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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 42 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 6 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.72% 0.47% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 0.58% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £246 - £328
25th Percentile £296 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £499 £438 £481
90th Percentile £567 - £518
East of England median daily rate £379 £363 £600
% change year-on-year +4.48% -39.58% +33.33%

All Process and 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 306 344 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.93% 80.56% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 114 203
10th Percentile £250 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £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 £599
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 136 194
10th Percentile £14.26 £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 £19.63 £16.85 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.88 £26.73
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.06 £19.81
% change year-on-year -35.61% +97.17% -3.37%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 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 +2 4 £575 +35.29% 5
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 2
Peterborough - 1 £225 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
2 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SAP HANA
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Workload Management
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (16.67%) MCTS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) BitLocker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) VMware