3rd Line Network Engineer Jobs

Third Line Network Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Network Engineer salary in the UK is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 867 1227
Rank change year-on-year -5 +360 -316
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Network Engineer 50 78 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.084% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.092% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 31 66 49
10th Percentile £39,250 £36,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £47,406 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +15.79% +28.38%
75th Percentile £51,500 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £53,750 - £55,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £51,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.39% +13.89% +27.66%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £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 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

3rd Line Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

3rd Line Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Network Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Network Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Network Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London -72 44 £49,000 -4.39% 7
England +7 36 £49,000 -9.68% 9
South East -8 27 £49,000 -2.00% 3
Wales - 14 - -
London +64 6 £40,000 -42.86% 2
Yorkshire +66 3 £47,500 -
North of England +15 3 £47,500 -5.00%
Work from Home +34 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, 3rd Line Network 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (86.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (78.00%) Cisco
3 26 (52.00%) Firewall
3 26 (52.00%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (48.00%) SC Cleared
5 23 (46.00%) Juniper
6 21 (42.00%) CCNP
7 20 (40.00%) BGP
8 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
8 17 (34.00%) DNS
8 17 (34.00%) Data Centre
9 16 (32.00%) Project Delivery
10 14 (28.00%) Actionable Insight
10 14 (28.00%) Network Management
10 14 (28.00%) Skype for Business
10 14 (28.00%) Avaya
10 14 (28.00%) Mitel
10 14 (28.00%) IP Telephony
10 14 (28.00%) Incident Management
10 14 (28.00%) Wireless
10 14 (28.00%) Business Continuity
11 9 (18.00%) VPN
12 8 (16.00%) OSPF
13 7 (14.00%) IPsec
14 6 (12.00%) Agile
15 5 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (10.00%) HSRP
15 5 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
15 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
15 5 (10.00%) Spanning Tree

3rd Line Network 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 14 (28.00%) Skype for Business
2 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.00%) AWS
3 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (52.00%) Firewall
2 20 (40.00%) BGP
3 17 (34.00%) DNS
4 14 (28.00%) IP Telephony
4 14 (28.00%) Wireless
5 9 (18.00%) VPN
6 8 (16.00%) OSPF
7 7 (14.00%) IPsec
8 5 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (10.00%) HSRP
8 5 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
8 5 (10.00%) SSL
8 5 (10.00%) VLAN
9 4 (8.00%) Junos
9 4 (8.00%) NetScaler
10 3 (6.00%) DHCP
10 3 (6.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Hudson
General
1 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
1 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) Project Delivery
2 14 (28.00%) Actionable Insight
2 14 (28.00%) Business Continuity
2 14 (28.00%) Incident Management
2 14 (28.00%) Network Management
3 6 (12.00%) Agile
4 5 (10.00%) ITIL
4 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (8.00%) Patch Management
6 3 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (6.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (4.00%) Antivirus Management
7 2 (4.00%) Change Control
7 2 (4.00%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (4.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (4.00%) Line Management
7 2 (4.00%) Process Improvement
7 2 (4.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (4.00%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 43 (86.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (52.00%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (48.00%) SC Cleared
4 21 (42.00%) CCNP
5 5 (10.00%) CCNA
5 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.00%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.00%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (78.00%) Cisco
2 23 (46.00%) Juniper
3 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
4 14 (28.00%) Avaya
4 14 (28.00%) Mitel
5 5 (10.00%) VMware
6 4 (8.00%) Citrix
6 4 (8.00%) F5
6 4 (8.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.00%) Acronis
7 2 (4.00%) Veeam
8 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.00%) Zscaler