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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 64 82
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing React 31 26 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.85% 2.37% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.72% 14.13% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 22
10th Percentile £399 £309 £424
25th Percentile £466 £321 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £375 £534
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% -29.78% +4.20%
75th Percentile £713 £505 £600
90th Percentile £750 £524 £606
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £54.70 - £62.50
75th Percentile £55.85 - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £66.65
England median hourly rate £75.00 £38.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +93.55% -38.00% -10.71%

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 226 184 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.47% 16.76% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 105 135
10th Percentile £400 £303 £300
25th Percentile £450 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £662 £575 £569
90th Percentile £755 £658 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 7 13
10th Percentile £41.10 £63.50 £26.26
25th Percentile £43.00 - £43.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.12% -15.27%
75th Percentile £74.61 £72.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £76.63 £73.00 £66.65
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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

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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

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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 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React in the East of England

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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

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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 28 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
Suffolk +5 10 £700 +86.67% 18
Cambridgeshire -6 7 £405 -15.40% 25
Bedfordshire -3 6 £575 - 14
Hertfordshire - 6 £413 - 26
Essex -6 1 £505 +59.56% 16
Norfolk -23 1 £475 - 17
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England

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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 6 (19.35%) CMS
1 6 (19.35%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) Serverless
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) Google Ads
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.23%) Big Data
4 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.23%) Power BI
4 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Multimedia
5 2 (6.45%) Wearables
6 1 (3.23%) Agriculture
6 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (16.13%) .NET Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Developer
4 4 (12.90%) React Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) DevOps Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Engineering Specialist
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Portal Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) AngularJS
2 11 (35.48%) .NET
3 10 (32.26%) Node.js
4 7 (22.58%) .NET Core
4 7 (22.58%) RESTful
5 6 (19.35%) CSS
5 6 (19.35%) HTML
6 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
6 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (16.13%) jQuery
7 4 (12.90%) Express.js
7 4 (12.90%) FastAPI
7 4 (12.90%) REST
8 2 (6.45%) MERN Stack
8 2 (6.45%) NestJS
9 1 (3.23%) Jest
9 1 (3.23%) Kafka
9 1 (3.23%) Next.js
9 1 (3.23%) pytest
9 1 (3.23%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Agile
2 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 14 (45.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (38.71%) DevOps
5 10 (32.26%) Microservices
6 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
7 8 (25.81%) Front End Development
7 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
8 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (22.58%) Scrum
8 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (22.58%) User Stories
9 5 (16.13%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (16.13%) Unit Testing
10 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
10 4 (12.90%) Sprint Review
10 4 (12.90%) Technical Architecture
11 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
11 3 (9.68%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) SQL
2 9 (29.03%) C#
3 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
3 8 (25.81%) TypeScript
4 7 (22.58%) Python
5 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.23%) Bicep
6 1 (3.23%) Bourne shell
6 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Sitecore
2 1 (3.23%) Databricks
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle