3rd Line Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Third Line Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 395 430
Rank change year-on-year +26 +35 -30
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 25 56 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 54
10th Percentile £259 £223 £213
25th Percentile £299 £300 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £350 £287
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +22.16% -11.85%
75th Percentile £344 £488 £422
90th Percentile £385 £525 £443
UK median daily rate £325 £375 £325
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% +0.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +13 7 £298 -40.40% 15
Midlands +9 7 - - 6
West Midlands +9 7 - - 4
North of England +34 6 £325 - 12
Scotland - 4 £325 -
North West +24 3 £325 -7.14% 5
Yorkshire +19 3 £325 - 3
South West +13 1 £300 -47.83% 6
3rd Line Support Engineer
UK

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 3rd Line Support 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) PKI
3 9 (36.00%) BGP
3 9 (36.00%) IPsec
3 9 (36.00%) VMware
3 9 (36.00%) WAN
3 9 (36.00%) VPN
3 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (32.00%) Juniper
5 7 (28.00%) MPLS
5 7 (28.00%) Load Balancing
5 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (28.00%) Junos
6 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
6 6 (24.00%) Linux
7 5 (20.00%) SAN
7 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (20.00%) Azure
7 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
8 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
8 4 (16.00%) Cisco
8 4 (16.00%) MCSA

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (8.00%) IIS
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) IaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) BGP
1 9 (36.00%) IPsec
1 9 (36.00%) VPN
1 9 (36.00%) WAN
2 7 (28.00%) Junos
2 7 (28.00%) MPLS
3 5 (20.00%) SAN
4 3 (12.00%) DHCP
4 3 (12.00%) DNS
4 3 (12.00%) Firewall
4 3 (12.00%) NAS
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (8.00%) HSRP
5 2 (8.00%) LAN
5 2 (8.00%) OSPF
5 2 (8.00%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (8.00%) VLAN
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (12.00%) MySQL
1 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) PKI
2 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (12.00%) Fat Client
3 3 (12.00%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (24.00%) Linux
4 3 (12.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.00%) CentOS
5 2 (8.00%) Debian
5 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (28.00%) Load Balancing
2 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (12.00%) High Availability
4 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (8.00%) Network Design
5 1 (4.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.00%) Compliance Management
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.00%) Data Security
5 1 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL
5 1 (4.00%) Patch Management
5 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (4.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (16.00%) MCSA
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (8.00%) A+ Certification
6 2 (8.00%) CCENT
6 2 (8.00%) CCNA
6 2 (8.00%) MCSE
6 2 (8.00%) RHCT
7 1 (4.00%) CCNP
7 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (4.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.00%) KVM
3 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Nessus
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (12.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (12.00%) WSUS
2 3 (12.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (36.00%) VMware
2 8 (32.00%) Juniper
3 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco
5 3 (12.00%) Citrix
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle
5 3 (12.00%) Veeam
6 2 (8.00%) F5
7 1 (4.00%) Brio
7 1 (4.00%) Google