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 leading to 16 January 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 738 666 880
Rank change year-on-year -72 +214 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 27 75 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17 71 121
10th Percentile £35,950 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,700 £56,250 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%

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 60,520 56,220 102,135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 95.42% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 27,988 41,178 66,345
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,036
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -4.17% +1.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,063 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £52,772
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.25% +5.54%

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 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 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 16 January 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
England -70 27 £45,000 - 10
UK excluding London -75 21 £45,000 - 9
Work from Home +20 10 £39,500 -7.06% 3
Midlands -20 8 £42,500 -10.53% 1
North of England -27 8 £53,000 +17.78% 1
West Midlands -31 7 £41,000 -13.68%
London +8 6 £55,000 +15.79% 1
North West -31 3 £53,000 +17.78%
North East - 3 - -
Yorkshire +20 2 £57,500 +24.32% 1
South East -56 2 £38,750 -8.82% 2
East of England - 2 £60,750 - 4
South West +6 1 £37,000 -7.50% 1
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 January 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 featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (96.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (70.37%) Windows
3 16 (59.26%) Azure
4 14 (51.85%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (51.85%) Windows Server
5 13 (48.15%) VMware
5 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
6 9 (33.33%) Cisco
6 9 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
7 8 (29.63%) Firewall
8 7 (25.93%) Hyper-V
8 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (22.22%) Linux
9 6 (22.22%) Patch Management
9 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (18.52%) Azure Certification
10 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (18.52%) SaaS
10 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
11 4 (14.81%) AWS
11 4 (14.81%) Information Security
11 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
11 4 (14.81%) VPN
11 4 (14.81%) Manufacturing
11 4 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
12 3 (11.11%) Social Skills

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 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Azure
2 14 (51.85%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (18.52%) SaaS
4 4 (14.81%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 3 (11.11%) IaaS
5 3 (11.11%) PaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.41%) Datadog
6 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
2 4 (14.81%) VPN
3 3 (11.11%) DHCP
3 3 (11.11%) DNS
3 3 (11.11%) NetScaler
3 3 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (11.11%) SAN
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (7.41%) Network Security
4 2 (7.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (14.81%) Manufacturing
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Automotive
3 1 (3.70%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Windows
2 14 (51.85%) Windows Server
3 6 (22.22%) Linux
4 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.70%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (22.22%) Patch Management
2 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (14.81%) Information Security
4 3 (11.11%) AIOps
4 3 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 3 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (11.11%) Proactive Management
5 2 (7.41%) Agile
5 2 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (7.41%) ITIL
5 2 (7.41%) Kanban
5 2 (7.41%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.41%) Scrum
5 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (3.70%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.41%) CCNA
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (25.93%) Hyper-V
4 4 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
1 13 (48.15%) VMware
2 9 (33.33%) Cisco
3 3 (11.11%) Citrix
3 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 3 (11.11%) Sophos
4 2 (7.41%) Meraki
4 2 (7.41%) SonicWALL
4 2 (7.41%) Synology
4 2 (7.41%) Veeam
5 1 (3.70%) Imperva