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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 70 67
Rank change year-on-year -59 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing React 1,147 1,138 1,216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 3.47% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.32% 15.49% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 811 942
10th Percentile £363 £358 £331
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.61%
75th Percentile £656 £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 8 7 9
10th Percentile £53.23 £59.05 £37.25
25th Percentile £69.50 £63.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% +19.11% -24.50%
75th Percentile £79.50 - £71.87
90th Percentile £91.50 - £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year +10.45% +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 10,136 7,346 8,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 22.39% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,589 4,921 5,783
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £411 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £740 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 177 230
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.70 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -1.35% -6.54%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £81.15 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -8.69% +5.14%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -54 955 £545 +4.81% 894
London -47 576 £575 -2.13% 494
UK excluding London -51 434 £500 +11.11% 524
Work from Home -66 344 £530 +0.95% 501
North of England -39 163 £500 +12.36% 158
Yorkshire -2 88 £500 +25.00% 42
Scotland -13 80 £377 -19.36% 44
South East -83 68 £525 +23.53% 121
South West -15 65 £525 +23.53% 74
North West -55 61 £500 +8.81% 93
Midlands -37 42 £460 -0.27% 65
West Midlands -45 36 £475 -7.32% 38
East of England -29 15 £625 +40.45% 39
North East -29 14 £500 +7.53% 25
East Midlands -23 5 £443 +20.24% 27
Northern Ireland +8 3 £190 -47.77% 15
Wales -21 2 £469 +2.18% 12
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 40 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.79%) Confluence
3 16 (1.39%) CMS
3 16 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (0.78%) Camunda
4 9 (0.78%) nginx
5 7 (0.61%) Headless CMS
6 6 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.44%) WordPress
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.35%) IIS
8 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.087%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.087%) Moodle
11 1 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
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 12 (1.05%) Shopify
2 10 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (0.87%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.26%) Magento
3 3 (0.26%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.087%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.087%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 447 (38.97%) AWS
2 320 (27.90%) Azure
3 135 (11.77%) GitHub
4 132 (11.51%) Serverless
5 127 (11.07%) GCP
6 83 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.97%) Power Platform
11 45 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (3.84%) Figma
13 39 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
13 39 (3.40%) Power Automate
13 39 (3.40%) PowerApps
14 37 (3.23%) OpenShift
15 35 (3.05%) Entra ID
16 31 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
18 27 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.87%) Firewall
2 7 (0.61%) DNS
3 6 (0.52%) 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%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (7.06%) Relational Database
3 79 (6.89%) SQL Server
4 74 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 69 (6.02%) MongoDB
6 43 (3.75%) MySQL
7 40 (3.49%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
9 38 (3.31%) Power BI
10 31 (2.70%) Redis
11 16 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (0.87%) Metadata
15 10 (0.87%) Neo4j
15 10 (0.87%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
17 6 (0.52%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 220 (19.18%) Git
2 131 (11.42%) Jenkins
3 65 (5.67%) JIRA
4 62 (5.41%) GitLab
5 53 (4.62%) Cypress.io
6 50 (4.36%) Gradle
7 46 (4.01%) JUnit
8 33 (2.88%) Vite
9 29 (2.53%) Maven
10 26 (2.27%) Mockito
11 21 (1.83%) Claude Code
12 19 (1.66%) webpack
13 17 (1.48%) Cucumber
14 16 (1.39%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.39%) Liquibase
15 15 (1.31%) Storybook
16 14 (1.22%) REST Assured
17 13 (1.13%) SonarQube
18 12 (1.05%) Postman
19 11 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 236 (20.58%) Finance
2 223 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 142 (12.38%) Banking
4 133 (11.60%) Public Sector
5 97 (8.46%) Front Office
6 62 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 51 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (3.57%) Retail
9 29 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.22%) Law
12 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.87%) Military
13 10 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.78%) Marketing
14 9 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.70%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 622 (54.23%) Developer
2 244 (21.27%) Senior
3 197 (17.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 156 (13.60%) React Developer
5 148 (12.90%) Software Engineer
6 137 (11.94%) Senior Developer
7 131 (11.42%) Java Developer
8 127 (11.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 116 (10.11%) Lead
10 88 (7.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 63 (5.49%) Python Developer
12 52 (4.53%) Senior Java Developer
12 52 (4.53%) Senior React Developer
13 49 (4.27%) UI Developer
14 44 (3.84%) Lead Developer
15 43 (3.75%) Architect
15 43 (3.75%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.31%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 36 (3.14%) Technical Leader
18 35 (3.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (25.63%) Node.js
2 275 (23.98%) REST
3 221 (19.27%) CSS
4 202 (17.61%) HTML
5 175 (15.26%) Redux
6 173 (15.08%) .NET
7 166 (14.47%) RESTful
8 162 (14.12%) AngularJS
9 159 (13.86%) Spring
10 150 (13.08%) Spring Boot
11 142 (12.38%) Kafka
12 137 (11.94%) Next.js
13 99 (8.63%) GraphQL
14 98 (8.54%) HTML5
15 93 (8.11%) Vue
16 84 (7.32%) Jest
17 81 (7.06%) CSS3
18 74 (6.45%) Playwright
19 58 (5.06%) OAuth
20 55 (4.80%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 173 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.54%) Fixed Income
3 74 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 63 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 59 (5.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 58 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
7 45 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.49%) AI Agents
8 40 (3.49%) Equities
9 31 (2.70%) Data Structures
9 31 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (2.53%) Derivative
11 25 (2.18%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (0.96%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.87%) Autonomous Agent
15 10 (0.87%) Mobile App
15 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.09%) Linux
2 12 (1.05%) 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 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.087%) AIX
6 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (47.60%) CI/CD
2 491 (42.81%) Agile
3 474 (41.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 300 (26.16%) Software Engineering
5 295 (25.72%) Microservices
6 287 (25.02%) DevOps
7 218 (19.01%) Front End Development
8 211 (18.40%) AI
9 209 (18.22%) Test Automation
10 172 (15.00%) Containerisation
11 153 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
12 144 (12.55%) User Experience
13 129 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 125 (10.90%) Event-Driven
15 124 (10.81%) TDD
16 119 (10.37%) Code Quality
17 117 (10.20%) Mentoring
18 115 (10.03%) Scrum
19 112 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
20 102 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 644 (56.15%) TypeScript
2 555 (48.39%) JavaScript
3 366 (31.91%) Java
4 326 (28.42%) Python
5 235 (20.49%) SQL
6 192 (16.74%) C#
7 45 (3.92%) Go
8 33 (2.88%) PL/SQL
9 23 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.57%) Bash
11 14 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.87%) Rust
14 9 (0.78%) C++
14 9 (0.78%) PHP
15 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.61%) Ruby
17 6 (0.52%) Bicep
18 4 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 198 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 169 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 61 (5.32%) Degree
4 47 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.087%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.087%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (13.16%) Accessibility
2 79 (6.89%) QA
3 74 (6.45%) WCAG
4 8 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.35%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 244 (21.27%) Docker
2 6 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 215 (18.74%) Kubernetes
2 129 (11.25%) Terraform
3 34 (2.96%) Grafana
4 29 (2.53%) Ansible
5 17 (1.48%) Argo
6 16 (1.39%) Control-M
7 15 (1.31%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.61%) Istio
10 6 (0.52%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.44%) Kibana
12 3 (0.26%) Podman
13 1 (0.087%) Nagios
13 1 (0.087%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (7.24%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.10%) Oracle
3 46 (4.01%) Google
4 27 (2.35%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.83%) Databricks
6 21 (1.83%) MuleSoft
7 17 (1.48%) Splunk
8 14 (1.22%) SAP
9 12 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.70%) Conga
10 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
10 8 (0.70%) Solace
11 7 (0.61%) Adobe
12 6 (0.52%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.44%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.44%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.44%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.35%) Foundry
14 4 (0.35%) New Relic