Hybrid/Remote Reverse Proxy Contract Job Trends

Reverse Proxy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Reverse Proxy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 310 370
Rank change year-on-year -2 +60 +180
Contract jobs citing Reverse Proxy 6 6 21
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.059% 0.049% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 0.47% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 14
10th Percentile £578 £380 £538
25th Percentile £660 £387 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £419 £656
Median % change year-on-year +65.37% -36.19% +27.18%
75th Percentile £722 £481 £681
90th Percentile £725 £522 £686
UK median daily rate £600 £425 £594
% change year-on-year +41.18% -28.42% +15.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £65.08
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,062 1,287 2,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.43% 10.61% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 774 1,501
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +4.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £614
90th Percentile £680 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 30 85
10th Percentile £22.03 £18.11 £19.99
25th Percentile £36.06 £38.63 £21.98
Median hourly rate £64.25 £46.78 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.34% -2.54% -23.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% -25.45% +25.00%

Reverse Proxy
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Reverse Proxy and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Reverse Proxy job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Reverse Proxy
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Reverse Proxy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Reverse Proxy

Reverse Proxy
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Reverse Proxy over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Reverse Proxy daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Reverse Proxy
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Reverse Proxy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Reverse Proxy

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (83.33%) AWS CodePipeline
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub Actions
1 5 (83.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Design Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Broadcom
1 1 (16.67%) Netskope
1 1 (16.67%) Symantec