React Native Contract Job Trends

React Native
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring React Native skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 405 478
Rank change year-on-year -104 +73 +34
Contract jobs citing React Native 84 113 124
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 1.61% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 85 93
10th Percentile £310 £378 £335
25th Percentile £358 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £575 £601 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £379 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -16.76% -9.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £31.68 - -
25th Percentile £33.81 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

React Native 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 8,543 7,010 9,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.26% 22.39% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,689 4,448 6,566
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 89 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.47 £25.98
25th Percentile £49.06 £38.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.44 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.45 £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

React Native
Job Vacancy Trend

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

React Native job vacancy trend in the UK

React Native
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing React Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing React Native

React Native
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React Native over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React Native in the UK

React Native
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing React Native.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing React Native

React Native
Top 12 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 Native within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England -97 75 £450 -10.00% 113
London -55 42 £481 -3.75% 34
UK excluding London -47 31 £379 -16.76% 93
Work from Home -29 30 £450 -14.29% 102
North West -18 20 £379 -2.26% 8
North of England -53 20 £379 -15.83% 15
Scotland +8 4 £313 -39.02% 5
South East -18 3 £575 - 36
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 5
Midlands - 2 £500 - 9
South West -21 1 - - 12
Wales - 1 - - 4

React Native
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 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.19%) CMS
3 1 (1.19%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.43%) AWS
2 13 (15.48%) GitHub
3 12 (14.29%) Azure
4 10 (11.90%) Figma
5 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.76%) Google Analytics
7 4 (4.76%) Serverless
8 3 (3.57%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (3.57%) Firebase
8 3 (3.57%) npm
9 2 (2.38%) PaaS
9 2 (2.38%) Vercel
10 1 (1.19%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.19%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.19%) GCP
10 1 (1.19%) Google Play
10 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) DNS
1 1 (1.19%) HTTP
1 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.19%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Gradle
2 9 (10.71%) GitLab
2 9 (10.71%) Xcode
3 8 (9.52%) JIRA
4 7 (8.33%) Storybook
5 6 (7.14%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.95%) Git
7 4 (4.76%) ESLint
7 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
7 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.57%) Appium
8 3 (3.57%) JMeter
8 3 (3.57%) Selenium
9 2 (2.38%) Android Studio
9 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.19%) CocoaPods
10 1 (1.19%) fastlane
10 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.29%) Finance
3 10 (11.90%) Banking
4 8 (9.52%) Publishing
5 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Retail
6 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.38%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Arabic Language
7 1 (1.19%) Back Office
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Games
7 1 (1.19%) Law
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.19%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 43 (51.19%) Developer
2 32 (38.10%) React Developer
3 12 (14.29%) Senior
4 7 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Mobile Developer
6 4 (4.76%) Applications Developer
6 4 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (4.76%) Software Manager
7 3 (3.57%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Test Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Tester
8 2 (2.38%) Digital Development Manager
8 2 (2.38%) Mobile Tester
8 2 (2.38%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.14%) React
2 13 (15.48%) OAuth
3 12 (14.29%) Jest
4 10 (11.90%) Node.js
4 10 (11.90%) Redux
4 10 (11.90%) SVG
5 8 (9.52%) Flutter
5 8 (9.52%) GraphQL
6 7 (8.33%) D3.js
6 7 (8.33%) RESTful
7 6 (7.14%) Zustand
8 5 (5.95%) CSS
8 5 (5.95%) HTML
8 5 (5.95%) HTML5
8 5 (5.95%) OAuth2
8 5 (5.95%) REST
8 5 (5.95%) YAML
9 4 (4.76%) Next.js
9 4 (4.76%) Playwright
10 3 (3.57%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (44.05%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.95%) Mobile Banking
3 4 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.57%) Blog
4 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.57%) Web3
5 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.19%) iPhone
6 1 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (41.67%) Android
2 31 (36.90%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.38%) Linux
3 2 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 28 (33.33%) Agile
3 23 (27.38%) Test Automation
4 17 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (15.48%) Design Patterns
5 13 (15.48%) DevOps
5 13 (15.48%) Software Engineering
6 12 (14.29%) Front End Development
7 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.90%) Mobile Application Development
8 10 (11.90%) Mobile Development
9 9 (10.71%) Code Quality
9 9 (10.71%) User Experience
10 8 (9.52%) API Design
10 8 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (8.33%) Android Development
11 7 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
11 7 (8.33%) iOS Development
11 7 (8.33%) Observability
11 7 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (52.38%) TypeScript
2 27 (32.14%) JavaScript
3 16 (19.05%) Java
4 6 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.76%) Swift
6 2 (2.38%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.38%) Python
7 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.19%) SOQL
7 1 (1.19%) SOSL
7 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.19%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.05%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.95%) WCAG
3 3 (3.57%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.19%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) Google
2 5 (5.95%) Apple
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) Xamarin
3 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.57%) Optimizely
4 3 (3.57%) Veracode
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle
6 1 (1.19%) Adobe
6 1 (1.19%) Amplitude