RxJava Contract Job Trends

RxJava
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RxJava skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 540 551
Rank change year-on-year -105 +11 +100
Contract jobs citing RxJava 27 12 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.050% 0.037% 0.026%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 6
10th Percentile £425 £451 £506
25th Percentile £455 £580 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -47.50%
75th Percentile £678 £738 -
90th Percentile £738 - £531
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

RxJava 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 11,781 8,282 9,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.79% 25.51% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,744 5,566 6,359
10th Percentile £375 £355 £359
25th Percentile £434 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 181 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £46.66 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -15.32% +3.33%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +9.22%

RxJava
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RxJava relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

RxJava job vacancy trend in the UK

RxJava
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RxJava

RxJava
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RxJava over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RxJava in the UK

RxJava
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RxJava

RxJava
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RxJava within the UK over the 6 months to 8 September 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 -107 27 £500 -16.67% 12
London -60 25 £500 -16.67% 8
Work from Home - 3 £725 - 2
East of England - 2 £475 - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £475 - 5

RxJava
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) GitHub
1 11 (40.74%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Couchbase
2 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) JUnit
2 7 (25.93%) Gradle
3 6 (22.22%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Banking
2 7 (25.93%) Investment Banking
2 7 (25.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 11 (40.74%) Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Android Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
3 5 (18.52%) Lead Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Backend Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Messaging Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Android Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) Spring
2 11 (40.74%) Kafka
3 9 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
3 9 (33.33%) REST
4 8 (29.63%) Jetpack Compose
5 6 (22.22%) Dagger
6 5 (18.52%) RESTful
6 5 (18.52%) Terraform
6 5 (18.52%) Vert.x
7 3 (11.11%) OkHttp
7 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 3 (11.11%) WireMock
8 2 (7.41%) Middleware
8 2 (7.41%) Web Services
9 1 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (3.70%) JMS
9 1 (3.70%) RAML
9 1 (3.70%) ReactiveX
9 1 (3.70%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Derivative
1 7 (25.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (22.22%) Mobile App
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (7.41%) Legacy Code
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) Agile
2 18 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Microservices
4 10 (37.04%) DevOps
4 10 (37.04%) Event-Driven
5 9 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
6 8 (29.63%) Android Development
7 7 (25.93%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (25.93%) Functional Programming
7 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) Web Development
8 5 (18.52%) BDD
8 5 (18.52%) Clean Code
8 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
8 5 (18.52%) Product Requirements
8 5 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (18.52%) Scrum
8 5 (18.52%) TDD
9 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Java
2 9 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Groovy
4 1 (3.70%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Sybase
2 2 (7.41%) Solace
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) TIBCO