3rd Line Engineer Contracts

Third Line Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 545 551
Rank change year-on-year +70 +6 -3
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 123 175 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.31% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 132 227
10th Percentile £255 £263 £225
25th Percentile £300 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £420 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £388 £500 £438
90th Percentile £460 £549 £465
UK excluding London median daily rate £345 £425 £375
% change year-on-year -18.82% +13.33% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +71 113 £359 -14.58% 103
UK excluding London +47 99 £345 -18.82% 89
North of England +46 31 £325 -7.14% 34
Midlands 0 28 £325 - 11
West Midlands +23 27 £350 +12.90% 7
Work from Home +100 24 £325 -22.62% 35
South East +21 23 £375 -25.00% 21
North West +26 22 £394 -19.23% 19
London +67 17 £375 -10.71% 14
Yorkshire +21 7 £325 - 10
South West +18 7 £300 -40.00% 10
East of England +12 5 £250 -47.37% 12
Scotland - 4 £325 - 2
North East - 2 £275 - 5
East Midlands +2 1 £275 -24.14% 4
Wales - 1 £365 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (41.46%) Windows
2 47 (38.21%) Security Cleared
3 39 (31.71%) VPN
3 39 (31.71%) Active Directory
3 39 (31.71%) VMware
4 37 (30.08%) Microsoft
5 35 (28.46%) WAN
6 33 (26.83%) BGP
7 32 (26.02%) Juniper
8 30 (24.39%) MPLS
9 29 (23.58%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (22.76%) Windows Server
10 28 (22.76%) IPsec
10 28 (22.76%) PKI
11 27 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (21.14%) VMware Infrastructure
13 25 (20.33%) Junos
14 23 (18.70%) Load Balancing
14 23 (18.70%) Firewall
15 22 (17.89%) Azure
16 19 (15.45%) Cisco
17 17 (13.82%) SC Cleared
18 16 (13.01%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (13.01%) Linux
19 15 (12.20%) Windows 10
20 14 (11.38%) SAN
21 13 (10.57%) VLAN
21 13 (10.57%) Public Sector
21 13 (10.57%) Social Skills
22 12 (9.76%) CCNP

3rd Line 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 11 (8.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.63%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.58%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (17.89%) Azure
3 8 (6.50%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.69%) AWS
5 5 (4.07%) GCP
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.63%) IaaS
6 2 (1.63%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.63%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.81%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.81%) OCI
7 1 (0.81%) PaaS
7 1 (0.81%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (31.71%) VPN
2 35 (28.46%) WAN
3 33 (26.83%) BGP
4 30 (24.39%) MPLS
5 28 (22.76%) IPsec
6 25 (20.33%) Junos
7 23 (18.70%) Firewall
8 14 (11.38%) SAN
9 13 (10.57%) VLAN
10 9 (7.32%) DNS
10 9 (7.32%) OSPF
11 8 (6.50%) LAN
12 7 (5.69%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (5.69%) DHCP
12 7 (5.69%) TCP/IP
13 6 (4.88%) NAS
14 5 (4.07%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (3.25%) Cisco ASA
15 4 (3.25%) SD-WAN
15 4 (3.25%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.07%) MySQL
3 4 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 13 (10.57%) Public Sector
1 13 (10.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.81%) Back Office
5 1 (0.81%) Banking
5 1 (0.81%) Finance
5 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.81%) Law
5 1 (0.81%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.44%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.81%) .NET
2 1 (0.81%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.81%) Kafka
2 1 (0.81%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.81%) Spring
2 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.76%) PKI
2 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.25%) Clustering
3 4 (3.25%) Fat Client
3 4 (3.25%) Thin Client
4 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.81%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.81%) LIMS
5 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 51 (41.46%) Windows
2 28 (22.76%) Windows Server
3 16 (13.01%) Linux
4 15 (12.20%) Windows 10
5 7 (5.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (4.07%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.25%) Mac OS
8 4 (3.25%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.44%) Android
9 3 (2.44%) CentOS
9 3 (2.44%) Unix
10 2 (1.63%) Debian
10 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.81%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (18.70%) Load Balancing
3 10 (8.13%) Mentoring
3 10 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (7.32%) Patch Management
5 8 (6.50%) Customer Service
6 7 (5.69%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (4.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (4.88%) High Availability
7 6 (4.88%) Network Monitoring
8 5 (4.07%) Change Management
9 4 (3.25%) Change Control
9 4 (3.25%) Computer Science
9 4 (3.25%) Migration
9 4 (3.25%) Performance Monitoring
10 3 (2.44%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (2.44%) ITIL
10 3 (2.44%) Knowledge Management
10 3 (2.44%) Project Management
10 3 (2.44%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.94%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.63%) Java
2 2 (1.63%) SQL
3 1 (0.81%) Bash
3 1 (0.81%) C#
3 1 (0.81%) Python
3 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (38.21%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.01%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (9.76%) CCNP
5 11 (8.94%) Degree
6 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.69%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.69%) MCSE
8 6 (4.88%) CCNA
9 4 (3.25%) CCIE
9 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.25%) MCSA
9 4 (3.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.44%) VCAP
11 2 (1.63%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.63%) CCENT
11 2 (1.63%) RHCT
12 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.81%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.81%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) SLA
2 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.81%) IASME
System Software
1 39 (31.71%) Active Directory
2 26 (21.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.94%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.69%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.07%) vSphere
6 3 (2.44%) KVM
7 2 (1.63%) Firmware
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.81%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (8.94%) SCCM
2 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (5.69%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (3.25%) Ansible
4 4 (3.25%) Nessus
4 4 (3.25%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (3.25%) WSUS
4 4 (3.25%) ZABBIX
5 3 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.81%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.81%) Grafana
6 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.81%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.81%) vRealize
Vendors
1 39 (31.71%) VMware
2 37 (30.08%) Microsoft
3 32 (26.02%) Juniper
4 19 (15.45%) Cisco
5 11 (8.94%) Veeam
6 9 (7.32%) Citrix
6 9 (7.32%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.07%) HP
7 5 (4.07%) Oracle
7 5 (4.07%) SolarWinds
8 4 (3.25%) Apple
8 4 (3.25%) Aruba
8 4 (3.25%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.44%) Adobe
9 3 (2.44%) F5
9 3 (2.44%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (2.44%) NetApp
9 3 (2.44%) Sophos
10 2 (1.63%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.63%) Meraki
106 3rd Line Engineer jobs Nationwide