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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 32 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 6 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.52% 2.33% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 2.71% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £253 - -
25th Percentile £313 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £488 £200
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +143.75% -50.00%
75th Percentile £369 £669 -
90th Percentile £515 £793 -
East of England median daily rate £406 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -29.35% -11.54% +44.44%

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 344 295 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.87% 85.76% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 114 136
10th Percentile £270 £300 £216
25th Percentile £383 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +0.10% +0.95%
75th Percentile £619 £555 £570
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 78 191
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.58 £21.46 £18.42
90th Percentile £43.68 £34.87 £30.25
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.00
% change year-on-year -24.11% +31.76% -6.67%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 -14 3 £450 -7.69% 10
Huntingdon - 2 £363 - 5
Peterborough - 1 £225 - 3
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 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Mimecast
1 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) 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
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
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%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) Server Building
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%) Database Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Security Management
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCTS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) BitLocker
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) VMware