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 £52,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 657 652
Rank change year-on-year +86 -5 +125
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 15 102 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 14 81 81
10th Percentile £45,575 £35,000 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,875 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,500 £53,750 -
UK median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.58% - -1.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,898 67,972 52,779
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.88% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,484 47,985 30,138
10th Percentile £26,951 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 21 May 2025.

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 21 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
North of England +33 6 £51,500 +47.14%
Midlands +45 4 £59,500 +25.26% 1
North West -1 4 £51,500 -14.17%
South East +73 3 £55,000 +29.41% 3
East Midlands +34 3 £59,500 +25.26%
Yorkshire +55 2 £48,750 +39.29%
East of England +33 2 £47,500 -18.10% 2
West Midlands +44 1 - - 1
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 21 May 2025, 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 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (93.33%) Azure
3 13 (86.67%) VMware
3 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
4 11 (73.33%) Windows
5 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
5 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (53.33%) Windows Server
6 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
6 8 (53.33%) DHCP
6 8 (53.33%) DNS
7 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (46.67%) Linux
7 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
8 5 (33.33%) Veeam
8 5 (33.33%) ITIL
8 5 (33.33%) Firewall
8 5 (33.33%) Patch Management
8 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
9 4 (26.67%) SAN
9 4 (26.67%) AWS
9 4 (26.67%) Ubuntu
10 3 (20.00%) Degree
10 3 (20.00%) SCCM
10 3 (20.00%) SCOM
10 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
10 3 (20.00%) SharePoint

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 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
4 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (13.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
6 1 (6.67%) Datadog
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) DHCP
1 8 (53.33%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
3 4 (26.67%) SAN
4 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (13.33%) VLAN
6 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
6 1 (6.67%) NAS
6 1 (6.67%) Network Security
6 1 (6.67%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.67%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (46.67%) Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Ubuntu
4 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (13.33%) CentOS
5 2 (13.33%) Debian
5 2 (13.33%) SUSE
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Kanban
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Linux+ Certification
2 2 (13.33%) RHCE
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (13.33%) Docker
4 2 (13.33%) Dovecot
4 2 (13.33%) Postfix
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (13.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
1 3 (20.00%) SCOM
2 2 (13.33%) Backup Exec
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) SCOrch
3 1 (6.67%) SCSM
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
1 13 (86.67%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) Veeam
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) Meraki
4 2 (13.33%) Okta
4 2 (13.33%) Ping Identity
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (13.33%) Sophos
4 2 (13.33%) Synology
5 1 (6.67%) Imperva
5 1 (6.67%) SonicWALL