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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 27 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 11 13 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.00% 4.26% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 4.89% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 0
10th Percentile £303 £413 -
25th Percentile £356 £451 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £470 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% - -
75th Percentile £477 £606 -
90th Percentile £579 £700 -
East of England median daily rate £450 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +44.44%

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 302 266 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 82.29% 87.21% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 124 146
10th Percentile £210 £316 £225
25th Percentile £335 £413 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £584 £557 £575
90th Percentile £675 £646 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 51 177
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.00
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 £23.50 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £34.04 £26.75 £36.53
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%

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 30 January 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 30 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
Huntingdon +2 5 £363 - 2
Cambridge -9 5 £525 -4.55% 8
Peterborough - 1 £225 -
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 (45.45%) Apache
1 5 (45.45%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
2 3 (27.27%) Mimecast
2 3 (27.27%) Nutanix
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (9.09%) ChatGPT
4 1 (9.09%) Google Gemini
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) DHCP
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Network Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Switch Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Network Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Network Support
4 2 (18.18%) Network Support Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
1 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
1 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) CentOS
4 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) ITIL
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) PRINCE2
3 5 (45.45%) Server Building
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) AI
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Database Security
5 1 (9.09%) Deep Learning
5 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
5 1 (9.09%) Parallel Processing
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Perl
3 1 (9.09%) Ruby
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.09%) MCTS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Hyper-V
2 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
1 5 (45.45%) Palo Alto
1 5 (45.45%) SolarWinds
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) Thales