3rd Line Network Engineer Jobs

Third Line Network Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Network Engineer salary in the UK is £49,000 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 692 1052 1041
Rank change year-on-year +360 -11 -322
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Network Engineer 37 26 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.021% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.022% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 33 21 28
10th Percentile £36,195 £42,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +29.03% -8.82%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £52,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year -5.00% +29.03% -8.82%

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 Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

3rd Line Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Network 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 Network 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 +363 37 £49,000 -2.00% 3
UK excluding London +253 31 £47,500 -5.00% 3
South East +172 23 £49,000 +2.08% 2
Work from Home +261 7 £45,000 -16.67% 1
London +267 6 £53,750 -23.21%
North of England +142 4 £45,000 +9.76%
Midlands +131 4 £46,250 -15.91% 1
West Midlands +131 3 £45,000 -18.18% 1
North West +129 3 £45,000 +9.76%
Yorkshire - 1 £47,500 -
East Midlands - 1 £47,500 -
South West - 1 £47,500 -

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

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

1 30 (81.08%) Firewall
2 24 (64.86%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (54.05%) Cisco
4 19 (51.35%) VPN
5 16 (43.24%) WAN
5 16 (43.24%) LAN
5 16 (43.24%) CCNA
6 15 (40.54%) Juniper
6 15 (40.54%) OSPF
6 15 (40.54%) BGP
7 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
7 13 (35.14%) SD-WAN
8 11 (29.73%) CCNP
8 11 (29.73%) IPsec
9 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (24.32%) DNS
10 9 (24.32%) SSL
10 9 (24.32%) Azure
11 8 (21.62%) HSRP
11 8 (21.62%) DHCP
12 7 (18.92%) Windows
12 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
12 7 (18.92%) Network Security
12 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
12 7 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (18.92%) Customer Service
13 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
13 6 (16.22%) Presales
13 6 (16.22%) Meraki
13 6 (16.22%) Cisco Nexus

3rd Line Network 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 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.70%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.70%) Route 53
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (81.08%) Firewall
2 19 (51.35%) VPN
3 16 (43.24%) LAN
3 16 (43.24%) WAN
4 15 (40.54%) BGP
4 15 (40.54%) OSPF
5 13 (35.14%) SD-WAN
6 11 (29.73%) IPsec
7 9 (24.32%) DNS
7 9 (24.32%) SSL
8 8 (21.62%) DHCP
8 8 (21.62%) HSRP
9 7 (18.92%) Network Security
10 6 (16.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (16.22%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (10.81%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (10.81%) Unified Communications
12 3 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (8.11%) MPLS
12 3 (8.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.70%) MySQL
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.70%) Advertising
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.70%) CMDB
2 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Mac OS
2 3 (8.11%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
2 7 (18.92%) Customer Service
3 6 (16.22%) Presales
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (13.51%) Security Hardening
4 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (10.81%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (8.11%) ITIL
7 2 (5.41%) Capacity Management
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (5.41%) Mentoring
7 2 (5.41%) Network Virtualisation
8 1 (2.70%) Availability Management
8 1 (2.70%) Data Loss Prevention
8 1 (2.70%) Decision-Making
8 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (2.70%) Project Delivery
8 1 (2.70%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (64.86%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (43.24%) CCNA
3 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
4 11 (29.73%) CCNP
5 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
6 6 (16.22%) JNCIA
6 6 (16.22%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (8.11%) Degree
7 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.70%) CWNA
8 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (54.05%) Cisco
2 15 (40.54%) Juniper
3 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
4 6 (16.22%) Fortinet
4 6 (16.22%) Meraki
5 5 (13.51%) VMware
6 3 (8.11%) WatchGuard
7 2 (5.41%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (2.70%) Aruba
8 1 (2.70%) Avaya
8 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.70%) Citrix
8 1 (2.70%) Ekahau
8 1 (2.70%) F5
8 1 (2.70%) HP
8 1 (2.70%) MikroTik
8 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.70%) Zscaler