React Contract Job Trends

React.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 74 78
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 -24
Contract jobs citing React 1,013 1,081 1,273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.81% 2.97% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.33% 13.66% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 797 1,049
10th Percentile £335 £340 £359
25th Percentile £413 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £470 £461
% change year-on-year -5.11% +1.95% -7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 11
10th Percentile £45.30 £26.25 £50.00
25th Percentile £53.55 £28.88 £55.63
Median hourly rate £66.00 £38.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.32% -40.84% +87.14%
75th Percentile £67.00 £41.38 £76.25
90th Percentile - £44.13 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £27.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +143.64% -56.86% +53.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,218 7,916 10,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.80% 21.72% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,453 4,972 7,245
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 120 187
10th Percentile £30.75 £22.00 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.00 £37.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +19.13% -12.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

React
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing React relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

React job vacancy trend in the UK

React
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing React

React
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for React in the UK

React
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing React

React
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing React over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for React in the UK

React
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 November 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 -17 866 £518 -5.91% 668
London -12 509 £550 -8.33% 233
UK excluding London -24 384 £446 -5.11% 607
Work from Home -31 320 £525 +5.85% 346
North of England -10 125 £400 -12.09% 119
South East -4 79 £375 -25.00% 245
North West -9 62 £400 -11.11% 60
Yorkshire +3 61 £400 -20.00% 47
Scotland +6 60 £450 +2.27% 28
South West -6 45 £550 - 84
Midlands -55 42 £535 +7.00% 80
West Midlands -43 29 £533 -0.84% 42
East of England -9 27 £419 +13.56% 32
East Midlands -17 13 £550 +18.92% 37
Wales +1 8 £518 +18.29% 19
Northern Ireland -2 4 - - 7
North East -11 3 £475 +7.34% 12

React
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 37 (3.65%) CMS
2 34 (3.36%) Confluence
3 20 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.58%) Apache
5 15 (1.48%) Headless CMS
6 13 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.89%) Camunda
7 9 (0.89%) SAS
8 6 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
9 5 (0.49%) nginx
9 5 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.39%) WordPress
11 3 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.20%) Moodle
13 1 (0.099%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.099%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 16 (1.58%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.20%) Sketch
3 2 (0.20%) Trello
4 1 (0.099%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.099%) Blender
4 1 (0.099%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.099%) InVision
4 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.39%) Endur
3 3 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 458 (45.21%) AWS
2 251 (24.78%) Azure
3 134 (13.23%) Serverless
4 129 (12.73%) GitHub
5 118 (11.65%) GCP
6 93 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
7 70 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 39 (3.85%) npm
11 32 (3.16%) OpenShift
12 30 (2.96%) SaaS
13 28 (2.76%) Azure AKS
14 26 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (2.57%) Entra ID
15 25 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.37%) Figma
17 21 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.78%) Wireless
2 17 (1.68%) HTTP
3 8 (0.79%) DNS
4 4 (0.39%) Network Security
4 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.30%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.30%) DHCP
5 3 (0.30%) Firewall
6 2 (0.20%) VPN
7 1 (0.099%) Internet
7 1 (0.099%) Multicast
7 1 (0.099%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (16.49%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (8.49%) Relational Database
3 82 (8.09%) NoSQL
4 60 (5.92%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.03%) MySQL
6 49 (4.84%) SQL Server
7 31 (3.06%) Redis
8 20 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (1.68%) Apache Arrow
10 17 (1.68%) Apache Iceberg
10 17 (1.68%) Dremio
10 17 (1.68%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.18%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.09%) Big Data
14 11 (1.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 213 (21.03%) Git
2 85 (8.39%) JIRA
3 82 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 77 (7.60%) Cypress.io
5 57 (5.63%) GitLab
6 56 (5.53%) JUnit
7 44 (4.34%) webpack
8 33 (3.26%) Cucumber
9 31 (3.06%) SonarQube
10 27 (2.67%) Mockito
10 27 (2.67%) Selenium
11 23 (2.27%) Bitbucket
12 22 (2.17%) Browser DevTools
12 22 (2.17%) Maven
13 19 (1.88%) Android Studio
13 19 (1.88%) Xcode
14 18 (1.78%) Eclipse
15 17 (1.68%) Vite
16 15 (1.48%) Artifactory
16 15 (1.48%) Storybook
General
1 253 (24.98%) Social Skills
2 217 (21.42%) Finance
3 116 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 90 (8.88%) Banking
5 80 (7.90%) Front Office
6 58 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (4.05%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.07%) Retail
10 16 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (1.48%) Marketing
12 14 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.69%) Automotive
15 7 (0.69%) Back Office
15 7 (0.69%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.59%) Law
17 5 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 582 (57.45%) Developer
2 192 (18.95%) Full-Stack Developer
3 149 (14.71%) Senior
4 144 (14.22%) Software Engineer
5 138 (13.62%) React Developer
6 105 (10.37%) Java Developer
7 95 (9.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 83 (8.19%) Lead
9 81 (8.00%) Python Developer
10 78 (7.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 71 (7.01%) Senior Developer
12 47 (4.64%) AWS Developer
13 46 (4.54%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 40 (3.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 39 (3.85%) Architect
15 39 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
16 37 (3.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
17 33 (3.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 32 (3.16%) JavaScript Developer
19 29 (2.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (32.38%) Node.js
2 290 (28.63%) AngularJS
3 247 (24.38%) CSS
4 210 (20.73%) HTML
5 170 (16.78%) RESTful
6 144 (14.22%) REST
7 139 (13.72%) .NET
8 136 (13.43%) Spring
9 127 (12.54%) Next.js
10 123 (12.14%) Spring Boot
11 117 (11.55%) Jest
12 112 (11.06%) Vue
13 108 (10.66%) Redux
14 103 (10.17%) GraphQL
14 103 (10.17%) Kafka
15 82 (8.09%) HTML5
16 65 (6.42%) FastAPI
17 58 (5.73%) CSS3
18 43 (4.24%) JSON
19 42 (4.15%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 51 (5.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 50 (4.94%) Fixed Income
5 43 (4.24%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.37%) Algorithms
9 24 (2.37%) Data Structures
10 23 (2.27%) Equities
10 23 (2.27%) Hedge funds
11 22 (2.17%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.99%) Derivative
15 10 (0.99%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.89%) NHS
16 9 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.92%) Linux
2 37 (3.65%) Unix
3 34 (3.36%) Android
4 30 (2.96%) Windows
5 19 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.39%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.099%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.099%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (45.31%) Agile
2 433 (42.74%) CI/CD
3 414 (40.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 289 (28.53%) Microservices
5 260 (25.67%) Software Engineering
6 256 (25.27%) DevOps
7 193 (19.05%) Front End Development
8 164 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
9 161 (15.89%) User Experience
10 149 (14.71%) Test Automation
11 147 (14.51%) Containerisation
12 128 (12.64%) AI
13 123 (12.14%) TDD
14 113 (11.15%) Clean Code
15 105 (10.37%) Scrum
16 94 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
17 93 (9.18%) Design Patterns
18 85 (8.39%) Code Quality
19 79 (7.80%) Mentoring
19 79 (7.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 499 (49.26%) TypeScript
2 495 (48.86%) JavaScript
3 347 (34.25%) Java
4 334 (32.97%) Python
5 201 (19.84%) SQL
6 130 (12.83%) C#
7 36 (3.55%) C++
8 30 (2.96%) Go
9 22 (2.17%) Perl
10 21 (2.07%) Bicep
11 20 (1.97%) Ruby
12 17 (1.68%) Rust
13 15 (1.48%) PowerShell
14 12 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.18%) PHP
15 8 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.69%) Bash
16 7 (0.69%) JSX
17 6 (0.59%) C
17 6 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 182 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 152 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.15%) Degree
4 32 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.09%) MCP
8 7 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.20%) CEH
11 2 (0.20%) CISSP
11 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.20%) OCP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (12.93%) Accessibility
2 77 (7.60%) QA
3 60 (5.92%) WCAG
4 7 (0.69%) GDPR
5 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.39%) HL7
5 4 (0.39%) MiFID
6 3 (0.30%) EMIR
6 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.099%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.099%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.099%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 238 (23.49%) Docker
2 22 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.099%) Varnish
4 1 (0.099%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 207 (20.43%) Kubernetes
2 113 (11.15%) Terraform
3 25 (2.47%) Grafana
4 22 (2.17%) Ansible
5 14 (1.38%) Kibana
6 13 (1.28%) Argo
7 9 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.099%) Consul
10 1 (0.099%) Istio
10 1 (0.099%) Podman
10 1 (0.099%) Rancher
10 1 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 116 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.73%) Oracle
3 46 (4.54%) Google
4 39 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 27 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.67%) Splunk
6 25 (2.47%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.68%) Adobe
8 13 (1.28%) Databricks
8 13 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.99%) Sitecore
10 9 (0.89%) Blue Prism
10 9 (0.89%) SAP
11 7 (0.69%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.59%) Perforce
12 6 (0.59%) Veracode
12 6 (0.59%) VMware
13 5 (0.49%) Marketo
13 5 (0.49%) MuleSoft