React Contracts

React.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 69 66
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -22
Contract jobs citing React 1,090 1,317 1,893
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.45% 3.03% 3.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.18% 14.19% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 1,035 1,478
10th Percentile £356 £363 £380
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £663 £681 £675
90th Percentile £838 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 22 15
10th Percentile - £41.50 £47.00
25th Percentile - £55.31 £55.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -7.50% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £74.95 £76.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £68.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +9.60% -1.75%

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 7,181 9,282 12,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.72% 21.37% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,861 6,365 9,283
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 280 157
10th Percentile £28.29 £22.50 £29.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.44 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

React
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing React as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for React in the UK

React
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for React in the UK

React
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for React in the UK

React
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for React in the UK

React
Top 17 Contract 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 4 July 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 0 907 £525 -8.70% 5,854
London -3 618 £586 -2.29% 2,774
Work from Home +14 501 £529 -0.89% 3,822
UK excluding London -4 317 £450 -2.70% 3,533
North of England +2 96 £450 -2.70% 964
South East +48 77 £470 -10.48% 864
North West 0 66 £450 -2.70% 612
Scotland -11 65 £475 +6.74% 284
Midlands -2 34 £435 +20.83% 447
South West +2 29 £425 -22.73% 420
Yorkshire +2 22 £450 -3.23% 311
West Midlands +9 21 £488 +32.65% 253
East of England -2 13 £408 -15.98% 392
East Midlands -5 13 £368 +5.14% 195
North East +4 8 £463 +8.82% 43
Wales -12 5 £395 -9.71% 113
Northern Ireland -7 3 £325 - 76

React
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 38 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.84%) CMS
3 30 (2.75%) Confluence
4 24 (2.20%) Apache
5 21 (1.93%) Headless CMS
6 10 (0.92%) Camunda
7 9 (0.83%) nginx
8 5 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.46%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.37%) WordPress
10 3 (0.28%) Alfresco
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) Solana
11 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.092%) Drupal
12 1 (0.092%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Sketch
2 4 (0.37%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.092%) InVision
3 1 (0.092%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Endur
2 2 (0.18%) Shopify
3 1 (0.092%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.092%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.092%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 486 (44.59%) AWS
2 230 (21.10%) Azure
3 153 (14.04%) GCP
4 110 (10.09%) Serverless
5 92 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
6 71 (6.51%) Amazon S3
6 71 (6.51%) GitHub
7 43 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
8 38 (3.49%) dbt
9 33 (3.03%) Figma
10 32 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (2.84%) Power Platform
12 29 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (2.48%) OpenShift
14 26 (2.39%) npm
14 26 (2.39%) SaaS
15 19 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (1.74%) Entra ID
16 18 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.02%) HTTP
2 5 (0.46%) DNS
2 5 (0.46%) SSL
3 4 (0.37%) Firewall
4 3 (0.28%) Bluetooth
4 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.18%) DHCP
5 2 (0.18%) Internet
5 2 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.18%) LAN
5 2 (0.18%) SMS
5 2 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.092%) Broadband
6 1 (0.092%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (9.45%) MongoDB
3 75 (6.88%) Relational Database
4 74 (6.79%) NoSQL
5 68 (6.24%) MySQL
6 53 (4.86%) SQL Server
7 39 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
8 34 (3.12%) Apache Arrow
8 34 (3.12%) Apache Iceberg
8 34 (3.12%) Dremio
8 34 (3.12%) DynamoDB
9 24 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (2.11%) Power BI
11 22 (2.02%) Redis
12 12 (1.10%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.01%) Neo4j
14 10 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (0.83%) Big Data
15 9 (0.83%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 202 (18.53%) Git
2 136 (12.48%) Jenkins
3 70 (6.42%) JUnit
4 62 (5.69%) GitLab
5 58 (5.32%) Cypress.io
5 58 (5.32%) JIRA
6 53 (4.86%) Mockito
7 42 (3.85%) Gradle
8 39 (3.58%) Liquibase
9 36 (3.30%) SonarQube
10 34 (3.12%) webpack
11 25 (2.29%) Bitbucket
12 24 (2.20%) Maven
13 18 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
14 17 (1.56%) Cucumber
14 17 (1.56%) Selenium
14 17 (1.56%) Storybook
15 15 (1.38%) TeamCity
16 11 (1.01%) gulp
16 11 (1.01%) Vite
General
1 278 (25.50%) Finance
2 192 (17.61%) Social Skills
3 158 (14.50%) Banking
4 138 (12.66%) Front Office
5 121 (11.10%) Public Sector
6 73 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
7 62 (5.69%) Investment Banking
8 38 (3.49%) Telecoms
9 32 (2.94%) Marketing
10 22 (2.02%) Electronics
10 22 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.10%) Retail
14 10 (0.92%) Back Office
15 9 (0.83%) Advertising
16 7 (0.64%) Automotive
16 7 (0.64%) Legal
17 6 (0.55%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 743 (68.17%) Developer
2 221 (20.28%) Full-Stack Developer
2 221 (20.28%) React Developer
3 197 (18.07%) Software Engineer
4 148 (13.58%) Senior
5 128 (11.74%) Java Developer
6 107 (9.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 103 (9.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 95 (8.72%) Python Developer
9 86 (7.89%) Senior Developer
10 78 (7.16%) Lead
11 72 (6.61%) AWS Developer
12 66 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 50 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
14 42 (3.85%) JavaScript Developer
15 40 (3.67%) Architect
15 40 (3.67%) AWS Software Engineer
16 38 (3.49%) Java Engineer
16 38 (3.49%) Python Engineer
17 35 (3.21%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (32.57%) Node.js
2 283 (25.96%) AngularJS
3 251 (23.03%) CSS
4 208 (19.08%) HTML
5 169 (15.50%) Redux
6 154 (14.13%) Vue
7 152 (13.94%) Spring
8 151 (13.85%) .NET
9 139 (12.75%) Spring Boot
10 137 (12.57%) REST
11 127 (11.65%) RESTful
12 121 (11.10%) Kafka
12 121 (11.10%) Next.js
13 99 (9.08%) GraphQL
14 81 (7.43%) Jest
15 61 (5.60%) FastAPI
16 59 (5.41%) HTML5
16 59 (5.41%) Pandas
17 58 (5.32%) NumPy
18 53 (4.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 110 (10.09%) Fixed Income
2 90 (8.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (4.95%) Equities
4 46 (4.22%) Cloud Native
5 44 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
6 40 (3.67%) Hedge funds
7 35 (3.21%) Product Ownership
8 27 (2.48%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.47%) Derivative
11 15 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.19%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.92%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.92%) Private Cloud
14 10 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.46%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.03%) Linux
2 24 (2.20%) Android
3 21 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.01%) Windows
5 9 (0.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.092%) AIX
7 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (43.94%) Agile
2 371 (34.04%) Full-Stack Development
3 339 (31.10%) CI/CD
4 309 (28.35%) Software Engineering
5 248 (22.75%) DevOps
6 246 (22.57%) Microservices
7 212 (19.45%) Front End Development
8 177 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
9 169 (15.50%) User Experience
10 166 (15.23%) TDD
11 145 (13.30%) Clean Code
12 118 (10.83%) Investment Management
13 111 (10.18%) Fintech
14 102 (9.36%) Containerisation
15 99 (9.08%) Test Automation
16 92 (8.44%) Asset Management
17 91 (8.35%) Artificial Intelligence
18 89 (8.17%) API Development
19 82 (7.52%) Mentoring
20 81 (7.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 607 (55.69%) JavaScript
2 571 (52.39%) TypeScript
3 356 (32.66%) Python
4 354 (32.48%) Java
5 208 (19.08%) SQL
6 138 (12.66%) C#
7 35 (3.21%) PHP
8 32 (2.94%) Go
9 30 (2.75%) C++
10 18 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.56%) Ruby
11 17 (1.56%) Rust
12 15 (1.38%) Scala
13 12 (1.10%) Bash
14 9 (0.83%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.73%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.64%) Bicep
16 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.55%) C
17 6 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 183 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 160 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.59%) Degree
4 31 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 20 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.37%) CEH
10 4 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.18%) OCP
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.18%) PhD
11 2 (0.18%) Sun Certification
12 1 (0.092%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (7.34%) Accessibility
2 49 (4.50%) QA
3 20 (1.83%) WCAG
4 8 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.73%) GDPR
5 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.37%) EMIR
5 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.37%) MiFID
5 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 202 (18.53%) Docker
2 19 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 164 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 69 (6.33%) Terraform
3 33 (3.03%) Ansible
4 26 (2.39%) Grafana
5 7 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.092%) Istio
7 1 (0.092%) Kibana
7 1 (0.092%) Podman
Vendors
1 76 (6.97%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.95%) Oracle
3 34 (3.12%) Google
4 29 (2.66%) SAP
5 22 (2.02%) Databricks
6 18 (1.65%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.38%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 14 (1.28%) Splunk
9 11 (1.01%) Adobe
9 11 (1.01%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 8 (0.73%) Veracode
12 7 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.46%) Virgin Media
15 4 (0.37%) Cisco
15 4 (0.37%) ESRI
15 4 (0.37%) Sybase
15 4 (0.37%) Workday