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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 71 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 -17
Contract jobs citing React 950 1,255 2,281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.27% 2.84% 3.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.44% 14.00% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 1,007 1,708
10th Percentile £357 £330 £400
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 17
10th Percentile - £40.00 £42.20
25th Percentile £26.25 £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.60% -10.71% +19.66%
75th Percentile £46.50 £72.34 -
90th Percentile £65.68 £74.75 £73.50
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 6,577 8,963 15,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.62% 20.28% 23.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,493 6,267 10,950
10th Percentile £363 £334 £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 £678
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 176 166
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.49 £25.75
25th Percentile £41.13 £34.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £84.95 £73.13 £80.13
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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -6 776 £525 -4.55% 1,769
London +2 530 £560 -13.85% 1,214
Work from Home +13 431 £500 -1.19% 1,059
UK excluding London -18 267 £450 -3.23% 708
North of England +18 86 £450 -5.26% 192
Scotland -14 56 £439 -4.72% 67
South East +48 55 £488 -7.14% 220
North West -16 52 £450 -5.26% 133
Midlands +9 28 £473 +33.10% 79
Yorkshire +20 25 £478 +0.53% 50
West Midlands +13 24 £466 +33.21% 46
South West -14 23 £441 -2.00% 78
East of England +2 13 £460 -8.00% 59
North East - 13 £463 - 10
Northern Ireland +5 9 £325 - 8
Wales -12 6 £400 -8.57% 13
East Midlands +4 4 £495 +24.53% 33

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 30 (3.16%) Apache
2 26 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.00%) CMS
4 17 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.47%) Headless CMS
6 13 (1.37%) nginx
7 12 (1.26%) Apache Spark
7 12 (1.26%) Confluence
8 6 (0.63%) Camunda
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.32%) Drupal
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.21%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Sketch
2 8 (0.84%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.32%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 410 (43.16%) AWS
2 211 (22.21%) Azure
3 116 (12.21%) GCP
4 90 (9.47%) Serverless
5 65 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (5.89%) GitHub
6 56 (5.89%) Power Platform
7 53 (5.58%) Amazon S3
8 38 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
9 33 (3.47%) Figma
10 30 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (2.74%) dbt
13 25 (2.63%) SaaS
14 24 (2.53%) Power Automate
14 24 (2.53%) PowerApps
15 23 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (2.42%) Azure Machine Learning
16 22 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (2.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.68%) HTTP
2 9 (0.95%) Firewall
3 5 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.11%) Intranet
5 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (18.32%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (10.63%) MongoDB
3 77 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 64 (6.74%) MySQL
5 55 (5.79%) Relational Database
6 52 (5.47%) SQL Server
7 40 (4.21%) DynamoDB
8 33 (3.47%) Power BI
9 31 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
10 27 (2.84%) Apache Iceberg
11 22 (2.32%) Apache Arrow
11 22 (2.32%) Dremio
11 22 (2.32%) Redis
12 21 (2.21%) Data Lake
12 21 (2.21%) Neo4j
13 18 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (1.58%) Apache Ignite
15 12 (1.26%) Hadoop
16 10 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 159 (16.74%) Git
2 122 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 54 (5.68%) GitLab
4 36 (3.79%) Cypress.io
4 36 (3.79%) JUnit
5 33 (3.47%) webpack
6 32 (3.37%) JIRA
7 28 (2.95%) Mockito
8 24 (2.53%) Gradle
8 24 (2.53%) Liquibase
9 23 (2.42%) Selenium
10 20 (2.11%) Maven
11 16 (1.68%) SonarQube
12 14 (1.47%) Babel
12 14 (1.47%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.47%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
13 10 (1.05%) Vite
14 8 (0.84%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 195 (20.53%) Finance
2 154 (16.21%) Social Skills
3 124 (13.05%) Public Sector
4 116 (12.21%) Banking
5 96 (10.11%) Front Office
6 78 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (6.11%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.42%) Marketing
9 22 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (2.32%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.47%) Electronics
12 13 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.05%) Retail
14 7 (0.74%) Advertising
14 7 (0.74%) Back Office
14 7 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.53%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 670 (70.53%) Developer
2 205 (21.58%) React Developer
3 203 (21.37%) Full-Stack Developer
4 150 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 138 (14.53%) Senior
6 109 (11.47%) Python Developer
7 104 (10.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 85 (8.95%) Java Developer
9 84 (8.84%) Senior Developer
10 77 (8.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 61 (6.42%) AWS Developer
12 59 (6.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 59 (6.21%) Lead
13 50 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
14 45 (4.74%) Python Engineer
15 40 (4.21%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.89%) .NET Developer
16 37 (3.89%) UI Developer
17 36 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
18 32 (3.37%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (31.05%) Node.js
2 212 (22.32%) AngularJS
3 207 (21.79%) CSS
4 174 (18.32%) HTML
5 147 (15.47%) .NET
6 124 (13.05%) RESTful
7 123 (12.95%) Redux
8 117 (12.32%) Vue
9 108 (11.37%) Spring
10 102 (10.74%) Spring Boot
11 89 (9.37%) Kafka
12 76 (8.00%) Next.js
13 67 (7.05%) REST
14 64 (6.74%) Django
15 62 (6.53%) GraphQL
16 59 (6.21%) FastAPI
17 58 (6.11%) HTML5
18 41 (4.32%) Pandas
19 40 (4.21%) CSS3
20 39 (4.11%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.26%) Fixed Income
2 49 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
4 29 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 28 (2.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 18 (1.89%) Hedge funds
8 17 (1.79%) Derivative
9 16 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.16%) Equities
13 9 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.95%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (0.84%) NHS
15 7 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.74%) Educational Technology
16 6 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.74%) Linux
2 17 (1.79%) Android
3 13 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.84%) Unix
5 5 (0.53%) Windows
6 1 (0.11%) CentOS
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) SUSE
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (39.89%) Agile
2 324 (34.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 291 (30.63%) CI/CD
4 230 (24.21%) Software Engineering
5 223 (23.47%) DevOps
6 194 (20.42%) Front End Development
7 164 (17.26%) Microservices
8 148 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (14.84%) User Experience
10 106 (11.16%) TDD
11 100 (10.53%) Clean Code
12 96 (10.11%) Fintech
13 87 (9.16%) Test Automation
14 80 (8.42%) API Development
14 80 (8.42%) Continuous Integration
15 77 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
15 77 (8.11%) Investment Management
15 77 (8.11%) Visualisation
16 72 (7.58%) Code Quality
17 70 (7.37%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 524 (55.16%) JavaScript
2 469 (49.37%) TypeScript
3 309 (32.53%) Python
4 252 (26.53%) Java
5 197 (20.74%) SQL
6 108 (11.37%) C#
7 38 (4.00%) PHP
8 20 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.79%) Scala
10 16 (1.68%) Kotlin
11 14 (1.47%) Go
11 14 (1.47%) Ruby
12 13 (1.37%) Bash
13 12 (1.26%) C++
14 8 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.74%) Rust
16 5 (0.53%) Perl
16 5 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.42%) Objective-C
17 4 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 169 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 147 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.32%) Degree
4 36 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.32%) AWS Certified Developer
6 20 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.21%) OCP
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.21%) PhD
11 2 (0.21%) Sun Certification
12 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.37%) Accessibility
2 25 (2.63%) QA
3 10 (1.05%) WCAG
4 9 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.42%) GDPR
7 3 (0.32%) EMIR
7 3 (0.32%) MiFID
8 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 151 (15.89%) Docker
2 23 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 163 (17.16%) Kubernetes
2 82 (8.63%) Terraform
3 43 (4.53%) Ansible
4 16 (1.68%) Grafana
5 9 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.21%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) Rancher
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 70 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.74%) Oracle
3 28 (2.95%) Databricks
4 27 (2.84%) SAP
5 18 (1.89%) Google
6 12 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.16%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.16%) Splunk
8 10 (1.05%) Adobe
9 9 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.42%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (0.42%) Sybase
10 4 (0.42%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.42%) Workday
10 4 (0.42%) Zend
11 3 (0.32%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.32%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.32%) Solace
11 3 (0.32%) VMware
12 2 (0.21%) Sitecore