RxJava Contract Job Trends

RxJava
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RxJava skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 557 644
Rank change year-on-year +4 +87 +113
Contract jobs citing RxJava 12 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.023% 0.004%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.10% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £428 £510 -
25th Percentile £520 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -47.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 7,502 8,574 11,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.97% 22.34% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,979 5,574 7,951
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £736 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 189 181
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £35.63
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.70 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +2.67% -4.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.00
90th Percentile £72.30 £74.89 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £58.81
% change year-on-year -11.54% +10.53% -7.53%

RxJava
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RxJava 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 21 September 2025.

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 21 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 +20 12 £600 +14.29% 3
London +26 11 £600 +14.29% 2
UK excluding London +11 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

RxJava
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Gradle
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Android Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Dagger
2 4 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
3 3 (25.00%) OkHttp
3 3 (25.00%) RAML
3 3 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (25.00%) WireMock
4 1 (8.33%) Android SDK
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) CSS3
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) HTML5
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) Retrofit
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Derivative
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Android Development
2 8 (66.67%) MVVM
3 7 (58.33%) Agile
4 6 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 1 (8.33%) DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Electronic Trading
7 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Functional Programming
7 1 (8.33%) Microservices
7 1 (8.33%) Open Source
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (8.33%) Push Notifications
7 1 (8.33%) SOLID
7 1 (8.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Kotlin
2 8 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google