3rd Line Support Contracts in London

Third Line Support
England > London

The median Third Line Support daily rate in London is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 449 546
Rank change year-on-year +69 +97 -103
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support 15 45 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.086% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 45
10th Percentile £302 £305 £250
25th Percentile £313 £350 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £508 £450 £400
90th Percentile £544 £460 £450
England median daily rate £375 £375 £343
% change year-on-year - +9.49% +9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
England median hourly rate - £34.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +70.00% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,327 24,623 36,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.18% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,806 17,900 26,936
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 280 437
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £22.88
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.23 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

3rd Line Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Support in London

3rd Line Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support in London.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Support in London

3rd Line Support
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Support in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Support in London

3rd Line Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Support in London.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Support in London

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 3rd Line Support 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 London region featuring 3rd Line Support in the job title.

1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Juniper
3 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) LAN
3 3 (20.00%) WAN
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Unix
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (13.33%) VLAN
4 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) DHCP
4 2 (13.33%) Citrix
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CCNP
4 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (13.33%) Runbook
4 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation

3rd Line Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
3 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) LAN
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) Junos
2 2 (13.33%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) FTP
3 1 (6.67%) HTTP
3 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) SMTP
3 1 (6.67%) SNMP
3 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
3 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Housing Association
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
1 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
1 2 (13.33%) Migration
1 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (13.33%) Runbook
2 1 (6.67%) Agile
2 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (6.67%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (6.67%) Scrum
2 1 (6.67%) Security Patching
2 1 (6.67%) Server Management
2 1 (6.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) CCNP
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) JNCIA
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.67%) IASME
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.67%) Aruba
4 1 (6.67%) BigPanda
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Commvault
4 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.67%) Okta
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase
4 1 (6.67%) Veeam
4 1 (6.67%) Zscaler