Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineering
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 15 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.85% - 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.51% - 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 9
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.86%
75th Percentile £550 - £563
90th Percentile - - £580
East of England median daily rate £467 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.70% - -

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 272 433 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.03% 82.95% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 153 248
10th Percentile £246 £209 £225
25th Percentile £376 £325 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £536
90th Percentile £684 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 182 168
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £20.88 £25.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 £23.58
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cambridgeshire

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 3 July 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 - 9 £550 - 26
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 6
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 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) Network Security
2 4 (26.67%) VSAN
3 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) SNA
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (26.67%) Replication
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 6 (40.00%) Zero Trust
5 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) ITIL
6 4 (26.67%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (20.00%) Capacity Management
7 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
7 3 (20.00%) Proactive Management
7 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (13.33%) Security Patching
8 2 (13.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (20.00%) VCAP
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (33.33%) vSphere
5 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
6 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 7 (46.67%) VxRail
3 4 (26.67%) PowerCLI
3 4 (26.67%) vCenter Server
4 3 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (20.00%) Podman
5 2 (13.33%) Avamar
5 2 (13.33%) vRealize
6 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) Dell
3 3 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (13.33%) Google
4 2 (13.33%) IBM
4 2 (13.33%) LogRhythm
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) Veeam