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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 70 65
Rank change year-on-year -56 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing React 1,144 1,126 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.13% 3.44% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.76% 13.57% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 796 939
10th Percentile £363 £358 £330
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £670
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 5
10th Percentile £49.30 £54.57 £46.00
25th Percentile £68.00 £60.06 £55.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £66.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +18.22% -24.50%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £81.60 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £67.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year +7.46% +8.72% -0.60%

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 11,719 8,295 9,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.36% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,711 5,600 6,428
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £635 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 183 200
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.35 £25.27
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £77.96 £74.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -59 960 £538 +3.37% 1,472
London -52 569 £573 -4.58% 946
UK excluding London -57 443 £500 +11.11% 715
Work from Home -66 338 £525 - 704
North of England -38 163 £500 +16.96% 199
Yorkshire -4 86 £500 +25.00% 43
Scotland -10 78 £389 -16.45% 67
South West 0 68 £525 +23.53% 128
South East -73 66 £525 +23.53% 142
North West -48 63 £500 +10.56% 134
Midlands -34 53 £475 +2.98% 105
West Midlands -35 45 £545 +5.01% 59
East of England -24 15 £625 +34.41% 36
North East -30 14 £500 +7.53% 25
East Midlands -23 7 £433 +17.73% 46
Northern Ireland +4 2 £190 -53.37% 24
Wales -24 2 £469 +2.18% 19
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 38 (3.32%) Confluence
1 38 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.31%) SharePoint Server
3 14 (1.22%) Camunda
4 13 (1.14%) CMS
5 9 (0.79%) nginx
6 6 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.44%) WordPress
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.35%) IIS
8 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.087%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.087%) Strapi
10 1 (0.087%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.087%) Blender
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.087%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.87%) SAP CRM
2 9 (0.79%) Shopify
3 3 (0.26%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.087%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 439 (38.37%) AWS
2 310 (27.10%) Azure
3 138 (12.06%) GitHub
4 135 (11.80%) Serverless
5 119 (10.40%) GCP
6 86 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
7 83 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
9 63 (5.51%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.98%) Power Platform
11 46 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (3.93%) Figma
12 45 (3.93%) OpenShift
13 38 (3.32%) PowerApps
14 37 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (3.23%) Power Automate
15 32 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (2.80%) Entra ID
16 30 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
17 27 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.87%) Firewall
2 8 (0.70%) DNS
3 7 (0.61%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) Intranet
4 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.17%) DSL
7 1 (0.087%) CTI
7 1 (0.087%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.087%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.087%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.087%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (7.52%) SQL Server
3 82 (7.17%) Relational Database
4 71 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 67 (5.86%) MongoDB
6 45 (3.93%) MySQL
7 43 (3.76%) DynamoDB
8 40 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
9 38 (3.32%) Power BI
10 31 (2.71%) Redis
11 16 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.96%) Metadata
15 11 (0.96%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.87%) Neo4j
17 7 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
18 6 (0.52%) BigQuery
19 5 (0.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 227 (19.84%) Git
2 143 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 70 (6.12%) GitLab
4 69 (6.03%) JIRA
5 58 (5.07%) Gradle
6 54 (4.72%) JUnit
7 53 (4.63%) Cypress.io
8 38 (3.32%) Maven
9 33 (2.88%) Mockito
9 33 (2.88%) Vite
10 21 (1.84%) Claude Code
10 21 (1.84%) SonarQube
11 19 (1.66%) REST Assured
11 19 (1.66%) webpack
12 18 (1.57%) Cucumber
13 17 (1.49%) Bitbucket
13 17 (1.49%) Liquibase
14 16 (1.40%) Storybook
15 14 (1.22%) Selenium
16 12 (1.05%) Postman
General
1 234 (20.45%) Finance
2 222 (19.41%) Social Skills
3 148 (12.94%) Banking
4 134 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 84 (7.34%) Front Office
6 61 (5.33%) Investment Banking
7 51 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (3.58%) Retail
9 29 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.22%) Law
12 13 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.87%) Marketing
13 10 (0.87%) Military
13 10 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.70%) Back Office
15 8 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 618 (54.02%) Developer
2 237 (20.72%) Senior
3 195 (17.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 157 (13.72%) React Developer
5 137 (11.98%) Software Engineer
6 135 (11.80%) Java Developer
7 132 (11.54%) Senior Developer
8 126 (11.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 111 (9.70%) Lead
10 95 (8.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 58 (5.07%) Python Developer
12 53 (4.63%) Senior Java Developer
13 52 (4.55%) Senior React Developer
14 48 (4.20%) UI Developer
15 42 (3.67%) Software Developer
16 40 (3.50%) Architect
17 38 (3.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 38 (3.32%) Technical Leader
18 36 (3.15%) Java Engineer
19 34 (2.97%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (25.00%) Node.js
2 272 (23.78%) REST
3 236 (20.63%) CSS
4 218 (19.06%) HTML
5 173 (15.12%) Spring
6 171 (14.95%) .NET
7 165 (14.42%) Redux
8 164 (14.34%) RESTful
9 163 (14.25%) Spring Boot
10 153 (13.37%) AngularJS
11 142 (12.41%) Kafka
12 136 (11.89%) Next.js
13 127 (11.10%) Terraform
14 103 (9.00%) HTML5
15 90 (7.87%) GraphQL
16 89 (7.78%) Vue
17 88 (7.69%) CSS3
18 83 (7.26%) Jest
19 77 (6.73%) Playwright
20 64 (5.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 172 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 78 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (5.51%) Fixed Income
4 57 (4.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 57 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (3.58%) AI Agents
7 36 (3.15%) Equities
8 33 (2.88%) Data Structures
9 30 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (2.27%) Algorithms
11 22 (1.92%) Derivative
12 19 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.05%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.87%) Autonomous Agent
16 10 (0.87%) NHS
17 9 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.19%) Linux
2 13 (1.14%) Windows
3 7 (0.61%) Unix
4 4 (0.35%) Android
4 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.087%) AIX
6 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (48.69%) CI/CD
2 491 (42.92%) Agile
3 469 (41.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 299 (26.14%) Microservices
5 293 (25.61%) Software Engineering
6 292 (25.52%) DevOps
7 231 (20.19%) Front End Development
8 213 (18.62%) Test Automation
9 209 (18.27%) AI
10 178 (15.56%) Containerisation
11 155 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
12 152 (13.29%) User Experience
13 136 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 128 (11.19%) Event-Driven
15 126 (11.01%) TDD
16 120 (10.49%) Scrum
17 119 (10.40%) Code Quality
18 117 (10.23%) Mentoring
19 112 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
20 105 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 631 (55.16%) TypeScript
2 559 (48.86%) JavaScript
3 376 (32.87%) Java
4 316 (27.62%) Python
5 250 (21.85%) SQL
6 186 (16.26%) C#
7 40 (3.50%) Go
8 32 (2.80%) PL/SQL
9 24 (2.10%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.66%) Bash
11 14 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.79%) C++
13 9 (0.79%) Rust
14 8 (0.70%) PHP
15 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.61%) Ruby
15 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.52%) Bicep
16 6 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 207 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 174 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 67 (5.86%) Degree
4 53 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.087%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.087%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (13.55%) Accessibility
2 81 (7.08%) QA
3 79 (6.91%) WCAG
4 10 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.26%) GDPR
6 3 (0.26%) HL7
7 2 (0.17%) PSD2
8 1 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.087%) GRC
8 1 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 244 (21.33%) Docker
2 4 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 222 (19.41%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.06%) Grafana
3 32 (2.80%) Ansible
4 19 (1.66%) Argo
5 16 (1.40%) Control-M
6 15 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.61%) Istio
9 6 (0.52%) Kibana
9 6 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.26%) Podman
11 1 (0.087%) Nagios
11 1 (0.087%) QRadar
Vendors
1 86 (7.52%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.21%) Oracle
3 46 (4.02%) Google
4 25 (2.19%) Databricks
4 25 (2.19%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.84%) MuleSoft
7 19 (1.66%) Splunk
8 15 (1.31%) SAP
9 14 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.79%) Adobe
11 8 (0.70%) Conga
11 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.70%) IBM
11 8 (0.70%) Solace
12 7 (0.61%) Veracode
13 6 (0.52%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.44%) Hitachi
14 5 (0.44%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.44%) Sitecore