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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 36 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 6 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.69% 2.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £485 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 298 242 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 83.71% 87.68% 81.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 130 154
10th Percentile £168 £250 £202
25th Percentile £282 £396 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £446
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +6.50% -0.89%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £563
90th Percentile £671 £688 £693
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 51 192
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £15.88 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +8.20% +3.45%
75th Percentile £28.44 £18.85 £21.46
90th Percentile £42.05 £42.50 £48.68
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -10.00% +81.82%

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
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 2 June 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 -4 6 - - 7
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 (16.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (33.33%) Route 53
4 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) InfiniBand
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Grid Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Use Case
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) GPFS
2 1 (16.67%) Lustre
2 1 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) Consul
4 1 (16.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) TOWER Software