3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £46,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 664 645 782
Rank change year-on-year -19 +137 -253
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 106 88 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 78 71 73
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,400 £35,850
25th Percentile £36,875 £40,625 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £53,750 - £59,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year - -0.52% +12.35%

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 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

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

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 West +3 35 £50,250 +16.86% 2
Midlands -5 20 £47,500 -13.64% 3
East of England -14 17 £58,000 +5.45%
North of England +30 15 £35,000 -26.32% 1
West Midlands -7 14 £37,500 -21.05% 2
South East -24 13 £42,500 +6.25%
Yorkshire +64 11 £35,000 -26.32%
East Midlands -12 6 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Wales - 5 £40,500 -
North West -19 3 £60,000 +28.34% 1
North East - 1 £60,000 -
Scotland - 1 £35,000 -
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 3rd Line Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 106 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (50.94%) Microsoft
3 49 (46.23%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (45.28%) Azure
5 41 (38.68%) Security Cleared
6 40 (37.74%) Windows
7 38 (35.85%) VMware
8 30 (28.30%) Firewall
8 30 (28.30%) Active Directory
9 29 (27.36%) WAN
9 29 (27.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (27.36%) Windows Server
10 28 (26.42%) DNS
11 24 (22.64%) Hyper-V
11 24 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
12 23 (21.70%) Veeam
12 23 (21.70%) SAN
13 22 (20.75%) PowerShell
13 22 (20.75%) DV Cleared
14 21 (19.81%) SharePoint
15 20 (18.87%) LAN
15 20 (18.87%) Citrix
15 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
16 17 (16.04%) WLAN
16 17 (16.04%) Microsoft Exchange
16 17 (16.04%) Sophos
17 16 (15.09%) Linux
18 15 (14.15%) DHCP
18 15 (14.15%) SCCM
19 14 (13.21%) Aruba

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 21 (19.81%) SharePoint
2 17 (16.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.89%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (1.89%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (46.23%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (45.28%) Azure
3 12 (11.32%) IaaS
3 12 (11.32%) PaaS
4 11 (10.38%) Power Platform
4 11 (10.38%) SaaS
5 10 (9.43%) AWS
6 9 (8.49%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.72%) Nutanix
7 5 (4.72%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.89%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.89%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.89%) OpenDNS
9 1 (0.94%) GCP
9 1 (0.94%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 30 (28.30%) Firewall
2 29 (27.36%) WAN
3 28 (26.42%) DNS
4 23 (21.70%) SAN
5 20 (18.87%) LAN
6 17 (16.04%) WLAN
7 15 (14.15%) DHCP
8 11 (10.38%) SD-WAN
9 10 (9.43%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (5.66%) TCP/IP
10 6 (5.66%) VPN
11 5 (4.72%) VoIP
12 3 (2.83%) VLAN
13 2 (1.89%) EIGRP
13 2 (1.89%) HSRP
13 2 (1.89%) IPsec
13 2 (1.89%) iSCSI
13 2 (1.89%) OSPF
13 2 (1.89%) VRRP
13 2 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.72%) MySQL
3 4 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
General
1 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Aerospace
3 6 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.72%) Finance
5 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.83%) Law
6 2 (1.89%) Legal
6 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.66%) JSON
1 6 (5.66%) JSON Schema
1 6 (5.66%) KML
1 6 (5.66%) Regular Expression
1 6 (5.66%) Software Packaging
1 6 (5.66%) XML
1 6 (5.66%) XML Schema
2 2 (1.89%) LAMP
2 2 (1.89%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (6.60%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.72%) EMC VNX
4 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.89%) Clustering
5 2 (1.89%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (37.74%) Windows
2 29 (27.36%) Windows Server
3 16 (15.09%) Linux
4 14 (13.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (10.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (5.66%) Windows 10
6 6 (5.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.94%) CentOS
8 1 (0.94%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (11.32%) Collaborative Working
2 12 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
3 11 (10.38%) ITIL
3 11 (10.38%) Service Delivery
4 9 (8.49%) Systems Engineering
5 8 (7.55%) Customer Service
5 8 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (7.55%) Virtual Environments
6 7 (6.60%) ITSM
6 7 (6.60%) Server Management
7 6 (5.66%) Application Virtualisation
7 6 (5.66%) CAD
7 6 (5.66%) Compatibility Testing
7 6 (5.66%) Software Distribution
7 6 (5.66%) Software Testing
7 6 (5.66%) Workload Management
8 5 (4.72%) Communications Security
8 5 (4.72%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (4.72%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.75%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.72%) SQL
3 1 (0.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (38.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.75%) DV Cleared
3 12 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.43%) Degree
5 6 (5.66%) CCNA
5 6 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.72%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.94%) MCSA
7 1 (0.94%) MCSE
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.77%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (28.30%) Active Directory
2 24 (22.64%) Hyper-V
2 24 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.43%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (6.60%) Docker
5 6 (5.66%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (1.89%) pfSense
6 2 (1.89%) Terminal Services
6 2 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (27.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (14.15%) SCCM
3 11 (10.38%) Ansible
4 6 (5.66%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.72%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (4.72%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.72%) Nagios
6 2 (1.89%) Backup Exec
6 2 (1.89%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.94%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.94%) MobiControl
7 1 (0.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 54 (50.94%) Microsoft
2 38 (35.85%) VMware
3 23 (21.70%) Veeam
4 20 (18.87%) Citrix
5 17 (16.04%) Sophos
6 14 (13.21%) Aruba
7 13 (12.26%) HP
8 12 (11.32%) Cisco
9 7 (6.60%) Acronis
9 7 (6.60%) Datto
9 7 (6.60%) Meraki
10 6 (5.66%) Red Hat
11 5 (4.72%) EMC
11 5 (4.72%) Mitel
11 5 (4.72%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.89%) Dell
12 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.89%) NetApp
12 2 (1.89%) SonicWALL
12 2 (1.89%) Veritas