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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 539 604
Rank change year-on-year -30 +65 +158
Contract jobs citing RxJava 13 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.011% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.051% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £394 £520 £630
25th Percentile £505 £550 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £571 £650 £838
90th Percentile £778 £680 £935
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 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

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 7 December 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 6 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 7 December 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 -25 13 £520 - 5
London - 11 £520 - 2
UK excluding London -38 2 - - 4
North of England - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
Work from Home -4 1 £895 +49.17% 6

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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (30.77%) Google Play
4 2 (15.38%) Firebase
5 1 (7.69%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Bitrise
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (7.69%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) JUnit
2 5 (38.46%) CircleCI
3 4 (30.77%) Gradle
4 3 (23.08%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (15.38%) JIRA
5 2 (15.38%) Mockito
6 1 (7.69%) Android Studio
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (84.62%) Android Developer
3 1 (7.69%) iOS Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Android Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Android Jetpack
1 9 (69.23%) Jetpack Compose
2 7 (53.85%) Dagger
3 5 (38.46%) REST
4 4 (30.77%) OkHttp
4 4 (30.77%) RAML
4 4 (30.77%) RESTful
4 4 (30.77%) WireMock
5 3 (23.08%) Android SDK
5 3 (23.08%) Web Services
6 2 (15.38%) CSS
6 2 (15.38%) CSS3
6 2 (15.38%) HTML
6 2 (15.38%) HTML5
6 2 (15.38%) Retrofit
6 2 (15.38%) XML
7 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
7 1 (7.69%) Kafka
7 1 (7.69%) Redux
7 1 (7.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Android Development
2 8 (61.54%) MVVM
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (30.77%) User Experience
5 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) Open Source
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Asynchronous Programming
6 2 (15.38%) Benchmarking
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) OOP
6 2 (15.38%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) SOLID
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Kotlin
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) Solace