Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 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
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.08% 1.06% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.16% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £436
25th Percentile £538 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -15.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £613 £438 £541
90th Percentile - - £554
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £383 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.56% +5.88%

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 163 173 202
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.63% 91.53% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 81 118
10th Percentile £250 £225 £180
25th Percentile £413 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £579
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £442 £465
% change year-on-year +13.12% -4.95% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 21
10th Percentile £34.53 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £55.16 £25.32 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +196.28% -59.73%
75th Percentile £73.13 £59.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £17.72
% change year-on-year -23.72% +20.60% +14.32%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 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 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell

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 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware