3rd Line Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Third Line Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 699 737 809
Rank change year-on-year +38 +72 -181
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Network Engineer 52 36 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.057% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.063% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 37 32 44
10th Percentile £39,700 £33,200 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,438 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +17.14% +18.24%
75th Percentile £51,500 £55,000 £49,063
90th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £55,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% +22.22% +20.00%

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 65,694 56,713 67,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.47% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 46,933 31,831 43,269
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £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 £76,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,308 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.15% - +9.09%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

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

3rd Line Network 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 Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +44 35 £49,000 -6.67%
Wales - 14 - -
North of England +43 3 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £47,500 -
3rd Line Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, 3rd Line Network 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (88.46%) Security Cleared
2 42 (80.77%) Cisco
3 32 (61.54%) Firewall
4 29 (55.77%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (50.00%) Juniper
6 25 (48.08%) BGP
6 25 (48.08%) CCNP
6 25 (48.08%) SC Cleared
7 17 (32.69%) Microsoft
7 17 (32.69%) DNS
7 17 (32.69%) Data Centre
8 16 (30.77%) Project Delivery
9 14 (26.92%) Mitel
9 14 (26.92%) IP Telephony
9 14 (26.92%) Incident Management
9 14 (26.92%) Business Continuity
9 14 (26.92%) Network Management
9 14 (26.92%) Wireless
9 14 (26.92%) Avaya
9 14 (26.92%) Actionable Insight
9 14 (26.92%) Skype for Business
10 13 (25.00%) OSPF
11 10 (19.23%) VPN
11 10 (19.23%) HSRP
12 8 (15.38%) IPsec
13 6 (11.54%) SSL
14 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
14 5 (9.62%) VLAN
14 5 (9.62%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (9.62%) 802.1X

3rd Line Network 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 14 (26.92%) Skype for Business
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.69%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) AWS
3 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.85%) SaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.92%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 32 (61.54%) Firewall
2 25 (48.08%) BGP
3 17 (32.69%) DNS
4 14 (26.92%) IP Telephony
4 14 (26.92%) Wireless
5 13 (25.00%) OSPF
6 10 (19.23%) HSRP
6 10 (19.23%) VPN
7 8 (15.38%) IPsec
8 6 (11.54%) SSL
9 5 (9.62%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (9.62%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (9.62%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (9.62%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (9.62%) Spanning Tree
9 5 (9.62%) VLAN
10 4 (7.69%) LAN
10 4 (7.69%) SD-WAN
10 4 (7.69%) WAN
11 3 (5.77%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Hudson
General
1 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (3.85%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.92%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.77%) Driving Licence
2 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Project Delivery
2 14 (26.92%) Actionable Insight
2 14 (26.92%) Business Continuity
2 14 (26.92%) Incident Management
2 14 (26.92%) Network Management
3 5 (9.62%) Mentoring
4 4 (7.69%) Agile
4 4 (7.69%) ITIL
5 3 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (3.85%) Change Control
6 2 (3.85%) Change Management
6 2 (3.85%) Configuration Management
6 2 (3.85%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (3.85%) Data Protection
6 2 (3.85%) Decision-Making
6 2 (3.85%) Information Management
6 2 (3.85%) Process Improvement
6 2 (3.85%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (3.85%) Software Deployment
6 2 (3.85%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 46 (88.46%) Security Cleared
2 29 (55.77%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (48.08%) CCNP
3 25 (48.08%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) CCNA
5 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
1 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 42 (80.77%) Cisco
2 26 (50.00%) Juniper
3 17 (32.69%) Microsoft
4 14 (26.92%) Avaya
4 14 (26.92%) Mitel
5 4 (7.69%) F5
6 2 (3.85%) Acronis
6 2 (3.85%) Veeam
6 2 (3.85%) VMware
7 1 (1.92%) Citrix
7 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.92%) WatchGuard