3rd Line Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Third Line Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Third Line Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 242 216
Rank change year-on-year +26 -26 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 37 25 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.40% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.44% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 35 19 71
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,200 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,375 £40,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £43,750 £53,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 -
England median annual salary £42,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 7,064 5,646 7,004
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 90.15% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,270 3,235 4,749
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the West Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Engineer in the West Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in the West Midlands

3rd Line Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Birmingham +4 24 £37,500 -26.83% 1
Staffordshire -17 7 £42,500 -10.53% 1
Worcestershire - 4 £40,000 - 2
Brierley Hill - 1 £35,000 -
3rd Line Engineer
England

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 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 West Midlands region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (59.46%) Azure
1 22 (59.46%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (51.35%) Windows
2 19 (51.35%) Active Directory
3 18 (48.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (45.95%) Firewall
4 17 (45.95%) Microsoft
5 15 (40.54%) VMware
5 15 (40.54%) Entra ID
6 14 (37.84%) Veeam
6 14 (37.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (37.84%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (35.14%) Windows Server
8 11 (29.73%) Hyper-V
8 11 (29.73%) DNS
8 11 (29.73%) DHCP
9 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
10 9 (24.32%) HP
10 9 (24.32%) SAN
10 9 (24.32%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (21.62%) SCCM
11 8 (21.62%) Cisco
11 8 (21.62%) SharePoint
11 8 (21.62%) VoIP
11 8 (21.62%) Windows 10
11 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (21.62%) VMware ESXi

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (21.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.41%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.70%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.70%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) Azure
1 22 (59.46%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (40.54%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.41%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) Google Workspace
3 2 (5.41%) Mimecast
3 2 (5.41%) OpenDNS
4 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (45.95%) Firewall
2 11 (29.73%) DHCP
2 11 (29.73%) DNS
3 9 (24.32%) SAN
3 9 (24.32%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (21.62%) VoIP
5 7 (18.92%) VLAN
5 7 (18.92%) WAN
6 6 (16.22%) LAN
7 5 (13.51%) WLAN
8 3 (8.11%) iSCSI
8 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
8 3 (8.11%) VPN
9 2 (5.41%) EIGRP
9 2 (5.41%) IPsec
9 2 (5.41%) OSPF
9 2 (5.41%) PBX
9 2 (5.41%) RIP
9 2 (5.41%) VRRP
9 2 (5.41%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Law
3 2 (5.41%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) LAMP
1 2 (5.41%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Replication
2 2 (5.41%) Clustering
2 2 (5.41%) PKI
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Windows
2 14 (37.84%) Windows Server 2012
3 13 (35.14%) Windows Server
4 8 (21.62%) Windows 10
4 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.41%) Linux
7 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.92%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (16.22%) Communications Security
4 6 (16.22%) Service Delivery
4 6 (16.22%) Virtual Environments
5 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (13.51%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (5.41%) Customer Service
6 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (5.41%) Migration
6 2 (5.41%) Server Management
6 2 (5.41%) Server Migrations
6 2 (5.41%) Software Deployment
6 2 (5.41%) Storage Management
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security
7 1 (2.70%) Decision-Making
7 1 (2.70%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (2.70%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
1 1 (2.70%) MCSE
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (51.35%) Active Directory
2 14 (37.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (29.73%) Hyper-V
4 8 (21.62%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (18.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (5.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (5.41%) Docker
6 2 (5.41%) pfSense
6 2 (5.41%) Terminal Services
6 2 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.70%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (48.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (21.62%) SCCM
3 2 (5.41%) Backup Exec
4 1 (2.70%) Autotask
4 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (40.54%) VMware
3 14 (37.84%) Veeam
4 9 (24.32%) HP
5 8 (21.62%) Cisco
6 7 (18.92%) Citrix
6 7 (18.92%) Sophos
7 4 (10.81%) Meraki
8 3 (8.11%) Aruba
9 2 (5.41%) Acronis
9 2 (5.41%) Datto
9 2 (5.41%) Google
9 2 (5.41%) SonicWALL
9 2 (5.41%) Veritas
10 1 (2.70%) Apple
10 1 (2.70%) Dell