React Contract Job Trends in the South East

React.js
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring React skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 102 165
Rank change year-on-year +19 +63 -36
Contract jobs citing React 84 82 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.41% 1.77% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.12% 11.44% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 60 33
10th Percentile £204 £203 £267
25th Percentile £318 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £588
90th Percentile £619 £650 £648
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 595 717 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.06% 15.51% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 479 572
10th Percentile £289 £313 £313
25th Percentile £375 £410 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £625
90th Percentile £625 £667 £700
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 43
10th Percentile £24.69 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.73
90th Percentile £58.75 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing React as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for React in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in the South East over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for React in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing React within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Thames Valley +3 43 £425 -32.00% 52
Berkshire -3 32 £480 -23.20% 33
Hampshire +22 18 £550 +2.33% 20
Surrey +10 18 £208 +1.22% 18
Buckinghamshire +15 9 £380 -10.54% 9
Kent - 4 £615 - 16
Oxfordshire -9 2 £431 -21.59% 10
East Sussex 0 1 £375 -25.00% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.76%) Camunda
2 2 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (1.19%) HCL Domino
3 1 (1.19%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 33 (39.29%) Azure
2 14 (16.67%) SaaS
3 12 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 11 (13.10%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (13.10%) AWS
4 11 (13.10%) Sauce Labs
5 5 (5.95%) Figma
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.57%) Serverless
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.38%) Contentstack
8 2 (2.38%) Google Play
8 2 (2.38%) npm
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.19%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.10%) Wireless
2 2 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.67%) MySQL
1 14 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.19%) GIS
4 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.19%) Redis
4 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Browser DevTools
2 11 (13.10%) Android Studio
2 11 (13.10%) Eclipse
2 11 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.10%) Xcode
3 10 (11.90%) Git
4 5 (5.95%) Vite
5 2 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.38%) JIRA
5 2 (2.38%) UI Automator
5 2 (2.38%) webpack
6 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.19%) GitLab
6 1 (1.19%) Gradle
6 1 (1.19%) Maven
General
1 31 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.52%) Finance
3 7 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Retail
4 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.57%) Marketing
6 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (54.76%) Developer
2 23 (27.38%) React Developer
3 13 (15.48%) Support Engineer
3 13 (15.48%) Technical Engineer
3 13 (15.48%) Technical Support
3 13 (15.48%) Technical Support Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 12 (14.29%) UX Engineer
5 11 (13.10%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 11 (13.10%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (11.90%) Senior
7 7 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Security Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) UI Developer
11 3 (3.57%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (36.90%) CSS
2 28 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 20 (23.81%) GraphQL
4 14 (16.67%) Ajax
4 14 (16.67%) HTML
5 13 (15.48%) Node.js
6 11 (13.10%) Middleware
7 9 (10.71%) Next.js
7 9 (10.71%) Redux
7 9 (10.71%) REST
8 8 (9.52%) RESTful
9 7 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (5.95%) Jest
10 5 (5.95%) Vue
11 4 (4.76%) Apollo GraphQL
11 4 (4.76%) Spring
12 3 (3.57%) .NET
12 3 (3.57%) Framer.js
12 3 (3.57%) Ruby on Rails
12 3 (3.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 11 (13.10%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.38%) PMI
3 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.19%) IoT
4 1 (1.19%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.67%) Android
1 14 (16.67%) Linux
2 13 (15.48%) Unix
3 12 (14.29%) Windows
4 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.14%) User Experience
2 26 (30.95%) CI/CD
3 19 (22.62%) Front End Development
4 15 (17.86%) Agile
5 13 (15.48%) DevOps
5 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 12 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (14.29%) Migration
6 12 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
6 12 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.10%) Configuration Management
7 11 (13.10%) OO
7 11 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (11.90%) Microservices
8 10 (11.90%) UX Design
9 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.52%) Web Development
11 7 (8.33%) Software Engineering
11 7 (8.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.62%) JavaScript
2 35 (41.67%) Java
3 31 (36.90%) Python
4 18 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 16 (19.05%) SQL
6 15 (17.86%) C#
7 12 (14.29%) Perl
8 11 (13.10%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.95%) Apex Code
9 5 (5.95%) Ruby
10 2 (2.38%) Go
11 1 (1.19%) LotusScript
11 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.76%) WCAG
3 2 (2.38%) PMO
4 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 10 (11.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.10%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) Terraform
4 1 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.48%) Oracle
3 12 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 12 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 11 (13.10%) Splunk
5 7 (8.33%) Salesforce
6 5 (5.95%) MuleSoft
7 4 (4.76%) Virgin Media
8 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.38%) Databricks
8 2 (2.38%) Google