3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Third Line Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 214 230
Rank change year-on-year +33 +16 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 16 39 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.53% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.56% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 15 37 24
10th Percentile £43,750 £32,500 £38,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -24.24% +10.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £55,000
90th Percentile - £50,000 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £42,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,901 6,944 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.23% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,753 5,206 3,266
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the West Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the West Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the West Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Birmingham +31 15 £50,000 +33.33% 3
Herefordshire - 1 - - 1
3rd Line Engineer
England

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, 3rd Line 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 across the West Midlands region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (87.50%) VMware
1 14 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (81.25%) PowerShell
2 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 13 (81.25%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (81.25%) Windows Server
2 13 (81.25%) Firewall
2 13 (81.25%) Cisco
2 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 13 (81.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (81.25%) WAN
2 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
2 13 (81.25%) Windows Server 2019
3 12 (75.00%) Onboarding
3 12 (75.00%) Meraki
3 12 (75.00%) XenApp
3 12 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 12 (75.00%) Citrix
3 12 (75.00%) LAN
3 12 (75.00%) CheckPoint
3 12 (75.00%) Data Security
3 12 (75.00%) Network Design
3 12 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 12 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 12 (75.00%) SonicWALL
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) SharePoint

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 13 (81.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.25%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 1 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) Firewall
1 13 (81.25%) WAN
2 12 (75.00%) LAN
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) SAN
3 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.25%) Skype
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (6.25%) Law
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
1 13 (81.25%) Windows Server
1 13 (81.25%) Windows Server 2019
2 12 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Data Security
1 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 12 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 12 (75.00%) Network Design
2 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (6.25%) Edge Virtualization
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning
3 1 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO 9000
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
3 12 (75.00%) XenApp
4 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) SCOM
2 1 (6.25%) SCOrch
2 1 (6.25%) SCSM
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) VMware
2 13 (81.25%) Cisco
3 12 (75.00%) CheckPoint
3 12 (75.00%) Citrix
3 12 (75.00%) Meraki
3 12 (75.00%) SonicWALL
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.25%) ADVA
5 1 (6.25%) IBM
5 1 (6.25%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (6.25%) Juniper