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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 17 17 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.58% 4.74% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 5.30% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 1
10th Percentile £359 £270 -
25th Percentile £463 £506 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £625 £684 £613
90th Percentile £716 £898 -
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

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 313 321 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.37% 89.42% 81.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 114 114
10th Percentile £183 £251 £225
25th Percentile £405 £387 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £446
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +16.59% -6.11%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £555
90th Percentile £635 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £505 £442
% change year-on-year -0.99% +14.25% -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 95 126
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.80 £14.84
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 £23.75 £19.50 £16.85
90th Percentile £47.80 £43.75 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £22.63 £41.25
% change year-on-year +109.90% -45.14% +106.25%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -1 11 £600 +9.09% 38
Peterborough - 4 £518 - 6
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 6 (35.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Azure
3 8 (47.06%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.76%) CloudFront
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) BGP
1 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
1 3 (17.65%) WAN
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
3 1 (5.88%) MPLS
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) OSPF
3 1 (5.88%) VLAN
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Security Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
2 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
2 2 (11.76%) gRPC
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) CMDB
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Grid Computing
4 1 (5.88%) PKI
4 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) Observability
3 8 (47.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (41.18%) Configuration Management
4 7 (41.18%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (35.29%) Validation
6 5 (29.41%) AI
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
7 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
7 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
7 4 (23.53%) Service Management
7 4 (23.53%) Software Delivery
7 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (17.65%) Anomaly Detection
8 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
8 3 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) Ruby
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) CCIE
3 1 (5.88%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) JNCIP
3 1 (5.88%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) GPFS
2 1 (5.88%) Lustre
2 1 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) Consul
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Istio
3 1 (5.88%) linkerd
3 1 (5.88%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco
1 3 (17.65%) NetApp
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.88%) Juniper
3 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds