React Developer Contracts

React.js Developer
UK

The median React.js Developer daily rate in the UK is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 275 247
Rank change year-on-year -6 -28 -59
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 263 374 650
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.86% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.92% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 323 515
10th Percentile £380 £325 £380
25th Percentile £413 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £750 £695
90th Percentile £800 £800 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +2.35% -10.43% +5.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £57.50
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -48.39% +121.43%
75th Percentile - £53.50 £80.56
90th Percentile - £61.60 £81.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

React Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured React Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for React Developer in the UK

React Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing React Developer.

Daily rate trend for React Developer in the UK

React Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for React Developer in the UK

React Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing React Developer.

Hourly rate trend for React Developer in the UK

React Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing React Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -8 217 £550 -4.35% 81
London -35 138 £600 -2.04% 35
Work from Home +12 115 £600 +11.63% 56
UK excluding London +46 79 £435 +2.35% 49
North of England +37 30 £413 -2.94% 18
South East +67 29 £425 +13.33% 12
Scotland +7 15 £431 -7.26% 5
North West +9 14 £413 -5.71% 10
Yorkshire +20 10 £500 +25.00% 3
North East - 6 £380 - 5
South West +37 2 £441 +10.25% 2
East of England +29 1 - - 8
East Midlands +6 1 £450 +28.57% 1
Midlands +3 1 £450 +28.57% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 1

React Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, React Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring React Developer in the job title.

1 212 (80.61%) React
2 116 (44.11%) TypeScript
3 98 (37.26%) AWS
4 88 (33.46%) JavaScript
5 85 (32.32%) Agile
6 74 (28.14%) User Experience
6 74 (28.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 69 (26.24%) Redux
7 69 (26.24%) Finance
8 66 (25.10%) Node.js
9 64 (24.33%) CI/CD
10 58 (22.05%) Front End Development
11 57 (21.67%) Software Engineering
11 57 (21.67%) Python
12 51 (19.39%) PostgreSQL
13 48 (18.25%) Azure
13 48 (18.25%) Java
14 45 (17.11%) Banking
15 44 (16.73%) GCP
16 43 (16.35%) Front Office
17 42 (15.97%) CSS
17 42 (15.97%) DevOps
18 38 (14.45%) Investment Management
18 38 (14.45%) .NET
19 35 (13.31%) HTML
19 35 (13.31%) Fixed Income
19 35 (13.31%) Fintech
20 34 (12.93%) SQL
21 32 (12.17%) Microservices
22 31 (11.79%) Security Cleared

React Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.28%) CMS
2 5 (1.90%) Headless CMS
3 4 (1.52%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.76%) Apache
4 2 (0.76%) Confluence
4 2 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (37.26%) AWS
2 48 (18.25%) Azure
3 44 (16.73%) GCP
4 17 (6.46%) Serverless
5 14 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.94%) Figma
7 8 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.04%) GitHub
8 7 (2.66%) Azure Functions
8 7 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.28%) npm
10 5 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.90%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.90%) Yarn
11 4 (1.52%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.52%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (19.39%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.94%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.56%) MySQL
3 12 (4.56%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.18%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.14%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.76%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.38%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (9.89%) Git
2 22 (8.37%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.94%) Cypress.io
4 12 (4.56%) GitLab
4 12 (4.56%) webpack
5 11 (4.18%) Babel
5 11 (4.18%) Gradle
5 11 (4.18%) JUnit
5 11 (4.18%) Liquibase
5 11 (4.18%) Mockito
6 6 (2.28%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.90%) Vite
8 4 (1.52%) Ant
9 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.76%) JIRA
10 2 (0.76%) Selenium
11 1 (0.38%) Appium
11 1 (0.38%) Mocha
11 1 (0.38%) Postman
11 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (26.24%) Finance
2 45 (17.11%) Banking
3 43 (16.35%) Front Office
4 27 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.98%) Social Skills
6 17 (6.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 15 (5.70%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.56%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.18%) Electronics
9 11 (4.18%) Marketing
10 8 (3.04%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.14%) Retail
13 2 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.76%) Law
13 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (80.61%) React
2 69 (26.24%) Redux
3 66 (25.10%) Node.js
4 42 (15.97%) CSS
5 38 (14.45%) .NET
6 35 (13.31%) HTML
7 29 (11.03%) React Native
8 26 (9.89%) Next.js
9 24 (9.13%) RESTful
10 20 (7.60%) GraphQL
10 20 (7.60%) Spring Boot
11 19 (7.22%) Spring
12 17 (6.46%) REST
13 15 (5.70%) Kafka
14 14 (5.32%) HTML5
15 13 (4.94%) OpenAPI
15 13 (4.94%) Swagger
16 12 (4.56%) .NET Core
16 12 (4.56%) Jest
17 10 (3.80%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.31%) Fixed Income
2 22 (8.37%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.90%) Wiki
7 4 (1.52%) Equities
7 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.14%) Derivative
9 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.80%) Android
2 8 (3.04%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.52%) Linux
4 2 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.32%) Agile
2 74 (28.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 74 (28.14%) User Experience
3 64 (24.33%) CI/CD
4 58 (22.05%) Front End Development
5 57 (21.67%) Software Engineering
6 42 (15.97%) DevOps
7 38 (14.45%) Investment Management
8 35 (13.31%) Fintech
9 32 (12.17%) Microservices
10 30 (11.41%) Asset Management
11 28 (10.65%) TDD
12 25 (9.51%) UX Design
13 24 (9.13%) Clean Code
13 24 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (6.46%) Containerisation
15 16 (6.08%) Code Quality
15 16 (6.08%) Migration
15 16 (6.08%) Wireframes
16 15 (5.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 116 (44.11%) TypeScript
2 88 (33.46%) JavaScript
3 57 (21.67%) Python
4 48 (18.25%) Java
5 34 (12.93%) SQL
6 16 (6.08%) C#
7 7 (2.66%) PHP
8 5 (1.90%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.14%) Swift
10 2 (0.76%) JSX
10 2 (0.76%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.38%) Bicep
11 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (11.79%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.90%) Degree
4 4 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.28%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.14%) WCAG
3 2 (0.76%) QA
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (11.41%) Docker
2 7 (2.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.08%) Terraform
3 3 (1.14%) Kibana
4 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.94%) SAP
3 11 (4.18%) Virgin Media
4 5 (1.90%) Oracle
5 4 (1.52%) Google
5 4 (1.52%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.76%) Spotify
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) Solace
7 1 (0.38%) TIBCO