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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 71 68
Rank change year-on-year -34 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing React 1,201 1,101 1,324
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.31% 3.46% 3.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.88% 15.22% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 814 1,045
10th Percentile £373 £354 £353
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -7.95% +4.76%
75th Percentile £674 £663 £688
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 22
10th Percentile £51.65 - £41.50
25th Percentile £61.88 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -15.06% -7.50%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - £68.50
% change year-on-year - - +9.60%

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 10,109 7,235 9,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.42% 22.73% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,623 4,888 6,376
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 149 283
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.76 £22.55
25th Percentile £50.88 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 7 July 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 7 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for React in the UK

React
Top 17 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 7 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
England -40 993 £550 +4.76% 543
London -40 597 £580 -1.28% 207
UK excluding London -35 440 £500 +11.11% 421
Work from Home -48 403 £550 +4.76% 1,942
North of England -20 159 £523 +16.11% 128
North West -29 79 £500 +11.11% 64
South East -64 77 £525 +10.53% 114
Scotland -7 72 £405 -14.74% 23
Yorkshire -2 70 £523 +16.11% 48
South West -1 64 £525 +23.53% 37
Midlands -54 37 £475 +9.20% 47
West Midlands -51 30 £494 +1.28% 24
East of England -13 28 £600 +47.24% 33
North East -35 10 £513 +10.81% 17
Northern Ireland +8 6 £190 -41.54% 20
East Midlands -23 5 £443 +20.24% 23
Wales -21 1 £525 +32.91% 22

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 41 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.58%) Confluence
3 24 (2.00%) CMS
4 15 (1.25%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.75%) Camunda
5 9 (0.75%) nginx
5 9 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.42%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.25%) Mendix
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) Kentico
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.083%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.083%) Blender
3 1 (0.083%) Maya
3 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.083%) Sketch
3 1 (0.083%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.17%) Shopify
2 9 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.42%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.083%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.083%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 464 (38.63%) AWS
2 344 (28.64%) Azure
3 137 (11.41%) GCP
4 127 (10.57%) Serverless
5 118 (9.83%) GitHub
6 82 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
8 75 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (5.08%) Amazon S3
10 60 (5.00%) Power Platform
11 50 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (4.08%) Figma
13 39 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
14 38 (3.16%) Power Automate
14 38 (3.16%) PowerApps
15 33 (2.75%) Entra ID
16 31 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (2.41%) SaaS
18 24 (2.00%) OpenShift
19 22 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.50%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) DSL
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.083%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.083%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.083%) MQTT
5 1 (0.083%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (7.66%) Relational Database
3 91 (7.58%) SQL Server
4 76 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 61 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 56 (4.66%) MySQL
7 44 (3.66%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.25%) Power BI
9 37 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (2.50%) Redis
11 14 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.92%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (0.83%) Metadata
15 9 (0.75%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.75%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.67%) Big Data
16 8 (0.67%) Db2
Development Applications
1 172 (14.32%) Git
2 105 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 69 (5.75%) JIRA
4 58 (4.83%) GitLab
5 49 (4.08%) Cypress.io
6 38 (3.16%) JUnit
7 37 (3.08%) Gradle
8 36 (3.00%) Vite
9 23 (1.92%) Mockito
9 23 (1.92%) webpack
10 16 (1.33%) Liquibase
10 16 (1.33%) Maven
10 16 (1.33%) Postman
11 15 (1.25%) REST Assured
12 14 (1.17%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.17%) Cucumber
13 13 (1.08%) Storybook
14 11 (0.92%) Claude Code
15 10 (0.83%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 268 (22.31%) Finance
2 219 (18.23%) Social Skills
3 148 (12.32%) Banking
4 124 (10.32%) Front Office
5 118 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 67 (5.58%) Investment Banking
7 48 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (2.41%) Retail
9 21 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.50%) Financial Institution
11 11 (0.92%) Law
12 10 (0.83%) Legal
13 9 (0.75%) Military
14 7 (0.58%) Marketing
15 6 (0.50%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.42%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 679 (56.54%) Developer
2 226 (18.82%) Senior
3 209 (17.40%) Full-Stack Developer
4 183 (15.24%) React Developer
5 172 (14.32%) Software Engineer
6 142 (11.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 129 (10.74%) Lead
7 129 (10.74%) Senior Developer
8 127 (10.57%) Java Developer
9 93 (7.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 74 (6.16%) Python Developer
11 59 (4.91%) Lead Developer
12 56 (4.66%) Architect
12 56 (4.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 53 (4.41%) UI Developer
14 52 (4.33%) Senior React Developer
15 49 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
16 46 (3.83%) Java Engineer
17 43 (3.58%) Lead Software Engineer
18 42 (3.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (26.73%) Node.js
2 223 (18.57%) REST
3 217 (18.07%) CSS
4 209 (17.40%) Redux
5 198 (16.49%) HTML
6 197 (16.40%) .NET
7 191 (15.90%) AngularJS
8 173 (14.40%) RESTful
9 155 (12.91%) Spring
10 143 (11.91%) Spring Boot
11 131 (10.91%) Kafka
12 128 (10.66%) GraphQL
13 118 (9.83%) Next.js
14 99 (8.24%) Vue
15 91 (7.58%) Jest
16 89 (7.41%) HTML5
17 69 (5.75%) Playwright
18 68 (5.66%) CSS3
19 59 (4.91%) FastAPI
20 56 (4.66%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 158 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.83%) Fixed Income
3 82 (6.83%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
5 59 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 52 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (4.08%) Equities
8 47 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (3.33%) Derivative
10 36 (3.00%) AI Agents
11 34 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.75%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.33%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.00%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.92%) Mobile App
18 10 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
19 9 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.25%) Linux
2 12 (1.00%) Android
3 11 (0.92%) Windows
4 9 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.75%) Unix
5 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (43.05%) CI/CD
2 489 (40.72%) Agile
3 488 (40.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 306 (25.48%) Software Engineering
5 304 (25.31%) DevOps
6 283 (23.56%) Microservices
7 245 (20.40%) Front End Development
8 205 (17.07%) AI
9 204 (16.99%) Test Automation
10 166 (13.82%) Containerisation
11 151 (12.57%) User Experience
12 140 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (9.49%) Code Quality
14 108 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (8.99%) Scrum
15 105 (8.74%) TDD
16 101 (8.41%) Event-Driven
16 101 (8.41%) Mentoring
17 90 (7.49%) Infrastructure as Code
18 85 (7.08%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 670 (55.79%) TypeScript
2 565 (47.04%) JavaScript
3 375 (31.22%) Java
4 367 (30.56%) Python
5 230 (19.15%) SQL
6 210 (17.49%) C#
7 66 (5.50%) Go
8 28 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.08%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.00%) Bash
12 10 (0.83%) Rust
13 8 (0.67%) C++
13 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.58%) Scala
15 6 (0.50%) Bicep
16 4 (0.33%) Perl
16 4 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 201 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 173 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 68 (5.66%) Degree
4 52 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.33%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.083%) CISSP
13 1 (0.083%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.083%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.083%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (12.66%) Accessibility
2 77 (6.41%) WCAG
3 74 (6.16%) QA
4 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.50%) GDPR
5 4 (0.33%) HL7
6 3 (0.25%) PSD2
7 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.083%) GRC
7 1 (0.083%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 236 (19.65%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 197 (16.40%) Kubernetes
2 115 (9.58%) Terraform
3 24 (2.00%) Grafana
4 20 (1.67%) Ansible
5 15 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.08%) Argo
7 10 (0.83%) Control-M
8 8 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.42%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Rancher
12 1 (0.083%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 82 (6.83%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.41%) Oracle
3 46 (3.83%) Google
4 31 (2.58%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.50%) Databricks
6 15 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.25%) Sitecore
7 11 (0.92%) MuleSoft
8 10 (0.83%) Dynatrace
8 10 (0.83%) SAP
8 10 (0.83%) Splunk
9 8 (0.67%) Adobe
9 8 (0.67%) Conga
9 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
9 8 (0.67%) Solace
10 6 (0.50%) Pega
11 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.33%) Apple
12 4 (0.33%) Netlify
12 4 (0.33%) Red Hat