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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 556 537
Rank change year-on-year -93 -19 +57
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 25 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.046% 0.018% 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.49% 0.16% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 13
10th Percentile £436 £476 £435
25th Percentile £488 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £531 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +2.16% -11.49%
75th Percentile £556 £559 £600
90th Percentile £687 £565 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -6.98% +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 5,096 3,795 4,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 11.53% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 2,356 2,663
10th Percentile £231 £225 £225
25th Percentile £393 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 200 250
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -15.84% -10.60%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.74 £73.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -30.59% -25.89% -0.26%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Proxy over the 6 months to 20 September 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 20 September 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 25 £506 -5.81% 17
UK excluding London -94 16 £500 -6.98% 7
North of England -58 10 £475 -11.63% 5
Yorkshire -38 9 £475 -11.63% 4
London -76 6 £650 +36.84% 12
Work from Home - 6 £575 - 4
Midlands - 2 £463 -
East of England - 2 £513 -
South West - 2 £688 - 1
North West - 1 - - 1
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 7 (28.00%) nginx
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
2 3 (12.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Traefik
3 1 (4.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) AWS
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) Serverless
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Run
5 3 (12.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (4.00%) IaaS
7 1 (4.00%) NuGet
7 1 (4.00%) PaaS
7 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) DNS
2 6 (24.00%) BGP
2 6 (24.00%) Firewall
2 6 (24.00%) Network Security
2 6 (24.00%) SSL
3 4 (16.00%) HTTP
4 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (8.00%) DHCP
5 2 (8.00%) HTTPS
5 2 (8.00%) IPsec
5 2 (8.00%) LAN
5 2 (8.00%) OSPF
5 2 (8.00%) PSTN
5 2 (8.00%) VoIP
5 2 (8.00%) VPN
5 2 (8.00%) WAN
5 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (8.00%) Wireless
5 2 (8.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.00%) InfluxDB
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) SQLite
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Gerrit
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.00%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Police
4 3 (12.00%) Law
5 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Military
6 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) IAM Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) Terraform
2 7 (28.00%) Node.js
3 6 (24.00%) React
4 5 (20.00%) SAML
5 4 (16.00%) CSS
5 4 (16.00%) JWT
5 4 (16.00%) OpenID
5 4 (16.00%) Vue
6 3 (12.00%) Middleware
6 3 (12.00%) OAuth
6 3 (12.00%) OAuth2
7 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (8.00%) Jolokia
7 2 (8.00%) LDAP
7 2 (8.00%) RESTful
7 2 (8.00%) SignalR
7 2 (8.00%) WebSockets
8 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
8 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
8 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (16.00%) PKI
4 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.00%) Client/Server
6 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.00%) Rocky
3 2 (8.00%) Windows
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 5 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (16.00%) Edge Computing
6 4 (16.00%) Microservices
6 4 (16.00%) Observability
6 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Secrets Management
6 4 (16.00%) SIEM
6 4 (16.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (16.00%) Validation
6 4 (16.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) Bash
4 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (16.00%) Java
5 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (12.00%) Go
7 2 (8.00%) Groovy
7 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
8 1 (4.00%) R
8 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) CCNP
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) CEH
5 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.00%) SANS
5 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (8.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Grafana
2 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (16.00%) Ansible
3 4 (16.00%) Puppet
4 2 (8.00%) Podman
4 2 (8.00%) Salt
4 2 (8.00%) SELinux
4 2 (8.00%) systemd
5 1 (4.00%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.00%) Istio
5 1 (4.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Google
3 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (12.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco
4 3 (12.00%) Okta
5 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.00%) Ping Identity
5 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.00%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (4.00%) Coverity
6 1 (4.00%) Databricks
6 1 (4.00%) F5
6 1 (4.00%) Intel
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle
6 1 (4.00%) Perforce
6 1 (4.00%) Sonatype
6 1 (4.00%) WSO2