React Contracts in the UK excluding London

React.js
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring React skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited React over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 98 91
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing React 288 429 604
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.23% 2.07% 2.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.00% 12.91% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 346 484
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -0.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £551
90th Percentile £613 £669 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 8
10th Percentile - £55.63 £57.88
25th Percentile £67.98 £58.13 £61.25
Median hourly rate £73.23 £68.50 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +1.11% +0.58%
75th Percentile £78.47 £73.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £76.25 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £64.11 £64.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.50% +20.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,400 3,323 4,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.57% 16.05% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,667 2,175 3,064
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £568 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £692 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 218 89
10th Percentile £32.79 £22.68 £22.22
25th Percentile £50.80 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.47 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% -22.36% +19.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.56 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing React as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for React in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing React in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for React in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for React in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing React in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for React in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing React within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
North of England -9 83 £450 -5.26% 1,675
Scotland -4 67 £459 +1.94% 316
South East +49 61 £460 -14.02% 2,217
North West -11 58 £450 -5.26% 839
Midlands +5 30 £435 +16.00% 1,354
South West +3 24 £441 -7.16% 875
West Midlands +11 20 £460 +31.43% 720
Yorkshire +12 16 £468 +6.86% 654
East of England +8 14 £470 -6.00% 1,073
East Midlands +2 10 £394 -3.49% 549
North East +5 9 £460 - 183
Northern Ireland -4 9 £325 - 101
Wales -10 6 £390 -12.11% 188
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (2.08%) CMS
2 5 (1.74%) Apache
2 5 (1.74%) Confluence
3 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.04%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.04%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.69%) Camunda
5 2 (0.69%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Sketch
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.35%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.35%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (36.46%) AWS
2 80 (27.78%) Azure
3 39 (13.54%) Serverless
4 32 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (9.38%) Amazon S3
5 27 (9.38%) GitHub
6 17 (5.90%) GCP
7 16 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (5.56%) OpenShift
8 15 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (3.82%) AWS CodePipeline
11 10 (3.47%) AWS CodeBuild
11 10 (3.47%) Figma
11 10 (3.47%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
12 9 (3.13%) SaaS
13 8 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.74%) HTTP
2 3 (1.04%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.04%) SSL
3 2 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 32 (11.11%) MySQL
3 32 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 31 (10.76%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.47%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.43%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.43%) Power BI
9 6 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.08%) GIS
9 6 (2.08%) Redis
10 4 (1.39%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.39%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.39%) Metadata
10 4 (1.39%) ObjectStore
10 4 (1.39%) Tableau
11 3 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (22.92%) Git
2 45 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 29 (10.07%) GitLab
4 22 (7.64%) JUnit
5 18 (6.25%) Cypress.io
5 18 (6.25%) JIRA
6 15 (5.21%) Mockito
7 14 (4.86%) webpack
8 13 (4.51%) Gradle
9 11 (3.82%) Maven
9 11 (3.82%) SonarQube
10 10 (3.47%) Liquibase
10 10 (3.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (3.47%) Storybook
11 6 (2.08%) Babel
12 5 (1.74%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.74%) gulp
12 5 (1.74%) Vite
13 4 (1.39%) Selenium
14 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
General
1 55 (19.10%) Public Sector
1 55 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.07%) Finance
3 18 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.21%) Banking
5 13 (4.51%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.82%) Marketing
7 10 (3.47%) Electronics
7 10 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.74%) Advertising
10 4 (1.39%) Front Office
11 3 (1.04%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Legal
12 2 (0.69%) Retail
12 2 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 192 (66.67%) Developer
2 60 (20.83%) React Developer
3 54 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 49 (17.01%) Senior
5 45 (15.63%) Java Developer
5 45 (15.63%) Software Engineer
6 35 (12.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 27 (9.38%) Senior Developer
8 18 (6.25%) Software Developer
9 16 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (4.51%) .NET Developer
10 13 (4.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 12 (4.17%) Architect
11 12 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (4.17%) Lead
12 11 (3.82%) Java Engineer
12 11 (3.82%) Python Developer
13 10 (3.47%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (3.47%) JavaScript Developer
13 10 (3.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (29.51%) Node.js
2 81 (28.13%) CSS
3 76 (26.39%) AngularJS
4 67 (23.26%) RESTful
5 60 (20.83%) HTML
6 57 (19.79%) Spring Boot
7 56 (19.44%) Spring
8 51 (17.71%) .NET
9 44 (15.28%) REST
10 29 (10.07%) Kafka
11 22 (7.64%) GraphQL
11 22 (7.64%) Jest
11 22 (7.64%) Redux
12 20 (6.94%) Next.js
12 20 (6.94%) Vue
13 17 (5.90%) AWS CDK
13 17 (5.90%) JSON
14 16 (5.56%) HTML5
15 15 (5.21%) Web Services
16 14 (4.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.29%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.43%) Equities
6 6 (2.08%) Derivative
6 6 (2.08%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (2.08%) Wiki
7 5 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.74%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.39%) NHS
8 4 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) State Machine
10 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.39%) Android
1 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.04%) Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (42.71%) CI/CD
2 114 (39.58%) Agile
3 103 (35.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (29.86%) Microservices
5 77 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 71 (24.65%) DevOps
8 65 (22.57%) Front End Development
9 54 (18.75%) User Experience
10 41 (14.24%) TDD
10 41 (14.24%) Test Automation
11 38 (13.19%) Code Quality
12 36 (12.50%) Containerisation
13 34 (11.81%) Clean Code
14 31 (10.76%) API Development
15 28 (9.72%) Scrum
16 27 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
17 25 (8.68%) Infrastructure as Code
18 24 (8.33%) Migration
19 22 (7.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 152 (52.78%) JavaScript
2 116 (40.28%) TypeScript
3 106 (36.81%) Java
4 68 (23.61%) Python
5 63 (21.88%) SQL
6 36 (12.50%) C#
7 13 (4.51%) PHP
8 11 (3.82%) Bash
9 7 (2.43%) Go
10 6 (2.08%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.08%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.74%) Ruby
12 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.04%) Scala
12 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.69%) C++
14 1 (0.35%) Bicep
14 1 (0.35%) C
14 1 (0.35%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 45 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 34 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.17%) Degree
4 8 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.35%) OCP
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.35%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.38%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.86%) QA
3 10 (3.47%) WCAG
4 6 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.39%) GDPR
6 3 (1.04%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 52 (18.06%) Docker
2 7 (2.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (19.10%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.38%) Terraform
3 13 (4.51%) Grafana
4 6 (2.08%) Ansible
5 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (7.99%) Oracle
2 22 (7.64%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.82%) SAP
4 9 (3.13%) Google
5 6 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.74%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.74%) Splunk
7 4 (1.39%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.04%) Adobe
8 3 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.04%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.04%) Zend
9 2 (0.69%) Brio
9 2 (0.69%) Cisco
9 2 (0.69%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.69%) Spotify
9 2 (0.69%) Veracode
10 1 (0.35%) NEC
10 1 (0.35%) TIBCO