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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 72 77
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 -22
Contract jobs citing React 985 1,087 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.71% 3.04% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.11% 13.95% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 805 1,034
10th Percentile £328 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £470 £463
% change year-on-year -4.26% +1.62% -7.50%
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% -6.43%
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% -8.93%

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 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £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 9 December 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 9 December 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 9 December 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 -13 840 £518 -5.91% 1,133
London -15 497 £550 -6.78% 372
UK excluding London -28 372 £450 -4.26% 924
Work from Home -34 303 £525 +6.71% 645
North of England -7 125 £400 -12.09% 247
South East -30 72 £338 -34.15% 277
North West 0 62 £400 -11.11% 129
Yorkshire -11 61 £400 -18.99% 90
Scotland +1 59 £456 +3.46% 50
Midlands -55 41 £542 +8.30% 130
South West -28 40 £550 - 100
West Midlands -44 29 £538 -2.27% 64
East of England -8 27 £419 +11.67% 83
East Midlands -22 12 £550 +15.79% 61
Wales +3 9 £518 +18.29% 31
Northern Ireland -4 5 - - 17
North East -8 3 £475 +7.34% 28

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 34 (3.45%) CMS
2 24 (2.44%) Confluence
3 18 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 13 (1.32%) Apache
4 13 (1.32%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.91%) SAS
6 8 (0.81%) Camunda
6 8 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.51%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.30%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.20%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.20%) Mendix
10 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.10%) HCL Domino
Applications
1 16 (1.62%) 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 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.10%) Blender
4 1 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.10%) InVision
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.41%) Endur
4 3 (0.30%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.30%) Shopify
5 2 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 446 (45.28%) AWS
2 242 (24.57%) Azure
3 134 (13.60%) Serverless
4 131 (13.30%) GitHub
5 115 (11.68%) GCP
6 91 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
7 72 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
8 65 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (5.38%) Amazon S3
10 40 (4.06%) npm
11 31 (3.15%) OpenShift
11 31 (3.15%) SaaS
12 29 (2.94%) Azure AKS
13 25 (2.54%) Entra ID
14 24 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (2.34%) Figma
16 22 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.83%) Wireless
2 17 (1.73%) HTTP
3 8 (0.81%) DNS
4 5 (0.51%) Network Security
5 4 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.30%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) Firewall
7 2 (0.20%) VPN
8 1 (0.10%) Internet
8 1 (0.10%) Multicast
8 1 (0.10%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (16.04%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (8.63%) Relational Database
3 80 (8.12%) NoSQL
4 59 (5.99%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.18%) MySQL
6 45 (4.57%) SQL Server
7 30 (3.05%) Redis
8 18 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (1.73%) DynamoDB
10 16 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.52%) Apache Arrow
11 15 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
11 15 (1.52%) Dremio
12 13 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.12%) Big Data
13 11 (1.12%) Power BI
13 11 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 211 (21.42%) Git
2 78 (7.92%) Jenkins
2 78 (7.92%) JIRA
3 74 (7.51%) Cypress.io
4 59 (5.99%) GitLab
5 55 (5.58%) JUnit
6 43 (4.37%) webpack
7 35 (3.55%) Cucumber
8 30 (3.05%) SonarQube
9 27 (2.74%) Mockito
9 27 (2.74%) Selenium
10 23 (2.34%) Browser DevTools
11 22 (2.23%) Bitbucket
11 22 (2.23%) Maven
12 20 (2.03%) Android Studio
12 20 (2.03%) Xcode
13 19 (1.93%) Eclipse
14 16 (1.62%) Vite
15 14 (1.42%) Artifactory
15 14 (1.42%) Storybook
General
1 248 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 208 (21.12%) Finance
3 113 (11.47%) Public Sector
4 84 (8.53%) Banking
5 74 (7.51%) Front Office
6 51 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (4.16%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.13%) Retail
10 16 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (1.42%) Marketing
12 12 (1.22%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.71%) Automotive
16 7 (0.71%) Back Office
16 7 (0.71%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.61%) Law
18 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 568 (57.66%) Developer
2 191 (19.39%) Full-Stack Developer
3 149 (15.13%) Senior
4 141 (14.31%) Software Engineer
5 134 (13.60%) React Developer
6 106 (10.76%) Java Developer
7 94 (9.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 79 (8.02%) Python Developer
9 78 (7.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 78 (7.92%) Lead
10 72 (7.31%) Senior Developer
11 47 (4.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 44 (4.47%) AWS Developer
13 37 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (3.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 35 (3.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 34 (3.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 32 (3.25%) Architect
17 31 (3.15%) JavaScript Developer
18 28 (2.84%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (32.89%) Node.js
2 271 (27.51%) AngularJS
3 239 (24.26%) CSS
4 203 (20.61%) HTML
5 168 (17.06%) RESTful
6 132 (13.40%) REST
7 131 (13.30%) .NET
8 130 (13.20%) Spring
9 122 (12.39%) Next.js
10 121 (12.28%) Spring Boot
11 116 (11.78%) Jest
12 108 (10.96%) Redux
13 104 (10.56%) GraphQL
14 101 (10.25%) Kafka
14 101 (10.25%) Vue
15 79 (8.02%) HTML5
16 64 (6.50%) FastAPI
17 58 (5.89%) CSS3
18 43 (4.37%) JSON
19 42 (4.26%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 45 (4.57%) Fixed Income
5 43 (4.37%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.44%) Data Structures
10 23 (2.34%) AI Agents
11 22 (2.23%) Algorithms
12 21 (2.13%) Hedge funds
13 19 (1.93%) Equities
14 15 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.32%) Onboarding
16 11 (1.12%) Derivative
17 10 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
18 9 (0.91%) NHS
18 9 (0.91%) Private Cloud
18 9 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.29%) Linux
2 38 (3.86%) Unix
3 36 (3.65%) Android
4 33 (3.35%) Windows
5 20 (2.03%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.41%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (45.08%) Agile
2 427 (43.35%) CI/CD
3 413 (41.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 284 (28.83%) Microservices
5 255 (25.89%) DevOps
6 249 (25.28%) Software Engineering
7 184 (18.68%) Front End Development
8 159 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
9 158 (16.04%) User Experience
10 144 (14.62%) Containerisation
10 144 (14.62%) Test Automation
11 129 (13.10%) AI
12 117 (11.88%) TDD
13 109 (11.07%) Clean Code
14 104 (10.56%) Scrum
15 91 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
16 90 (9.14%) Design Patterns
17 79 (8.02%) Code Quality
18 75 (7.61%) Mentoring
19 74 (7.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 482 (48.93%) JavaScript
2 480 (48.73%) TypeScript
3 335 (34.01%) Java
4 325 (32.99%) Python
5 201 (20.41%) SQL
6 123 (12.49%) C#
7 37 (3.76%) C++
8 31 (3.15%) Go
9 23 (2.34%) Perl
10 22 (2.23%) Bicep
11 21 (2.13%) Ruby
12 16 (1.62%) Rust
13 15 (1.52%) PowerShell
14 12 (1.22%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.22%) PHP
15 9 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.71%) Bash
16 7 (0.71%) JSX
17 6 (0.61%) C
17 6 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 178 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 149 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.26%) Degree
4 32 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.12%) MCP
8 7 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.30%) OCP
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
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%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (12.79%) Accessibility
2 72 (7.31%) QA
3 57 (5.79%) WCAG
4 7 (0.71%) GDPR
5 4 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.41%) HL7
5 4 (0.41%) MiFID
6 3 (0.30%) EMIR
6 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 233 (23.65%) Docker
2 21 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.10%) Varnish
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 201 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 118 (11.98%) Terraform
3 24 (2.44%) Grafana
4 21 (2.13%) Ansible
5 14 (1.42%) Argo
5 14 (1.42%) Kibana
6 9 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.10%) Consul
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Podman
9 1 (0.10%) Rancher
9 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 111 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.29%) Oracle
3 45 (4.57%) Google
4 35 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 27 (2.74%) Splunk
6 26 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 24 (2.44%) Red Hat
8 19 (1.93%) Adobe
9 14 (1.42%) Databricks
10 11 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.02%) Sitecore
12 9 (0.91%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.91%) Blue Prism
12 9 (0.91%) SAP
13 6 (0.61%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.61%) Perforce
13 6 (0.61%) Veracode
13 6 (0.61%) VMware
14 5 (0.51%) Marketo
15 4 (0.41%) Virgin Media