Third Line Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the UK is £42,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 581 710
Rank change year-on-year +89 +129 -260
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 448 448 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.48% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 394 400 578
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,725 £31,138
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,321 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +8.24% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England +90 422 £42,000 -8.70% 102
UK excluding London +45 408 £41,000 -10.87% 84
South East +55 139 £42,000 -1.18% 23
Work from Home +52 132 £38,500 -22.61% 34
North of England +33 75 £35,000 -23.08% 29
South West +28 73 £44,250 +4.12% 10
Midlands +16 56 £40,000 -27.27% 13
London +75 40 £60,000 +20.00% 18
West Midlands +21 39 £37,500 -24.24% 9
East of England -26 39 £42,500 -15.00% 6
Yorkshire +84 30 £37,500 -15.73% 10
North East +22 28 £32,500 -5.11% 5
Wales +25 18 £40,500 +2.53% 2
East Midlands -10 17 £40,000 -27.27% 4
North West -30 17 £40,000 -13.04% 14
Scotland -59 8 £48,500 +14.12% 2

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 254 (56.70%) Microsoft
2 221 (49.33%) Windows
3 220 (49.11%) Azure
4 219 (48.88%) Microsoft 365
5 176 (39.29%) Active Directory
6 170 (37.95%) Firewall
7 162 (36.16%) VMware
8 157 (35.04%) Windows Server
9 120 (26.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 119 (26.56%) VMware Infrastructure
11 115 (25.67%) Hyper-V
12 111 (24.78%) Social Skills
13 104 (23.21%) Microsoft Exchange
14 92 (20.54%) DNS
15 91 (20.31%) Cisco
15 91 (20.31%) Security Cleared
16 89 (19.87%) ITIL
17 83 (18.53%) SharePoint
18 81 (18.08%) Citrix
19 80 (17.86%) SQL Server
20 79 (17.63%) Microsoft Intune
21 72 (16.07%) Veeam
22 63 (14.06%) SQL
22 63 (14.06%) DHCP
23 61 (13.62%) SAN
24 59 (13.17%) WAN
24 59 (13.17%) LAN
25 58 (12.95%) Entra ID
26 57 (12.72%) Wi-Fi
26 57 (12.72%) PowerShell

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
1 104 (23.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 83 (18.53%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.13%) Skype for Business
4 13 (2.90%) IIS
5 10 (2.23%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (1.34%) Exchange Server 2000
7 5 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.45%) WordPress
10 1 (0.22%) Confluence
10 1 (0.22%) Site Server
Applications
1 42 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.45%) Abaqus
3 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 220 (49.11%) Azure
2 219 (48.88%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (12.95%) Entra ID
4 35 (7.81%) OneDrive
5 32 (7.14%) AWS
6 17 (3.79%) IaaS
7 16 (3.57%) PaaS
8 12 (2.68%) SaaS
9 10 (2.23%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (2.01%) Mimecast
10 9 (2.01%) Nutanix
11 6 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.34%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.12%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.89%) Azure Stack
13 4 (0.89%) Dropbox
13 4 (0.89%) GCP
13 4 (0.89%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 170 (37.95%) Firewall
2 92 (20.54%) DNS
3 63 (14.06%) DHCP
4 61 (13.62%) SAN
5 59 (13.17%) LAN
5 59 (13.17%) WAN
6 57 (12.72%) Wi-Fi
7 55 (12.28%) VPN
8 43 (9.60%) VLAN
9 41 (9.15%) Wireless
10 36 (8.04%) TCP/IP
11 23 (5.13%) VoIP
12 21 (4.69%) BGP
13 20 (4.46%) WLAN
14 16 (3.57%) IP Telephony
14 16 (3.57%) IPsec
15 15 (3.35%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (2.46%) OSPF
16 11 (2.46%) SD-WAN
17 7 (1.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 35 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.56%) MySQL
4 3 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.45%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.45%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.22%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (0.67%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) Hudson
3 1 (0.22%) MSI
General
1 111 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 24 (5.36%) Law
3 21 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.35%) Finance
7 15 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.13%) Games
9 11 (2.46%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.79%) Legal
11 6 (1.34%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.12%) Banking
13 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.67%) Retail
15 1 (0.22%) Advertising
15 1 (0.22%) Electronics
15 1 (0.22%) Marketing
15 1 (0.22%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.90%) JSON
1 13 (2.90%) JSON Schema
1 13 (2.90%) KML
1 13 (2.90%) Regular Expression
1 13 (2.90%) XML
2 8 (1.79%) XML Schema
3 6 (1.34%) Software Packaging
4 5 (1.12%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.67%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.45%) LAMP
6 2 (0.45%) OpenMP
6 2 (0.45%) V-Ray
7 1 (0.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.27%) Driving Licence
2 36 (8.04%) Data Centre
3 26 (5.80%) Replication
4 24 (5.36%) Enterprise Storage
4 24 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.01%) Clustering
7 7 (1.56%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.56%) iPad
7 7 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.34%) Blockchain
8 6 (1.34%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.12%) EMC VNX
9 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.89%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.45%) Beowulf
11 2 (0.45%) Life Science
11 2 (0.45%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.45%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 221 (49.33%) Windows
2 157 (35.04%) Windows Server
3 51 (11.38%) Linux
4 49 (10.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (7.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (7.37%) Windows 10
7 30 (6.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (3.35%) Mac OS
9 12 (2.68%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (1.34%) Apple iOS
11 5 (1.12%) Debian
12 4 (0.89%) CentOS
12 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.67%) Android
13 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.67%) Unix
14 2 (0.45%) SUSE
14 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.45%) VMS
14 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (26.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 89 (19.87%) ITIL
3 54 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (9.15%) Customer Service
5 40 (8.93%) Incident Management
6 37 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (5.80%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 24 (5.36%) Migration
8 24 (5.36%) Project Delivery
9 22 (4.91%) Service Delivery
10 18 (4.02%) Business Continuity
11 17 (3.79%) Agile
11 17 (3.79%) Desktop Virtualisation
11 17 (3.79%) Mentoring
11 17 (3.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 17 (3.79%) Network Management
11 17 (3.79%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (3.57%) Change Control
13 15 (3.35%) Service Management
14 14 (3.13%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (14.06%) SQL
2 57 (12.72%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.45%) Bash
3 2 (0.45%) C#
3 2 (0.45%) Perl
3 2 (0.45%) Python
3 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.83%) Degree
3 49 (10.94%) Cisco Certification
4 47 (10.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 39 (8.71%) SC Cleared
6 30 (6.70%) Azure Certification
7 27 (6.03%) CCNA
8 26 (5.80%) CCNP
9 23 (5.13%) DV Cleared
10 13 (2.90%) MCSE
11 10 (2.23%) A+ Certification
11 10 (2.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (1.34%) MCSA
12 6 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.12%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.12%) MCP
13 5 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.67%) JNCIA
14 3 (0.67%) RHCT
15 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.13%) SLA
2 9 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.12%) NCSC
4 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.45%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.22%) GxP
System Software
1 176 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 119 (26.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (25.67%) Hyper-V
4 28 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (2.46%) vSphere
8 7 (1.56%) Docker
8 7 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (1.12%) Terminal Services
10 5 (1.12%) XenApp
11 4 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.67%) KVM
12 3 (0.67%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.45%) Lustre
13 2 (0.45%) pfSense
13 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.45%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 79 (17.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (7.37%) SCCM
3 19 (4.24%) Ansible
4 10 (2.23%) Terraform
5 9 (2.01%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.01%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.56%) Autotask
6 7 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (1.12%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (1.12%) Nagios
7 5 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.67%) SCOM
8 3 (0.67%) WSUS
9 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.45%) SCDPM
9 2 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 254 (56.70%) Microsoft
2 162 (36.16%) VMware
3 91 (20.31%) Cisco
4 81 (18.08%) Citrix
5 72 (16.07%) Veeam
6 31 (6.92%) Sophos
7 25 (5.58%) HP
8 24 (5.36%) Juniper
9 20 (4.46%) Meraki
10 18 (4.02%) Datto
10 18 (4.02%) Mitel
11 16 (3.57%) Aruba
12 14 (3.13%) Avaya
12 14 (3.13%) WatchGuard
13 13 (2.90%) Draytek
13 13 (2.90%) SolarWinds
14 11 (2.46%) Acronis
14 11 (2.46%) Google
14 11 (2.46%) Red Hat
15 10 (2.23%) Dell