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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 70 61
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -18
Contract jobs citing React 955 1,254 2,257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.28% 2.84% 3.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.53% 14.01% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 742 1,006 1,689
10th Percentile £356 £336 £400
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -0.09% -7.83%
75th Percentile £650 £692 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £751
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 6,572 8,950 14,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.59% 20.27% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,492 6,265 10,830
10th Percentile £363 £331 £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 £775 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 172 162
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.47 £25.75
25th Percentile £40.19 £31.81 £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 £85.43 £72.44 £80.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +31.63%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -1 778 £525 -4.55% 1,754
London +4 532 £560 -13.85% 1,206
Work from Home +15 435 £500 -1.96% 1,050
UK excluding London -22 267 £450 -3.23% 701
North of England +14 86 £455 -4.21% 193
Scotland -14 56 £439 -4.72% 67
South East +48 55 £488 -7.14% 215
North West -12 52 £450 -5.26% 133
Midlands +7 28 £473 +33.10% 80
Yorkshire +23 25 £478 +6.70% 51
West Midlands +12 24 £466 +33.21% 47
South West -15 23 £441 -2.00% 79
East of England +8 13 £460 -8.00% 56
North East - 13 £463 - 10
Northern Ireland +6 9 £325 - 8
Wales -13 6 £400 -8.57% 11
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 29 (3.04%) Apache
2 26 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.09%) CMS
4 17 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.57%) Headless CMS
6 13 (1.36%) 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 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Sketch
2 8 (0.84%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 413 (43.25%) AWS
2 212 (22.20%) Azure
3 116 (12.15%) GCP
4 94 (9.84%) Serverless
5 69 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (6.07%) GitHub
7 56 (5.86%) Amazon S3
7 56 (5.86%) Power Platform
8 41 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
9 33 (3.46%) Figma
10 30 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (2.72%) dbt
13 25 (2.62%) SaaS
14 24 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (2.51%) Power Automate
14 24 (2.51%) PowerApps
15 23 (2.41%) Azure Machine Learning
16 22 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (2.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.88%) HTTP
2 9 (0.94%) Firewall
3 5 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.10%) Intranet
5 1 (0.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (18.43%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (10.58%) MongoDB
3 77 (8.06%) NoSQL
4 64 (6.70%) MySQL
5 56 (5.86%) Relational Database
6 52 (5.45%) SQL Server
7 42 (4.40%) DynamoDB
8 33 (3.46%) Power BI
9 31 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
10 27 (2.83%) Apache Iceberg
11 22 (2.30%) Apache Arrow
11 22 (2.30%) Dremio
11 22 (2.30%) Redis
12 21 (2.20%) Data Lake
12 21 (2.20%) Neo4j
13 19 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
15 12 (1.26%) Hadoop
16 10 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 162 (16.96%) Git
2 123 (12.88%) Jenkins
3 55 (5.76%) GitLab
4 38 (3.98%) Cypress.io
5 37 (3.87%) JUnit
6 33 (3.46%) webpack
7 32 (3.35%) JIRA
8 29 (3.04%) Mockito
9 25 (2.62%) Gradle
9 25 (2.62%) Liquibase
10 23 (2.41%) Selenium
11 21 (2.20%) Maven
12 16 (1.68%) Bitbucket
12 16 (1.68%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.47%) Babel
13 14 (1.47%) TeamCity
14 12 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (1.05%) Vite
16 8 (0.84%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.84%) Postman
General
1 195 (20.42%) Finance
2 154 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 124 (12.98%) Public Sector
4 115 (12.04%) Banking
5 95 (9.95%) Front Office
6 77 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
7 57 (5.97%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.41%) Marketing
9 22 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.47%) Electronics
12 13 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.05%) Retail
14 8 (0.84%) Advertising
15 7 (0.73%) Back Office
15 7 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.52%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 675 (70.68%) Developer
2 209 (21.88%) Full-Stack Developer
3 205 (21.47%) React Developer
4 151 (15.81%) Software Engineer
5 138 (14.45%) Senior
6 108 (11.31%) Python Developer
7 105 (10.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 87 (9.11%) Java Developer
9 84 (8.80%) Senior Developer
10 77 (8.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 62 (6.49%) AWS Developer
12 59 (6.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 59 (6.18%) Lead
13 51 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
14 44 (4.61%) Python Engineer
15 40 (4.19%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.98%) UI Developer
17 37 (3.87%) .NET Developer
18 36 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
19 33 (3.46%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (30.99%) Node.js
2 215 (22.51%) AngularJS
3 211 (22.09%) CSS
4 176 (18.43%) HTML
5 147 (15.39%) .NET
6 126 (13.19%) RESTful
7 124 (12.98%) Redux
8 122 (12.77%) Vue
9 109 (11.41%) Spring
10 103 (10.79%) Spring Boot
11 90 (9.42%) Kafka
12 77 (8.06%) Next.js
13 70 (7.33%) REST
14 64 (6.70%) Django
14 64 (6.70%) GraphQL
15 60 (6.28%) FastAPI
16 59 (6.18%) HTML5
17 41 (4.29%) Pandas
18 40 (4.19%) Jest
19 39 (4.08%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.23%) Fixed Income
2 49 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 29 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.62%) Mobile App
7 19 (1.99%) Hedge funds
8 17 (1.78%) Derivative
9 16 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.57%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.36%) Equities
13 9 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.94%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (0.84%) NHS
15 7 (0.73%) Educational Technology
16 6 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.72%) Linux
2 17 (1.78%) Android
3 13 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.84%) Unix
5 5 (0.52%) Windows
6 1 (0.10%) CentOS
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.10%) SUSE
6 1 (0.10%) VMS
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (39.79%) Agile
2 330 (34.55%) Full-Stack Development
3 296 (30.99%) CI/CD
4 232 (24.29%) Software Engineering
5 226 (23.66%) DevOps
6 196 (20.52%) Front End Development
7 167 (17.49%) Microservices
8 150 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
9 142 (14.87%) User Experience
10 108 (11.31%) TDD
11 100 (10.47%) Clean Code
12 96 (10.05%) Fintech
13 90 (9.42%) Test Automation
14 81 (8.48%) Continuous Integration
15 80 (8.38%) API Development
16 79 (8.27%) Artificial Intelligence
17 77 (8.06%) Investment Management
18 75 (7.85%) Visualisation
19 72 (7.54%) Code Quality
20 71 (7.43%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 527 (55.18%) JavaScript
2 469 (49.11%) TypeScript
3 310 (32.46%) Python
4 254 (26.60%) Java
5 197 (20.63%) SQL
6 108 (11.31%) C#
7 38 (3.98%) PHP
8 20 (2.09%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.78%) Scala
10 16 (1.68%) Kotlin
11 14 (1.47%) Go
11 14 (1.47%) Ruby
12 13 (1.36%) Bash
13 12 (1.26%) C++
14 8 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.73%) Rust
16 5 (0.52%) Perl
16 5 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.42%) Objective-C
17 4 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 169 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 147 (15.39%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.28%) Degree
4 36 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
6 20 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.94%) 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 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.10%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.34%) Accessibility
2 25 (2.62%) QA
3 10 (1.05%) WCAG
4 9 (0.94%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.42%) GDPR
7 3 (0.31%) EMIR
7 3 (0.31%) MiFID
8 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 151 (15.81%) Docker
2 23 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 163 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 83 (8.69%) Terraform
3 42 (4.40%) Ansible
4 16 (1.68%) Grafana
5 9 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.21%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Istio
8 1 (0.10%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.10%) Rancher
8 1 (0.10%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 70 (7.33%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.71%) Oracle
3 28 (2.93%) Databricks
4 27 (2.83%) SAP
5 18 (1.88%) Google
6 12 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.15%) Splunk
8 10 (1.05%) Adobe
9 9 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.31%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.31%) Solace
11 3 (0.31%) VMware
12 2 (0.21%) Sitecore