WAN
11 25 (26.04%) VMware Infrastructure
12 23 (23.96%) Hyper-V
12 23 (23.96%) DNS
13 22 (22.92%) Veeam
14 21 (21.88%) Citrix
15 20 (20.83%) LAN
16 19 (19.79%) SAN
17 18 (18.75%) Linux
18 17 (17.71%) WLAN
18 17 (17.71%) PowerShell
19 16 (16.67%) SharePoint
19 16 (16.67%) Sophos
19 16 (16.67%) Social Skills
20 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
20 15 (15.63%) SCCM
21 14 (14.58%) DHCP
21 14 (14.58%) HP
22 13 (13.54%) Windows Server 2016

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 16 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (2.08%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 50 (52.08%) Azure
1 50 (52.08%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (11.46%) AWS
2 11 (11.46%) Entra ID
3 8 (8.33%) IaaS
3 8 (8.33%) PaaS
4 7 (7.29%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.29%) SaaS
5 5 (5.21%) Nutanix
5 5 (5.21%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.08%) GCP
6 2 (2.08%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.08%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.08%) OpenDNS
7 1 (1.04%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 28 (29.17%) Firewall
2 25 (26.04%) WAN
3 23 (23.96%) DNS
4 20 (20.83%) LAN
5 19 (19.79%) SAN
6 17 (17.71%) WLAN
7 14 (14.58%) DHCP
8 12 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (7.29%) SD-WAN
10 5 (5.21%) VPN
11 4 (4.17%) VoIP
12 2 (2.08%) EIGRP
12 2 (2.08%) HSRP
12 2 (2.08%) IPsec
12 2 (2.08%) iSCSI
12 2 (2.08%) OSPF
12 2 (2.08%) RIP
12 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
12 2 (2.08%) VLAN
12 2 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.21%) MySQL
3 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
General
1 16 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.46%) Aerospace
3 6 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.21%) Finance
5 3 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (2.08%) Legal
6 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) JSON
1 6 (6.25%) JSON Schema
1 6 (6.25%) KML
1 6 (6.25%) Regular Expression
1 6 (6.25%) Software Packaging
1 6 (6.25%) XML
1 6 (6.25%) XML Schema
2 2 (2.08%) LAMP
2 2 (2.08%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.21%) EMC VNX
2 5 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.08%) Clustering
4 2 (2.08%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.08%) PKI
5 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (46.88%) Windows
2 31 (32.29%) Windows Server
3 18 (18.75%) Linux
4 13 (13.54%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (13.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.04%) CentOS
7 1 (1.04%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.04%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (13.54%) Service Delivery
3 12 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (11.46%) ITIL
5 9 (9.38%) Systems Engineering
5 9 (9.38%) Virtual Environments
6 8 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 7 (7.29%) Communications Security
7 7 (7.29%) ITSM
7 7 (7.29%) Server Management
8 6 (6.25%) Application Virtualisation
8 6 (6.25%) CAD
8 6 (6.25%) Compatibility Testing
8 6 (6.25%) Software Distribution
8 6 (6.25%) Software Testing
8 6 (6.25%) Workload Management
9 5 (5.21%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.21%) Security Patching
9 5 (5.21%) Service Management
10 3 (3.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.08%) SQL
3 1 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.46%) DV Cleared
4 9 (9.38%) Degree
5 5 (5.21%) CCNA
5 5 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.17%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.04%) MCSA
7 1 (1.04%) MCSE
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.04%) GDPR
2 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 25 (26.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (23.96%) Hyper-V
4 11 (11.46%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (7.29%) Docker
6 6 (6.25%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (2.08%) pfSense
7 2 (2.08%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.04%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (15.63%) SCCM
3 12 (12.50%) Ansible
4 6 (6.25%) vCenter Server
5 5 (5.21%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (5.21%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.21%) Nagios
6 2 (2.08%) Backup Exec
6 2 (2.08%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.04%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.04%) MobiControl
7 1 (1.04%) vRealize
7 1 (1.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 39 (40.63%) VMware
3 22 (22.92%) Veeam
4 21 (21.88%) Citrix
5 16 (16.67%) Sophos
6 14 (14.58%) HP
7 13 (13.54%) Aruba
8 12 (12.50%) Cisco
9 7 (7.29%) Meraki
10 6 (6.25%) Acronis
10 6 (6.25%) Datto
10 6 (6.25%) Red Hat
10 6 (6.25%) SolarWinds
11 5 (5.21%) EMC
12 4 (4.17%) Mitel
13 3 (3.13%) Dell
14 2 (2.08%) Fortinet
14 2 (2.08%) NetApp
14 2 (2.08%) SonicWALL
14 2 (2.08%) Veritas