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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 523 567
Rank change year-on-year -35 +44 +160
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 29 9 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.029% 0.073%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.71% 0.22% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 13
10th Percentile £438 £375 £451
25th Percentile £450 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £380 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.55% -30.91% +1.85%
75th Percentile £683 £425 £580
90th Percentile £714 £539 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £555
% change year-on-year +5.88% -23.42% -3.48%
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 4,087 4,022 6,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.38% 13.10% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,693 2,354 3,640
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £353 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.16%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.53% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 133 408
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.63 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.46 £20.96
Median hourly rate £29.44 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% -31.58% +137.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £29.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year +39.79% -44.11% +160.99%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -55 23 £515 +35.53% 7
Work from Home -16 13 £515 +35.53% 3
UK excluding London -53 11 £450 +5.88% 4
London -34 9 £533 +40.13% 2
North of England - 5 £500 - 3
Yorkshire - 3 £563 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
Midlands - 3 £438 -
South West - 2 £693 - 1
South East -23 1 - -
North West - 1 £450 -

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 (20.69%) nginx
2 3 (10.34%) Confluence
3 2 (6.90%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Serverless
3 9 (31.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (27.59%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (20.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
5 6 (20.69%) GitHub
5 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (17.24%) GCP
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (10.34%) Kong
9 2 (6.90%) Azure
9 2 (6.90%) Cloud Run
9 2 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.45%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) Network Security
2 6 (20.69%) DNS
3 5 (17.24%) Firewall
4 4 (13.79%) BGP
4 4 (13.79%) LAN
4 4 (13.79%) OSPF
4 4 (13.79%) WAN
5 2 (6.90%) BIG-IP
5 2 (6.90%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (6.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (6.90%) IPsec
5 2 (6.90%) MPLS
5 2 (6.90%) RFID
5 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
5 2 (6.90%) SSL
5 2 (6.90%) VPN
5 2 (6.90%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Data Hub
1 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) GIS
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Git
2 7 (24.14%) GitLab
3 3 (10.34%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Security Architect
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Site Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) OAuth
1 7 (24.14%) SAML
2 5 (17.24%) Node.js
2 5 (17.24%) OAuth2
2 5 (17.24%) OpenID
3 2 (6.90%) CSS
3 2 (6.90%) HTML
3 2 (6.90%) Hugging Face
3 2 (6.90%) JWT
3 2 (6.90%) LangChain
3 2 (6.90%) Middleware
3 2 (6.90%) RESTful
3 2 (6.90%) SAP Basis
3 2 (6.90%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) PKI
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.90%) CESG
4 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Hedge funds
4 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
1 18 (62.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (37.93%) Containerisation
2 11 (37.93%) DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) Network Segmentation
4 7 (24.14%) Application Security
4 7 (24.14%) Observability
4 7 (24.14%) SABSA
4 7 (24.14%) Security Architecture
4 7 (24.14%) TOGAF
5 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps
5 6 (20.69%) Migration
5 6 (20.69%) SDLC
5 6 (20.69%) Threat Modelling
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
6 5 (17.24%) Secrets Management
6 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (17.24%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) Ruby
3 5 (17.24%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) Bicep
5 2 (6.90%) Go
5 2 (6.90%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
3 7 (24.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (20.69%) Degree
5 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
6 2 (6.90%) CCDP
6 2 (6.90%) CCIE
6 2 (6.90%) CCIE Security
6 2 (6.90%) CCNP
6 2 (6.90%) CEH
6 2 (6.90%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (6.90%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.90%) CREST Certified
6 2 (6.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) NIST
2 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (17.24%) SOC 2
3 3 (10.34%) GDPR
3 3 (10.34%) GRC
3 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (6.90%) HIPAA
4 2 (6.90%) JSP 440
4 2 (6.90%) NCSC
4 2 (6.90%) RMADS
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (13.79%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 18 (62.07%) Terraform
2 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.24%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (13.79%) Ansible
4 4 (13.79%) Grafana
4 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
5 3 (10.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (3.45%) Puppet
6 1 (3.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Netskope
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Palo Alto
3 3 (10.34%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (10.34%) Broadcom
3 3 (10.34%) Fortinet
3 3 (10.34%) Splunk
3 3 (10.34%) Symantec
4 2 (6.90%) Aruba
4 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.90%) ESRI
4 2 (6.90%) F5
4 2 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) Juniper
4 2 (6.90%) Okta
4 2 (6.90%) Ping Identity
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.90%) Zscaler