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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 518 574
Rank change year-on-year -61 +56 +116
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 40 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.020% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.89% 0.16% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 6 10
10th Percentile £431 £368 £446
25th Percentile £450 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £380 £516
Median % change year-on-year +33.55% -26.39% -6.14%
75th Percentile £688 - £578
90th Percentile £714 £459 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -5.45%

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 4,488 3,789 5,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 12.88% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,816 2,345 3,442
10th Percentile £238 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - -5.80%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 168 421
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.85
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% +110.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.69 £62.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £46.39
% change year-on-year +96.43% -39.64% +150.76%

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 18 April 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 11 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 18 April 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 -76 33 £515 +35.53% 11
Work from Home -26 17 £515 +35.53% 2
UK excluding London -79 16 £500 -4.76% 5
London -36 13 £515 +35.53% 6
South West - 6 £690 -
North of England - 5 £500 -
Midlands - 4 £438 -
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
Yorkshire - 3 £563 -
North West - 1 £450 -
South East - 1 - - 5

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 10 (25.00%) nginx
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) ArcGIS
3 2 (5.00%) Traefik
4 1 (2.50%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) Serverless
3 11 (27.50%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (22.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (22.50%) Entra ID
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (17.50%) GCP
6 6 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (15.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (15.00%) GitHub
6 6 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (12.50%) Azure
8 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 4 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (7.50%) Kong
10 2 (5.00%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) Network Security
2 9 (22.50%) Firewall
3 7 (17.50%) DNS
4 4 (10.00%) BGP
4 4 (10.00%) LAN
4 4 (10.00%) OSPF
4 4 (10.00%) WAN
5 3 (7.50%) VPN
6 2 (5.00%) BIG-IP
6 2 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (5.00%) IPsec
6 2 (5.00%) MPLS
6 2 (5.00%) RFID
6 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (5.00%) SSL
6 2 (5.00%) VXLAN
7 1 (2.50%) DHCP
7 1 (2.50%) ICMP
7 1 (2.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.50%) Data Hub
3 2 (5.00%) CockroachDB
3 2 (5.00%) GIS
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Git
2 10 (25.00%) GitLab
3 4 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (7.50%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) Gatling
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Military
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Police
4 2 (5.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Architect
1 9 (22.50%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 3 (7.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Lead
5 3 (7.50%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Node.js
1 7 (17.50%) OAuth
1 7 (17.50%) SAML
2 5 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 5 (12.50%) OpenID
3 3 (7.50%) Middleware
3 3 (7.50%) React
3 3 (7.50%) Vue
4 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.00%) CSS
4 2 (5.00%) gRPC
4 2 (5.00%) HTML
4 2 (5.00%) Hugging Face
4 2 (5.00%) JWT
4 2 (5.00%) Kafka
4 2 (5.00%) RESTful
4 2 (5.00%) SAP Basis
4 2 (5.00%) SignalR
4 2 (5.00%) WebAssembly
4 2 (5.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.00%) PKI
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.00%) CESG
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) VMS
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (42.50%) Containerisation
4 16 (40.00%) DevOps
5 8 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
6 7 (17.50%) Application Security
6 7 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (17.50%) Observability
6 7 (17.50%) Open Source
6 7 (17.50%) SABSA
6 7 (17.50%) SDLC
6 7 (17.50%) Security Architecture
6 7 (17.50%) TOGAF
7 6 (15.00%) DevSecOps
7 6 (15.00%) Migration
7 6 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
7 6 (15.00%) Validation
8 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (12.50%) Secrets Management
8 5 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) Bash
3 6 (15.00%) Java
3 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.00%) Ruby
4 3 (7.50%) Bicep
4 3 (7.50%) Go
4 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
4 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (15.00%) Degree
4 6 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.00%) CCDP
6 2 (5.00%) CCIE
6 2 (5.00%) CCIE Security
6 2 (5.00%) CCNP
6 2 (5.00%) CEH
6 2 (5.00%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (5.00%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.00%) CREST Certified
6 2 (5.00%) SANS
7 1 (2.50%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) NIST
2 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (12.50%) SOC 2
3 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.50%) GDPR
3 3 (7.50%) GRC
3 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (5.00%) JSP 440
4 2 (5.00%) NCSC
4 2 (5.00%) QA
4 2 (5.00%) RMADS
5 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Docker
2 9 (22.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.50%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 24 (60.00%) Terraform
2 23 (57.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (22.50%) Grafana
3 9 (22.50%) Prometheus
4 7 (17.50%) Ansible
5 5 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (10.00%) Podman
6 4 (10.00%) Puppet
6 4 (10.00%) Salt
7 3 (7.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (2.50%) HAProxy
8 1 (2.50%) Istio
8 1 (2.50%) SELinux
8 1 (2.50%) systemd
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Fortinet
2 6 (15.00%) Google
3 5 (12.50%) Netskope
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco
4 4 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.50%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (7.50%) Broadcom
5 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.50%) Splunk
5 3 (7.50%) Symantec
6 2 (5.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.00%) ESRI
6 2 (5.00%) Juniper
6 2 (5.00%) Okta
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle
6 2 (5.00%) Ping Identity
6 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.00%) SAP
6 2 (5.00%) Zscaler