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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 541 554
Rank change year-on-year -106 +13 +72
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 24 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.018% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% 0.15% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 9
10th Percentile £465 £476 £495
25th Percentile £498 £495 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +2.16% -9.57%
75th Percentile £688 £559 £622
90th Percentile £691 £565 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £538 £520
% change year-on-year +9.30% +3.37% -9.57%

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 5,040 3,958 4,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.40% 11.94% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,994 2,420 2,867
10th Percentile £250 £240 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 198 315
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £19.59
Median hourly rate £26.44 £46.88 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.59% -4.34% -2.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.30 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.76% -18.18% -2.64%

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

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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

Reverse Proxy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Proxy over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Reverse Proxy in the UK

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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

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Top 9 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 9 August 2026. 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 -103 22 £525 -2.33% 7
UK excluding London -81 12 £588 +9.30% 1
London -85 7 £492 +3.58% 6
Work from Home - 7 £500 - 1
Yorkshire -34 6 £588 +9.30%
North of England -62 6 £588 +9.30%
South West - 4 £688 -
Midlands - 2 £463 -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -

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 6 (25.00%) nginx
2 3 (12.50%) Confluence
3 2 (8.33%) Apache
3 2 (8.33%) Traefik
4 1 (4.17%) IIS
4 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
2 5 (20.83%) Serverless
2 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.17%) Figma
6 1 (4.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) DNS
2 7 (29.17%) Network Security
3 6 (25.00%) Firewall
4 5 (20.83%) BGP
4 5 (20.83%) SSL
5 4 (16.67%) HTTP
6 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
7 2 (8.33%) DHCP
7 2 (8.33%) HTTPS
7 2 (8.33%) SSH
7 2 (8.33%) VPN
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (4.17%) ICMP
8 1 (4.17%) IPsec
8 1 (4.17%) OpenVPN
8 1 (4.17%) VLAN
8 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (8.33%) CockroachDB
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 2 (8.33%) Gatling
4 2 (8.33%) JIRA
5 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.17%) Maven
5 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Police
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Law
4 2 (8.33%) Military
4 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (8.33%) Network Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Siebel Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) CSS
1 4 (16.67%) Node.js
2 3 (12.50%) React
2 3 (12.50%) Vue
3 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.33%) gRPC
3 2 (8.33%) Kafka
3 2 (8.33%) SignalR
3 2 (8.33%) WebAssembly
3 2 (8.33%) WebSockets
4 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.17%) boto
4 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.17%) LDAP
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) SAML
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) Web Services
4 1 (4.17%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Hedge funds
4 2 (8.33%) PKI
5 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
5 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
3 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (20.83%) Load Balancing
5 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Edge Computing
5 4 (16.67%) SIEM
5 4 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
6 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (12.50%) Refactoring
6 3 (12.50%) SDLC
6 3 (12.50%) Software Deployment
6 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Bash
1 7 (29.17%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 2 (8.33%) Rust
6 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.17%) Go
7 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) CEH
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) SANS
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (41.67%) Terraform
3 6 (25.00%) Grafana
3 6 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (20.83%) Ansible
5 4 (16.67%) Podman
6 3 (12.50%) Puppet
6 3 (12.50%) Salt
7 2 (8.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (8.33%) SELinux
7 2 (8.33%) systemd
8 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
8 1 (4.17%) Istio
8 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Google
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.33%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Intel
5 1 (4.17%) Siebel
5 1 (4.17%) Sonatype