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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 543 563
Rank change year-on-year -111 +20 +88
Contract jobs citing RxJava 28 12 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.036% 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.14% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 6
10th Percentile £425 £488 £506
25th Percentile £455 £580 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -31.15%
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 11,722 8,376 9,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.85% 25.39% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,701 5,659 6,433
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 185 208
10th Percentile £30.00 £30.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £49.75 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £79.48 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% +4.17%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -98 27 £500 -16.67%
London -63 25 £500 -16.67%
Work from Home - 3 £725 -
East of England - 2 £475 -
UK excluding London - 2 £475 -

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 12 (42.86%) GitHub
1 12 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Couchbase
2 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) JUnit
2 7 (25.00%) Gradle
3 6 (21.43%) CircleCI
4 2 (7.14%) Maven
5 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
2 7 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 7 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Java Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Lead
4 5 (17.86%) Android Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Lead Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Backend Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Messaging Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior
6 3 (10.71%) Android Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Java Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Spring
2 12 (42.86%) Kafka
3 10 (35.71%) REST
4 9 (32.14%) Android Jetpack
5 8 (28.57%) Jetpack Compose
6 6 (21.43%) Dagger
7 5 (17.86%) RESTful
7 5 (17.86%) Terraform
7 5 (17.86%) Vert.x
8 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
9 3 (10.71%) OkHttp
9 3 (10.71%) WireMock
10 2 (7.14%) Middleware
10 2 (7.14%) Web Services
11 1 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (3.57%) JMS
11 1 (3.57%) OAuth
11 1 (3.57%) Rendezvous
11 1 (3.57%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Derivative
1 7 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (21.43%) Mobile App
3 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Code
4 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Android
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Agile
2 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
3 13 (46.43%) Microservices
4 10 (35.71%) DevOps
4 10 (35.71%) Event-Driven
5 9 (32.14%) Electronic Trading
6 8 (28.57%) Android Development
7 7 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (25.00%) Functional Programming
7 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.00%) Web Development
8 6 (21.43%) TDD
9 5 (17.86%) BDD
9 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
9 5 (17.86%) E-Commerce
9 5 (17.86%) Product Requirements
9 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (17.86%) Scrum
10 4 (14.29%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) Kotlin
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Groovy
4 1 (3.57%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Sybase
2 2 (7.14%) Solace
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) TIBCO