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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 36 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 15 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.18% 1.07% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 1.29% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 12
10th Percentile £450 £549 £526
25th Percentile £525 £566 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £583
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +9.44% -10.38%
75th Percentile £748 £716 £681
90th Percentile £900 £736 £717
East of England median daily rate £575 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -11.56%

All Process and 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 320 309 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.14% 82.40% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 109 161
10th Percentile £313 £279 £219
25th Percentile £406 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -
75th Percentile £625 £569 £563
90th Percentile £700 £628 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 88 196
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £22.25 £18.06 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £25.38
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -8.05%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 +1 14 £575 -9.80% 13
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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (20.00%) Slack
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (13.33%) Azure
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) InfiniBand
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) JWT
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Grid Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Migration
2 8 (53.33%) Observability
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) RBAC
4 6 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (26.67%) AI
5 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (13.33%) Cost Management
7 2 (13.33%) Culture Change
7 2 (13.33%) GitOps
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 2 (13.33%) ITSM
7 2 (13.33%) Programme Governance
7 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
7 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) Ruby
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SANS
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) GPFS
1 1 (6.67%) Lustre
1 1 (6.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Terraform
2 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (40.00%) Grafana
3 6 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (26.67%) Ansible
5 3 (20.00%) Puppet
5 3 (20.00%) Salt
6 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (6.67%) Consul
7 1 (6.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Clearswift
3 1 (6.67%) CloudEndure
3 1 (6.67%) IBM