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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 533 557
Rank change year-on-year -49 +24 +193
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 13 11 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.032% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 0.25% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 27
10th Percentile £450 £378 £489
25th Percentile £500 £380 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £419 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -27.17% +11.43%
75th Percentile £714 £519 £681
90th Percentile £723 £538 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +23.00% -13.04% +32.18%
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 3,956 4,337 6,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 12.69% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,581 2,546 3,755
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £585 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 152 340
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.32 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.13 £22.24 £22.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -31.82% +34.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.63 £75.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £39.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year +8.28% -30.52% +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

Reverse Proxy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Proxy over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reverse Proxy in the UK

Reverse Proxy
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 7 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 18 December 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 -38 9 £550 +38.80% 4
Work from Home -10 7 £693 +67.88% 4
London -1 4 £606 +59.54% 4
UK excluding London -50 4 £615 +23.00% 2
North of England -49 2 £538 -
Yorkshire - 2 £538 -
South West - 2 £693 -

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 (23.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) Serverless
3 7 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (46.15%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (46.15%) AWS CodePipeline
4 6 (46.15%) GitHub
4 6 (46.15%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (23.08%) Kong
6 2 (15.38%) Azure
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) BGP
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) OSPF
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Hub
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
1 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Senior Software Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Site Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Technical Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
1 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
2 5 (38.46%) Observability
2 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) SFIA
5 2 (15.38%) Application Security
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Design Thinking
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) SOAR
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Ruby
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) CCNP
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Broadcom
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) McAfee
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Netskope
2 2 (15.38%) Symantec
3 1 (7.69%) Aruba
3 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto