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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 72 78
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -27
Contract jobs citing React 1,073 1,117 1,332
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.14% 3.04% 2.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.59% 13.91% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 830 1,098
10th Percentile £339 £339 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £536 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +0.70% -9.36%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £776 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £474
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.32% -6.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 11
10th Percentile £45.65 £37.63 £50.00
25th Percentile £53.91 £39.19 £55.63
Median hourly rate £64.75 £43.25 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.71% -39.93% +14.61%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.25 £76.75
90th Percentile - £73.00 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £69.50 £68.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% +2.21% -0.99%

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 7,894 8,032 10,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.07% 21.88% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,225 5,086 7,560
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -1.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £668
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 126 190
10th Percentile £29.40 £24.45 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%

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 30 October 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 30 October 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 30 October 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 -9 904 £520 -8.17% 1,294
London -6 540 £575 -4.17% 634
UK excluding London -7 404 £450 -2.70% 1,002
Work from Home -12 377 £525 +5.00% 697
North of England -13 112 £415 -7.78% 184
South East +6 85 £380 -23.93% 508
Scotland +3 75 £463 +4.52% 43
South West +5 57 £539 -5.90% 84
North West -24 56 £425 -5.56% 120
Yorkshire -3 54 £400 -16.88% 50
Midlands -40 47 £530 +6.00% 109
West Midlands -35 31 £533 -3.18% 58
East of England -4 28 £425 +15.25% 48
East Midlands -16 16 £490 +12.64% 49
Wales -2 7 £518 +7.53% 23
North East -7 3 £200 -46.67% 14
Northern Ireland -10 2 - - 11

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 38 (3.54%) CMS
2 37 (3.45%) Confluence
3 27 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.58%) Headless CMS
5 16 (1.49%) Apache
6 12 (1.12%) Camunda
7 10 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.84%) SAS
9 7 (0.65%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.56%) nginx
10 6 (0.56%) WordPress
11 4 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
13 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.19%) Moodle
Applications
1 14 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.19%) Sketch
4 1 (0.093%) InVision
4 1 (0.093%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.37%) Endur
3 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.19%) Magento
5 1 (0.093%) Shopify
5 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 483 (45.01%) AWS
2 264 (24.60%) Azure
3 141 (13.14%) GCP
4 131 (12.21%) Serverless
5 115 (10.72%) GitHub
6 95 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
7 65 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 62 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (3.63%) npm
10 39 (3.63%) OpenShift
11 35 (3.26%) SaaS
12 28 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (2.42%) dbt
14 25 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (2.33%) Figma
15 24 (2.24%) Azure AKS
16 23 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (2.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.24%) HTTP
2 17 (1.58%) Wireless
3 8 (0.75%) DNS
4 3 (0.28%) Bluetooth
4 3 (0.28%) Firewall
4 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.28%) Internet
4 3 (0.28%) SSL
4 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.19%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) LAN
5 2 (0.19%) SMS
5 2 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.093%) Multicast
6 1 (0.093%) Network Security
6 1 (0.093%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (17.15%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (7.92%) Relational Database
3 83 (7.74%) NoSQL
4 62 (5.78%) MongoDB
5 51 (4.75%) SQL Server
6 50 (4.66%) MySQL
7 30 (2.80%) Redis
8 26 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 25 (2.33%) Apache Arrow
9 25 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
9 25 (2.33%) Dremio
10 20 (1.86%) DynamoDB
10 20 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.12%) Big Data
12 12 (1.12%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 220 (20.50%) Git
2 101 (9.41%) Jenkins
3 86 (8.01%) JIRA
4 78 (7.27%) Cypress.io
5 59 (5.50%) GitLab
6 58 (5.41%) JUnit
7 44 (4.10%) webpack
8 31 (2.89%) SonarQube
9 30 (2.80%) Cucumber
10 29 (2.70%) Mockito
11 27 (2.52%) Selenium
12 25 (2.33%) Maven
13 24 (2.24%) Browser DevTools
13 24 (2.24%) Storybook
14 22 (2.05%) Bitbucket
15 19 (1.77%) Android Studio
15 19 (1.77%) Xcode
16 17 (1.58%) Eclipse
16 17 (1.58%) Gradle
17 15 (1.40%) Artifactory
General
1 260 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 245 (22.83%) Finance
3 110 (10.25%) Banking
4 104 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 98 (9.13%) Front Office
6 59 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (4.19%) Investment Banking
8 28 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.14%) Retail
10 15 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.21%) Marketing
12 10 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.75%) Automotive
14 8 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.75%) Law
15 7 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
15 7 (0.65%) Legal
15 7 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 626 (58.34%) Developer
2 197 (18.36%) Full-Stack Developer
3 164 (15.28%) Software Engineer
4 160 (14.91%) Senior
5 158 (14.73%) React Developer
6 120 (11.18%) Java Developer
7 105 (9.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 90 (8.39%) Python Developer
9 86 (8.01%) Lead
10 84 (7.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 81 (7.55%) Senior Developer
12 60 (5.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 55 (5.13%) AWS Developer
14 47 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
15 46 (4.29%) Architect
16 44 (4.10%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 41 (3.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 39 (3.63%) Full-Stack Python Developer
19 36 (3.36%) JavaScript Developer
20 33 (3.08%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (33.18%) Node.js
2 310 (28.89%) AngularJS
3 263 (24.51%) CSS
4 231 (21.53%) HTML
5 170 (15.84%) RESTful
6 150 (13.98%) REST
7 148 (13.79%) Spring
8 135 (12.58%) Next.js
9 132 (12.30%) .NET
9 132 (12.30%) Spring Boot
10 126 (11.74%) Vue
11 119 (11.09%) Jest
12 118 (11.00%) Redux
13 113 (10.53%) GraphQL
14 107 (9.97%) Kafka
15 83 (7.74%) HTML5
16 71 (6.62%) FastAPI
17 55 (5.13%) CSS3
18 49 (4.57%) JSON
19 46 (4.29%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 70 (6.52%) Fixed Income
4 55 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.01%) Mobile App
6 41 (3.82%) Equities
7 31 (2.89%) Hedge funds
8 28 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 28 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 26 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.33%) Data Structures
11 23 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.40%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.30%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.21%) Private Cloud
15 12 (1.12%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.93%) Derivative
16 10 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 67 (6.24%) Linux
2 38 (3.54%) Unix
3 37 (3.45%) Android
4 28 (2.61%) Windows
5 23 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.37%) CentOS
6 4 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.093%) AIX
9 1 (0.093%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (45.57%) Agile
2 435 (40.54%) CI/CD
3 428 (39.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 296 (27.59%) Software Engineering
5 283 (26.37%) Microservices
6 256 (23.86%) DevOps
7 209 (19.48%) Front End Development
8 176 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (16.03%) User Experience
10 147 (13.70%) Containerisation
11 140 (13.05%) TDD
11 140 (13.05%) Test Automation
12 129 (12.02%) Clean Code
13 119 (11.09%) AI
14 109 (10.16%) Scrum
15 89 (8.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 87 (8.11%) Mentoring
17 84 (7.83%) Design Patterns
18 83 (7.74%) Code Quality
18 83 (7.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 556 (51.82%) TypeScript
2 533 (49.67%) JavaScript
3 360 (33.55%) Java
4 355 (33.08%) Python
5 206 (19.20%) SQL
6 133 (12.40%) C#
7 42 (3.91%) C++
8 36 (3.36%) Go
9 23 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 22 (2.05%) Ruby
11 21 (1.96%) Perl
12 20 (1.86%) Bicep
12 20 (1.86%) Rust
13 13 (1.21%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.03%) PHP
15 10 (0.93%) Bash
16 9 (0.84%) C
16 9 (0.84%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 183 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 152 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 42 (3.91%) Degree
4 29 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.93%) MCP
8 9 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.19%) CEH
11 2 (0.19%) CISSP
11 2 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.093%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.093%) OCP
12 1 (0.093%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (11.28%) Accessibility
2 78 (7.27%) QA
3 55 (5.13%) WCAG
4 6 (0.56%) GDPR
5 4 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.37%) MiFID
6 3 (0.28%) EMIR
6 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.19%) PMO
8 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 257 (23.95%) Docker
2 19 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 226 (21.06%) Kubernetes
2 99 (9.23%) Terraform
3 25 (2.33%) Ansible
3 25 (2.33%) Grafana
4 14 (1.30%) Kibana
5 13 (1.21%) Argo
6 9 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.19%) Podman
10 1 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.093%) Consul
10 1 (0.093%) Istio
10 1 (0.093%) Rancher
10 1 (0.093%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 112 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.96%) Oracle
3 44 (4.10%) Google
4 39 (3.63%) ServiceNow
5 30 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 26 (2.42%) Splunk
7 21 (1.96%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.30%) Adobe
10 12 (1.12%) Atlassian
11 11 (1.03%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.93%) Databricks
13 9 (0.84%) Blue Prism
14 8 (0.75%) Sitecore
15 7 (0.65%) SAP
16 6 (0.56%) Perforce
16 6 (0.56%) Veracode
17 5 (0.47%) MuleSoft
17 5 (0.47%) VMware
18 4 (0.37%) TIBCO