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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 74 76
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 -22
Contract jobs citing React 1,006 1,085 1,296
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.83% 2.97% 2.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.46% 13.66% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 799 1,068
10th Percentile £335 £340 £362
25th Percentile £413 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -9.05%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £470 £458
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.58% -8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 11
10th Percentile £45.65 £26.25 £50.00
25th Percentile £53.91 £28.88 £55.63
Median hourly rate £64.75 £38.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.10% -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 8,076 7,944 10,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.72% 21.71% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,358 5,004 7,308
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 122 189
10th Percentile £30.70 £22.00 £35.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -13.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -2.31% +19.13% -16.06%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -18 863 £518 -5.91% 644
London -15 511 £550 -8.29% 212
UK excluding London -25 373 £450 -4.26% 567
Work from Home -22 322 £525 +5.00% 397
North of England -8 117 £400 -12.09% 112
South East -11 81 £375 -25.00% 214
Yorkshire -7 58 £400 -20.00% 42
North West -11 58 £400 -11.11% 63
Scotland +1 57 £463 +4.99% 35
South West -9 44 £550 - 72
Midlands -52 42 £535 +7.00% 80
West Midlands -34 29 £533 -0.84% 38
East of England -5 28 £419 +13.56% 34
East Midlands -16 13 £550 +18.92% 41
Wales 0 7 £518 +18.29% 24
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 7
North East -13 2 - - 7

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 (3.68%) CMS
2 34 (3.38%) Confluence
3 20 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.59%) Apache
4 16 (1.59%) Headless CMS
5 13 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.89%) Camunda
6 9 (0.89%) SAS
7 6 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.60%) WordPress
8 5 (0.50%) nginx
8 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 1 (0.099%) Solana
11 1 (0.099%) Traefik
Applications
1 16 (1.59%) 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
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
4 1 (0.099%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.40%) Endur
3 3 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 455 (45.23%) AWS
2 243 (24.16%) Azure
3 133 (13.22%) Serverless
4 126 (12.52%) GitHub
5 117 (11.63%) GCP
6 94 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
7 67 (6.66%) GitHub Actions
8 61 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 60 (5.96%) Amazon S3
10 40 (3.98%) npm
11 32 (3.18%) OpenShift
12 29 (2.88%) SaaS
13 26 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (2.58%) Azure AKS
14 25 (2.49%) Entra ID
15 24 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (2.39%) Figma
16 21 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.79%) HTTP
1 18 (1.79%) Wireless
2 8 (0.80%) DNS
3 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.30%) Bluetooth
4 3 (0.30%) DHCP
4 3 (0.30%) Firewall
4 3 (0.30%) Network Security
5 2 (0.20%) Internet
5 2 (0.20%) VPN
6 1 (0.099%) LAN
6 1 (0.099%) Multicast
6 1 (0.099%) SMS
6 1 (0.099%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (16.80%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (8.65%) Relational Database
3 77 (7.65%) NoSQL
4 59 (5.86%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.07%) MySQL
6 49 (4.87%) SQL Server
7 29 (2.88%) Redis
8 22 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (1.99%) DynamoDB
10 17 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (1.69%) Apache Arrow
10 17 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
10 17 (1.69%) Dremio
10 17 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (1.29%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.09%) Big Data
13 11 (1.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 212 (21.07%) Git
2 84 (8.35%) JIRA
3 83 (8.25%) Jenkins
4 75 (7.46%) Cypress.io
5 57 (5.67%) GitLab
6 56 (5.57%) JUnit
7 43 (4.27%) webpack
8 33 (3.28%) Cucumber
9 30 (2.98%) SonarQube
10 28 (2.78%) Mockito
11 27 (2.68%) Selenium
12 23 (2.29%) Bitbucket
13 22 (2.19%) Browser DevTools
13 22 (2.19%) Maven
14 19 (1.89%) Android Studio
14 19 (1.89%) Xcode
15 18 (1.79%) Eclipse
16 16 (1.59%) Storybook
16 16 (1.59%) Vite
17 15 (1.49%) Artifactory
General
1 254 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 221 (21.97%) Finance
3 110 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 96 (9.54%) Banking
5 82 (8.15%) Front Office
6 59 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
7 42 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 24 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.99%) Retail
10 16 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (1.49%) Marketing
12 14 (1.39%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.70%) Automotive
15 7 (0.70%) Back Office
15 7 (0.70%) Legal
16 6 (0.60%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 576 (57.26%) Developer
2 188 (18.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 149 (14.81%) Senior
4 143 (14.21%) Software Engineer
5 138 (13.72%) React Developer
6 106 (10.54%) Java Developer
7 96 (9.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 81 (8.05%) Lead
8 81 (8.05%) Python Developer
9 79 (7.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 72 (7.16%) Senior Developer
11 46 (4.57%) AWS Developer
12 44 (4.37%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 41 (4.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 40 (3.98%) Architect
15 39 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
16 36 (3.58%) Full-Stack Python Developer
17 34 (3.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 31 (3.08%) JavaScript Developer
19 29 (2.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (32.80%) Node.js
2 287 (28.53%) AngularJS
3 248 (24.65%) CSS
4 213 (21.17%) HTML
5 169 (16.80%) RESTful
6 140 (13.92%) REST
7 133 (13.22%) Spring
8 132 (13.12%) .NET
9 124 (12.33%) Next.js
10 120 (11.93%) Spring Boot
11 116 (11.53%) Jest
12 113 (11.23%) Vue
13 109 (10.83%) Redux
14 103 (10.24%) GraphQL
15 102 (10.14%) Kafka
16 83 (8.25%) HTML5
17 65 (6.46%) FastAPI
18 58 (5.77%) CSS3
19 44 (4.37%) JSON
20 41 (4.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 52 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 51 (5.07%) Fixed Income
5 43 (4.27%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.39%) Algorithms
9 24 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.39%) Equities
9 24 (2.39%) Hedge funds
10 21 (2.09%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.39%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.99%) Derivative
14 10 (0.99%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.89%) Public Cloud
16 8 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.16%) Linux
2 38 (3.78%) Unix
3 35 (3.48%) Android
4 30 (2.98%) Windows
5 20 (1.99%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.40%) 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
1 460 (45.73%) Agile
2 430 (42.74%) CI/CD
3 410 (40.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 275 (27.34%) Microservices
5 262 (26.04%) Software Engineering
6 249 (24.75%) DevOps
7 193 (19.18%) Front End Development
8 161 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 159 (15.81%) User Experience
10 146 (14.51%) Test Automation
11 142 (14.12%) Containerisation
12 125 (12.43%) AI
13 124 (12.33%) TDD
14 115 (11.43%) Clean Code
15 105 (10.44%) Scrum
16 91 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 89 (8.85%) Design Patterns
18 84 (8.35%) Code Quality
19 82 (8.15%) Mentoring
20 81 (8.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 504 (50.10%) TypeScript
2 495 (49.20%) JavaScript
3 343 (34.10%) Java
4 334 (33.20%) Python
5 197 (19.58%) SQL
6 129 (12.82%) C#
7 38 (3.78%) C++
8 31 (3.08%) Go
9 22 (2.19%) Perl
9 22 (2.19%) Ruby
10 20 (1.99%) Bicep
11 18 (1.79%) Rust
12 15 (1.49%) PowerShell
13 12 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.19%) PHP
14 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.70%) Bash
15 7 (0.70%) C
15 7 (0.70%) JSX
15 7 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 180 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 151 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 40 (3.98%) Degree
4 30 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.09%) MCP
8 8 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.60%) 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%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.20%) OCP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.099%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (12.62%) Accessibility
2 76 (7.55%) QA
3 57 (5.67%) WCAG
4 7 (0.70%) GDPR
5 4 (0.40%) MiFID
6 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
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%) HL7
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
1 242 (24.06%) Docker
2 21 (2.09%) 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
1 210 (20.87%) Kubernetes
2 111 (11.03%) Terraform
3 24 (2.39%) Grafana
4 22 (2.19%) Ansible
5 13 (1.29%) Argo
5 13 (1.29%) Kibana
6 9 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.099%) Consul
9 1 (0.099%) Istio
9 1 (0.099%) Podman
9 1 (0.099%) Rancher
9 1 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 113 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.77%) Oracle
3 45 (4.47%) Google
4 39 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.78%) Splunk
6 25 (2.49%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.49%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.69%) Adobe
8 12 (1.19%) Databricks
8 12 (1.19%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 10 (0.99%) Sitecore
11 9 (0.89%) Blue Prism
11 9 (0.89%) SAP
12 8 (0.80%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.60%) Perforce
13 6 (0.60%) Veracode
13 6 (0.60%) VMware
14 5 (0.50%) Marketo
14 5 (0.50%) MuleSoft