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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 69 65
Rank change year-on-year -46 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing React 1,201 1,140 1,201
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.26% 3.44% 3.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.80% 15.26% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 825 939
10th Percentile £364 £358 £343
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +2.33%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
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 14 7 14
10th Percentile £41.24 £59.05 £44.50
25th Percentile £60.31 £63.63 £56.25
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% -2.19% -7.43%
75th Percentile £86.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £76.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% -4.29% +40.00%

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 10,178 7,470 8,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.15% 22.56% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,634 5,045 5,852
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £635 £665
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 166 248
10th Percentile £28.26 £30.13 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% +2.21% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.58 £79.35 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% +0.10%

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 3 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 3 August 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 3 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 -48 997 £550 +4.76% 702
London -39 602 £600 - 382
UK excluding London -44 449 £500 +11.11% 427
Work from Home -52 384 £550 +3.09% 339
North of England -21 172 £500 +11.11% 134
Yorkshire 0 85 £500 +25.00% 39
Scotland -1 81 £377 -19.36% 39
South East -76 74 £525 +12.90% 100
North West -39 73 £500 +8.81% 82
South West -11 62 £525 +23.53% 51
Midlands -39 41 £475 +6.15% 44
West Midlands -46 34 £481 -6.10% 26
East of England -15 18 £625 +47.06% 27
North East -31 14 £500 +7.53% 15
Northern Ireland +5 5 £190 -41.54% 19
East Midlands -23 5 £443 +20.24% 18
Wales -21 1 £525 +14.44% 16

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 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.58%) Confluence
3 18 (1.50%) CMS
4 16 (1.33%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.75%) nginx
6 8 (0.67%) Camunda
7 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.33%) WordPress
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.083%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.083%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.083%) Blender
4 1 (0.083%) Maya
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.083%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.00%) Shopify
2 10 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.67%) 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
1 484 (40.30%) AWS
2 341 (28.39%) Azure
3 140 (11.66%) GCP
4 133 (11.07%) GitHub
5 132 (10.99%) Serverless
6 84 (6.99%) AWS Lambda
7 79 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
8 68 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
9 64 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.75%) Power Platform
11 49 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (3.83%) Figma
13 38 (3.16%) Entra ID
13 38 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
13 38 (3.16%) Power Automate
13 38 (3.16%) PowerApps
14 35 (2.91%) OpenShift
15 30 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
16 29 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.83%) Firewall
2 5 (0.42%) HTTP
3 4 (0.33%) DNS
3 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 4 (0.33%) VPN
4 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.17%) DSL
6 1 (0.083%) CTI
6 1 (0.083%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.083%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.083%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.99%) Relational Database
3 83 (6.91%) SQL Server
4 82 (6.83%) NoSQL
5 75 (6.24%) MongoDB
6 48 (4.00%) MySQL
7 43 (3.58%) DynamoDB
8 37 (3.08%) Power BI
9 36 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (2.50%) Redis
11 14 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.75%) Metadata
14 9 (0.75%) Neo4j
14 9 (0.75%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.67%) Db2
Development Applications
1 200 (16.65%) Git
2 131 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.58%) JIRA
4 61 (5.08%) GitLab
5 52 (4.33%) Cypress.io
6 48 (4.00%) Gradle
7 47 (3.91%) JUnit
8 34 (2.83%) Vite
9 28 (2.33%) Mockito
10 24 (2.00%) Maven
11 21 (1.75%) Claude Code
12 20 (1.67%) webpack
13 17 (1.42%) Cucumber
13 17 (1.42%) Liquibase
14 16 (1.33%) Bitbucket
15 15 (1.25%) REST Assured
15 15 (1.25%) Storybook
16 13 (1.08%) SonarQube
17 12 (1.00%) Postman
18 10 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 273 (22.73%) Finance
2 226 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 150 (12.49%) Banking
4 125 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 120 (9.99%) Front Office
6 64 (5.33%) Investment Banking
7 54 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (3.33%) Retail
9 27 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.33%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.08%) Law
13 10 (0.83%) Military
13 10 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.75%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.67%) Legal
15 8 (0.67%) Marketing
15 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 659 (54.87%) Developer
2 246 (20.48%) Senior
3 209 (17.40%) Full-Stack Developer
4 176 (14.65%) React Developer
5 174 (14.49%) Software Engineer
6 145 (12.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 141 (11.74%) Senior Developer
8 140 (11.66%) Java Developer
9 135 (11.24%) Lead
10 87 (7.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 65 (5.41%) Python Developer
12 60 (5.00%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 54 (4.50%) Senior React Developer
15 53 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
15 53 (4.41%) UI Developer
16 51 (4.25%) Architect
17 47 (3.91%) Software Developer
18 43 (3.58%) Lead Software Engineer
19 40 (3.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (27.39%) Node.js
2 264 (21.98%) REST
3 219 (18.23%) CSS
4 204 (16.99%) Redux
5 201 (16.74%) HTML
6 180 (14.99%) AngularJS
7 176 (14.65%) .NET
8 165 (13.74%) RESTful
9 160 (13.32%) Spring
10 153 (12.74%) Kafka
11 148 (12.32%) Spring Boot
12 124 (10.32%) Next.js
13 118 (9.83%) GraphQL
14 101 (8.41%) Vue
15 97 (8.08%) HTML5
16 87 (7.24%) Jest
17 80 (6.66%) CSS3
18 69 (5.75%) Playwright
19 57 (4.75%) FastAPI
20 55 (4.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 171 (14.24%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.08%) Fixed Income
3 75 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 66 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
5 60 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.83%) Equities
8 42 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.00%) Derivative
10 35 (2.91%) AI Agents
11 33 (2.75%) Data Structures
12 32 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (2.16%) Algorithms
14 25 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (1.08%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.92%) Virtual Team
18 10 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
18 10 (0.83%) Mobile App
19 9 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.08%) Linux
2 13 (1.08%) Windows
3 8 (0.67%) Android
4 7 (0.58%) Unix
5 5 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (45.38%) CI/CD
2 520 (43.30%) Agile
3 505 (42.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 324 (26.98%) Software Engineering
5 299 (24.90%) Microservices
6 296 (24.65%) DevOps
7 235 (19.57%) Front End Development
8 211 (17.57%) AI
9 205 (17.07%) Test Automation
10 174 (14.49%) Containerisation
11 150 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
12 145 (12.07%) User Experience
13 124 (10.32%) Code Quality
13 124 (10.32%) Event-Driven
14 123 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 122 (10.16%) TDD
16 121 (10.07%) Mentoring
17 113 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
18 111 (9.24%) Scrum
19 94 (7.83%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 670 (55.79%) TypeScript
2 579 (48.21%) JavaScript
3 389 (32.39%) Java
4 361 (30.06%) Python
5 230 (19.15%) SQL
6 193 (16.07%) C#
7 63 (5.25%) Go
8 33 (2.75%) PL/SQL
9 19 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.08%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.00%) Bash
11 12 (1.00%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.83%) Rust
13 9 (0.75%) C++
13 9 (0.75%) PHP
14 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.58%) Bicep
14 7 (0.58%) Scala
15 6 (0.50%) Ruby
16 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 207 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 181 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 67 (5.58%) Degree
4 54 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 9 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.33%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.083%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.083%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.083%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (13.41%) Accessibility
2 82 (6.83%) WCAG
3 77 (6.41%) QA
4 7 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) GDPR
6 4 (0.33%) HL7
7 3 (0.25%) PSD2
8 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.083%) GRC
9 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 247 (20.57%) Docker
2 7 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 222 (18.48%) Kubernetes
2 132 (10.99%) Terraform
3 31 (2.58%) Grafana
4 27 (2.25%) Ansible
5 16 (1.33%) Argo
5 16 (1.33%) Control-M
5 16 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.42%) Kibana
8 4 (0.33%) Istio
9 3 (0.25%) Podman
10 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.083%) Nagios
11 1 (0.083%) Rancher
Vendors
1 79 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 70 (5.83%) Oracle
3 44 (3.66%) Google
4 27 (2.25%) OpenAI
5 20 (1.67%) Databricks
5 20 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.50%) MuleSoft
7 14 (1.17%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.17%) Splunk
8 13 (1.08%) SAP
9 10 (0.83%) Solace
10 9 (0.75%) Adobe
10 9 (0.75%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.67%) Conga
11 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
12 5 (0.42%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.33%) Hitachi
13 4 (0.33%) New Relic
13 4 (0.33%) Pega