Outsourced HR & HR consultants in Cambridge
- sponsor-licence holders
- 810
- science & tech share of employment
- 18.5%
Infinity HR is an outsourced HR and HR consultancy service for Cambridge employers, delivered by phone and video. Science and tech firms employ about twice the national share of the city's workforce. We give you a dedicated, CIPD-qualified consultant and a 24/7 advice line for a fixed monthly fee.
Key numbers for employers here
- median full-time weekly pay, local jobs (2025)
- £876.10
- £671.20 in East Cambridgeshire · £648.90 in Fenland
- ONS ASHE 2025 (Nomis)
What employers across Cambridgeshire should know
Scheme you can use
Keeping sponsor-licence records in order
If you sponsor overseas workers, you must keep specified documents, including right-to-work checks and employee records, and produce them when the Home Office asks; an HR audit is a practical way to check yours before the Home Office does. You are far from alone: the Home Office register of licensed sponsors dated 12 October 2026 lists 810 organisations with a Cambridge address holding a Skilled Worker licence, plus 44 in Ely and 43 in Wisbech.
Sources: Sponsor guidance: Appendix D (record keeping) · Home Office register of licensed sponsors
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Contracts and hiring for science and tech firms
If you run a science or tech business, contracts with clear confidentiality and intellectual-property terms, and a structured probation, matter more when much of your workforce is in research and tech roles. Your sector is unusually concentrated here: professional, scientific and technical firms provide 18.5% of employee jobs in the city against 9.3% across Great Britain, and information and communication 9.2% against 4.5%. Trinity College's masterplan for the Science Park aims to create more than 20,000 highly skilled jobs over the next 30 years, so expect more competition for skilled science and tech staff.
Sources: ONS / Nomis labour market profile · Trinity College (19 May 2026)
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Setting pay across Cambridgeshire
When you set pay, benchmark against the part of the county you hire in, because a pay structure that works in one place can be out of line elsewhere. The 2025 ONS median for full-time jobs based in the city is £876.10 a week, well above £766.60 for Great Britain; in East Cambridgeshire, which includes Ely, the figure is £671.20, and in Fenland, which includes Wisbech, it is £648.90.
HR for manufacturing employers in Fenland
If you run a factory or production site in Fenland, you face shift-pattern and safe-systems-of-work questions that office-based HR guidance does not cover. Manufacturing is a far bigger employer there than nationally: 18.9% of employee jobs in Fenland, against 7.3% across Great Britain.
Source: ONS / Nomis — Fenland
Scheme you can use
Living Wage accreditation and apprentice funding for employers
If you are considering Living Wage accreditation, Cambridge City Council has given one-to-one advice to employers thinking about it; over 70 employers in the city, and 96 across Greater Cambridge, were accredited with the Living Wage Foundation as of November 2024. The council also transfers part of its apprenticeship levy to fund apprenticeships at local small and medium-sized businesses and not-for-profits, working with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority — check current availability before you plan a hire around it.
Sources: Cambridge City Council — Living Wage · Cambridge City Council — apprenticeships
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