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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 515 585
Rank change year-on-year -86 +70 +115
Contract jobs citing RxJava 17 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.027% 0.030%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 6
10th Percentile £275 £421 £463
25th Percentile £294 £429 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £488 £738 £534
90th Percentile £616 - £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £81.00

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 9,460 6,673 8,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.00% 22.75% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,266 4,573 6,200
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £780 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 114 234
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £82.70 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -93 15 £455 -37.24% 5
London -62 10 £455 -37.24% 3
South East - 5 £275 -
UK excluding London - 5 £275 - 3
Work from Home -40 1 £300 -46.90% 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) GitHub
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Firebase
3 2 (11.76%) Google Play
3 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) npm
4 1 (5.88%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) JUnit
2 7 (41.18%) CircleCI
2 7 (41.18%) Gradle
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) fastlane
4 1 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) Maven
4 1 (5.88%) Mockito
4 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Android Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Android Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.88%) iOS Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Messaging Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) Android Jetpack
1 12 (70.59%) Jetpack Compose
2 11 (64.71%) REST
3 9 (52.94%) Dagger
3 9 (52.94%) OkHttp
4 6 (35.29%) WireMock
5 5 (29.41%) RAML
6 4 (23.53%) Spring
7 3 (17.65%) Kafka
8 2 (11.76%) RESTful
8 2 (11.76%) XML
9 1 (5.88%) JWT
9 1 (5.88%) Middleware
9 1 (5.88%) OAuth
9 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
9 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (5.88%) Retrofit
9 1 (5.88%) Spring Security
9 1 (5.88%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Legacy Code
2 5 (29.41%) Virtual Team
3 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
4 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
5 2 (11.76%) Derivative
5 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
6 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Android Development
2 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (29.41%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (29.41%) Open Source
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Analysis
3 5 (29.41%) Time Management
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) MVVM
5 3 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (17.65%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (17.65%) Microservices
5 3 (17.65%) User Experience
6 2 (11.76%) API Integration
6 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
6 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Kotlin
2 6 (35.29%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Brightcove
2 1 (5.88%) New Relic
2 1 (5.88%) Solace
2 1 (5.88%) Sybase
2 1 (5.88%) Tealium