Third Line Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the UK is £42,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 578 700
Rank change year-on-year +71 +122 -246
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 450 454 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.44% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.48% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 398 406 587
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,625 £31,100
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £46,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +3.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £51,500 £55,000 £51,500
90th Percentile £53,900 £61,250 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £45,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.34% +7.06% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 May 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
England +116 424 £42,000 -8.70% 97
UK excluding London +48 409 £41,250 -9.34% 81
South East +54 142 £42,000 -1.18% 23
Work from Home +58 133 £38,500 -21.63% 30
North of England +46 75 £35,000 -22.22% 26
South West +21 73 £44,250 +4.12% 10
Midlands +26 56 £40,000 -27.27% 12
London +77 41 £60,000 +20.00% 16
West Midlands +34 39 £37,500 -24.24% 8
East of England -23 37 £42,500 -15.00% 7
Yorkshire +101 31 £37,500 -15.73% 10
North East +16 27 £32,500 -5.11% 5
Wales +30 18 £40,500 +2.53% 2
East Midlands -10 17 £40,000 -27.27% 4
North West -19 17 £40,000 -13.04% 11
Scotland -64 8 £48,500 +14.12% 2

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 255 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 223 (49.56%) Azure
3 221 (49.11%) Windows
4 219 (48.67%) Microsoft 365
5 175 (38.89%) Active Directory
6 172 (38.22%) Firewall
7 161 (35.78%) VMware
8 156 (34.67%) Windows Server
9 119 (26.44%) VMware Infrastructure
9 119 (26.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 115 (25.56%) Hyper-V
11 109 (24.22%) Social Skills
12 105 (23.33%) Microsoft Exchange
13 93 (20.67%) DNS
14 91 (20.22%) Security Cleared
15 90 (20.00%) Cisco
16 88 (19.56%) ITIL
17 84 (18.67%) SharePoint
18 82 (18.22%) SQL Server
19 80 (17.78%) Citrix
20 79 (17.56%) Microsoft Intune
21 73 (16.22%) Veeam
22 64 (14.22%) DHCP
23 62 (13.78%) SQL
24 61 (13.56%) LAN
24 61 (13.56%) SAN
25 60 (13.33%) WAN
26 58 (12.89%) Wi-Fi
26 58 (12.89%) Entra ID
27 57 (12.67%) PowerShell

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 105 (23.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 84 (18.67%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.11%) Skype for Business
4 13 (2.89%) IIS
5 10 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (1.33%) Exchange Server 2000
7 5 (1.11%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.44%) WordPress
10 1 (0.22%) Confluence
10 1 (0.22%) Site Server
Applications
1 42 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.44%) Abaqus
3 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 223 (49.56%) Azure
2 219 (48.67%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (12.89%) Entra ID
4 35 (7.78%) OneDrive
5 32 (7.11%) AWS
6 16 (3.56%) IaaS
6 16 (3.56%) PaaS
7 12 (2.67%) SaaS
8 11 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (2.22%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.00%) Mimecast
10 9 (2.00%) Nutanix
11 8 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (1.33%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.11%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.89%) Azure Stack
14 4 (0.89%) Dropbox
14 4 (0.89%) GCP
14 4 (0.89%) Google Drive
14 4 (0.89%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 172 (38.22%) Firewall
2 93 (20.67%) DNS
3 64 (14.22%) DHCP
4 61 (13.56%) LAN
4 61 (13.56%) SAN
5 60 (13.33%) WAN
6 58 (12.89%) Wi-Fi
7 56 (12.44%) VPN
8 43 (9.56%) VLAN
9 41 (9.11%) Wireless
10 36 (8.00%) TCP/IP
11 23 (5.11%) VoIP
12 22 (4.89%) BGP
13 20 (4.44%) WLAN
14 17 (3.78%) IPsec
15 16 (3.56%) IP Telephony
16 15 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
17 12 (2.67%) OSPF
17 12 (2.67%) SD-WAN
18 7 (1.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (18.22%) SQL Server
2 35 (7.78%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.56%) MySQL
4 3 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.44%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.22%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (0.67%) JIRA
2 2 (0.44%) Hudson
3 1 (0.22%) MSI
General
1 109 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 24 (5.33%) Law
3 21 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (3.56%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.11%) Finance
8 14 (3.11%) Games
9 11 (2.44%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.78%) Legal
11 6 (1.33%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.11%) Banking
13 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.67%) Retail
15 2 (0.44%) Advertising
16 1 (0.22%) Electronics
16 1 (0.22%) Marketing
16 1 (0.22%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.89%) JSON
1 13 (2.89%) JSON Schema
1 13 (2.89%) KML
1 13 (2.89%) Regular Expression
1 13 (2.89%) XML
2 8 (1.78%) XML Schema
3 6 (1.33%) Software Packaging
4 5 (1.11%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.67%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.44%) LAMP
6 2 (0.44%) OpenMP
6 2 (0.44%) V-Ray
7 1 (0.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 36 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 26 (5.78%) Replication
4 24 (5.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 24 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.00%) Clustering
7 7 (1.56%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.56%) iPad
7 7 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.33%) Blockchain
8 6 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.11%) EMC VNX
9 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.89%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.44%) Beowulf
11 2 (0.44%) Life Science
11 2 (0.44%) PKI
11 2 (0.44%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 221 (49.11%) Windows
2 156 (34.67%) Windows Server
3 51 (11.33%) Linux
4 49 (10.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (7.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (7.33%) Windows 10
7 30 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (3.33%) Mac OS
9 12 (2.67%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (1.33%) Apple iOS
11 5 (1.11%) Debian
12 4 (0.89%) CentOS
12 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.67%) Android
13 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.67%) Unix
14 2 (0.44%) SUSE
14 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.44%) VMS
14 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (26.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 88 (19.56%) ITIL
3 54 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (9.11%) Customer Service
5 39 (8.67%) Incident Management
6 36 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (5.78%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 24 (5.33%) Migration
8 24 (5.33%) Project Delivery
9 22 (4.89%) Service Delivery
10 18 (4.00%) Business Continuity
11 17 (3.78%) Agile
11 17 (3.78%) Desktop Virtualisation
11 17 (3.78%) Mentoring
11 17 (3.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 17 (3.78%) Network Management
11 17 (3.78%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (3.56%) Change Control
13 15 (3.33%) Service Management
14 14 (3.11%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.78%) SQL
2 57 (12.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.44%) Bash
3 2 (0.44%) C#
3 2 (0.44%) Perl
3 2 (0.44%) Python
3 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.00%) Degree
3 48 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
4 46 (10.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (8.89%) SC Cleared
6 31 (6.89%) Azure Certification
7 26 (5.78%) CCNA
7 26 (5.78%) CCNP
8 22 (4.89%) DV Cleared
9 13 (2.89%) MCSE
10 10 (2.22%) A+ Certification
10 10 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (1.33%) MCSA
11 6 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.11%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.11%) MCP
12 5 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.67%) JNCIA
13 3 (0.67%) RHCT
14 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.11%) SLA
2 9 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.11%) NCSC
4 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.44%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.22%) GxP
System Software
1 175 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 119 (26.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (25.56%) Hyper-V
4 28 (6.22%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (2.44%) vSphere
8 7 (1.56%) Docker
8 7 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (1.11%) Terminal Services
10 5 (1.11%) XenApp
11 4 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.67%) KVM
12 3 (0.67%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.44%) Lustre
13 2 (0.44%) pfSense
13 2 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.44%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 79 (17.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (7.33%) SCCM
3 19 (4.22%) Ansible
4 11 (2.44%) Terraform
5 9 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.00%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.56%) Autotask
6 7 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.11%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (1.11%) Nagios
7 5 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.67%) SCOM
8 3 (0.67%) WSUS
9 2 (0.44%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.44%) SCDPM
9 2 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 255 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 161 (35.78%) VMware
3 90 (20.00%) Cisco
4 80 (17.78%) Citrix
5 73 (16.22%) Veeam
6 31 (6.89%) Sophos
7 25 (5.56%) HP
8 24 (5.33%) Juniper
9 20 (4.44%) Meraki
10 18 (4.00%) Datto
10 18 (4.00%) Mitel
11 16 (3.56%) Aruba
12 15 (3.33%) WatchGuard
13 14 (3.11%) Avaya
14 13 (2.89%) Draytek
14 13 (2.89%) SolarWinds
15 11 (2.44%) Acronis
15 11 (2.44%) Google
15 11 (2.44%) Red Hat
16 10 (2.22%) Dell