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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 265 251
Rank change year-on-year -14 -14 -66
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 265 373 650
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.86% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.92% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 322 515
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 £436 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +2.65% -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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +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 1 May 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 1 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
England -7 217 £550 -4.35% 288
London -38 138 £600 -2.04% 50
Work from Home +4 115 £600 +10.09% 265
UK excluding London +60 81 £436 +2.65% 270
North of England +30 30 £413 +3.13% 62
South East +70 29 £425 +13.33% 73
Scotland +13 17 £438 -5.91% 12
North West +17 14 £413 +1.54% 27
Yorkshire +13 10 £500 +25.00% 24
North East - 6 £380 - 11
South West +39 2 £441 +3.76% 29
East of England +26 1 - - 45
East Midlands +6 1 £450 +28.57% 19
Midlands +1 1 £450 +28.57% 52
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 214 (80.75%) React
2 119 (44.91%) TypeScript
3 99 (37.36%) AWS
4 88 (33.21%) JavaScript
5 85 (32.08%) Agile
6 76 (28.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 75 (28.30%) User Experience
8 69 (26.04%) Finance
8 69 (26.04%) Redux
9 66 (24.91%) CI/CD
10 65 (24.53%) Node.js
11 58 (21.89%) Front End Development
12 57 (21.51%) Software Engineering
12 57 (21.51%) Python
13 51 (19.25%) PostgreSQL
14 49 (18.49%) Java
15 48 (18.11%) Azure
16 45 (16.98%) Banking
17 44 (16.60%) CSS
17 44 (16.60%) Front Office
17 44 (16.60%) GCP
18 42 (15.85%) DevOps
19 38 (14.34%) .NET
19 38 (14.34%) Investment Management
20 35 (13.21%) HTML
20 35 (13.21%) Fixed Income
20 35 (13.21%) Fintech
21 34 (12.83%) SQL
22 32 (12.08%) Microservices
23 31 (11.70%) 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 (2.26%) CMS
2 5 (1.89%) Headless CMS
3 4 (1.51%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.75%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 99 (37.36%) AWS
2 48 (18.11%) Azure
3 44 (16.60%) GCP
4 19 (7.17%) Serverless
5 14 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.91%) Figma
7 10 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.40%) GitHub
9 7 (2.64%) Azure Functions
9 7 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (2.26%) npm
11 5 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.89%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.89%) Yarn
12 4 (1.51%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (1.51%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.51%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.13%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (19.25%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.91%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.91%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.53%) MySQL
4 11 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.13%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.13%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.75%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.38%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (9.81%) Git
2 23 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.66%) Cypress.io
4 12 (4.53%) GitLab
4 12 (4.53%) webpack
5 11 (4.15%) Babel
5 11 (4.15%) Gradle
5 11 (4.15%) JUnit
5 11 (4.15%) Liquibase
5 11 (4.15%) Mockito
6 6 (2.26%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.89%) Vite
8 4 (1.51%) Ant
9 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.13%) Storybook
10 2 (0.75%) JIRA
10 2 (0.75%) Selenium
11 1 (0.38%) Appium
11 1 (0.38%) Mocha
11 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 69 (26.04%) Finance
2 45 (16.98%) Banking
3 44 (16.60%) Front Office
4 27 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.92%) Social Skills
6 17 (6.42%) Pharmaceutical
7 15 (5.66%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.53%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.15%) Electronics
9 11 (4.15%) Marketing
10 8 (3.02%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.13%) Retail
13 2 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Law
13 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (80.75%) React
2 69 (26.04%) Redux
3 65 (24.53%) Node.js
4 44 (16.60%) CSS
5 38 (14.34%) .NET
6 35 (13.21%) HTML
7 29 (10.94%) React Native
8 26 (9.81%) Next.js
9 25 (9.43%) RESTful
10 22 (8.30%) GraphQL
11 20 (7.55%) Spring Boot
12 19 (7.17%) Spring
13 18 (6.79%) REST
14 15 (5.66%) Kafka
15 14 (5.28%) HTML5
15 14 (5.28%) Jest
16 13 (4.91%) OpenAPI
16 13 (4.91%) Swagger
17 12 (4.53%) .NET Core
18 10 (3.77%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.21%) Fixed Income
2 21 (7.92%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.89%) Wiki
7 4 (1.51%) Derivative
7 4 (1.51%) Equities
7 4 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.77%) Android
2 8 (3.02%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.51%) Linux
4 2 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.08%) Agile
2 76 (28.68%) Full-Stack Development
3 75 (28.30%) User Experience
4 66 (24.91%) CI/CD
5 58 (21.89%) Front End Development
6 57 (21.51%) Software Engineering
7 42 (15.85%) DevOps
8 38 (14.34%) Investment Management
9 35 (13.21%) Fintech
10 32 (12.08%) Microservices
11 30 (11.32%) Asset Management
12 28 (10.57%) TDD
13 25 (9.43%) Clean Code
13 25 (9.43%) UX Design
14 24 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (6.42%) Containerisation
16 16 (6.04%) Code Quality
16 16 (6.04%) Migration
16 16 (6.04%) Wireframes
17 15 (5.66%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (44.91%) TypeScript
2 88 (33.21%) JavaScript
3 57 (21.51%) Python
4 49 (18.49%) Java
5 34 (12.83%) SQL
6 17 (6.42%) C#
7 7 (2.64%) PHP
8 5 (1.89%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.13%) Swift
10 2 (0.75%) JSX
10 2 (0.75%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.38%) Bicep
11 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.89%) Degree
4 4 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.13%) WCAG
3 2 (0.75%) QA
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (11.32%) Docker
2 7 (2.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.04%) Terraform
3 3 (1.13%) Kibana
4 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (6.04%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.91%) SAP
3 11 (4.15%) Virgin Media
4 5 (1.89%) Oracle
5 4 (1.51%) Google
5 4 (1.51%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.75%) 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