3rd Line Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Third Line Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Third Line Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £298 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate 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 93 88 102
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 +4
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Engineer 8 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.46% 0.94% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.00% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 8
10th Percentile £284 £325 -
25th Percentile £289 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -40.40% +11.11% +16.13%
75th Percentile £349 £588 -
90th Percentile £380 - -
South East median daily rate £375 £395 £405
% change year-on-year -5.06% -2.47% +10.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Hampshire. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,562 1,198 1,872
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 93.52% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 774 1,142
10th Percentile £363 £235 £275
25th Percentile £450 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +2.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £675 £601 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 100 155
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.00 £13.43
25th Percentile £26.25 £21.04 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +150.00% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £46.69
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.25
South East median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%

3rd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Engineer in Hampshire

3rd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Engineer within the Hampshire 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Southampton - 3 £280 -
Basingstoke -25 2 £298 -37.26%
Portsmouth - 2 - - 2
Farnborough -3 1 £400 +23.08%
3rd Line Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 3rd Line Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Hampshire region featuring 3rd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (37.50%) VLAN
3 3 (37.50%) Aruba
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 2 (25.00%) IPsec
4 2 (25.00%) OSPF
4 2 (25.00%) BGP
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) vSphere
4 2 (25.00%) F5
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (25.00%) HSRP
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Data Centre

3rd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (12.50%) nginx
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VLAN
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) BGP
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (25.00%) HSRP
3 2 (25.00%) IPsec
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
4 1 (12.50%) NAS
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) Skype
4 1 (12.50%) SSL
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) VoIP
General
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Data Security
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Logistics
2 1 (12.50%) Network Management
2 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
2 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Security Management
2 1 (12.50%) Server Management
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Firmware
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Aruba
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) F5
3 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam