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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 655 540 544
Rank change year-on-year -115 +4 +33
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 30 5 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.015% 0.042%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.59% 0.13% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 10
10th Percentile £444 £471 £423
25th Percentile £484 £484 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +3.61% -9.78%
75th Percentile £589 £563 £603
90th Percentile £684 £566 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -10.81%

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 5,043 3,808 4,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.23% 11.47% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,910 2,393 2,614
10th Percentile £231 £220 £225
25th Percentile £389 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £606
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £453 £485
% change year-on-year +4.86% -6.60% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 205 202
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.25 £23.90
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.51% -16.12% -11.49%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £74.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -37.27% -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

Reverse Proxy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Proxy over the 6 months to 4 October 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 12 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 4 October 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 -100 29 £513 -4.65% 23
UK excluding London -87 19 £500 -6.98% 10
North of England -56 12 £460 -14.42% 4
Yorkshire -31 11 £460 -14.42% 3
London -78 9 £638 +34.21% 15
Work from Home - 6 £575 - 3
South West - 2 £688 - 3
East of England - 2 £513 -
East Midlands - 2 £520 -
Midlands - 2 £520 -
North West - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 2

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 8 (26.67%) nginx
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
2 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.33%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
1 11 (36.67%) Entra ID
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) GCP
3 6 (20.00%) Serverless
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Run
4 5 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.67%) PaaS
7 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) DNS
2 8 (26.67%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) SSL
3 7 (23.33%) Network Security
4 6 (20.00%) BGP
5 4 (13.33%) HTTP
6 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (6.67%) HTTPS
7 2 (6.67%) IPsec
7 2 (6.67%) LAN
7 2 (6.67%) OSPF
7 2 (6.67%) PSTN
7 2 (6.67%) VLAN
7 2 (6.67%) VoIP
7 2 (6.67%) VPN
7 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.67%) InfluxDB
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) Big Data
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Redis
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
2 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) Gerrit
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Maven
4 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.33%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Police
5 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 3 (10.00%) Law
6 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.67%) Military
7 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.33%) Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Applications Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) Terraform
2 9 (30.00%) Node.js
2 9 (30.00%) OpenID
2 9 (30.00%) SAML
3 8 (26.67%) OAuth
4 7 (23.33%) JWT
4 7 (23.33%) React
5 6 (20.00%) OAuth2
6 4 (13.33%) CSS
6 4 (13.33%) Middleware
6 4 (13.33%) RESTful
7 3 (10.00%) Vue
8 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 2 (6.67%) Jolokia
8 2 (6.67%) Kafka
8 2 (6.67%) LDAP
8 2 (6.67%) SignalR
8 2 (6.67%) WebSockets
8 2 (6.67%) YAML
9 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (23.33%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (20.00%) PKI
4 5 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (6.67%) Replication
7 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
7 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
7 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (3.33%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (10.00%) Windows
4 2 (6.67%) Rocky
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (3.33%) VMS
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (46.67%) DevOps
3 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 8 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (26.67%) Validation
5 7 (23.33%) Agile
5 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
5 7 (23.33%) Observability
6 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (20.00%) Microservices
6 6 (20.00%) Migration
6 6 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (20.00%) Secrets Management
6 6 (20.00%) Workflow
7 5 (16.67%) API Development
7 5 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (16.67%) Load Balancing
7 5 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) SQL
2 11 (36.67%) Python
3 8 (26.67%) Bash
4 7 (23.33%) PowerShell
5 5 (16.67%) Go
6 4 (13.33%) Java
7 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (6.67%) Groovy
8 2 (6.67%) Kotlin
9 1 (3.33%) C#
9 1 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (3.33%) MATLAB
9 1 (3.33%) R
9 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) Degree
3 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.67%) CCNP
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) CEH
5 1 (3.33%) FFIEC
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) SANS
5 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.33%) HIPAA
2 4 (13.33%) SOC 2
3 2 (6.67%) NIST
4 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.33%) GLBA
4 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
2 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (23.33%) Grafana
2 7 (23.33%) Prometheus
3 5 (16.67%) Ansible
4 4 (13.33%) Puppet
5 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (6.67%) HAProxy
6 2 (6.67%) Podman
6 2 (6.67%) Salt
7 1 (3.33%) Istio
7 1 (3.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.33%) SELinux
7 1 (3.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Google
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Okta
3 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (13.33%) Ping Identity
5 3 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (10.00%) Cisco
5 3 (10.00%) Databricks
5 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.67%) F5
6 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.33%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (3.33%) Coverity
7 1 (3.33%) ForgeRock
7 1 (3.33%) Intel
7 1 (3.33%) Perforce
7 1 (3.33%) Sonatype
7 1 (3.33%) WSO2