React Developer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

React.js Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median React.js Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £409, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 261 293
Rank change year-on-year -80 +32 +25
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 60 79 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.57% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.62% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 52 96
10th Percentile £343 £376 £303
25th Percentile £360 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £439 £444
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -1.01% -11.25%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £512
90th Percentile £625 £638 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,731 12,822 18,470
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.70% 92.42% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,257 7,598 11,784
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,700 700 1,504
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.22 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £17.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +46.55%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.58 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.69
% change year-on-year -15.38% -20.13% +19.68%

React Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'React Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

React Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

React Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

React Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React Developer in the UK excluding London

React Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

React Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing React Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 January 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
North of England -49 30 £393 -1.75% 14
North West -23 23 £370 -7.50% 7
Midlands -36 13 £600 +9.09% 6
South West -4 8 £600 +36.05% 10
West Midlands -33 8 £600 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire -48 7 £425 -15.00% 4
Scotland -6 6 £413 -2.94% 7
South East -33 5 £550 -12.00% 39
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 5
East of England -12 2 £588 +42.42% 16
React Developer
UK

React Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 January 2026, React Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring React Developer in the job title.

1 43 (71.67%) React
2 28 (46.67%) TypeScript
3 23 (38.33%) JavaScript
4 19 (31.67%) AWS
5 18 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (30.00%) User Experience
6 16 (26.67%) React Native
7 15 (25.00%) Agile
7 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 15 (25.00%) Clean Code
8 14 (23.33%) Android
8 14 (23.33%) DevOps
9 13 (21.67%) Accessibility
9 13 (21.67%) Apple iOS
9 13 (21.67%) Azure
10 12 (20.00%) Front End Development
10 12 (20.00%) Java
11 11 (18.33%) Code Quality
11 11 (18.33%) Node.js
12 10 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (16.67%) Git
12 10 (16.67%) Redux
12 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
13 9 (15.00%) .NET
13 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
13 9 (15.00%) CSS
13 9 (15.00%) HTML
13 9 (15.00%) Jest
13 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (13.33%) GitHub

React Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (10.00%) Umbraco
2 5 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (8.33%) CMS
2 5 (8.33%) Headless CMS
2 5 (8.33%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) AWS
2 13 (21.67%) Azure
3 10 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.33%) GitHub
5 7 (11.67%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.00%) Figma
6 6 (10.00%) Serverless
7 5 (8.33%) Contentful
7 5 (8.33%) Kontent
8 4 (6.67%) npm
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.67%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.00%) DocumentDB
3 3 (5.00%) Redis
4 2 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Git
2 7 (11.67%) Gradle
2 7 (11.67%) Xcode
3 6 (10.00%) Storybook
4 5 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 5 (8.33%) ESLint
4 5 (8.33%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.67%) JIRA
6 3 (5.00%) Vite
6 3 (5.00%) webpack
7 1 (1.67%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.67%) Babel
7 1 (1.67%) Bundler
7 1 (1.67%) CocoaPods
7 1 (1.67%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.67%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.67%) Postman
General
1 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Publishing
6 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Advertising
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Polish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (71.67%) React
2 16 (26.67%) React Native
3 11 (18.33%) Node.js
4 10 (16.67%) Redux
5 9 (15.00%) .NET
5 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
5 9 (15.00%) CSS
5 9 (15.00%) HTML
5 9 (15.00%) Jest
6 8 (13.33%) RESTful
7 7 (11.67%) OAuth
8 6 (10.00%) D3.js
8 6 (10.00%) Next.js
8 6 (10.00%) SVG
9 5 (8.33%) .NET Framework
9 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET
9 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (8.33%) Zustand
10 4 (6.67%) CSS3
10 4 (6.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Blog
3 3 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (5.00%) Wiki
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Android
2 13 (21.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 18 (30.00%) User Experience
2 15 (25.00%) Agile
2 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 14 (23.33%) DevOps
4 12 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 11 (18.33%) Code Quality
6 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.67%) Data Visualisation
8 7 (11.67%) Mobile Application Development
8 7 (11.67%) Visualisation
9 6 (10.00%) AI
9 6 (10.00%) B2C
9 6 (10.00%) Biometrics
9 6 (10.00%) Microservices
9 6 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) TypeScript
2 23 (38.33%) JavaScript
3 12 (20.00%) Java
4 8 (13.33%) SQL
5 7 (11.67%) Python
6 6 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (1.67%) Go
7 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.67%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.67%) Ruby
7 1 (1.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.67%) WCAG
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Sitecore
2 5 (8.33%) Adobe
3 4 (6.67%) Xamarin
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.67%) Apple
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media