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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 533 570
Rank change year-on-year -38 +37 +215
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 6 14 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.038% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 0.32% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 31
10th Percentile £476 £421 £513
25th Percentile £495 £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% +11.43%
75th Percentile £594 £622 £681
90th Percentile £639 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% +35.29%
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 3,949 4,410 6,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.29% 12.05% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,561 2,547 4,090
10th Percentile £213 £223 £213
25th Percentile £360 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £683 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.42% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 159 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.95 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £26.25 £22.56
Median hourly rate £34.00 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% -13.64% +33.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.26 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £51.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -17.07% -9.28% +25.53%

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 8 November 2025.

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 6 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 8 November 2025. 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 -25 6 £538 +2.38% 4
London +11 4 £569 -7.14% 2
Yorkshire -33 2 £538 -13.79%
North of England -33 2 £538 -13.79%
UK excluding London -40 2 £538 +7.50% 2
Work from Home +4 1 £663 +26.92% 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 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Serverless
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (33.33%) IPsec
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) Multicast
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) VXLAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Juniper Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Application Security
1 2 (33.33%) Change Control
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
1 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (33.33%) SIEM
1 2 (33.33%) SOAR
1 2 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) JNCIA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Firmware
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) HAProxy
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Pega