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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 43 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 16 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.51% 0.69% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 0.85% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £250 - £494
25th Percentile £488 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £748 £613 £613
90th Percentile £900 - £710
East of England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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 314 355 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.45% 81.24% 90.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 118 193
10th Percentile £250 £225 £225
25th Percentile £405 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £555 £550
90th Percentile £700 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 138 194
10th Percentile £14.07 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £20.00 £16.85 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.53 £29.80
East of England median hourly rate £24.39 £40.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -39.03% +100.00% -2.44%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +11 15 £550 -4.35% 6
Infrastructure as Code
East of England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (18.75%) Slack
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) GitLab
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Programme Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Programme Manager
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) Observability
3 7 (43.75%) Migration
3 7 (43.75%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (43.75%) RBAC
4 6 (37.50%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (25.00%) ITSM
7 3 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 2 (12.50%) Data Science
8 2 (12.50%) GitOps
8 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
8 2 (12.50%) Programme Governance
8 2 (12.50%) Security Architecture
8 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) SANS
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (87.50%) Terraform
2 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 6 (37.50%) Ansible
3 6 (37.50%) Grafana
3 6 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 4 (25.00%) Puppet
4 4 (25.00%) Salt
5 1 (6.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Dynatrace
2 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Clearswift
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) VMware