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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 17 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.16% - 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.97% - 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 10
10th Percentile £446 - £403
25th Percentile £463 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.39%
75th Percentile £550 - £544
90th Percentile £565 - £571
East of England median daily rate £473 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.67% -12.20%

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 244 410 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.83% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 284
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £536
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 194 150
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £52.25 £22.06
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 - 10 £550 - 17
Huntingdon - 2 £383 - 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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) Nutanix
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (23.53%) Network Security
2 4 (23.53%) VSAN
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) SNA
3 1 (5.88%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Replication
2 4 (23.53%) Clustering
2 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
1 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Waterfall
3 6 (35.29%) Zero Trust
4 5 (29.41%) ITIL
4 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Capacity Management
5 4 (23.53%) Customer Service
5 4 (23.53%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (23.53%) Proactive Maintenance
5 4 (23.53%) Proactive Management
5 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
5 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.76%) Security Patching
7 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (11.76%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) DBS Check
3 3 (17.65%) VCAP
3 3 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) VMware NSX
2 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
4 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
4 5 (29.41%) vSphere
5 4 (23.53%) Docker
6 1 (5.88%) Firmware
6 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Ansible
2 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) VxRail
3 5 (29.41%) vCenter Server
4 4 (23.53%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (23.53%) Podman
4 4 (23.53%) PowerCLI
5 2 (11.76%) Avamar
5 2 (11.76%) Puppet
5 2 (11.76%) vRealize
6 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
6 1 (5.88%) Nagios
6 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) VMware
2 9 (52.94%) Dell
3 4 (23.53%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
4 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
4 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.76%) Google
5 2 (11.76%) IBM
5 2 (11.76%) LogRhythm
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco
6 1 (5.88%) HP
6 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.88%) Sun
6 1 (5.88%) Veeam