Reactive Extensions Contract Job Trends

Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx.NET)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Reactive Extensions skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 565 618
Rank change year-on-year +24 +53 +111
Contract jobs citing Reactive Extensions 18 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.021% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.093% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 21
10th Percentile £750 £720 -
25th Percentile £800 £775 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +18.52% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £863 £800
90th Percentile - £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Reactive Extensions falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,486 8,575 11,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 22.42% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,975 5,593 7,918
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £795 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 186 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.11% -5.55%

Reactive Extensions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Reactive Extensions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Reactive Extensions in the UK

Reactive Extensions
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reactive Extensions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reactive Extensions

Reactive Extensions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reactive Extensions over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reactive Extensions in the UK

Reactive Extensions
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reactive Extensions.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reactive Extensions

Reactive Extensions
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reactive Extensions within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 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 +42 18 £850 +6.25%
London +36 18 £850 +6.25%
Work from Home +20 14 £850 +6.25%

Reactive Extensions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 18 (100.00%) Front Office
2 15 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (83.33%) .NET Developer
2 15 (83.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 9 (50.00%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
3 9 (50.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 9 (50.00%) Real Time Developer
4 3 (16.67%) SOA Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (88.89%) .NET
2 9 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 6 (33.33%) Akka.NET
4 1 (5.56%) ReactiveX
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Fixed Income
2 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Agile
1 16 (88.89%) Design Patterns
2 11 (61.11%) Electronic Trading
3 9 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
4 7 (38.89%) SOA
4 7 (38.89%) TDD
5 6 (33.33%) Functional Programming
5 6 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
5 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Economics
6 4 (22.22%) Low Latency
6 4 (22.22%) OO
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (5.56%) Memory Management
8 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) F#
4 4 (22.22%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft