3rd Line Engineer Job Trends in Wiltshire

Third Line Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Third Line Engineer salary in Wiltshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 82 57
Rank change year-on-year +22 -25 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 5 8 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 0.97% 0.73% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.80% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 14
10th Percentile - £37,300 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £39,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +44.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £51,750 £41,813
90th Percentile £58,250 £52,650 £44,625
South West median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 476 1,001 604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.07% 91.08% 97.89%
Number of salaries quoted 249 647 463
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,725 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £72,500
South West median annual salary £45,000 £51,750 £52,700
% change year-on-year -13.04% -1.80% +5.40%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

3rd Line Engineer job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in Wiltshire.

Salary distribution trend for 3rd Line Engineer job vacancies in Wiltshire

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Corsham +20 4 £55,000 +1.85% 1
3rd Line Engineer
South West

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, 3rd Line 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 across the Wiltshire region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) SLA
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Server Management
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Thales
4 1 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) Key Management
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Law
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Key Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Thales