React Contract Job Trends

React.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 82 72
Rank change year-on-year -53 -10 +5
Contract jobs citing React 1,139 1,046 1,097
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.08% 3.06% 3.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.38% 11.73% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 717 817
10th Percentile £363 £339 £329
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £532
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -2.63% +0.28%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £791 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 6
10th Percentile £57.50 £45.65 £37.63
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.91 £39.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £64.75 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% +49.71% -39.93%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £77.60 - £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +11.94% -3.60% +2.21%

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

6 months to
2 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12,146 8,917 8,953
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 22.21% 26.05% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,030 5,950 5,764
10th Percentile £380 £355 £353
25th Percentile £439 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £720 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.99% -2.90% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 189 124
10th Percentile £29.07 £29.80 £24.19
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £77.50 £74.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% -3.85% +17.05%

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 2 November 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 for jobs citing React over the 6 months to 2 November 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 2 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -62 958 £528 +1.54% 651
London -56 532 £575 - 364
UK excluding London -46 466 £475 +5.56% 414
Work from Home -53 342 £520 -0.95% 319
North of England -10 190 £500 +22.70% 107
Yorkshire -7 90 £475 +18.75% 27
North West -8 90 £537 +29.01% 71
Midlands -11 77 £475 -10.59% 51
West Midlands +2 73 £475 -10.80% 37
Scotland -14 70 £377 -17.37% 32
South East -77 67 £453 +19.15% 114
South West -37 49 £575 +6.73% 41
North East -27 10 £500 - 9
East of England -48 7 £557 +32.90% 42
Wales -14 5 £413 -20.29% 25
Northern Ireland +1 4 £370 - 5
East Midlands -25 4 £423 -11.05% 14
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

React Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1REST28.7%327
2Node.js26.0%296
3CSS22.7%258
4HTML22.1%252
5RESTful18.0%205
6.NET17.0%194
7Spring16.3%186
8AngularJS16.2%184
9Spring Boot15.0%171
10Next.js12.6%143
11Redux12.4%141
12Kafka11.9%135
13HTML511.4%130
14Terraform11.2%128
15Playwright9.8%112
16Vue9.7%111
17CSS39.6%109
18GraphQL8.6%98
19Jest8.1%92
20OAuth7.9%90