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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 64 63
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing React 1,007 1,341 2,027
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.44% 3.09% 3.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.10% 15.01% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 1,072 1,523
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 16
10th Percentile - £40.00 £41.50
25th Percentile £26.25 £55.00 £58.44
Median hourly rate £27.50 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% -10.71% +22.81%
75th Percentile £53.61 £72.50 £70.63
90th Percentile £68.52 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £65.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -58.02% - +13.91%

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 6,669 8,933 13,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.75% 20.59% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,571 6,202 10,040
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 238 153
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.61 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%

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 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing React over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 May 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 -5 819 £525 -6.67% 2,233
London +2 567 £575 -4.25% 975
Work from Home +16 463 £513 -2.33% 1,381
UK excluding London -17 278 £450 -5.26% 1,618
North of England +2 94 £460 -3.16% 459
North West -6 61 £450 -5.26% 308
South East +36 60 £488 -8.88% 536
Scotland -15 59 £450 -2.54% 73
Midlands +4 31 £466 +17.30% 228
Yorkshire +12 24 £470 +4.44% 114
West Midlands +15 23 £461 +31.79% 128
South West -13 17 £441 -7.16% 158
North East +9 13 £463 - 40
East of England +5 13 £470 -6.00% 183
Northern Ireland +2 9 £325 - 21
East Midlands +3 8 £490 +16.95% 88
Wales -8 6 £400 -9.86% 23

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 31 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.58%) Apache
2 26 (2.58%) CMS
3 18 (1.79%) Headless CMS
4 17 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.29%) nginx
6 11 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.89%) Confluence
8 6 (0.60%) Camunda
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.30%) Alfresco
10 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.20%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) WordPress
12 1 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (1.09%) Sketch
2 8 (0.79%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.099%) InVision
4 1 (0.099%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.099%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.099%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.099%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.099%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 452 (44.89%) AWS
2 205 (20.36%) Azure
3 131 (13.01%) GCP
4 105 (10.43%) Serverless
5 85 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
6 67 (6.65%) GitHub
7 61 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 54 (5.36%) Power Platform
9 41 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
10 35 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
11 34 (3.38%) Figma
12 31 (3.08%) dbt
13 28 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 28 (2.78%) SaaS
14 27 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (2.28%) Azure Machine Learning
16 22 (2.18%) PowerApps
17 21 (2.09%) Entra ID
17 21 (2.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.09%) HTTP
2 11 (1.09%) Firewall
3 7 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.40%) SSL
6 3 (0.30%) DNS
7 2 (0.20%) DHCP
7 2 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.099%) Broadband
8 1 (0.099%) Internet
8 1 (0.099%) Intranet
8 1 (0.099%) LAN
8 1 (0.099%) SMS
8 1 (0.099%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (20.16%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (9.63%) MongoDB
3 82 (8.14%) NoSQL
4 66 (6.55%) MySQL
5 63 (6.26%) Relational Database
6 51 (5.06%) SQL Server
7 44 (4.37%) DynamoDB
8 34 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (3.18%) Apache Iceberg
9 32 (3.18%) Power BI
10 27 (2.68%) Apache Arrow
10 27 (2.68%) Dremio
10 27 (2.68%) Redis
11 21 (2.09%) Data Lake
11 21 (2.09%) Neo4j
12 19 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (1.19%) Hadoop
15 10 (0.99%) Apache Ignite
15 10 (0.99%) GIS
Development Applications
1 191 (18.97%) Git
2 122 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 58 (5.76%) GitLab
4 46 (4.57%) JUnit
5 43 (4.27%) Cypress.io
6 40 (3.97%) Mockito
7 35 (3.48%) Gradle
8 34 (3.38%) Liquibase
8 34 (3.38%) webpack
9 33 (3.28%) JIRA
10 22 (2.18%) SonarQube
11 21 (2.09%) Bitbucket
12 20 (1.99%) Maven
13 18 (1.79%) Selenium
14 15 (1.49%) TeamCity
15 13 (1.29%) Babel
16 12 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
17 11 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
17 11 (1.09%) Storybook
18 9 (0.89%) CircleCI
General
1 224 (22.24%) Finance
2 163 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 142 (14.10%) Banking
4 134 (13.31%) Public Sector
5 112 (11.12%) Front Office
6 73 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
7 67 (6.65%) Investment Banking
8 32 (3.18%) Telecoms
9 31 (3.08%) Marketing
10 26 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 23 (2.28%) Electronics
13 11 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.79%) Advertising
15 8 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.79%) Retail
16 7 (0.70%) Back Office
17 5 (0.50%) Multimedia
17 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 710 (70.51%) Developer
2 221 (21.95%) Full-Stack Developer
3 220 (21.85%) React Developer
4 170 (16.88%) Software Engineer
5 145 (14.40%) Senior
6 105 (10.43%) Python Developer
7 102 (10.13%) Java Developer
8 101 (10.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 90 (8.94%) Senior Developer
10 87 (8.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 63 (6.26%) AWS Developer
12 61 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 57 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
14 52 (5.16%) Lead
15 43 (4.27%) Python Engineer
16 42 (4.17%) Software Developer
16 42 (4.17%) UI Developer
17 38 (3.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 38 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
18 35 (3.48%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (30.39%) Node.js
2 231 (22.94%) CSS
3 221 (21.95%) AngularJS
4 189 (18.77%) HTML
5 145 (14.40%) .NET
6 134 (13.31%) Redux
7 131 (13.01%) Vue
8 125 (12.41%) RESTful
9 118 (11.72%) Spring
10 114 (11.32%) Spring Boot
11 98 (9.73%) Kafka
12 90 (8.94%) Next.js
13 83 (8.24%) REST
14 82 (8.14%) GraphQL
15 66 (6.55%) FastAPI
16 63 (6.26%) Django
17 55 (5.46%) Jest
18 50 (4.97%) HTML5
19 44 (4.37%) Swagger
20 43 (4.27%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.94%) Fixed Income
2 61 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 44 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 41 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
5 34 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 32 (3.18%) Equities
7 26 (2.58%) Hedge funds
8 23 (2.28%) Derivative
9 18 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 16 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
15 8 (0.79%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.70%) Educational Technology
16 7 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.88%) Linux
2 13 (1.29%) Android
3 10 (0.99%) Windows
4 9 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.70%) Unix
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.099%) AIX
7 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.099%) SUSE
7 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (41.31%) Agile
2 353 (35.05%) Full-Stack Development
3 321 (31.88%) CI/CD
4 262 (26.02%) Software Engineering
5 243 (24.13%) DevOps
6 199 (19.76%) Front End Development
7 196 (19.46%) Microservices
8 153 (15.19%) User Experience
9 148 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
10 122 (12.12%) Clean Code
11 116 (11.52%) TDD
12 106 (10.53%) Fintech
13 90 (8.94%) Test Automation
14 88 (8.74%) Investment Management
15 84 (8.34%) Containerisation
16 82 (8.14%) Artificial Intelligence
16 82 (8.14%) Continuous Integration
17 80 (7.94%) API Development
18 79 (7.85%) Asset Management
19 71 (7.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 559 (55.51%) JavaScript
2 511 (50.74%) TypeScript
3 316 (31.38%) Python
4 272 (27.01%) Java
5 200 (19.86%) SQL
6 118 (11.72%) C#
7 35 (3.48%) PHP
8 22 (2.18%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.79%) C++
10 15 (1.49%) Go
10 15 (1.49%) Scala
11 14 (1.39%) Bash
12 12 (1.19%) Ruby
13 10 (0.99%) Rust
14 8 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.50%) Perl
15 5 (0.50%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.30%) C
17 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 192 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 170 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.66%) Degree
4 32 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.18%) AWS Certification
6 20 (1.99%) AWS Certified Developer
7 14 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.20%) CEH
11 2 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.20%) CISSP
11 2 (0.20%) OCP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PhD
11 2 (0.20%) Sun Certification
12 1 (0.099%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.96%) Accessibility
2 27 (2.68%) QA
3 14 (1.39%) WCAG
4 9 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.60%) GDPR
6 5 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.30%) EMIR
7 3 (0.30%) MiFID
8 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 175 (17.38%) Docker
2 24 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.099%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.099%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 167 (16.58%) Kubernetes
2 76 (7.55%) Terraform
3 38 (3.77%) Ansible
4 19 (1.89%) Grafana
5 9 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.099%) Istio
6 1 (0.099%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.099%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.099%) Rancher
6 1 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.099%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 68 (6.75%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.06%) Oracle
3 35 (3.48%) SAP
4 29 (2.88%) Databricks
5 26 (2.58%) Google
6 15 (1.49%) Adobe
7 13 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 10 (0.99%) Splunk
9 8 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.40%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (0.40%) Sybase
11 4 (0.40%) Workday
11 4 (0.40%) Zend
12 3 (0.30%) ESRI
12 3 (0.30%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.30%) Solace
12 3 (0.30%) VMware
13 2 (0.20%) SendGrid