3rd Line Engineer Contracts in England

Third Line Engineer
UK > England

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in England is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 482 510
Rank change year-on-year +55 +28 0
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 113 175 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.38% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 127 209
10th Percentile £254 £263 £229
25th Percentile £295 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £388 £500 £438
90th Percentile £418 £550 £475
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -15.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in England

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +42 32 £325 -7.14% 31
Midlands +9 29 £325 -3.70% 13
West Midlands +12 28 £350 +10.24% 9
North West +26 23 £394 -19.23% 14
London +55 19 £375 -10.71% 17
South East +16 18 £375 -23.08% 23
South West +11 8 £325 -35.00% 10
Yorkshire +21 7 £325 - 11
East of England +4 5 £250 -47.37% 5
North East +13 2 £275 -24.14% 6
East Midlands +8 1 £275 -24.14% 4
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 3rd Line Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (41.59%) Windows
2 40 (35.40%) VPN
2 40 (35.40%) Security Cleared
3 36 (31.86%) WAN
4 35 (30.97%) BGP
5 33 (29.20%) Microsoft
6 32 (28.32%) MPLS
6 32 (28.32%) Active Directory
7 30 (26.55%) Juniper
8 29 (25.66%) PKI
8 29 (25.66%) IPsec
8 29 (25.66%) VMware
9 26 (23.01%) Junos
10 25 (22.12%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (21.24%) Windows Server
11 24 (21.24%) Load Balancing
12 23 (20.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (19.47%) Azure
13 22 (19.47%) Firewall
14 18 (15.93%) VMware Infrastructure
15 17 (15.04%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (13.27%) Cisco
17 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
17 14 (12.39%) VLAN
17 14 (12.39%) Windows 10
18 13 (11.50%) CCNP
18 13 (11.50%) Linux
18 13 (11.50%) Social Skills
19 12 (10.62%) SAN
19 12 (10.62%) Degree

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.12%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (19.47%) Azure
3 7 (6.19%) AWS
3 7 (6.19%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.31%) GCP
5 3 (2.65%) IaaS
6 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.88%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.88%) OCI
7 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.88%) PaaS
7 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.88%) SaaS
7 1 (0.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (35.40%) VPN
2 36 (31.86%) WAN
3 35 (30.97%) BGP
4 32 (28.32%) MPLS
5 29 (25.66%) IPsec
6 26 (23.01%) Junos
7 22 (19.47%) Firewall
8 14 (12.39%) VLAN
9 12 (10.62%) SAN
10 10 (8.85%) OSPF
11 8 (7.08%) DNS
11 8 (7.08%) LAN
11 8 (7.08%) TCP/IP
12 7 (6.19%) DHCP
13 6 (5.31%) NAS
14 5 (4.42%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (3.54%) Cisco ASA
15 4 (3.54%) SD-WAN
15 4 (3.54%) Value-Added Service
15 4 (3.54%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.42%) MySQL
2 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
General
1 13 (11.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.62%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.77%) Finance
4 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.88%) Back Office
5 1 (0.88%) Banking
5 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.88%) Law
5 1 (0.88%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.88%) .NET
2 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.88%) Kafka
2 1 (0.88%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.88%) Spring
2 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.66%) PKI
2 6 (5.31%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.54%) Fat Client
3 4 (3.54%) Thin Client
4 3 (2.65%) Clustering
4 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.88%) LIMS
5 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 47 (41.59%) Windows
2 24 (21.24%) Windows Server
3 14 (12.39%) Windows 10
4 13 (11.50%) Linux
5 5 (4.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.54%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.54%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.65%) Android
7 3 (2.65%) Unix
7 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.24%) Load Balancing
2 23 (20.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (7.96%) Mentoring
4 9 (7.96%) Patch Management
5 7 (6.19%) Change Management
5 7 (6.19%) Customer Service
5 7 (6.19%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (5.31%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (4.42%) Computer Science
7 5 (4.42%) High Availability
8 4 (3.54%) Change Control
8 4 (3.54%) Network Virtualisation
9 3 (2.65%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (2.65%) ITIL
9 3 (2.65%) Knowledge Management
9 3 (2.65%) Migration
9 3 (2.65%) Project Management
9 3 (2.65%) Server Management
10 2 (1.77%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.65%) SQL
3 2 (1.77%) Java
3 2 (1.77%) Python
4 1 (0.88%) Bash
4 1 (0.88%) C#
4 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (35.40%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.04%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (11.50%) CCNP
5 12 (10.62%) Degree
6 9 (7.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (5.31%) CCNA
8 5 (4.42%) CCIE
8 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.42%) MCSE
9 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.54%) VCAP
9 4 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.77%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.77%) CCENT
10 2 (1.77%) MCSA
11 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.88%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.08%) SLA
2 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.88%) IASME
System Software
1 32 (28.32%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.08%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.31%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.42%) vSphere
6 2 (1.77%) Firmware
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.88%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (8.85%) SCCM
2 6 (5.31%) vCenter Server
3 4 (3.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (3.54%) Ansible
3 4 (3.54%) Nessus
3 4 (3.54%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (3.54%) WSUS
3 4 (3.54%) ZABBIX
4 3 (2.65%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.88%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (29.20%) Microsoft
2 30 (26.55%) Juniper
3 29 (25.66%) VMware
4 15 (13.27%) Cisco
5 10 (8.85%) Veeam
6 6 (5.31%) Citrix
6 6 (5.31%) Oracle
6 6 (5.31%) SolarWinds
7 5 (4.42%) Aruba
7 5 (4.42%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.42%) HP
7 5 (4.42%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.54%) Apple
8 4 (3.54%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (2.65%) Adobe
9 3 (2.65%) F5
9 3 (2.65%) Sophos
10 2 (1.77%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.77%) Meraki
10 2 (1.77%) Refinitiv