3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

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 9 July 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 718 791 805
Rank change year-on-year +73 +14 +357
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 21 111 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 20 81 85
10th Percentile £45,200 £35,000 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% - +2.22%

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 54,440 99,490 79,929
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.76% 94.79% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 29,856 69,921 54,790
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,363 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.02%

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 July 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 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 July 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 21 £47,500 - 12
UK excluding London +80 20 £47,500 +3.26% 9
East of England +20 8 £47,500 -18.10% 3
Work from Home +69 7 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Midlands +68 4 £59,500 +25.26%
North of England +25 4 £48,250 +37.86% 2
South East +77 3 £55,000 +41.94% 3
East Midlands +44 3 £59,500 +25.26%
North West +4 3 £50,000 -16.67% 1
London +75 1 £60,000 -5.88% 4
South West +71 1 £45,000 -10.89% 1
West Midlands +61 1 - -
Yorkshire +41 1 £40,000 +14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 July 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 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (95.24%) Azure
2 20 (95.24%) Microsoft
3 16 (76.19%) VMware
3 16 (76.19%) Hyper-V
3 16 (76.19%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (66.67%) Windows
5 14 (66.67%) PowerShell
6 13 (61.90%) Windows Server
7 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
8 10 (47.62%) ITIL
9 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (38.10%) Linux
10 8 (38.10%) Task Automation
10 8 (38.10%) Veeam
11 7 (33.33%) Patch Management
11 7 (33.33%) Backup Exec
11 7 (33.33%) DNS
12 6 (28.57%) DHCP
12 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
12 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
13 5 (23.81%) AWS
13 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (23.81%) Ubuntu
13 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
14 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Culture
14 4 (19.05%) Degree
14 4 (19.05%) SCCM

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 15 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) Azure
2 16 (76.19%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 5 (23.81%) AWS
5 4 (19.05%) OneDrive
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.76%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) DNS
2 6 (28.57%) DHCP
3 4 (19.05%) SAN
4 3 (14.29%) Firewall
4 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.76%) LAN
6 1 (4.76%) NAS
6 1 (4.76%) Skype
6 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.76%) Law
2 1 (4.76%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 3 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) BYOD
2 1 (4.76%) Clustering
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Replication
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 13 (61.90%) Windows Server
3 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (38.10%) Linux
5 5 (23.81%) Ubuntu
6 3 (14.29%) CentOS
7 2 (9.52%) Debian
7 2 (9.52%) SUSE
7 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) ITIL
3 8 (38.10%) Task Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Patch Management
5 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (19.05%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 3 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (14.29%) High Availability
7 3 (14.29%) Identity Management
7 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (14.29%) Migration
8 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
8 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1 (4.76%) Load Balancing
9 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Linux+ Certification
2 3 (14.29%) RHCE
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
1 3 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) Hyper-V
2 15 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (14.29%) Docker
4 3 (14.29%) Dovecot
4 3 (14.29%) Postfix
4 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (14.29%) vSphere
5 2 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 4 (19.05%) SCCM
3 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (14.29%) SCOM
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) NetBackup
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
4 1 (4.76%) SCOrch
4 1 (4.76%) SCSM
4 1 (4.76%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (76.19%) VMware
3 8 (38.10%) Veeam
4 3 (14.29%) HP
4 3 (14.29%) Okta
4 3 (14.29%) Ping Identity
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco
5 2 (9.52%) Dell
5 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.76%) Citrix
6 1 (4.76%) Imperva
6 1 (4.76%) SAP