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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 34 36
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 15 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.13% 1.29% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 1.51% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile £525 £549 £531
25th Percentile £538 £566 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £583
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +9.44% +1.30%
75th Percentile £748 £716 £675
90th Percentile £900 £736 £702
East of England median daily rate £606 £713 £563
% change year-on-year -14.91% +26.67% -

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 308 265 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.85% 85.48% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 118 144
10th Percentile £213 £313 £200
25th Percentile £335 £402 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -2.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £559 £582
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.58% -4.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 58 172
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.68 £21.46 -
90th Percentile £39.50 £28.93 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £20.27 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.10% +59.09% -

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +2 13 £588 -7.84% 10
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 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) GCP
5 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 3 (20.00%) Slack
6 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 1 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
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 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
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 Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) eBPF
1 1 (6.67%) JWT
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Grid Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (53.33%) Dashboard Development
3 8 (53.33%) Observability
3 8 (53.33%) RBAC
4 7 (46.67%) Migration
4 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) AI
5 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (20.00%) SIEM
7 2 (13.33%) Culture Change
7 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
7 2 (13.33%) SOAR
7 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) C++
1 1 (6.67%) Java
1 1 (6.67%) Perl
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) Ruby
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CCSP
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) SANS
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
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 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (40.00%) Grafana
3 6 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (13.33%) Ansible
5 1 (6.67%) Consul
5 1 (6.67%) Istio
5 1 (6.67%) Puppet
5 1 (6.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.67%) Clearswift
3 1 (6.67%) CloudEndure