React Contract Job Trends in Scotland

React.js
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 50 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing React 75 69 81
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.33% 4.09% 3.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.78% 16.95% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 38 60
10th Percentile £312 £400 £374
25th Percentile £320 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £471 £445
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +5.90% -5.92%
75th Percentile £438 £523 £485
90th Percentile £535 £629 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £66.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -0.75% -4.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 447 407 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.86% 24.13% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 259 295
10th Percentile £313 £313 £335
25th Percentile £396 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -3.65%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £556
90th Percentile £643 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.70% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile - - £36.10
25th Percentile - £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +15.23%
75th Percentile £64.00 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £64.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing React relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

React job vacancy trend in Scotland

React
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing React.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing React

React
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React in Scotland

React
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing React.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing React

React
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing React within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
Glasgow +6 48 £321 -29.59% 10
Edinburgh -25 20 £425 -10.53% 1
Highlands - 5 £410 -
Aberdeenshire - 2 £875 - 1
React
UK

React
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 15 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 15 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) AWS
2 31 (41.33%) Azure
3 15 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 15 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 15 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 15 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 11 (14.67%) GCP
5 6 (8.00%) GitHub
6 5 (6.67%) Serverless
7 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.00%) Azure AI
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.00%) Power BI
2 14 (18.67%) MySQL
2 14 (18.67%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (16.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (13.33%) Relational Database
5 6 (8.00%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.67%) Metadata
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.33%) Db2
8 1 (1.33%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (22.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.67%) Git
3 7 (9.33%) Maven
4 6 (8.00%) Gradle
4 6 (8.00%) JIRA
4 6 (8.00%) JUnit
5 5 (6.67%) GoCD
6 4 (5.33%) JProfiler
6 4 (5.33%) Subversion
6 4 (5.33%) webpack
7 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.67%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.33%) Babel
9 1 (1.33%) Bundler
9 1 (1.33%) git-flow
9 1 (1.33%) Leiningen
9 1 (1.33%) Vite
General
1 15 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Finance
5 5 (6.67%) Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Front Office
6 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (72.00%) Developer
2 16 (21.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 16 (21.33%) Java Developer
2 16 (21.33%) Senior
3 15 (20.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 14 (18.67%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (8.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 6 (8.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 6 (8.00%) React Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Lead
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (44.00%) CSS
1 33 (44.00%) HTML
2 29 (38.67%) REST
3 22 (29.33%) Node.js
4 19 (25.33%) RESTful
5 18 (24.00%) Redux
5 18 (24.00%) Spring
6 17 (22.67%) Spring Boot
7 15 (20.00%) SPFx
8 13 (17.33%) Jest
9 10 (13.33%) HTML5
10 9 (12.00%) CSS3
11 8 (10.67%) FastAPI
12 7 (9.33%) Express.js
13 6 (8.00%) .NET
13 6 (8.00%) Flask
13 6 (8.00%) GraphQL
13 6 (8.00%) MERN Stack
13 6 (8.00%) Spring MVC
14 5 (6.67%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.67%) Equities
4 2 (2.67%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.33%) Robotics
5 1 (1.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (61.33%) CI/CD
2 29 (38.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 21 (28.00%) Agile
4 20 (26.67%) Microservices
5 18 (24.00%) DevOps
6 15 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (20.00%) Document Management
7 13 (17.33%) Front End Development
8 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (13.33%) MVC
8 10 (13.33%) Scrum
8 10 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 9 (12.00%) Test Automation
10 8 (10.67%) Containerisation
10 8 (10.67%) Data Protection
10 8 (10.67%) SDLC
11 7 (9.33%) AI
11 7 (9.33%) TDD
12 6 (8.00%) Code Quality
13 5 (6.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 50 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 45 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 26 (34.67%) Java
4 16 (21.33%) Python
5 10 (13.33%) SQL
6 5 (6.67%) C#
7 1 (1.33%) Bash
7 1 (1.33%) C++
7 1 (1.33%) Groovy
7 1 (1.33%) Ruby
7 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.67%) Degree
3 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.67%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) Grafana
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Oracle
2 5 (6.67%) MuleSoft
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.33%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.33%) Google
5 1 (1.33%) Splunk