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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 69 75
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 -22
Contract jobs citing React 1,038 1,080 1,299
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.92% 2.96% 2.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.76% 13.61% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 801 1,073
10th Percentile £335 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £465 £464
% change year-on-year -3.55% +0.22% -7.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £45.65 £37.28 £50.00
25th Percentile £53.91 £38.06 £55.63
Median hourly rate £64.75 £40.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.87% -38.55% +12.93%
75th Percentile £67.00 £42.94 £76.25
90th Percentile - £45.08 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - £63.75
% change year-on-year - - +9.39%

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 8,136 7,937 10,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.92% 21.77% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,406 5,013 7,383
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £657
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 112 189
10th Percentile £29.60 £22.00 £36.13
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -16 887 £520 -6.85% 1,553
London -8 528 £575 -4.17% 834
UK excluding London -20 389 £449 -3.55% 841
Work from Home -17 347 £525 +5.00% 955
North of England -6 114 £400 -11.11% 243
South East -6 83 £375 -25.00% 246
Scotland +1 63 £463 +5.11% 51
North West -11 57 £408 -9.44% 160
Yorkshire -6 56 £400 -15.79% 66
South West -2 53 £540 -5.05% 97
Midlands -56 44 £535 +7.00% 108
West Midlands -44 31 £533 +4.00% 60
East of England -10 28 £419 +13.56% 57
East Midlands -19 13 £550 +57.14% 48
Wales 0 8 £503 +4.42% 29
Northern Ireland -7 3 - - 19
North East -15 2 - - 17

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 36 (3.47%) CMS
2 35 (3.37%) Confluence
3 24 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.54%) Headless CMS
5 15 (1.45%) Apache
6 11 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.87%) Camunda
7 9 (0.87%) SAS
8 7 (0.67%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.58%) nginx
9 6 (0.58%) WordPress
10 5 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.48%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.19%) Drupal
12 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.19%) Moodle
13 1 (0.096%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (1.54%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.19%) Sketch
4 1 (0.096%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.096%) Blender
4 1 (0.096%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.096%) InVision
4 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.096%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.39%) Endur
4 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.19%) Magento
6 1 (0.096%) Shopify
6 1 (0.096%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 473 (45.57%) AWS
2 258 (24.86%) Azure
3 133 (12.81%) Serverless
4 126 (12.14%) GCP
5 124 (11.95%) GitHub
6 93 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
7 67 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 59 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (3.95%) npm
11 36 (3.47%) OpenShift
12 31 (2.99%) SaaS
13 27 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (2.50%) Azure AKS
14 26 (2.50%) Entra ID
15 25 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (2.41%) Figma
16 23 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (2.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.83%) HTTP
2 18 (1.73%) Wireless
3 8 (0.77%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) Bluetooth
4 3 (0.29%) Firewall
4 3 (0.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.19%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.096%) LAN
6 1 (0.096%) Multicast
6 1 (0.096%) SMS
6 1 (0.096%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (16.86%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (8.19%) Relational Database
3 76 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 53 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 51 (4.91%) MySQL
6 47 (4.53%) SQL Server
7 28 (2.70%) Redis
8 22 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (2.02%) Apache Arrow
9 21 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
9 21 (2.02%) Dremio
10 20 (1.93%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.25%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.06%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.96%) Big Data
17 9 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 216 (20.81%) Git
2 86 (8.29%) Jenkins
3 84 (8.09%) JIRA
4 79 (7.61%) Cypress.io
5 56 (5.39%) GitLab
6 52 (5.01%) JUnit
7 46 (4.43%) webpack
8 33 (3.18%) Cucumber
9 31 (2.99%) SonarQube
10 28 (2.70%) Selenium
11 24 (2.31%) Mockito
12 23 (2.22%) Browser DevTools
13 22 (2.12%) Bitbucket
13 22 (2.12%) Maven
14 20 (1.93%) Android Studio
14 20 (1.93%) Xcode
15 18 (1.73%) Eclipse
16 17 (1.64%) Vite
17 16 (1.54%) Storybook
18 15 (1.45%) Artifactory
General
1 255 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 238 (22.93%) Finance
3 109 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 102 (9.83%) Banking
5 89 (8.57%) Front Office
6 61 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 42 (4.05%) Investment Banking
8 27 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.02%) Retail
10 15 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (1.35%) Marketing
11 14 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.77%) Automotive
14 8 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.67%) Back Office
15 7 (0.67%) Law
15 7 (0.67%) Legal
16 6 (0.58%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 596 (57.42%) Developer
2 187 (18.02%) Full-Stack Developer
3 157 (15.13%) Software Engineer
4 154 (14.84%) Senior
5 147 (14.16%) React Developer
6 110 (10.60%) Java Developer
7 99 (9.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 87 (8.38%) Python Developer
9 85 (8.19%) Lead
10 84 (8.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 78 (7.51%) Senior Developer
12 51 (4.91%) AWS Developer
13 49 (4.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 44 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
14 44 (4.24%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 41 (3.95%) Architect
16 38 (3.66%) Full-Stack Python Developer
17 37 (3.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 34 (3.28%) JavaScript Developer
19 31 (2.99%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (33.72%) Node.js
2 298 (28.71%) AngularJS
3 255 (24.57%) CSS
4 220 (21.19%) HTML
5 170 (16.38%) RESTful
6 141 (13.58%) REST
7 135 (13.01%) Spring
8 132 (12.72%) .NET
9 126 (12.14%) Next.js
10 123 (11.85%) Spring Boot
11 120 (11.56%) Jest
12 119 (11.46%) Vue
13 118 (11.37%) Redux
14 108 (10.40%) GraphQL
15 102 (9.83%) Kafka
16 86 (8.29%) HTML5
17 68 (6.55%) FastAPI
18 59 (5.68%) CSS3
19 45 (4.34%) JSON
19 45 (4.34%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 82 (7.90%) Cloud Native
2 61 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (5.78%) Fixed Income
3 60 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 46 (4.43%) Mobile App
5 32 (3.08%) Equities
6 28 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (2.60%) Hedge funds
8 26 (2.50%) Algorithms
8 26 (2.50%) Data Structures
9 25 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.83%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.16%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.87%) Derivative
15 9 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (6.07%) Linux
2 38 (3.66%) Unix
3 37 (3.56%) Android
4 29 (2.79%) Windows
5 22 (2.12%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.39%) CentOS
6 4 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.096%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (46.15%) Agile
2 433 (41.71%) CI/CD
3 415 (39.98%) Full-Stack Development
4 281 (27.07%) Software Engineering
5 276 (26.59%) Microservices
6 247 (23.80%) DevOps
7 203 (19.56%) Front End Development
8 172 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
9 167 (16.09%) User Experience
10 145 (13.97%) Test Automation
11 141 (13.58%) Containerisation
12 132 (12.72%) TDD
13 122 (11.75%) AI
14 121 (11.66%) Clean Code
15 109 (10.50%) Scrum
16 90 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
17 88 (8.48%) Code Quality
17 88 (8.48%) Design Patterns
17 88 (8.48%) Mentoring
18 80 (7.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 536 (51.64%) TypeScript
2 520 (50.10%) JavaScript
3 351 (33.82%) Java
4 347 (33.43%) Python
5 203 (19.56%) SQL
6 129 (12.43%) C#
7 39 (3.76%) C++
8 33 (3.18%) Go
9 22 (2.12%) Perl
10 21 (2.02%) Bicep
10 21 (2.02%) Ruby
11 19 (1.83%) PowerShell
11 19 (1.83%) Rust
12 12 (1.16%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.16%) PHP
13 9 (0.87%) Bash
14 8 (0.77%) C
14 8 (0.77%) JSX
14 8 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 150 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 41 (3.95%) Degree
4 30 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.06%) MCP
8 8 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.29%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.19%) CEH
11 2 (0.19%) CISSP
11 2 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.19%) OCP
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.096%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (11.95%) Accessibility
2 79 (7.61%) QA
3 59 (5.68%) WCAG
4 7 (0.67%) GDPR
5 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.39%) MiFID
6 3 (0.29%) EMIR
6 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.19%) HL7
7 2 (0.19%) PMO
8 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.096%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 244 (23.51%) Docker
2 22 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.096%) Varnish
4 1 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.096%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 211 (20.33%) Kubernetes
2 107 (10.31%) Terraform
3 25 (2.41%) Ansible
3 25 (2.41%) Grafana
4 14 (1.35%) Kibana
5 13 (1.25%) Argo
6 9 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.19%) Podman
10 1 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.096%) Consul
10 1 (0.096%) Istio
10 1 (0.096%) Rancher
10 1 (0.096%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 115 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.49%) Oracle
3 43 (4.14%) Google
4 39 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.70%) Splunk
6 27 (2.60%) Red Hat
7 24 (2.31%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.45%) Adobe
9 13 (1.25%) Databricks
9 13 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.87%) Blue Prism
11 9 (0.87%) Sitecore
12 8 (0.77%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.77%) SAP
13 6 (0.58%) Perforce
13 6 (0.58%) Veracode
14 5 (0.48%) Marketo
14 5 (0.48%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.48%) VMware