3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 645 944 917
Rank change year-on-year +299 -27 -278
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 84 134 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 78 123 147
10th Percentile £36,100 £36,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +1.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,125 £52,500
90th Percentile £56,250 £59,750 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% -

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 49,748 116,938 121,615
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.42% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 36,451 73,675 84,434
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 December 2023. 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 +297 78 £42,500 -6.59% 8
UK excluding London +210 70 £43,750 -2.78% 7
South East +169 36 £42,500 -3.41% 2
Work from Home +248 34 £42,500 -7.61% 2
London +250 13 £47,500 -5.00% 1
North of England +130 11 £45,000 +6.51% 2
South West +87 11 £37,500 -9.09% 1
Yorkshire +101 9 £47,500 +17.28% 1
West Midlands +120 7 £46,000 +2.22% 2
Midlands +110 7 £46,000 -16.36% 2
Scotland - 5 £50,000 -
North West +114 2 £45,000 +6.51% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 December 2023, 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 featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 82 (97.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (76.19%) Windows
3 61 (72.62%) Microsoft
4 56 (66.67%) Active Directory
5 54 (64.29%) Azure
6 50 (59.52%) VMware
7 49 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (54.76%) Windows Server
9 44 (52.38%) Firewall
10 32 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
11 26 (30.95%) Degree
12 25 (29.76%) PowerShell
12 25 (29.76%) Data Centre
13 24 (28.57%) Linux
14 23 (27.38%) DNS
15 19 (22.62%) Cisco
15 19 (22.62%) WAN
15 19 (22.62%) Dell
15 19 (22.62%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (22.62%) Windows Server 2019
15 19 (22.62%) VMware ESXi
16 18 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
17 17 (20.24%) SAN
17 17 (20.24%) ITIL
18 16 (19.05%) DHCP
19 15 (17.86%) SLA
19 15 (17.86%) VPN
19 15 (17.86%) Hyper-V
19 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
20 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 12 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.57%) Apache
2 3 (3.57%) IIS
2 3 (3.57%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.38%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.19%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) Site Server
Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 54 (64.29%) Azure
2 49 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (15.48%) Entra ID
4 10 (11.90%) AWS
5 8 (9.52%) Nutanix
5 8 (9.52%) Rubrik
6 5 (5.95%) GCP
7 3 (3.57%) OCI
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.38%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.38%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.19%) IaaS
9 1 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (52.38%) Firewall
2 23 (27.38%) DNS
3 19 (22.62%) WAN
3 19 (22.62%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (20.24%) SAN
5 16 (19.05%) DHCP
6 15 (17.86%) VPN
7 11 (13.10%) LAN
7 11 (13.10%) SD-WAN
7 11 (13.10%) Wireless
8 8 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (8.33%) Internet
10 6 (7.14%) BGP
10 6 (7.14%) OSPF
10 6 (7.14%) VLAN
11 5 (5.95%) RIP
11 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
12 4 (4.76%) VSAN
13 3 (3.57%) VXLAN
14 2 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.57%) MySQL
3 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 11 (13.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.95%) Back Office
3 5 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Law
5 2 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Finance
6 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.19%) Military
6 1 (1.19%) Retail
6 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) FHIR
1 3 (3.57%) LDAP
1 3 (3.57%) XML
2 1 (1.19%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Data Centre
2 10 (11.90%) Replication
3 7 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.95%) NHS
5 4 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.57%) Clustering
7 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.38%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.19%) PKI
8 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (76.19%) Windows
2 46 (54.76%) Windows Server
3 24 (28.57%) Linux
4 19 (22.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (10.71%) Windows 10
7 8 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (8.33%) Windows 8
9 4 (4.76%) CentOS
9 4 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (3.57%) Windows XP
11 1 (1.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (97.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (20.24%) ITIL
3 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 12 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
5 9 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (9.52%) Budget Management
6 8 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (9.52%) Server Management
7 7 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
8 6 (7.14%) Business Continuity
8 6 (7.14%) Data Protection
8 6 (7.14%) Data Security
8 6 (7.14%) Problem Management
8 6 (7.14%) Project Management
9 5 (5.95%) Virtual Environments
10 4 (4.76%) Customer Service
10 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (4.76%) Project Delivery
10 4 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.76%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.52%) SQL
3 7 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (1.19%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (30.95%) Degree
2 14 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 12 (14.29%) CCNA
3 12 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 12 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (13.10%) CCNP
5 9 (10.71%) MCSE
6 8 (9.52%) MCP
6 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.38%) CWDP
8 2 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.38%) SNIA Certification
8 2 (2.38%) VCAP
9 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.86%) SLA
2 9 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.57%) DICOM
3 3 (3.57%) HL7
3 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 56 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 32 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (22.62%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (17.86%) Hyper-V
5 8 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (8.33%) vSphere
7 6 (7.14%) Firmware
8 5 (5.95%) VMware NSX
9 3 (3.57%) Ceph
9 3 (3.57%) KVM
10 2 (2.38%) Terminal Services
10 2 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (1.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (15.48%) FortiGate
3 7 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.76%) McAfee ePO
4 4 (4.76%) vRealize
4 4 (4.76%) WSUS
5 3 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.57%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.57%) SCCM
5 3 (3.57%) SCOM
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (72.62%) Microsoft
2 50 (59.52%) VMware
3 19 (22.62%) Cisco
3 19 (22.62%) Dell
4 14 (16.67%) Veeam
5 11 (13.10%) HP
6 10 (11.90%) Meraki
7 9 (10.71%) CheckPoint
8 8 (9.52%) Avaya
8 8 (9.52%) Red Hat
9 6 (7.14%) NetApp
10 5 (5.95%) Aruba
10 5 (5.95%) Oracle
10 5 (5.95%) Sophos
11 4 (4.76%) 3PAR
11 4 (4.76%) McAfee
11 4 (4.76%) Nimble Storage
12 3 (3.57%) Citrix
12 3 (3.57%) EMC
12 3 (3.57%) Juniper