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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 506 543
Rank change year-on-year -59 +37 +195
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 21 9 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.056% 0.029% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.54% 0.22% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 21
10th Percentile £441 £375 £454
25th Percentile £463 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £380 £575
Median % change year-on-year +35.53% -33.91% +6.48%
75th Percentile £703 £425 £675
90th Percentile £722 £539 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £693 £425 £565
% change year-on-year +62.94% -24.82% +7.68%
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
% change year-on-year - - -5.32%

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 3,908 4,028 5,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.48% 12.88% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,574 2,340 3,619
10th Percentile £205 £213 £209
25th Percentile £356 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £469 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.32% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 138 353
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.95 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £23.09
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +156.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.56 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -44.92% +212.00%

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 20 January 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 10 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 20 January 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 -48 17 £533 +40.13% 9
Work from Home -6 9 £663 +74.34% 3
London -26 9 £533 +40.13% 3
UK excluding London -49 5 £693 +62.94% 8
South West - 2 £693 -
South East -24 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £438 -
Midlands - 1 £438 - 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 3 (14.29%) nginx
2 2 (9.52%) ArcGIS
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Serverless
3 8 (38.10%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
5 6 (28.57%) GitHub
5 6 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 3 (14.29%) Kong
8 2 (9.52%) GCP
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 1 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (4.76%) Cloud Run
9 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Network Security
2 6 (28.57%) DNS
3 5 (23.81%) Firewall
4 4 (19.05%) BGP
4 4 (19.05%) LAN
4 4 (19.05%) OSPF
4 4 (19.05%) WAN
5 2 (9.52%) BIG-IP
5 2 (9.52%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (9.52%) IPsec
5 2 (9.52%) MPLS
5 2 (9.52%) RFID
5 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
5 2 (9.52%) SSL
5 2 (9.52%) VPN
5 2 (9.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Hub
2 2 (9.52%) GIS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) SAP Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Node.js
1 4 (19.05%) OAuth
1 4 (19.05%) SAML
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) OAuth2
2 2 (9.52%) OpenID
2 2 (9.52%) SAP Basis
3 1 (4.76%) JWT
3 1 (4.76%) Middleware
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (19.05%) PKI
2 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) CESG
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 6 (28.57%) Observability
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (19.05%) Migration
5 4 (19.05%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Application Security
6 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 3 (14.29%) SABSA
6 3 (14.29%) Security Architecture
6 3 (14.29%) SFIA
6 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
7 2 (9.52%) Agile
7 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (9.52%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Ruby
3 4 (19.05%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Bicep
5 1 (4.76%) Go
5 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (9.52%) CCDP
5 2 (9.52%) CCIE
5 2 (9.52%) CCIE Security
5 2 (9.52%) CCNP
5 2 (9.52%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (9.52%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (9.52%) CREST Certified
6 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) JSP 440
1 2 (9.52%) NCSC
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
1 2 (9.52%) RMADS
1 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) GRC
2 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Grafana
2 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
3 3 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.76%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
4 1 (4.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Netskope
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco
2 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto
3 3 (14.29%) Broadcom
3 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 3 (14.29%) Symantec
4 2 (9.52%) Aruba
4 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
4 2 (9.52%) ESRI
4 2 (9.52%) F5
4 2 (9.52%) Juniper
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) SAP
4 2 (9.52%) Zscaler
5 1 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Okta
5 1 (4.76%) Ping Identity
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk