Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineering
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 10 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 8.77% - 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.90% - 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £536 - £358
25th Percentile £545 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £569 - £563
90th Percentile £603 - £615
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £530 - £438
% change year-on-year - - -11.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineering 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 101 177 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.60% 91.24% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 99 177
10th Percentile £296 £235 £185
25th Percentile £411 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £16.28 £20.40 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.46 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +156.10% -64.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineering
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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) VSAN
3 1 (10.00%) SNA
3 1 (10.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
4 2 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (20.00%) Workload Management
5 1 (10.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) VCAP
4 2 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (30.00%) vSphere
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Firmware
4 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) VxRail
3 3 (30.00%) vCenter Server
4 2 (20.00%) Avamar
4 2 (20.00%) PowerCLI
4 2 (20.00%) Puppet
4 2 (20.00%) vRealize
5 1 (10.00%) HAProxy
5 1 (10.00%) Nagios
5 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Dell
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (20.00%) Google
4 2 (20.00%) IBM
4 2 (20.00%) LogRhythm
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Sun
5 1 (10.00%) Veeam