Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 7 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 6.14% - 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.22% - 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £532 - £346
25th Percentile £535 - £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £545 - £563
90th Percentile £548 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £473 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -13.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 97 178 274
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.09% 91.75% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 106 187
10th Percentile £389 £235 £185
25th Percentile £425 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +14.72% -3.23% -2.11%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £663 £644 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 29 16
10th Percentile £16.68 £21.10 £16.49
25th Percentile £20.40 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +156.10% -19.61%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +5.16% +13.47%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridge.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure 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 Cambridge region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Dell
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) VxRail
3 4 (57.14%) Waterfall
3 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
4 3 (42.86%) Ansible
4 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) VMware NSX
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) vSphere
4 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Python
5 2 (28.57%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (28.57%) Firewall
5 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) JIRA
5 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
5 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (28.57%) PowerCLI
5 2 (28.57%) VSAN
5 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
5 2 (28.57%) Task Automation

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Waterfall
3 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
6 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) ITSM
6 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
6 1 (14.29%) Service Management
6 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (14.29%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) VCAP
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware NSX
1 3 (42.86%) vSphere
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) VxRail
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Avamar
3 2 (28.57%) PowerCLI
3 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
4 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Dell
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
4 1 (14.29%) Google
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) LogRhythm
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 1 (14.29%) Veeam