3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Third Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £41,125 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 455 500
Rank change year-on-year +57 +45 -166
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 415 320 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.61% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 362 283 388
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,125 £46,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +8.24% +6.25%
75th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £48,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.58% +5.56% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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

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

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

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +50 139 £42,000 -6.67% 20
North of England +32 80 £35,000 -23.91% 30
South West +32 72 £45,500 +7.06% 11
Midlands +11 56 £40,000 -19.19% 16
East of England -30 40 £42,500 -15.00% 4
West Midlands +25 37 £37,500 -21.05% 11
Yorkshire +85 32 £37,500 -16.20% 12
North East +25 30 £32,500 -5.11% 5
East Midlands -12 19 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Wales +26 18 £40,500 +3.85% 1
North West -34 18 £40,000 -13.04% 13
Scotland -63 10 £48,500 +14.12% 4
3rd Line Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 234 (56.39%) Microsoft
2 203 (48.92%) Windows
3 198 (47.71%) Azure
3 198 (47.71%) Microsoft 365
4 164 (39.52%) Firewall
5 158 (38.07%) Active Directory
6 154 (37.11%) VMware
7 147 (35.42%) Windows Server
8 113 (27.23%) Hyper-V
8 113 (27.23%) VMware Infrastructure
9 108 (26.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 107 (25.78%) Social Skills
11 94 (22.65%) Microsoft Exchange
12 89 (21.45%) Security Cleared
13 87 (20.96%) Cisco
14 86 (20.72%) DNS
15 82 (19.76%) ITIL
16 78 (18.80%) SharePoint
17 77 (18.55%) SQL Server
18 75 (18.07%) Citrix
19 71 (17.11%) Veeam
20 70 (16.87%) Microsoft Intune
21 64 (15.42%) SAN
22 63 (15.18%) SQL
23 58 (13.98%) WAN
24 56 (13.49%) LAN
24 56 (13.49%) Wi-Fi
24 56 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
25 55 (13.25%) DHCP
26 54 (13.01%) Entra ID

3rd Line 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 94 (22.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 78 (18.80%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.86%) IIS
4 14 (3.37%) Skype for Business
5 10 (2.41%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2000
7 5 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 41 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.48%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 198 (47.71%) Azure
1 198 (47.71%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (13.01%) Entra ID
3 32 (7.71%) OneDrive
4 25 (6.02%) AWS
5 19 (4.58%) IaaS
6 17 (4.10%) PaaS
7 13 (3.13%) SaaS
8 10 (2.41%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.45%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.45%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.20%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.20%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.20%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.96%) Azure Stack
11 4 (0.96%) Dropbox
11 4 (0.96%) Google Drive
11 4 (0.96%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 164 (39.52%) Firewall
2 86 (20.72%) DNS
3 64 (15.42%) SAN
4 58 (13.98%) WAN
5 56 (13.49%) LAN
5 56 (13.49%) Wi-Fi
6 55 (13.25%) DHCP
7 51 (12.29%) VPN
8 41 (9.88%) Wireless
9 37 (8.92%) VLAN
10 31 (7.47%) TCP/IP
11 20 (4.82%) WLAN
12 19 (4.58%) BGP
12 19 (4.58%) VoIP
13 16 (3.86%) IP Telephony
14 14 (3.37%) IPsec
15 13 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
16 12 (2.89%) SD-WAN
17 9 (2.17%) OSPF
18 7 (1.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (18.55%) SQL Server
2 35 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.69%) MySQL
4 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Hudson
2 1 (0.24%) JIRA
General
1 107 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 23 (5.54%) Law
3 22 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.37%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.13%) Games
8 11 (2.65%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.69%) Finance
10 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.96%) Legal
11 4 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.96%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.13%) JSON
1 13 (3.13%) JSON Schema
1 13 (3.13%) KML
1 13 (3.13%) Regular Expression
1 13 (3.13%) XML
2 8 (1.93%) XML Schema
3 6 (1.45%) Software Packaging
4 5 (1.20%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.72%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.48%) LAMP
6 2 (0.48%) OpenMP
6 2 (0.48%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.08%) Driving Licence
2 32 (7.71%) Data Centre
3 26 (6.27%) Replication
4 25 (6.02%) Enterprise Storage
5 23 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.65%) Clustering
8 7 (1.69%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.45%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.45%) iPad
10 5 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.20%) EMC VNX
10 5 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.96%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.48%) Beowulf
12 2 (0.48%) Life Science
12 2 (0.48%) PKI
12 2 (0.48%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.48%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 203 (48.92%) Windows
2 147 (35.42%) Windows Server
3 49 (11.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 46 (11.08%) Linux
5 34 (8.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (6.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 26 (6.27%) Windows 10
8 10 (2.41%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.41%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.45%) Debian
10 5 (1.20%) CentOS
11 4 (0.96%) Android
11 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.48%) SUSE
13 2 (0.48%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.48%) Unix
13 2 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (26.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 82 (19.76%) ITIL
3 56 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (9.64%) Incident Management
5 37 (8.92%) Customer Service
6 34 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (6.02%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 24 (5.78%) Project Delivery
9 23 (5.54%) Service Delivery
10 22 (5.30%) Migration
11 17 (4.10%) Business Continuity
11 17 (4.10%) Desktop Virtualisation
11 17 (4.10%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 17 (4.10%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (3.86%) Change Control
12 16 (3.86%) Mentoring
13 15 (3.61%) Network Management
14 14 (3.37%) Actionable Insight
14 14 (3.37%) Agile
15 13 (3.13%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (15.18%) SQL
2 45 (10.84%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.48%) Bash
3 2 (0.48%) C#
3 2 (0.48%) Perl
3 2 (0.48%) Python
3 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 89 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 47 (11.33%) Cisco Certification
4 46 (11.08%) Degree
5 39 (9.40%) SC Cleared
6 26 (6.27%) CCNP
7 25 (6.02%) CCNA
8 24 (5.78%) Azure Certification
9 22 (5.30%) DV Cleared
10 14 (3.37%) MCSE
11 10 (2.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (1.93%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.69%) MCSA
14 5 (1.20%) MCP
14 5 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.96%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.96%) RHCT
16 3 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
17 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.89%) SLA
2 9 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.20%) NCSC
4 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.72%) NIST
5 2 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 158 (38.07%) Active Directory
2 113 (27.23%) Hyper-V
2 113 (27.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (6.51%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (2.41%) vSphere
6 7 (1.69%) Docker
6 7 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.96%) KVM
8 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.96%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.48%) Lustre
9 2 (0.48%) pfSense
9 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.24%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.24%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 70 (16.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (6.27%) SCCM
3 18 (4.34%) Ansible
4 10 (2.41%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.17%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (1.45%) Autotask
7 6 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (1.20%) Nagios
8 5 (1.20%) Terraform
9 3 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.72%) SCOM
9 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.48%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.48%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.48%) SCDPM
11 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 234 (56.39%) Microsoft
2 154 (37.11%) VMware
3 87 (20.96%) Cisco
4 75 (18.07%) Citrix
5 71 (17.11%) Veeam
6 29 (6.99%) Sophos
7 24 (5.78%) HP
8 20 (4.82%) Juniper
9 18 (4.34%) Datto
9 18 (4.34%) Meraki
9 18 (4.34%) Mitel
10 14 (3.37%) Aruba
10 14 (3.37%) Avaya
10 14 (3.37%) Draytek
10 14 (3.37%) WatchGuard
11 12 (2.89%) Red Hat
12 10 (2.41%) Acronis
12 10 (2.41%) Dell
13 9 (2.17%) Google
13 9 (2.17%) SolarWinds