3rd Line Support Engineer Jobs in the South East

Third Line Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Third Line Support Engineer salary in the South East is £42,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 348 435
Rank change year-on-year +34 +87 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 84 44 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.36% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 84 38 71
10th Percentile £33,000 - £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,400 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -13.91%
75th Percentile £43,750 £52,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 16,769 12,374 19,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.99% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,915 7,936 12,370
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Support Engineer in the South East

3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +29 48 £42,000 +18.64% 2
Oxfordshire +44 44 £42,000 +5.00% 1
Hampshire -36 12 £30,850 -37.83% 1
West Sussex - 10 £35,000 -
Kent - 7 £42,500 - 1
East Sussex - 4 £42,500 - 1
Surrey -15 3 £42,500 -
Berkshire +7 2 £37,700 +6.50% 1
Buckinghamshire -19 2 £45,000 +24.14%
3rd Line Support Engineer
England

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 3rd Line Support 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 South East region featuring 3rd Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (75.00%) Firewall
2 62 (73.81%) Windows
3 59 (70.24%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (69.05%) Microsoft
5 47 (55.95%) VMware
6 42 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 37 (44.05%) Active Directory
8 36 (42.86%) Veeam
9 35 (41.67%) Azure
9 35 (41.67%) SQL Server
10 34 (40.48%) SQL
10 34 (40.48%) Citrix
10 34 (40.48%) Social Skills
11 33 (39.29%) Windows Server
12 30 (35.71%) Degree
13 28 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
14 27 (32.14%) Wi-Fi
15 24 (28.57%) SharePoint
16 23 (27.38%) Hyper-V
17 20 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
18 19 (22.62%) Cisco
19 18 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
20 17 (20.24%) Microsoft Excel
20 17 (20.24%) Replication
21 16 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
22 15 (17.86%) Change Control
22 15 (17.86%) OneDrive
22 15 (17.86%) VLAN
22 15 (17.86%) DNS
22 15 (17.86%) Documentation Skills

3rd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 28 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 20 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (20.24%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 59 (70.24%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (41.67%) Azure
3 15 (17.86%) OneDrive
4 12 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 8 (9.52%) AWS
6 2 (2.38%) SaaS
7 1 (1.19%) IaaS
7 1 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (75.00%) Firewall
2 27 (32.14%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (17.86%) DNS
3 15 (17.86%) VLAN
4 14 (16.67%) DHCP
5 13 (15.48%) VPN
6 11 (13.10%) TCP/IP
7 10 (11.90%) LAN
7 10 (11.90%) WAN
8 7 (8.33%) FTP
9 6 (7.14%) NAS
9 6 (7.14%) SAN
9 6 (7.14%) Wireless
10 4 (4.76%) BGP
10 4 (4.76%) IPsec
10 4 (4.76%) OSPF
11 3 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (3.57%) HSRP
11 3 (3.57%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Hudson
General
1 34 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.86%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (13.10%) Law
4 9 (10.71%) Games
5 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Retail
7 2 (2.38%) Finance
7 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.24%) Replication
2 10 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 8 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 62 (73.81%) Windows
2 33 (39.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.14%) Linux
3 6 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (17.86%) Change Control
3 14 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 13 (15.48%) ITIL
4 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (9.52%) Agile
6 6 (7.14%) ERP
6 6 (7.14%) Escalation Management
6 6 (7.14%) Migration
6 6 (7.14%) Problem Management
6 6 (7.14%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 6 (7.14%) Service Delivery
6 6 (7.14%) Threat Management
6 6 (7.14%) Time Management
6 6 (7.14%) Trend Analysis
7 5 (5.95%) Customer Service
7 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (4.76%) Mentoring
9 3 (3.57%) IT Strategy
9 3 (3.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.48%) SQL
2 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (35.71%) Degree
2 14 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (13.10%) CCNA
3 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 6 (7.14%) MCSE
5 5 (5.95%) CCNP
5 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) MCP
6 3 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.38%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (44.05%) Active Directory
3 23 (27.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 16 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.38%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (2.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 58 (69.05%) Microsoft
2 47 (55.95%) VMware
3 36 (42.86%) Veeam
4 34 (40.48%) Citrix
5 19 (22.62%) Cisco
6 7 (8.33%) Meraki
7 6 (7.14%) Draytek
8 5 (5.95%) Juniper
8 5 (5.95%) Sophos
9 3 (3.57%) Datto
9 3 (3.57%) WatchGuard
10 2 (2.38%) Acronis
10 2 (2.38%) F5
11 1 (1.19%) Dell
11 1 (1.19%) SolarWinds