Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £383, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +18
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 4 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.11% 0.46% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 0.60% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £246 - £290
25th Percentile £296 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £499 £438 £525
90th Percentile £567 - £568
East of England median daily rate £383 £300 £575
% change year-on-year +27.50% -47.83% +27.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 305 331 405
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.49% 76.62% 78.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 127 205
10th Percentile £218 £223 £200
25th Percentile £379 £332 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £465
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -4.95% -2.11%
75th Percentile £616 £553 £550
90th Percentile £700 £630 £598
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 74 103
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.84 £14.88 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +20.60% +14.32%
75th Percentile £28.91 £28.75 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £56.38 £34.29
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £43.90 £42.40
% change year-on-year -16.29% +3.54% +114.03%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 27 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 -3 2 £575 +35.29% 6
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 1
Peterborough - 1 £225 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
East of England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 27 September 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (25.00%) Server Building
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
1 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Server Building
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) MCTS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (25.00%) VMware