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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 74 74
Rank change year-on-year -28 0 -18
Contract jobs citing React 985 984 1,202
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.61% 3.10% 2.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.71% 13.93% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 736 981
10th Percentile £342 £353 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -1.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £454
% change year-on-year +5.56% -0.83% -9.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £43.90 £26.25 £47.97
25th Percentile £46.00 £31.50 £58.75
Median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £66.25 £44.13 £70.69
90th Percentile £72.10 £59.29 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £27.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +127.27% -56.00% -7.75%

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 8,412 7,066 9,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.25% 22.29% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,607 4,496 6,521
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £772 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 92 181
10th Percentile £33.00 £22.31 £26.88
25th Percentile £46.25 £36.31 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £76.97 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.39% +15.91% -15.38%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 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 -23 835 £505 -8.18% 1,587
London -32 486 £525 -12.50% 292
UK excluding London -39 367 £475 +5.56% 1,485
Work from Home -52 268 £510 +2.00% 883
North of England -15 133 £450 - 305
North West -7 68 £400 -11.11% 148
South East -42 64 £375 -28.57% 457
Yorkshire -21 56 £463 -7.50% 114
Scotland -8 50 £442 -0.62% 59
Midlands -57 49 £538 +7.50% 162
South West -9 40 £550 +22.22% 186
West Midlands -49 38 £525 -4.55% 53
East of England -13 29 £600 +62.71% 235
North East -7 12 £475 +13.77% 43
East Midlands -23 11 £550 +11.11% 106
Northern Ireland -8 6 - - 38
Wales -3 5 £331 -30.26% 78

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 (4.16%) CMS
2 24 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 17 (1.73%) Confluence
5 14 (1.42%) Headless CMS
6 11 (1.12%) Camunda
6 11 (1.12%) SAS
6 11 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
7 10 (1.02%) Apache
8 9 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.91%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.91%) Mendix
9 5 (0.51%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.41%) IIS
11 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.30%) WordPress
12 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.20%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
Applications
1 18 (1.83%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.91%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.71%) Sketch
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) Trello
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.10%) Blender
6 1 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.10%) InVision
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.30%) Shopify
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.10%) Endur
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 428 (43.45%) AWS
2 272 (27.61%) Azure
3 149 (15.13%) Serverless
4 131 (13.30%) GitHub
5 115 (11.68%) GCP
6 95 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
7 85 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (8.12%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (5.28%) Amazon S3
10 40 (4.06%) Figma
11 31 (3.15%) Azure Functions
11 31 (3.15%) SaaS
12 28 (2.84%) Azure AKS
13 27 (2.74%) npm
14 26 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (2.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 26 (2.64%) Entra ID
15 25 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
15 25 (2.54%) Power Platform
16 23 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.42%) Wireless
2 8 (0.81%) HTTP
3 5 (0.51%) DNS
3 5 (0.51%) Network Security
4 4 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.20%) VPN
7 1 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.10%) LAN
7 1 (0.10%) Multicast
7 1 (0.10%) RTMP
7 1 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.10%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (13.91%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (8.83%) Relational Database
3 82 (8.32%) NoSQL
4 57 (5.79%) MySQL
5 52 (5.28%) MongoDB
6 50 (5.08%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (2.23%) Redis
9 20 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.03%) Power BI
10 19 (1.93%) DynamoDB
11 16 (1.62%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.22%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (0.91%) Metadata
16 8 (0.81%) Big Data
16 8 (0.81%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 199 (20.20%) Git
2 74 (7.51%) Cypress.io
3 64 (6.50%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.89%) GitLab
5 56 (5.69%) JIRA
6 46 (4.67%) JUnit
7 29 (2.94%) webpack
8 26 (2.64%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.34%) Mockito
10 21 (2.13%) Selenium
11 19 (1.93%) Browser DevTools
11 19 (1.93%) Maven
12 18 (1.83%) Android Studio
12 18 (1.83%) Xcode
13 17 (1.73%) Eclipse
14 16 (1.62%) Storybook
15 15 (1.52%) SonarQube
16 14 (1.42%) Vite
17 13 (1.32%) Bitbucket
17 13 (1.32%) Postman
General
1 223 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 166 (16.85%) Finance
3 123 (12.49%) Public Sector
4 82 (8.32%) Banking
5 44 (4.47%) Front Office
6 41 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.34%) Retail
9 17 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.22%) Marketing
12 11 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.91%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.61%) Games
16 5 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.51%) Military
16 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 592 (60.10%) Developer
2 212 (21.52%) Full-Stack Developer
3 159 (16.14%) Senior
4 127 (12.89%) React Developer
5 106 (10.76%) Software Engineer
6 101 (10.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 94 (9.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 87 (8.83%) Java Developer
9 81 (8.22%) Senior Developer
10 80 (8.12%) Python Developer
11 67 (6.80%) Lead
12 46 (4.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 36 (3.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 34 (3.45%) AWS Developer
15 33 (3.35%) Software Developer
16 29 (2.94%) Architect
16 29 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
17 27 (2.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 25 (2.54%) JavaScript Developer
18 25 (2.54%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (30.66%) Node.js
2 293 (29.75%) AngularJS
3 246 (24.97%) CSS
4 224 (22.74%) HTML
5 190 (19.29%) RESTful
6 147 (14.92%) Spring
7 139 (14.11%) .NET
8 134 (13.60%) REST
9 129 (13.10%) Next.js
9 129 (13.10%) Spring Boot
10 108 (10.96%) Jest
11 96 (9.75%) Vue
12 92 (9.34%) GraphQL
13 85 (8.63%) Redux
14 76 (7.72%) HTML5
15 72 (7.31%) Kafka
16 60 (6.09%) FastAPI
17 59 (5.99%) Playwright
18 58 (5.89%) CSS3
19 40 (4.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 94 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 39 (3.96%) Mobile App
4 33 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (3.05%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 20 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.52%) Derivative
9 15 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.32%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.32%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.12%) Low-Code
14 10 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.02%) Equities
14 10 (1.02%) NHS
15 7 (0.71%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.28%) Linux
2 40 (4.06%) Unix
3 35 (3.55%) Windows
4 27 (2.74%) Android
5 13 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.41%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (44.97%) CI/CD
2 430 (43.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 409 (41.52%) Agile
4 284 (28.83%) DevOps
5 260 (26.40%) Microservices
6 218 (22.13%) Front End Development
7 203 (20.61%) Software Engineering
8 178 (18.07%) User Experience
9 163 (16.55%) Containerisation
9 163 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
10 153 (15.53%) AI
11 147 (14.92%) Test Automation
12 110 (11.17%) Clean Code
13 97 (9.85%) Scrum
14 89 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 86 (8.73%) Code Quality
16 85 (8.63%) TDD
17 73 (7.41%) UX Design
18 72 (7.31%) Design Patterns
19 71 (7.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 480 (48.73%) JavaScript
2 455 (46.19%) TypeScript
3 303 (30.76%) Python
4 293 (29.75%) Java
5 198 (20.10%) SQL
6 127 (12.89%) C#
7 23 (2.34%) Go
8 21 (2.13%) Bicep
8 21 (2.13%) Perl
9 20 (2.03%) C++
10 18 (1.83%) Ruby
11 15 (1.52%) Rust
12 14 (1.42%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.91%) Formula Language
14 9 (0.91%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.81%) Bash
15 8 (0.81%) JSX
15 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 190 (19.29%) Security Cleared
2 160 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.08%) Degree
4 34 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.32%) MCP
8 11 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.20%) OCP
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (13.40%) Accessibility
2 66 (6.70%) WCAG
3 61 (6.19%) QA
4 7 (0.71%) GDPR
5 6 (0.61%) HL7
6 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.20%) NCSC
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.10%) MiFID
8 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.10%) PSD2
8 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 245 (24.87%) Docker
2 21 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.10%) Varnish
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 201 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 116 (11.78%) Terraform
3 24 (2.44%) Grafana
4 21 (2.13%) Argo
5 12 (1.22%) Ansible
5 12 (1.22%) Kibana
5 12 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (0.61%) Istio
9 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 1 (0.10%) Consul
10 1 (0.10%) Nagios
10 1 (0.10%) Rancher
10 1 (0.10%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 109 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.70%) Oracle
3 45 (4.57%) Google
4 36 (3.65%) Adobe
5 32 (3.25%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.23%) Splunk
7 20 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.93%) Red Hat
9 18 (1.83%) Sitecore
10 12 (1.22%) Databricks
11 9 (0.91%) Kofax
11 9 (0.91%) Lotus
11 9 (0.91%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.81%) SAP
13 6 (0.61%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.51%) Marketo
14 5 (0.51%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.51%) VMware
15 4 (0.41%) Blue Prism
15 4 (0.41%) Dynatrace