Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 13 15 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.86% 4.42% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 5.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 0
10th Percentile £392 £246 -
25th Percentile £450 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £559 £800 -
90th Percentile £625 £900 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure as Code 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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 290 300 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.05% 88.50% 80.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 109 107
10th Percentile £168 £250 £215
25th Percentile £358 £400 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £442
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +18.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £550
90th Percentile £626 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 85 139
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £21.37
90th Percentile £38.18 £43.75 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -25.00% +101.92%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure as Code within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -3 9 £538 -2.27% 19
Peterborough - 3 £510 - 4
Infrastructure as Code
East of England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 4 (30.77%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Control Tower
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Route 53
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) InfiniBand
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) gRPC
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Grid Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 10 (76.92%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Configuration Management
4 6 (46.15%) Observability
4 6 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) AI
6 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
6 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) Agile
7 3 (23.08%) Anomaly Detection
7 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
7 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
7 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (23.08%) Service Management
7 3 (23.08%) Software Delivery
7 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Ruby
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) CCIE
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) GPFS
2 1 (7.69%) Lustre
2 1 (7.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) Consul
4 1 (7.69%) Istio
4 1 (7.69%) linkerd
4 1 (7.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) NetApp
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) TOWER Software