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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 73 78
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 -24
Contract jobs citing React 1,018 1,097 1,304
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.85% 2.97% 2.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.54% 13.70% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 810 1,076
10th Percentile £335 £339 £355
25th Percentile £413 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -10.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £470 £455
% change year-on-year -4.26% +3.21% -8.92%
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 8,115 8,005 10,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.71% 21.67% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,385 5,045 7,347
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 192 122 189
10th Percentile £30.80 £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% -14.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -16 872 £520 -5.55% 616
London -5 518 £558 -7.04% 201
UK excluding London -25 376 £450 -4.26% 547
Work from Home -19 328 £525 +5.00% 373
North of England -9 117 £400 -12.09% 100
South East -10 81 £375 -25.00% 204
Yorkshire -3 58 £400 -20.00% 36
Scotland -6 58 £463 +5.11% 36
North West -12 58 £400 -11.11% 57
South West -20 45 £550 - 72
Midlands -52 43 £535 +7.00% 76
West Midlands -37 30 £533 -0.84% 39
East of England -7 28 £419 +13.56% 38
East Midlands -16 13 £550 +22.22% 36
Wales -2 7 £518 +18.29% 22
Northern Ireland -5 3 - - 8
North East -12 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 (3.63%) CMS
2 35 (3.44%) Confluence
3 22 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.57%) Apache
4 16 (1.57%) Headless CMS
5 13 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.88%) Camunda
6 9 (0.88%) SAS
7 6 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.59%) WordPress
8 5 (0.49%) nginx
8 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 1 (0.098%) Solana
11 1 (0.098%) Strapi
Applications
1 16 (1.57%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.20%) Sketch
4 1 (0.098%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.098%) Blender
4 1 (0.098%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.098%) InVision
4 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.39%) Endur
3 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.29%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 461 (45.28%) AWS
2 249 (24.46%) Azure
3 135 (13.26%) Serverless
4 127 (12.48%) GitHub
5 123 (12.08%) GCP
6 95 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
7 68 (6.68%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
9 60 (5.89%) Amazon S3
10 42 (4.13%) npm
11 34 (3.34%) OpenShift
12 30 (2.95%) SaaS
13 27 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (2.65%) Azure AKS
14 26 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (2.55%) Entra ID
15 25 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (2.36%) Figma
17 21 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.77%) HTTP
1 18 (1.77%) Wireless
2 8 (0.79%) DNS
3 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.29%) Bluetooth
4 3 (0.29%) DHCP
4 3 (0.29%) Firewall
4 3 (0.29%) Network Security
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.20%) Internet
5 2 (0.20%) VPN
6 1 (0.098%) LAN
6 1 (0.098%) Multicast
6 1 (0.098%) SMS
6 1 (0.098%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (16.99%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (8.55%) Relational Database
3 77 (7.56%) NoSQL
4 59 (5.80%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.01%) MySQL
6 49 (4.81%) SQL Server
7 29 (2.85%) Redis
8 22 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (2.06%) DynamoDB
10 19 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (1.87%) Apache Arrow
10 19 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
10 19 (1.87%) Dremio
10 19 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (1.28%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.08%) Big Data
14 11 (1.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 216 (21.22%) Git
2 85 (8.35%) JIRA
3 83 (8.15%) Jenkins
4 77 (7.56%) Cypress.io
5 57 (5.60%) GitLab
6 56 (5.50%) JUnit
7 45 (4.42%) webpack
8 33 (3.24%) Cucumber
9 32 (3.14%) SonarQube
10 28 (2.75%) Mockito
10 28 (2.75%) Selenium
11 24 (2.36%) Bitbucket
12 22 (2.16%) Browser DevTools
12 22 (2.16%) Maven
13 20 (1.96%) Android Studio
13 20 (1.96%) Xcode
14 18 (1.77%) Eclipse
15 16 (1.57%) Storybook
15 16 (1.57%) Vite
16 15 (1.47%) Artifactory
General
1 259 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 227 (22.30%) Finance
3 111 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 99 (9.72%) Banking
5 86 (8.45%) Front Office
6 62 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
7 42 (4.13%) Investment Banking
8 26 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.06%) Retail
10 16 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (1.47%) Marketing
12 14 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.69%) Automotive
15 7 (0.69%) Back Office
15 7 (0.69%) Legal
16 6 (0.59%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 584 (57.37%) Developer
2 190 (18.66%) Full-Stack Developer
3 150 (14.73%) Software Engineer
4 149 (14.64%) Senior
5 141 (13.85%) React Developer
6 107 (10.51%) Java Developer
7 97 (9.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 82 (8.06%) Lead
8 82 (8.06%) Python Developer
9 79 (7.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 72 (7.07%) Senior Developer
11 48 (4.72%) AWS Developer
12 45 (4.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 44 (4.32%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 41 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
15 40 (3.93%) Architect
16 36 (3.54%) Full-Stack Python Developer
17 35 (3.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 33 (3.24%) JavaScript Developer
19 30 (2.95%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (33.01%) Node.js
2 290 (28.49%) AngularJS
3 250 (24.56%) CSS
4 215 (21.12%) HTML
5 173 (16.99%) RESTful
6 143 (14.05%) REST
7 133 (13.06%) .NET
7 133 (13.06%) Spring
8 125 (12.28%) Next.js
9 122 (11.98%) Spring Boot
10 119 (11.69%) Jest
11 116 (11.39%) Vue
12 112 (11.00%) Redux
13 103 (10.12%) GraphQL
14 102 (10.02%) Kafka
15 83 (8.15%) HTML5
16 65 (6.39%) FastAPI
17 58 (5.70%) CSS3
18 44 (4.32%) JSON
19 43 (4.22%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 82 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 61 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 56 (5.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 55 (5.40%) Fixed Income
5 45 (4.42%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (2.75%) Equities
7 28 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (2.46%) Hedge funds
10 24 (2.36%) Algorithms
10 24 (2.36%) Data Structures
11 21 (2.06%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (1.08%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.98%) Derivative
16 10 (0.98%) Private Cloud
17 8 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.09%) Linux
2 38 (3.73%) Unix
3 36 (3.54%) Android
4 30 (2.95%) Windows
5 22 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.39%) CentOS
8 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.098%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.098%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (45.97%) Agile
2 432 (42.44%) CI/CD
3 413 (40.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 276 (27.11%) Microservices
5 269 (26.42%) Software Engineering
6 254 (24.95%) DevOps
7 194 (19.06%) Front End Development
8 167 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
9 163 (16.01%) User Experience
10 150 (14.73%) Test Automation
11 144 (14.15%) Containerisation
12 126 (12.38%) AI
13 125 (12.28%) TDD
14 118 (11.59%) Clean Code
15 105 (10.31%) Scrum
16 92 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
17 90 (8.84%) Design Patterns
18 87 (8.55%) Code Quality
19 85 (8.35%) Mentoring
20 83 (8.15%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 515 (50.59%) TypeScript
2 505 (49.61%) JavaScript
3 347 (34.09%) Java
4 338 (33.20%) Python
5 197 (19.35%) SQL
6 129 (12.67%) C#
7 38 (3.73%) C++
8 31 (3.05%) Go
9 22 (2.16%) Perl
9 22 (2.16%) Ruby
10 21 (2.06%) Bicep
11 18 (1.77%) Rust
12 15 (1.47%) PowerShell
13 12 (1.18%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.18%) PHP
14 8 (0.79%) JSX
14 8 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.69%) Bash
15 7 (0.69%) C
15 7 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 182 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 153 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.03%) Degree
4 31 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.08%) MCP
8 8 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.098%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (12.48%) Accessibility
2 78 (7.66%) QA
3 57 (5.60%) WCAG
4 7 (0.69%) GDPR
5 4 (0.39%) MiFID
6 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.29%) EMIR
6 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.20%) HL7
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.098%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 245 (24.07%) Docker
2 22 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.098%) Varnish
4 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.098%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 212 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 111 (10.90%) Terraform
3 24 (2.36%) Grafana
4 22 (2.16%) Ansible
5 14 (1.38%) Kibana
6 13 (1.28%) Argo
7 9 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.098%) Consul
10 1 (0.098%) Istio
10 1 (0.098%) Podman
10 1 (0.098%) Rancher
10 1 (0.098%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 116 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.70%) Oracle
3 45 (4.42%) Google
4 39 (3.83%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.75%) Splunk
6 25 (2.46%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.46%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.67%) Adobe
8 14 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.18%) Databricks
10 11 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.98%) Sitecore
12 9 (0.88%) Blue Prism
12 9 (0.88%) SAP
13 8 (0.79%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.59%) Perforce
14 6 (0.59%) Veracode
14 6 (0.59%) VMware
15 5 (0.49%) Marketo
15 5 (0.49%) MuleSoft