3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 705 654
Rank change year-on-year +65 -51 +364
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 25 41 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.061% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.064% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 24 20 73
10th Percentile £39,250 £34,975 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,313 £36,875 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
90th Percentile - £62,675 £56,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,066 64,284 51,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 95.03% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28,668 36,353 39,628
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Top 10 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 8 November 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
UK excluding London +74 25 £47,500 +11.76% 12
England +73 25 £47,500 +5.56% 12
East of England +28 13 £47,500 -21.81%
South West +31 6 £55,000 +9.45% 5
South East +42 4 £52,500 +35.48% 5
Work from Home +56 2 £47,500 +17.28% 7
Midlands +55 1 £55,000 +32.53% 2
West Midlands +35 1 £55,000 +35.80% 2
North West +18 1 £50,000 +29.87%
North of England +15 1 £50,000 +4.17%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (96.00%) Microsoft
3 22 (88.00%) PowerShell
4 21 (84.00%) Azure
4 21 (84.00%) Windows
4 21 (84.00%) Windows Server
5 18 (72.00%) ITIL
6 17 (68.00%) VMware
6 17 (68.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 16 (64.00%) Active Directory
7 16 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (60.00%) Hyper-V
9 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (48.00%) Task Automation
11 10 (40.00%) Entra ID
11 10 (40.00%) ITSM
11 10 (40.00%) Veeam
12 8 (32.00%) SCCM
12 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
12 8 (32.00%) vSphere
12 8 (32.00%) Windows 10
13 7 (28.00%) Backup Exec
13 7 (28.00%) Firewall
13 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (28.00%) Patch Management
13 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (24.00%) CCNA
14 6 (24.00%) Cisco
14 6 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (24.00%) DNS

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (84.00%) Azure
2 16 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.00%) AWS
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Firewall
2 6 (24.00%) DNS
3 5 (20.00%) DHCP
3 5 (20.00%) IP Telephony
3 5 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (12.00%) SAN
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (4.00%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.00%) LAN
6 1 (4.00%) NAS
6 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Law
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (12.00%) iPad
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Windows
1 21 (84.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (32.00%) Windows 10
3 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (24.00%) Linux
5 5 (20.00%) Android
6 1 (4.00%) CentOS
6 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (72.00%) ITIL
3 12 (48.00%) Task Automation
4 10 (40.00%) ITSM
5 7 (28.00%) Patch Management
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Server Management
7 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
8 2 (8.00%) Business Continuity
8 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.00%) Data Loss Prevention
9 1 (4.00%) Converged Infrastructure
9 1 (4.00%) Decision-Making
9 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
9 1 (4.00%) Key Management
9 1 (4.00%) Server Building
9 1 (4.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 22 (88.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) CCNA
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (20.00%) DBS Check
3 5 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (4.00%) MCSE
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.00%) RHCE
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (68.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (64.00%) Active Directory
3 15 (60.00%) Hyper-V
4 8 (32.00%) vSphere
5 2 (8.00%) Docker
6 1 (4.00%) Dovecot
6 1 (4.00%) Firmware
6 1 (4.00%) Postfix
6 1 (4.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) SCCM
2 7 (28.00%) Backup Exec
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) SCOM
3 2 (8.00%) SCSM
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (4.00%) Podman
4 1 (4.00%) Puppet
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (68.00%) VMware
3 10 (40.00%) Veeam
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco
5 5 (20.00%) Apple
5 5 (20.00%) Remedy
5 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (12.00%) Trend Micro
7 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (8.00%) Thales
8 1 (4.00%) Citrix
8 1 (4.00%) HP
8 1 (4.00%) NetApp
8 1 (4.00%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (4.00%) Okta
8 1 (4.00%) Ping Identity
8 1 (4.00%) SAP
8 1 (4.00%) Splunk