Reverse Proxy Contract Job Trends

Reverse Proxy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Reverse Proxy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 548 582
Rank change year-on-year -7 +34 +199
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 5 14 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.037% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.31% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 34
10th Percentile £471 £421 £500
25th Percentile £484 £475 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £622 £681
90th Percentile £566 £650 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £565
% change year-on-year +7.50% -11.55% +33.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £74.52

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Reverse Proxy falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,791 4,515 6,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 12.09% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,424 2,592 4,117
10th Percentile £213 £225 £220
25th Percentile £358 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £677 £687 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £475 £466
% change year-on-year -4.63% +2.04% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 177 328
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.96 £17.24
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.18 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -29.98% -13.97% +42.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.45 £51.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -19.51% -8.83% +25.53%

Reverse Proxy
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Reverse Proxy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Reverse Proxy job vacancy trend in the UK

Reverse Proxy
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reverse Proxy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reverse Proxy

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reverse Proxy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reverse Proxy

Reverse Proxy
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reverse Proxy within the UK over the 6 months to 19 October 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
England +5 5 £538 +2.38% 1
London +22 3 £475 -22.45% 1
Yorkshire -22 2 £538 -13.79%
UK excluding London -26 2 £538 +7.50%
North of England -31 2 £538 -13.79%

Reverse Proxy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (60.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) Multicast
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Juniper Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Application Security
1 2 (40.00%) Change Control
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) SOAR
1 2 (40.00%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) McAfee
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Pega