React Contracts

React.js
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for React skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited React over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 65 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 -21 -9
Contract jobs citing React 1,325 1,909 4,673
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.06% 3.44% 5.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.50% 14.99% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,474 3,643
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £430 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% +15.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £675
90th Percentile £800 £772 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 30
10th Percentile £41.50 £46.50 £34.05
25th Percentile £55.31 £61.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.75 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +21.74% +45.57%
75th Percentile £72.50 £74.38 £67.47
90th Percentile £74.95 £75.70 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.50 £64.00 £65.49
% change year-on-year +7.03% -2.27% +65.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

React is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,136 12,739 23,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.09% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,305 9,291 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 152 226
10th Percentile £22.05 £31.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.27
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 9 June 2024.

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 9 June 2024.

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 9 June 2024. 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 -3 1,105 £575 +4.55% 979
London +6 749 £600 - 388
Work from Home -8 505 £538 +3.37% 662
UK excluding London -9 422 £475 - 647
North of England -17 108 £475 -5.00% 213
North West +9 83 £475 -5.00% 130
Scotland -1 79 £450 -5.26% 39
South East +15 70 £555 +11.00% 98
South West -3 63 £475 +5.56% 99
Midlands -6 46 £398 -6.47% 113
East of England -5 38 £500 -5.03% 52
West Midlands +7 28 £360 -23.49% 63
Yorkshire -38 20 £400 -20.00% 56
Wales +24 19 £450 +1.41% 19
East Midlands -9 19 £398 -6.47% 50
North East +10 5 - - 27
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 18

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 94 (7.09%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (6.94%) Apache
3 57 (4.30%) CMS
4 29 (2.19%) Confluence
5 23 (1.74%) WordPress
6 17 (1.28%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.75%) Drupal
8 8 (0.60%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.53%) Kentico
10 5 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.38%) Camunda
11 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.23%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.23%) IIS
12 3 (0.23%) nginx
12 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.15%) Alfresco
13 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.15%) Ethereum
Applications
1 18 (1.36%) Sketch
2 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.15%) InVision
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.075%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.075%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.075%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) NEC Housing
1 7 (0.53%) Shopify
2 5 (0.38%) Endur
2 5 (0.38%) Magento
2 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.23%) RMDS
4 1 (0.075%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.075%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.075%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.075%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 513 (38.72%) AWS
2 368 (27.77%) Azure
3 177 (13.36%) GCP
4 136 (10.26%) Serverless
5 98 (7.40%) GitHub
6 85 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (4.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 53 (4.00%) Amazon S3
10 49 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 44 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
11 44 (3.32%) Entra ID
12 43 (3.25%) Azure Functions
13 38 (2.87%) npm
14 31 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (2.11%) Figma
15 28 (2.11%) SaaS
16 27 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
17 24 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.51%) Firewall
2 18 (1.36%) VPN
3 6 (0.45%) HTTP
4 4 (0.30%) VoIP
5 3 (0.23%) AMQP
5 3 (0.23%) DHCP
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
6 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.075%) 5G
7 1 (0.075%) FTP
7 1 (0.075%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.075%) LTE
7 1 (0.075%) MQTT
7 1 (0.075%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.075%) SSH
7 1 (0.075%) VLAN
7 1 (0.075%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (7.62%) SQL Server
3 89 (6.72%) NoSQL
4 85 (6.42%) Apache Ignite
5 78 (5.89%) Relational Database
6 73 (5.51%) MongoDB
7 65 (4.91%) MySQL
8 29 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (2.04%) Redis
10 25 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (1.58%) DynamoDB
11 21 (1.58%) Oracle Database
12 14 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
13 13 (0.98%) Dremio
14 12 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.83%) Big Data
16 8 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.60%) Power BI
17 6 (0.45%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 225 (16.98%) Git
2 124 (9.36%) Cypress.io
3 70 (5.28%) Jenkins
4 65 (4.91%) JIRA
5 64 (4.83%) webpack
6 44 (3.32%) GitLab
7 33 (2.49%) Selenium
8 27 (2.04%) JUnit
9 19 (1.43%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 12 (0.91%) git-flow
11 12 (0.91%) Mocha
11 12 (0.91%) Storybook
12 11 (0.83%) JMeter
12 11 (0.83%) Maven
13 10 (0.75%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.68%) Postman
14 9 (0.68%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.68%) Visual Studio
15 8 (0.60%) Jasmine
General
1 300 (22.64%) Finance
2 210 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 192 (14.49%) Front Office
4 150 (11.32%) Banking
5 100 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (6.49%) Public Sector
7 36 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 27 (2.04%) Marketing
9 20 (1.51%) Retail
10 18 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.06%) Local Government
12 13 (0.98%) Back Office
12 13 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.83%) Automotive
13 11 (0.83%) Tech for Good
14 10 (0.75%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.60%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.60%) Games
16 7 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 941 (71.02%) Developer
2 322 (24.30%) React Developer
3 300 (22.64%) Full Stack Developer
4 232 (17.51%) Senior
5 216 (16.30%) Software Engineer
6 155 (11.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 152 (11.47%) Senior Developer
8 130 (9.81%) Python Developer
9 120 (9.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 101 (7.62%) Full Stack Engineer
11 97 (7.32%) .NET Developer
12 88 (6.64%) Java Developer
12 88 (6.64%) Python Engineer
13 84 (6.34%) Python Software Engineer
14 82 (6.19%) Lead
15 62 (4.68%) C# Developer
16 61 (4.60%) UI Developer
17 57 (4.30%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 57 (4.30%) JavaScript Developer
18 54 (4.08%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (28.38%) CSS
2 342 (25.81%) HTML
3 304 (22.94%) Node.js
4 242 (18.26%) .NET
5 233 (17.58%) AngularJS
6 232 (17.51%) Redux
7 137 (10.34%) REST
8 125 (9.43%) Next.js
9 119 (8.98%) GraphQL
10 118 (8.91%) .NET Core
11 111 (8.38%) Spring
12 110 (8.30%) Vue
13 107 (8.08%) Spring Boot
14 102 (7.70%) gRPC
15 101 (7.62%) Material-UI
16 94 (7.09%) Protocol Buffers
17 89 (6.72%) RESTful
18 88 (6.64%) HTML5
19 64 (4.83%) ASP.NET
20 58 (4.38%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 177 (13.36%) Fixed Income
2 107 (8.08%) Hedge funds
3 94 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 70 (5.28%) Equities
5 58 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
7 49 (3.70%) Derivative
8 33 (2.49%) Data Structures
9 30 (2.26%) Mobile App
10 28 (2.11%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.13%) Cloud Native
14 14 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
14 14 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
17 11 (0.83%) Wiki
18 9 (0.68%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.40%) Linux
2 31 (2.34%) Android
3 28 (2.11%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.98%) Windows
5 7 (0.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.075%) CentOS
6 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.075%) Tizen
6 1 (0.075%) tvOS
6 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.075%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.075%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (39.77%) Full Stack Development
2 525 (39.62%) Agile
3 391 (29.51%) Software Engineering
4 318 (24.00%) DevOps
5 286 (21.58%) CI/CD
6 258 (19.47%) Front End Development
7 186 (14.04%) User Experience
8 183 (13.81%) Microservices
9 158 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
10 155 (11.70%) TDD
11 142 (10.72%) Asset Management
12 134 (10.11%) Test Automation
13 119 (8.98%) Scrum
14 114 (8.60%) Investment Management
15 101 (7.62%) Machine Learning
15 101 (7.62%) SDLC
15 101 (7.62%) UX Design
16 100 (7.55%) Unit Testing
17 96 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence
18 93 (7.02%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 624 (47.09%) TypeScript
2 613 (46.26%) JavaScript
3 312 (23.55%) Java
4 311 (23.47%) Python
5 247 (18.64%) C#
6 203 (15.32%) SQL
7 38 (2.87%) Bicep
8 35 (2.64%) PHP
9 34 (2.57%) PowerShell
10 32 (2.42%) Kotlin
11 27 (2.04%) Bash
12 26 (1.96%) Go
13 24 (1.81%) C
14 18 (1.36%) Ruby
15 15 (1.13%) C++
16 14 (1.06%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.98%) T-SQL
18 11 (0.83%) Scala
19 4 (0.30%) Rust
20 3 (0.23%) JSX
Qualifications
1 156 (11.77%) Security Cleared
2 111 (8.38%) SC Cleared
3 94 (7.09%) Degree
4 54 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.23%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.15%) OCP
11 2 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.075%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.075%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.40%) QA
2 77 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.89%) WCAG
4 7 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (0.38%) SLA
6 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.23%) GDPR
6 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.15%) MiFID
7 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.075%) HL7
8 1 (0.075%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.075%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.075%) MISRA
8 1 (0.075%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.075%) NIST
8 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 141 (10.64%) Docker
2 61 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.23%) zsh
4 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.075%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 163 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 61 (4.60%) Terraform
3 24 (1.81%) Grafana
4 13 (0.98%) Ansible
4 13 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.75%) Kibana
6 9 (0.68%) Argo
7 6 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.38%) logstash
9 4 (0.30%) Rancher
10 2 (0.15%) Istio
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 1 (0.075%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.075%) Control-M
11 1 (0.075%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.075%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.075%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 101 (7.62%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.94%) Google
3 41 (3.09%) Oracle
4 14 (1.06%) Atlassian
5 12 (0.91%) Salesforce
6 8 (0.60%) SAP
7 7 (0.53%) NEC
8 5 (0.38%) Adobe
8 5 (0.38%) ION Trading
9 4 (0.30%) Black Duck
9 4 (0.30%) Solace
9 4 (0.30%) Virgin Media
10 3 (0.23%) Finsemble
10 3 (0.23%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.23%) VMware
10 3 (0.23%) WooCommerce
11 2 (0.15%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.15%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.15%) MuleSoft