3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 789 812 1141
Rank change year-on-year +23 +329 -385
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 115 107 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 85 89 113
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,400 £37,300
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,000 - £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +8.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +37 109 £48,750 +2.63% 3
UK excluding London -35 104 £47,500 - 2
South West -9 35 £50,250 +16.86%
Work from Home +19 28 £47,500 -
Midlands -31 20 £47,500 -7.32% 2
East of England -14 18 £58,000 +5.45%
North of England +8 15 £35,000 -26.32%
West Midlands -7 14 £37,500 -21.05% 2
London +91 11 £63,750 +27.50% 1
Yorkshire +69 11 £35,000 -26.32%
South East -46 10 £43,750 +9.38%
East Midlands -26 6 £47,500 -13.64%
Wales - 5 £40,500 -
North West -30 3 £60,000 +28.34%
North East - 1 £60,000 -
Scotland - 1 £35,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 3rd Line Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 111 (96.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (49.57%) Microsoft
3 55 (47.83%) Azure
4 53 (46.09%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (38.26%) Windows
6 40 (34.78%) Security Cleared
7 39 (33.91%) VMware
8 33 (28.70%) Active Directory
8 33 (28.70%) Firewall
8 33 (28.70%) Windows Server
9 32 (27.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (25.22%) DNS
11 28 (24.35%) WAN
12 27 (23.48%) PowerShell
13 26 (22.61%) VMware Infrastructure
14 24 (20.87%) Hyper-V
14 24 (20.87%) SharePoint
15 23 (20.00%) Citrix
15 23 (20.00%) Veeam
16 22 (19.13%) SAN
16 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
17 21 (18.26%) DV Cleared
18 19 (16.52%) Microsoft Exchange
18 19 (16.52%) LAN
19 18 (15.65%) SCCM
20 17 (14.78%) DHCP
20 17 (14.78%) WLAN
20 17 (14.78%) Sophos
21 15 (13.04%) Linux
22 14 (12.17%) Cisco

3rd Line Infrastructure 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 24 (20.87%) SharePoint
2 19 (16.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (1.74%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 55 (47.83%) Azure
2 53 (46.09%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (11.30%) AWS
4 11 (9.57%) Entra ID
4 11 (9.57%) IaaS
4 11 (9.57%) PaaS
4 11 (9.57%) Power Platform
4 11 (9.57%) SaaS
5 8 (6.96%) Nutanix
6 5 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.74%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.74%) OCI
7 2 (1.74%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.74%) OpenDNS
8 1 (0.87%) GCP
8 1 (0.87%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 33 (28.70%) Firewall
2 29 (25.22%) DNS
3 28 (24.35%) WAN
4 22 (19.13%) SAN
5 19 (16.52%) LAN
6 17 (14.78%) DHCP
6 17 (14.78%) WLAN
7 11 (9.57%) SD-WAN
8 10 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (7.83%) TCP/IP
9 9 (7.83%) VPN
10 8 (6.96%) VoIP
11 5 (4.35%) VLAN
12 2 (1.74%) EIGRP
12 2 (1.74%) IPsec
12 2 (1.74%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.74%) OSPF
12 2 (1.74%) RIP
12 2 (1.74%) VRRP
12 2 (1.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.35%) MySQL
3 4 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
General
1 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.57%) Aerospace
3 9 (7.83%) Finance
4 6 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.35%) Banking
6 3 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Law
7 2 (1.74%) Legal
7 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) JSON
1 6 (5.22%) JSON Schema
1 6 (5.22%) KML
1 6 (5.22%) Regular Expression
1 6 (5.22%) Software Packaging
1 6 (5.22%) XML
1 6 (5.22%) XML Schema
2 2 (1.74%) LAMP
2 2 (1.74%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (6.09%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.35%) EMC VNX
4 2 (1.74%) Clustering
4 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.74%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.74%) PKI
5 1 (0.87%) CCTV
5 1 (0.87%) IoT
5 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (38.26%) Windows
2 33 (28.70%) Windows Server
3 15 (13.04%) Linux
4 13 (11.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (9.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (5.22%) Windows 10
6 6 (5.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.74%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.74%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (96.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (11.30%) Collaborative Working
3 12 (10.43%) ITIL
3 12 (10.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (8.70%) Service Delivery
5 9 (7.83%) Systems Engineering
6 8 (6.96%) ITSM
6 8 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (6.09%) Customer Service
7 7 (6.09%) Server Management
7 7 (6.09%) Virtual Environments
8 6 (5.22%) Application Virtualisation
8 6 (5.22%) CAD
8 6 (5.22%) Communications Security
8 6 (5.22%) Compatibility Testing
8 6 (5.22%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (5.22%) Service Management
8 6 (5.22%) Software Distribution
8 6 (5.22%) Software Testing
8 6 (5.22%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.48%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.22%) SQL
3 1 (0.87%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.26%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.70%) Degree
5 7 (6.09%) CCNA
5 7 (6.09%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.35%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.87%) MCSA
7 1 (0.87%) MCSE
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.48%) SLA
3 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (28.70%) Active Directory
2 26 (22.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (20.87%) Hyper-V
4 9 (7.83%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (6.09%) Docker
6 6 (5.22%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.61%) XenApp
7 3 (2.61%) XenDesktop
8 2 (1.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (1.74%) pfSense
8 2 (1.74%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (27.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (15.65%) SCCM
3 11 (9.57%) Ansible
4 5 (4.35%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.35%) Nagios
4 5 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.74%) Backup Exec
5 2 (1.74%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.87%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 57 (49.57%) Microsoft
2 39 (33.91%) VMware
3 23 (20.00%) Citrix
3 23 (20.00%) Veeam
4 17 (14.78%) Sophos
5 14 (12.17%) Aruba
5 14 (12.17%) Cisco
6 13 (11.30%) HP
7 7 (6.09%) Acronis
7 7 (6.09%) Datto
7 7 (6.09%) Meraki
8 5 (4.35%) EMC
8 5 (4.35%) Mitel
8 5 (4.35%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.35%) SolarWinds
9 4 (3.48%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.74%) Dell
10 2 (1.74%) Oracle
10 2 (1.74%) SonicWALL
10 2 (1.74%) Veritas