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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 528 568
Rank change year-on-year -83 +40 +85
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 35 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.013% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 0.11% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 9
10th Percentile £434 £468 £500
25th Percentile £448 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -6.56%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £622
90th Percentile £689 £533 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -14.29% +0.96% -

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 4,836 3,768 5,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.48% 12.33% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,961 2,296 3,192
10th Percentile £250 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.43%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.62% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 179 433
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.83 £21.99 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% - +114.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.05 £80.20 £73.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £36.57 £47.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -23.01% +115.91%

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Proxy over the 6 months to 28 June 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 28 June 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 -97 32 £500 +5.26% 2
UK excluding London -89 19 £450 -14.29% 1
Work from Home - 11 £450 -
London -67 9 £500 +5.26% 1
North of England - 9 £500 -
Yorkshire - 7 £563 -
Midlands - 5 £438 -
East Midlands - 4 £442 -
South West - 4 £688 -
North West - 1 £450 -
South East - 1 - -

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 7 (20.00%) nginx
2 3 (8.57%) Confluence
3 2 (5.71%) Traefik
4 1 (2.86%) Apache
4 1 (2.86%) ArcGIS
4 1 (2.86%) IIS
4 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.86%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Entra ID
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) GCP
4 6 (17.14%) Azure
4 6 (17.14%) Serverless
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Control Tower
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.71%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Run
7 2 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.86%) Figma
8 1 (2.86%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (40.00%) Network Security
2 8 (22.86%) Firewall
3 7 (20.00%) DNS
4 6 (17.14%) BGP
5 5 (14.29%) SSL
6 4 (11.43%) HTTP
7 2 (5.71%) LAN
7 2 (5.71%) OSPF
7 2 (5.71%) VPN
7 2 (5.71%) WAN
8 1 (2.86%) DHCP
8 1 (2.86%) DMZ
8 1 (2.86%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (2.86%) ICMP
8 1 (2.86%) MPLS
8 1 (2.86%) SAN
8 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.86%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon QuickSight
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.71%) CockroachDB
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.86%) GIS
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
1 7 (20.00%) GitLab
2 4 (11.43%) Artifactory
3 3 (8.57%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Gatling
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Military
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Law
4 2 (5.71%) Police
4 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Architect
1 6 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (17.14%) Developer
2 4 (11.43%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Security Architect
2 4 (11.43%) Senior
3 3 (8.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (5.71%) Network Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Network Security Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Applications Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Network Designer
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Siebel Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) Node.js
1 6 (17.14%) OAuth
1 6 (17.14%) SAML
2 5 (14.29%) CSS
2 5 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 5 (14.29%) OpenID
3 3 (8.57%) Middleware
3 3 (8.57%) React
3 3 (8.57%) Vue
4 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.71%) gRPC
4 2 (5.71%) Hugging Face
4 2 (5.71%) JWT
4 2 (5.71%) Kafka
4 2 (5.71%) LangChain
4 2 (5.71%) RESTful
4 2 (5.71%) SignalR
4 2 (5.71%) vLLM
4 2 (5.71%) WebAssembly
4 2 (5.71%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 7 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
5 3 (8.57%) PKI
6 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
6 2 (5.71%) Hedge funds
6 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.86%) CESG
7 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.86%) VMS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
2 16 (45.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (42.86%) DevOps
4 13 (37.14%) Containerisation
5 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (22.86%) Zero Trust
7 7 (20.00%) Application Security
7 7 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (20.00%) Open Source
7 7 (20.00%) SIEM
7 7 (20.00%) Validation
8 6 (17.14%) DevSecOps
8 6 (17.14%) Migration
8 6 (17.14%) SABSA
8 6 (17.14%) SDLC
8 6 (17.14%) Security Architecture
8 6 (17.14%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (17.14%) TOGAF
9 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (14.29%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 8 (22.86%) Bash
2 8 (22.86%) Java
3 6 (17.14%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.57%) Bicep
6 3 (8.57%) Go
6 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.71%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) CEH
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.71%) SANS
6 1 (2.86%) CCDP
6 1 (2.86%) CCIE
6 1 (2.86%) CCIE Security
6 1 (2.86%) CCNP
6 1 (2.86%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (2.86%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (2.86%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.86%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (17.14%) NIST
2 5 (14.29%) SOC 2
3 3 (8.57%) GDPR
3 3 (8.57%) GRC
3 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (8.57%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.71%) HIPAA
4 2 (5.71%) QA
5 1 (2.86%) JSP 440
5 1 (2.86%) NCSC
5 1 (2.86%) RMADS
5 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Docker
2 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (48.57%) Kubernetes
1 17 (48.57%) Terraform
2 6 (17.14%) Grafana
2 6 (17.14%) Prometheus
3 4 (11.43%) Ansible
3 4 (11.43%) Podman
3 4 (11.43%) Puppet
3 4 (11.43%) Salt
3 4 (11.43%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (8.57%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.86%) Istio
5 1 (2.86%) SELinux
5 1 (2.86%) systemd
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Google
3 5 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 3 (8.57%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.57%) Splunk
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco
5 2 (5.71%) Netskope
5 2 (5.71%) Okta
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.71%) Ping Identity
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.86%) ESRI
6 1 (2.86%) Intel
6 1 (2.86%) Juniper
6 1 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) Siebel
6 1 (2.86%) Symantec