Vert.x Contract Job Trends

Eclipse Vert.x
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Vert.x skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 514 585
Rank change year-on-year -71 +71 +191
Contract jobs citing Vert.x 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.006% 0.014%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.037% 0.029% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £575
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 - £575

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Vert.x 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 8,140 6,989 9,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.37% 21.99% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,444 6,566
10th Percentile £356 £353 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £774 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.25% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 82 168
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.33 £28.28
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.74% -19.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year - +19.74% -19.70%

Vert.x
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Vert.x job vacancy trend in the UK

Vert.x
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Vert.x
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Vert.x
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 Vert.x within the UK over the 6 months to 11 January 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 -43 2 £250 - 5
Work from Home - 2 - - 2
South East -7 1 £250 - 5
London -8 1 - -
UK excluding London -56 1 £250 - 5

Vert.x
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 (33.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Akka
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring WebFlux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk