React Contract Job Trends in the East of England

React.js
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 66 74
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing React 33 19 39
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.81% 1.79% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.16% 10.86% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 31
10th Percentile £451 £315 £425
25th Percentile £470 £318 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £363 £534
Median % change year-on-year +65.52% -32.12% +5.74%
75th Percentile £709 £506 £600
90th Percentile £749 £525 £607
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.38
90th Percentile - - £66.60
England median hourly rate £76.00 £38.75 £67.00
% change year-on-year +96.13% -42.16% -4.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

React 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 in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 233 175 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.76% 16.45% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 109 148
10th Percentile £405 £315 £309
25th Percentile £463 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -8.84%
75th Percentile £658 £600 £582
90th Percentile £752 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 16
10th Percentile £40.85 £63.50 £23.38
25th Percentile £55.00 £66.25 £42.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +26.06% -15.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £77.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.45 £70.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing React relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

React job vacancy trend in the East of England

React
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing React.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing React

React
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React in the East of England

React
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing React.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing React

React
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing React within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Suffolk +7 9 £700 +75.00% 4
Bedfordshire - 9 £600 - 4
Cambridgeshire 0 7 £475 -3.80% 7
Hertfordshire - 6 £413 - 12
Essex -7 1 £505 +60.32% 3
Norfolk -25 1 £475 - 1
React
England

React
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (27.27%) CMS
1 9 (27.27%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Serverless
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) NoSQL
2 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.03%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.03%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Technical Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.12%) .NET Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Developer
5 4 (12.12%) React Developer
6 3 (9.09%) DevOps Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Engineering Specialist
6 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 3 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Portal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) .NET
1 15 (45.45%) Node.js
2 14 (42.42%) AngularJS
3 9 (27.27%) CSS
3 9 (27.27%) HTML
4 8 (24.24%) ASP.NET
4 8 (24.24%) ASP.NET Core
4 8 (24.24%) jQuery
5 7 (21.21%) .NET Core
5 7 (21.21%) REST
6 5 (15.15%) RESTful
7 4 (12.12%) Express.js
8 2 (6.06%) FastAPI
8 2 (6.06%) MERN Stack
8 2 (6.06%) NestJS
9 1 (3.03%) Blazor
9 1 (3.03%) Jest
9 1 (3.03%) Next.js
9 1 (3.03%) pytest
9 1 (3.03%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) Agile
2 19 (57.58%) CI/CD
3 15 (45.45%) DevOps
3 15 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (36.36%) Front End Development
4 12 (36.36%) Microservices
5 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (30.30%) Scrum
5 10 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
6 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
7 7 (21.21%) User Stories
8 6 (18.18%) Data Governance
8 6 (18.18%) Personalization
8 6 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (15.15%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (15.15%) Unit Testing
10 4 (12.12%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
10 4 (12.12%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) C#
2 12 (36.36%) SQL
3 8 (24.24%) TypeScript
4 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.15%) Python
6 1 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) Bourne shell
6 1 (3.03%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Consul
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Sitecore
2 1 (3.03%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle