Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineering
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 12 14 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.09% 5.45% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 6.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 0
10th Percentile - £463 -
25th Percentile £356 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £540 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% - -
75th Percentile £535 £550 -
90th Percentile £575 £573 -
East of England median daily rate £475 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineering 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 314 228 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.93% 88.72% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 126 152
10th Percentile £168 £296 £208
25th Percentile £300 £402 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -0.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £553
90th Percentile £623 £650 £699
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.40% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 47 189
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.84 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% +8.20% +3.45%
75th Percentile £27.50 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £24.50 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £50.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -54.74% +26.58% +58.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 20 April 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 -5 7 £530 -3.64% 3
Huntingdon -1 5 £363 -
Infrastructure Engineering
East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 5 (41.67%) Apache
1 5 (41.67%) IIS
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Mimecast
2 3 (25.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (8.33%) ChatGPT
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Google Gemini
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) DHCP
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (16.67%) LAN
3 2 (16.67%) VLAN
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) NX-OS
4 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Switch Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Senior
5 2 (16.67%) Analyst
5 2 (16.67%) Network Analyst
5 2 (16.67%) Network Support
5 2 (16.67%) Network Support Analyst
5 2 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
5 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) PKI
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) PRINCE2
2 5 (41.67%) Server Building
3 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Runbook
5 1 (8.33%) AI
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
5 1 (8.33%) ITSM
5 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Service Management
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) VxRail
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Palo Alto
2 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
3 4 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 2 (16.67%) Dell
4 2 (16.67%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.33%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (8.33%) Google
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper
5 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (8.33%) Thales
5 1 (8.33%) TOWER Software
5 1 (8.33%) Veeam