Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Infrastructure Automation
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.93% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £495 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 - -
75th Percentile £900 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £681 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Infrastructure Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 147 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 90.34% 91.30% 86.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 75 81
10th Percentile £331 £282 £200
25th Percentile £406 £340 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -0.84% +0.84%
75th Percentile £625 £564 £560
90th Percentile £681 £638 £613
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -2.36% -2.70% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 19
10th Percentile £23.00 £17.56 £17.28
25th Percentile £23.16 £19.14 £17.72
Median hourly rate £33.75 £23.21 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.44% +16.03% -50.00%
75th Percentile £53.08 £49.20 £72.13
90th Percentile £72.75 £66.25 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Cambridge over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Cambridge

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Culture Change
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform