Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineering
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.50% 5.45% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 5.96% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £335 - -
25th Percentile £369 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £544 £625 -
90th Percentile £585 £775 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £363 £550 £200
% change year-on-year -34.09% +175.00% -50.00%

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 180 151 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 90.00% 91.52% 86.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 80 82
10th Percentile £354 £299 £200
25th Percentile £406 £348 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £487 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -0.21% +2.63%
75th Percentile £625 £572 £560
90th Percentile £684 £639 £611
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +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% -42.86%
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 Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridge over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) VMware