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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 72 70
Rank change year-on-year -68 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing React 1,103 1,111 1,206
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 3.40% 3.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.40% 13.11% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 784 914
10th Percentile £363 £358 £341
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% +2.56%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £49.15 £54.57 £38.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 £66.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +20.91% -26.17%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £79.60 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +7.46% - -9.46%

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 11,740 8,473 9,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.60% 25.94% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,723 5,664 6,299
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 186 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.25 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +8.33%

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 21 September 2026.

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 21 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for React in the UK

React
Top 18 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 21 September 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 -65 925 £538 +2.38% 2,192
London -50 539 £575 -4.17% 1,407
UK excluding London -59 437 £475 +5.56% 1,000
Work from Home -70 321 £525 - 1,075
North of England -34 163 £500 +16.96% 294
Yorkshire 0 84 £500 +25.00% 63
Scotland -28 74 £377 -18.92% 113
North West -50 68 £500 +13.64% 194
South West -26 67 £525 +2.44% 141
South East -82 59 £450 +5.88% 185
Midlands -27 58 £464 -3.92% 116
West Midlands -20 51 £464 -11.27% 76
East of England -33 15 £625 +40.45% 66
North East -34 11 £500 +7.53% 39
East Midlands -21 7 £433 +16.62% 40
Northern Ireland +5 2 £190 - 62
Wales -15 2 £469 -9.64% 27
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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 34 (3.08%) Confluence
2 30 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.45%) Camunda
4 14 (1.27%) CMS
5 12 (1.09%) SharePoint Server
6 11 (1.00%) nginx
7 6 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.54%) WordPress
8 5 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.45%) Apache
8 5 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.45%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.091%) Kentico
10 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.27%) Sketch
3 1 (0.091%) Blender
3 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.091%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.91%) SAP CRM
2 6 (0.54%) Shopify
3 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.091%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 412 (37.35%) AWS
2 292 (26.47%) Azure
3 135 (12.24%) GitHub
4 125 (11.33%) Serverless
5 119 (10.79%) GCP
6 80 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
7 76 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
8 68 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 50 (4.53%) OpenShift
11 49 (4.44%) Figma
11 49 (4.44%) Power Platform
12 40 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
14 30 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
15 29 (2.63%) Entra ID
15 29 (2.63%) PowerApps
16 28 (2.54%) Power Automate
17 27 (2.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.91%) Firewall
2 8 (0.73%) DNS
3 7 (0.63%) HTTP
4 6 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.45%) VPN
6 4 (0.36%) Intranet
7 2 (0.18%) DSL
8 1 (0.091%) CTI
8 1 (0.091%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.091%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.091%) Internet
8 1 (0.091%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.091%) MQTT
8 1 (0.091%) Network Security
8 1 (0.091%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (7.71%) SQL Server
3 76 (6.89%) Relational Database
4 71 (6.44%) NoSQL
5 70 (6.35%) MongoDB
6 57 (5.17%) MySQL
7 41 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
8 39 (3.54%) DynamoDB
9 34 (3.08%) Power BI
10 27 (2.45%) Redis
11 18 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.00%) Metadata
14 10 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.82%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.73%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.54%) Neo4j
18 5 (0.45%) ObjectStore
18 5 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 230 (20.85%) Git
2 137 (12.42%) Jenkins
3 76 (6.89%) GitLab
4 62 (5.62%) JIRA
5 58 (5.26%) Gradle
6 51 (4.62%) JUnit
7 47 (4.26%) Cypress.io
8 45 (4.08%) Maven
9 33 (2.99%) Vite
10 29 (2.63%) Mockito
11 25 (2.27%) Storybook
12 24 (2.18%) SonarQube
13 23 (2.09%) Cucumber
14 22 (1.99%) Claude Code
15 20 (1.81%) webpack
16 19 (1.72%) REST Assured
17 18 (1.63%) Bitbucket
17 18 (1.63%) Selenium
18 12 (1.09%) Liquibase
19 10 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 238 (21.58%) Finance
2 225 (20.40%) Social Skills
3 154 (13.96%) Banking
4 119 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 69 (6.26%) Front Office
6 58 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 53 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (3.81%) Retail
9 30 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.18%) Law
11 13 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.91%) Back Office
12 10 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.91%) Marketing
12 10 (0.91%) Military
12 10 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 586 (53.13%) Developer
2 229 (20.76%) Senior
3 183 (16.59%) Full-Stack Developer
4 156 (14.14%) React Developer
5 134 (12.15%) Java Developer
6 129 (11.70%) Senior Developer
7 126 (11.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 121 (10.97%) Software Engineer
9 97 (8.79%) Lead
10 96 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 54 (4.90%) Python Developer
11 54 (4.90%) Senior React Developer
12 51 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
13 50 (4.53%) UI Developer
14 39 (3.54%) Software Developer
15 38 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 37 (3.35%) Architect
16 37 (3.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 36 (3.26%) Technical Leader
18 35 (3.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (26.11%) Node.js
2 283 (25.66%) REST
3 237 (21.49%) CSS
4 227 (20.58%) HTML
5 170 (15.41%) Spring
6 164 (14.87%) .NET
6 164 (14.87%) RESTful
7 158 (14.32%) Redux
7 158 (14.32%) Spring Boot
8 146 (13.24%) AngularJS
9 136 (12.33%) Next.js
10 130 (11.79%) Kafka
11 121 (10.97%) Terraform
12 112 (10.15%) HTML5
13 93 (8.43%) GraphQL
14 91 (8.25%) CSS3
15 87 (7.89%) Jest
16 85 (7.71%) Playwright
17 82 (7.43%) Vue
18 80 (7.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 170 (15.41%) Cloud Native
2 83 (7.52%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 55 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
6 53 (4.81%) Fixed Income
7 48 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.63%) AI Agents
9 32 (2.90%) Data Structures
9 32 (2.90%) Equities
10 30 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (2.09%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.54%) Derivative
14 16 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.45%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (1.00%) Autonomous Agent
17 10 (0.91%) Mobile App
18 9 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.54%) Linux
2 14 (1.27%) Windows
3 8 (0.73%) Unix
4 5 (0.45%) Android
4 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.091%) AIX
7 1 (0.091%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (48.87%) CI/CD
2 474 (42.97%) Agile
3 453 (41.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 289 (26.20%) Microservices
5 285 (25.84%) DevOps
6 281 (25.48%) Software Engineering
7 231 (20.94%) Front End Development
8 221 (20.04%) Test Automation
9 212 (19.22%) AI
10 170 (15.41%) Containerisation
11 159 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (14.32%) User Experience
13 143 (12.96%) Event-Driven
14 140 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 130 (11.79%) Scrum
16 125 (11.33%) Mentoring
17 119 (10.79%) TDD
18 118 (10.70%) Code Quality
19 113 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
20 112 (10.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 632 (57.30%) TypeScript
2 558 (50.59%) JavaScript
3 380 (34.45%) Java
4 301 (27.29%) Python
5 240 (21.76%) SQL
6 171 (15.50%) C#
7 42 (3.81%) Go
8 33 (2.99%) PL/SQL
9 25 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.81%) Bash
11 14 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.91%) Rust
13 9 (0.82%) PHP
13 9 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.73%) C++
15 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.63%) Bicep
15 7 (0.63%) Ruby
15 7 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 190 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 155 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 73 (6.62%) Degree
4 52 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.091%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.091%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (13.96%) Accessibility
2 88 (7.98%) QA
3 86 (7.80%) WCAG
4 8 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.27%) HL7
7 2 (0.18%) GDPR
7 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
7 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.091%) GRC
8 1 (0.091%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 237 (21.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.091%) Varnish
3 1 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 228 (20.67%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.45%) Grafana
3 32 (2.90%) Ansible
4 19 (1.72%) Argo
5 17 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.45%) Control-M
7 9 (0.82%) Kibana
8 8 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.63%) Istio
9 7 (0.63%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.27%) Podman
11 1 (0.091%) Nagios
11 1 (0.091%) QRadar
11 1 (0.091%) systemd
Vendors
1 89 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.80%) Oracle
3 48 (4.35%) Google
4 23 (2.09%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.90%) Databricks
6 20 (1.81%) MuleSoft
7 18 (1.63%) OpenAI
7 18 (1.63%) Splunk
8 15 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.36%) SAP
9 10 (0.91%) Adobe
10 9 (0.82%) IBM
11 8 (0.73%) Conga
11 8 (0.73%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.73%) Veracode
12 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.54%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.54%) Okta
13 6 (0.54%) Solace