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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 71 77
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 -22
Contract jobs citing React 1,002 1,096 1,253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.75% 3.05% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.24% 13.95% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 811 1,033
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £471 £463
% change year-on-year -4.51% +1.89% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 11
10th Percentile £45.30 £26.25 £50.00
25th Percentile £53.55 £28.88 £55.63
Median hourly rate £66.00 £38.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.32% -40.84% -6.43%
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% -8.93%

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 8,189 7,855 10,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.83% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,435 4,957 7,123
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 114 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £22.00 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £38.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.31 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -20 855 £518 -5.91% 693
London -18 505 £550 -8.33% 272
UK excluding London -30 380 £450 -4.51% 546
Work from Home -33 309 £525 +6.28% 440
North of England -13 125 £400 -12.09% 157
South East -18 76 £356 -30.49% 181
North West -10 62 £400 -11.11% 80
Scotland +3 61 £450 +2.04% 29
Yorkshire -6 61 £400 -18.99% 57
South West -18 42 £550 - 69
Midlands -59 41 £542 +8.30% 64
West Midlands -44 29 £538 -2.27% 36
East of England -6 27 £419 +11.67% 26
East Midlands -20 12 £550 +15.79% 27
Wales 0 9 £518 +18.29% 19
Northern Ireland -2 5 - - 8
North East -7 3 £475 +7.34% 20

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 34 (3.39%) CMS
2 29 (2.89%) Confluence
3 18 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 13 (1.30%) Apache
4 13 (1.30%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.90%) Camunda
5 9 (0.90%) SAS
6 8 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.30%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.20%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.20%) Mendix
10 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 1 (0.100%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.100%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.20%) Sketch
3 2 (0.20%) Trello
4 1 (0.100%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.100%) Blender
4 1 (0.100%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.100%) InVision
4 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.40%) Endur
4 3 (0.30%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.30%) Shopify
5 2 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.100%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 452 (45.11%) AWS
2 249 (24.85%) Azure
3 135 (13.47%) Serverless
4 131 (13.07%) GitHub
5 115 (11.48%) GCP
6 92 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
7 72 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
8 66 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (5.39%) Amazon S3
10 40 (3.99%) npm
11 31 (3.09%) OpenShift
11 31 (3.09%) SaaS
12 29 (2.89%) Azure AKS
13 25 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (2.50%) Entra ID
14 24 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (2.30%) Figma
16 22 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.80%) Wireless
2 17 (1.70%) HTTP
3 8 (0.80%) DNS
4 5 (0.50%) Network Security
5 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.30%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) Firewall
7 2 (0.20%) VPN
8 1 (0.100%) Internet
8 1 (0.100%) Multicast
8 1 (0.100%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (8.58%) Relational Database
3 81 (8.08%) NoSQL
4 60 (5.99%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.09%) MySQL
6 48 (4.79%) SQL Server
7 30 (2.99%) Redis
8 18 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (1.70%) DynamoDB
10 16 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.50%) Apache Arrow
11 15 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
11 15 (1.50%) Dremio
12 14 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.10%) Big Data
13 11 (1.10%) Power BI
13 11 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 212 (21.16%) Git
2 83 (8.28%) JIRA
3 79 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 74 (7.39%) Cypress.io
5 59 (5.89%) GitLab
6 57 (5.69%) JUnit
7 43 (4.29%) webpack
8 35 (3.49%) Cucumber
9 30 (2.99%) SonarQube
10 28 (2.79%) Mockito
11 27 (2.69%) Selenium
12 23 (2.30%) Bitbucket
12 23 (2.30%) Browser DevTools
13 22 (2.20%) Maven
14 20 (2.00%) Android Studio
14 20 (2.00%) Xcode
15 19 (1.90%) Eclipse
16 16 (1.60%) Vite
17 15 (1.50%) Artifactory
18 14 (1.40%) Storybook
General
1 256 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 214 (21.36%) Finance
3 114 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 87 (8.68%) Banking
5 74 (7.39%) Front Office
6 57 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (4.09%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.10%) Retail
10 16 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (1.40%) Marketing
12 12 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.70%) Automotive
16 7 (0.70%) Back Office
16 7 (0.70%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.60%) Law
18 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 573 (57.19%) Developer
2 191 (19.06%) Full-Stack Developer
3 152 (15.17%) Senior
4 141 (14.07%) Software Engineer
5 135 (13.47%) React Developer
6 107 (10.68%) Java Developer
7 95 (9.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 79 (7.88%) Lead
8 79 (7.88%) Python Developer
9 78 (7.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 73 (7.29%) Senior Developer
11 47 (4.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 44 (4.39%) AWS Developer
13 38 (3.79%) Architect
14 37 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (3.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 35 (3.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 34 (3.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 31 (3.09%) JavaScript Developer
18 28 (2.79%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (32.53%) Node.js
2 280 (27.94%) AngularJS
3 244 (24.35%) CSS
4 207 (20.66%) HTML
5 170 (16.97%) RESTful
6 140 (13.97%) REST
7 139 (13.87%) .NET
8 133 (13.27%) Spring
9 124 (12.38%) Next.js
10 123 (12.28%) Spring Boot
11 116 (11.58%) Jest
12 108 (10.78%) Redux
13 104 (10.38%) GraphQL
13 104 (10.38%) Kafka
13 104 (10.38%) Vue
14 79 (7.88%) HTML5
15 64 (6.39%) FastAPI
16 58 (5.79%) CSS3
17 43 (4.29%) JSON
18 42 (4.19%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 45 (4.49%) Fixed Income
5 43 (4.29%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 23 (2.30%) AI Agents
10 23 (2.30%) Algorithms
11 21 (2.10%) Hedge funds
12 19 (1.90%) Equities
13 15 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.30%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.10%) Derivative
15 11 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (0.90%) NHS
16 9 (0.90%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.19%) Linux
2 38 (3.79%) Unix
3 36 (3.59%) Android
4 33 (3.29%) Windows
5 20 (2.00%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.40%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.100%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.100%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (45.51%) Agile
2 434 (43.31%) CI/CD
3 415 (41.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 290 (28.94%) Microservices
5 259 (25.85%) DevOps
6 251 (25.05%) Software Engineering
7 185 (18.46%) Front End Development
8 164 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
9 158 (15.77%) User Experience
10 146 (14.57%) Test Automation
11 145 (14.47%) Containerisation
12 131 (13.07%) AI
13 119 (11.88%) TDD
14 110 (10.98%) Clean Code
15 108 (10.78%) Scrum
16 94 (9.38%) Design Patterns
17 92 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
18 82 (8.18%) Code Quality
19 80 (7.98%) SDLC
20 77 (7.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 489 (48.80%) TypeScript
2 487 (48.60%) JavaScript
3 345 (34.43%) Java
4 330 (32.93%) Python
5 203 (20.26%) SQL
6 127 (12.67%) C#
7 37 (3.69%) C++
8 31 (3.09%) Go
9 23 (2.30%) Perl
10 22 (2.20%) Bicep
11 21 (2.10%) Ruby
12 16 (1.60%) Rust
13 15 (1.50%) PowerShell
14 12 (1.20%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.20%) PHP
15 9 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.70%) Bash
16 7 (0.70%) JSX
17 6 (0.60%) C
17 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 181 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 151 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.19%) Degree
4 32 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 32 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.10%) MCP
7 7 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.30%) OCP
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.20%) CEH
10 2 (0.20%) CISSP
10 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (12.77%) Accessibility
2 74 (7.39%) QA
3 58 (5.79%) WCAG
4 7 (0.70%) GDPR
5 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.40%) HL7
5 4 (0.40%) MiFID
6 3 (0.30%) EMIR
6 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.100%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.100%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.100%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 237 (23.65%) Docker
2 21 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.100%) Varnish
4 1 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.100%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.100%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 201 (20.06%) Kubernetes
2 118 (11.78%) Terraform
3 25 (2.50%) Grafana
4 21 (2.10%) Ansible
5 14 (1.40%) Argo
5 14 (1.40%) Kibana
6 9 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.100%) Consul
9 1 (0.100%) Istio
9 1 (0.100%) Podman
9 1 (0.100%) Rancher
9 1 (0.100%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 115 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.19%) Oracle
3 45 (4.49%) Google
4 39 (3.89%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.79%) Splunk
6 27 (2.69%) OpenAI
7 24 (2.40%) Red Hat
8 19 (1.90%) Adobe
9 14 (1.40%) Databricks
9 14 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.00%) Sitecore
11 9 (0.90%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.90%) Blue Prism
11 9 (0.90%) SAP
12 7 (0.70%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.60%) Perforce
13 6 (0.60%) Veracode
13 6 (0.60%) VMware
14 5 (0.50%) Marketo
14 5 (0.50%) MuleSoft