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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 15 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.04% 1.72% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 1.96% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £484 £246 -
25th Percentile £505 £296 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £383 £425
Median % change year-on-year +33.99% -10.00% -2.86%
75th Percentile £535 £499 £438
90th Percentile £545 £567 -
East of England median daily rate £513 £379 £425
% change year-on-year +35.31% -10.88% -29.17%

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 318 306 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 85.71% 87.68% 80.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 110 116
10th Percentile £178 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £580 £625 £552
90th Percentile £625 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £442
% change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 92 136
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.26 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.63 £16.85
90th Percentile £45.75 £43.75 £42.88
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -37.13% +101.92%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +4 7 £513 -10.87% 34
Peterborough +13 4 £525 +133.33% 10
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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
2 3 (20.00%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
4 1 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (6.67%) SSL
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Gerrit
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) MSI
2 1 (6.67%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Security Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Jolokia
2 1 (6.67%) LAMP
2 1 (6.67%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Rocky
4 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
4 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
4 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
4 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
4 4 (26.67%) Observability
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Runbook
4 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Software Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Bash
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
3 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (6.67%) RHCE
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (13.33%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) NFS
3 1 (6.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) HAProxy
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) F5
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Cadence
3 1 (6.67%) Coverity
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) NetApp
3 1 (6.67%) Perforce
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Synopsys
3 1 (6.67%) TOWER Software