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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 71 69
Rank change year-on-year -35 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing React 1,214 1,113 1,328
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.31% 3.45% 3.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.86% 15.22% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 816 1,047
10th Percentile £366 £352 £354
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -8.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £670 £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 6 22
10th Percentile £51.65 £58.38 £41.50
25th Percentile £61.88 £62.69 £55.31
Median hourly rate £76.00 £66.50 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £92.50 £67.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year +13.43% -2.19% +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 10,235 7,315 9,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.65% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,706 4,941 6,413
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% -4.65% -2.27%
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 279 154 282
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.12 £22.75
25th Percentile £50.38 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -0.22% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.43 £79.61 £74.40
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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -39 1,004 £550 +4.76% 645
London -39 606 £575 -2.13% 273
UK excluding London -35 441 £500 +11.11% 506
Work from Home -44 409 £550 +4.76% 317
North of England -26 160 £523 +14.96% 146
North West -26 79 £500 +11.11% 85
South East -59 77 £525 +11.70% 116
Scotland -1 72 £405 -14.74% 26
Yorkshire -3 71 £523 +16.11% 47
South West -3 64 £525 +23.53% 110
Midlands -57 37 £475 +9.20% 46
West Midlands -55 30 £494 +1.28% 24
East of England -15 28 £600 +47.24% 31
North East -30 10 £513 +10.81% 15
Northern Ireland +9 6 £190 -41.54% 15
East Midlands -21 5 £443 +20.24% 22
Wales -18 1 £525 +32.91% 21

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 39 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.55%) Confluence
3 24 (1.98%) CMS
4 15 (1.24%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.74%) Camunda
5 9 (0.74%) nginx
5 9 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.41%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.16%) Apache
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Kentico
10 2 (0.16%) Mendix
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.41%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.082%) Blender
3 1 (0.082%) Maya
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.082%) Sketch
3 1 (0.082%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.15%) Shopify
2 9 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.58%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.082%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.082%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 470 (38.71%) AWS
2 347 (28.58%) Azure
3 140 (11.53%) GCP
4 128 (10.54%) Serverless
5 121 (9.97%) GitHub
6 83 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
7 77 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (5.11%) Amazon S3
9 59 (4.86%) Power Platform
10 51 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (4.12%) Figma
12 38 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (3.05%) Power Automate
13 37 (3.05%) PowerApps
14 34 (2.80%) Entra ID
15 32 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (2.39%) SaaS
17 25 (2.06%) OpenShift
18 24 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.49%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.16%) DSL
4 2 (0.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.082%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.082%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.082%) MQTT
5 1 (0.082%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (7.74%) Relational Database
3 91 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 76 (6.26%) NoSQL
5 61 (5.02%) MongoDB
6 56 (4.61%) MySQL
7 44 (3.62%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.13%) Power BI
9 37 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (2.55%) Redis
11 14 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (0.82%) Metadata
13 10 (0.82%) Oracle Database
14 9 (0.74%) Neo4j
14 9 (0.74%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.66%) Big Data
15 8 (0.66%) Db2
Development Applications
1 174 (14.33%) Git
2 109 (8.98%) Jenkins
3 69 (5.68%) JIRA
4 59 (4.86%) GitLab
5 52 (4.28%) Cypress.io
6 38 (3.13%) Gradle
6 38 (3.13%) JUnit
7 36 (2.97%) Vite
8 23 (1.89%) Mockito
8 23 (1.89%) webpack
9 16 (1.32%) Liquibase
9 16 (1.32%) Maven
9 16 (1.32%) Postman
10 15 (1.24%) REST Assured
11 14 (1.15%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.15%) Storybook
12 11 (0.91%) Claude Code
13 10 (0.82%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 272 (22.41%) Finance
2 220 (18.12%) Social Skills
3 150 (12.36%) Banking
4 124 (10.21%) Front Office
5 120 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 67 (5.52%) Investment Banking
7 49 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (2.55%) Retail
9 22 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.91%) Law
13 10 (0.82%) Legal
13 10 (0.82%) Military
14 7 (0.58%) Marketing
15 6 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.49%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.41%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 689 (56.75%) Developer
2 230 (18.95%) Senior
3 213 (17.55%) Full-Stack Developer
4 185 (15.24%) React Developer
5 172 (14.17%) Software Engineer
6 144 (11.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 131 (10.79%) Senior Developer
8 130 (10.71%) Java Developer
9 129 (10.63%) Lead
10 95 (7.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 75 (6.18%) Python Developer
12 59 (4.86%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.61%) Architect
13 56 (4.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 53 (4.37%) Senior React Developer
14 53 (4.37%) UI Developer
15 49 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
16 46 (3.79%) Java Engineer
17 43 (3.54%) Lead Software Engineer
17 43 (3.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (26.94%) Node.js
2 230 (18.95%) REST
3 220 (18.12%) CSS
4 211 (17.38%) Redux
5 201 (16.56%) HTML
6 195 (16.06%) .NET
7 194 (15.98%) AngularJS
8 175 (14.42%) RESTful
9 160 (13.18%) Spring
10 148 (12.19%) Spring Boot
11 136 (11.20%) Kafka
12 131 (10.79%) GraphQL
13 120 (9.88%) Next.js
14 100 (8.24%) Vue
15 93 (7.66%) Jest
16 91 (7.50%) HTML5
17 70 (5.77%) CSS3
17 70 (5.77%) Playwright
18 60 (4.94%) FastAPI
19 56 (4.61%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 159 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.74%) Fixed Income
3 82 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
5 60 (4.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 55 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (4.04%) Equities
8 48 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (3.29%) Derivative
10 37 (3.05%) AI Agents
11 34 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.81%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.40%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.99%) Onboarding
16 12 (0.99%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.91%) Mobile App
18 10 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
19 9 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.22%) Linux
2 12 (0.99%) Android
3 11 (0.91%) Windows
4 9 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.74%) Unix
5 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (43.41%) CI/CD
2 496 (40.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 494 (40.69%) Agile
4 308 (25.37%) Software Engineering
5 306 (25.21%) DevOps
6 289 (23.81%) Microservices
7 247 (20.35%) Front End Development
8 207 (17.05%) AI
9 206 (16.97%) Test Automation
10 169 (13.92%) Containerisation
11 153 (12.60%) User Experience
12 142 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (9.72%) Code Quality
14 109 (8.98%) Scrum
15 108 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 108 (8.90%) TDD
16 105 (8.65%) Event-Driven
17 102 (8.40%) Mentoring
18 92 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
19 90 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 677 (55.77%) TypeScript
2 571 (47.03%) JavaScript
3 381 (31.38%) Java
4 368 (30.31%) Python
5 231 (19.03%) SQL
6 209 (17.22%) C#
7 66 (5.44%) Go
8 29 (2.39%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.99%) Bash
12 10 (0.82%) Rust
13 8 (0.66%) C++
13 8 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.58%) Scala
15 6 (0.49%) Bicep
16 4 (0.33%) Perl
16 4 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 205 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 177 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 69 (5.68%) Degree
4 52 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 10 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.49%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.33%) PhD
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.082%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.082%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.082%) CISSP
12 1 (0.082%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.082%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.082%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (12.77%) Accessibility
2 77 (6.34%) WCAG
3 74 (6.10%) QA
4 6 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.49%) GDPR
5 4 (0.33%) HL7
6 3 (0.25%) PSD2
7 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.082%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.082%) GRC
7 1 (0.082%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.082%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 241 (19.85%) Docker
2 6 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 203 (16.72%) Kubernetes
2 117 (9.64%) Terraform
3 25 (2.06%) Grafana
4 20 (1.65%) Ansible
5 16 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.07%) Argo
7 11 (0.91%) Control-M
8 8 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.41%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.16%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.35%) Oracle
3 47 (3.87%) Google
4 31 (2.55%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.48%) Databricks
6 17 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.24%) Sitecore
8 13 (1.07%) MuleSoft
9 12 (0.99%) SAP
10 10 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.82%) Splunk
11 9 (0.74%) Solace
12 8 (0.66%) Adobe
12 8 (0.66%) Conga
12 8 (0.66%) GoCardless
13 6 (0.49%) Pega
14 5 (0.41%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.33%) Apple
15 4 (0.33%) Netlify
15 4 (0.33%) Red Hat