React Contract Job Trends

React.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring React skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 68 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -26
Contract jobs citing React 1,120 1,216 1,495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.40% 3.16% 3.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.94% 14.09% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 925 1,190
10th Percentile £359 £335 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £838 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile £54.57 £38.55 £59.00
25th Percentile £60.06 £41.25 £72.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.91% -26.67% +29.31%
75th Percentile £67.00 £71.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £73.30 £81.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year - -9.46% +9.86%

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 7,498 8,630 10,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 22.41% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,987 5,626 7,855
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £794 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 187 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.42 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £72.40 £74.65 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -13.46% +10.11% -6.24%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -4 932 £525 -8.70% 836
London -3 579 £600 - 375
Work from Home +12 457 £525 +5.00% 452
UK excluding London -6 392 £450 -5.26% 630
North of England -2 119 £428 -5.00% 154
South East +19 84 £425 -19.81% 227
Scotland +12 77 £463 +2.78% 36
North West -11 69 £430 -4.44% 98
South West +19 51 £519 -5.68% 67
Yorkshire +1 45 £400 -17.95% 40
Midlands -38 38 £468 -6.50% 74
West Midlands -29 24 £520 -3.26% 41
East of England -2 21 £445 +18.67% 61
East Midlands -9 14 £372 +10.07% 32
Wales -1 5 £519 +1.22% 14
North East -3 5 £465 +20.00% 17
Northern Ireland -6 2 - - 6

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 37 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
1 37 (3.30%) Confluence
2 32 (2.86%) CMS
3 14 (1.25%) Headless CMS
4 13 (1.16%) Apache
5 11 (0.98%) Camunda
6 8 (0.71%) nginx
7 6 (0.54%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.45%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.36%) SAS
9 4 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.36%) WordPress
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.18%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) Moodle
11 2 (0.18%) Solana
Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.45%) Sketch
2 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.089%) InVision
5 1 (0.089%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 6 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.27%) Endur
2 3 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 503 (44.91%) AWS
2 237 (21.16%) Azure
3 143 (12.77%) GCP
4 129 (11.52%) Serverless
5 99 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (7.68%) GitHub
7 72 (6.43%) Amazon S3
8 50 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (3.84%) npm
11 38 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (3.21%) dbt
13 33 (2.95%) Figma
14 29 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (2.50%) SaaS
16 25 (2.23%) OpenShift
17 22 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (1.88%) Azure AKS
18 21 (1.88%) Entra ID
19 17 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.59%) HTTP
2 11 (0.98%) Wireless
3 9 (0.80%) DNS
4 5 (0.45%) Firewall
5 3 (0.27%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.27%) DHCP
5 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.27%) Internet
5 3 (0.27%) SSL
5 3 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.18%) LAN
6 2 (0.18%) SMS
7 1 (0.089%) Broadband
7 1 (0.089%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (20.18%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (8.30%) Relational Database
3 81 (7.23%) MongoDB
4 77 (6.88%) NoSQL
5 55 (4.91%) SQL Server
6 52 (4.64%) MySQL
7 38 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
8 36 (3.21%) Apache Arrow
8 36 (3.21%) Apache Iceberg
8 36 (3.21%) Dremio
9 32 (2.86%) Redis
10 25 (2.23%) DynamoDB
11 23 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
13 18 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (0.98%) Big Data
15 11 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.89%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 211 (18.84%) Git
2 127 (11.34%) Jenkins
3 87 (7.77%) JIRA
4 76 (6.79%) Cypress.io
5 72 (6.43%) JUnit
6 61 (5.45%) GitLab
7 48 (4.29%) webpack
8 45 (4.02%) Mockito
9 42 (3.75%) SonarQube
10 36 (3.21%) Gradle
11 33 (2.95%) Bitbucket
12 30 (2.68%) Liquibase
13 25 (2.23%) Storybook
14 23 (2.05%) Maven
15 21 (1.88%) Cucumber
16 19 (1.70%) Browser DevTools
17 18 (1.61%) Artifactory
17 18 (1.61%) Selenium
17 18 (1.61%) Vite
18 15 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 293 (26.16%) Finance
2 224 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 139 (12.41%) Banking
4 132 (11.79%) Front Office
5 120 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 59 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (4.91%) Investment Banking
8 33 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 30 (2.68%) Marketing
10 29 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.88%) Retail
12 20 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.70%) Electronics
14 11 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.80%) Automotive
15 9 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.80%) Law
15 9 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 675 (60.27%) Developer
2 208 (18.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 198 (17.68%) Software Engineer
4 196 (17.50%) React Developer
5 154 (13.75%) Senior
6 139 (12.41%) Java Developer
7 102 (9.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 91 (8.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 90 (8.04%) Python Developer
10 88 (7.86%) Lead
11 85 (7.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 82 (7.32%) Senior Developer
13 65 (5.80%) AWS Developer
14 64 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
15 47 (4.20%) AWS Software Engineer
16 45 (4.02%) Architect
17 44 (3.93%) Python Engineer
18 43 (3.84%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 43 (3.84%) Java Engineer
18 43 (3.84%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (35.00%) Node.js
2 294 (26.25%) AngularJS
3 271 (24.20%) CSS
4 230 (20.54%) HTML
5 153 (13.66%) Next.js
5 153 (13.66%) Redux
6 152 (13.57%) Spring
7 147 (13.13%) REST
8 144 (12.86%) RESTful
9 140 (12.50%) Spring Boot
10 138 (12.32%) Vue
11 130 (11.61%) .NET
12 126 (11.25%) Kafka
13 124 (11.07%) GraphQL
14 103 (9.20%) Jest
15 84 (7.50%) HTML5
16 61 (5.45%) FastAPI
17 56 (5.00%) Pandas
18 55 (4.91%) NumPy
19 53 (4.73%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 102 (9.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 100 (8.93%) Fixed Income
3 66 (5.89%) Cloud Native
4 60 (5.36%) Equities
5 43 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 41 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
7 36 (3.21%) Hedge funds
8 34 (3.04%) Mobile App
9 31 (2.77%) Algorithms
10 28 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
11 23 (2.05%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.16%) Derivative
15 12 (1.07%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.07%) Private Cloud
16 11 (0.98%) Public Cloud
17 9 (0.80%) Management Information System
18 8 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.27%) Linux
2 30 (2.68%) Android
3 29 (2.59%) Windows
4 28 (2.50%) Unix
5 22 (1.96%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.36%) CentOS
6 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) VMS
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.089%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (45.27%) Agile
2 418 (37.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 402 (35.89%) CI/CD
4 326 (29.11%) Software Engineering
5 290 (25.89%) Microservices
6 254 (22.68%) DevOps
7 209 (18.66%) Front End Development
8 173 (15.45%) User Experience
9 158 (14.11%) TDD
10 155 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
11 146 (13.04%) Clean Code
12 123 (10.98%) Containerisation
13 119 (10.63%) Test Automation
14 102 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence
15 99 (8.84%) Scrum
16 98 (8.75%) Fintech
16 98 (8.75%) Investment Management
17 87 (7.77%) SDLC
18 85 (7.59%) Mentoring
19 83 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 605 (54.02%) TypeScript
2 581 (51.88%) JavaScript
3 374 (33.39%) Java
4 355 (31.70%) Python
5 215 (19.20%) SQL
6 136 (12.14%) C#
7 42 (3.75%) C++
8 34 (3.04%) Go
9 22 (1.96%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.61%) Bicep
10 18 (1.61%) Rust
11 16 (1.43%) Perl
12 15 (1.34%) PHP
13 14 (1.25%) Bash
13 14 (1.25%) Ruby
14 11 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.80%) C
15 9 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.63%) Scala
17 6 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 195 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 164 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 35 (3.13%) Degree
4 28 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.71%) MCP
9 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.36%) CEH
11 4 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.36%) CISSP
12 3 (0.27%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.089%) OCP
14 1 (0.089%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.089%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (9.38%) Accessibility
2 73 (6.52%) QA
3 37 (3.30%) WCAG
4 8 (0.71%) GDPR
5 5 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.27%) EMIR
7 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.27%) MiFID
8 2 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.18%) PMO
9 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 231 (20.63%) Docker
2 18 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.089%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 188 (16.79%) Kubernetes
2 95 (8.48%) Terraform
3 24 (2.14%) Ansible
4 22 (1.96%) Grafana
5 10 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.80%) Kibana
7 5 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.18%) Podman
10 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.089%) Argo
10 1 (0.089%) Istio
10 1 (0.089%) Rancher
10 1 (0.089%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 100 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.63%) Oracle
3 36 (3.21%) Google
4 34 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.23%) SAP
6 22 (1.96%) Splunk
7 17 (1.52%) Red Hat
8 16 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 16 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.34%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 11 (0.98%) Adobe
11 11 (0.98%) Databricks
12 8 (0.71%) Blue Prism
12 8 (0.71%) Veracode
13 6 (0.54%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.54%) Perforce
13 6 (0.54%) VMware
14 5 (0.45%) Amplitude
15 4 (0.36%) Virgin Media