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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 77 74
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 -18
Contract jobs citing React 1,012 945 1,245
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.58% 3.03% 2.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.66% 13.54% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 705 1,014
10th Percentile £350 £356 £336
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.67% -2.70% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 16
10th Percentile £45.30 £26.25 £45.00
25th Percentile £53.55 £31.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £44.13 £72.13
90th Percentile - £59.29 £78.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +176.36% -57.03% -5.54%

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 8,680 6,977 9,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.17% 22.40% 20.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,773 4,435 6,507
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 88 188
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.35 £24.95
25th Percentile £50.06 £39.06 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £66.94
90th Percentile £82.35 £77.57 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -26 843 £513 -6.82% 764
London -30 484 £525 -10.26% 319
UK excluding London -18 386 £476 +5.67% 543
Work from Home -35 299 £513 +2.50% 463
North of England -8 139 £475 +5.56% 165
North West -2 78 £425 -5.56% 95
South East -36 65 £410 -25.45% 155
Scotland +9 54 £442 +0.28% 19
Yorkshire -25 52 £500 +1.27% 53
Midlands -48 52 £525 +5.00% 65
South West -7 41 £550 +22.22% 86
West Midlands -34 41 £525 +5.00% 25
East of England -15 33 £600 +62.71% 42
North East -8 12 £475 +26.67% 17
East Midlands -21 11 £550 +10.00% 40
Northern Ireland -5 6 - - 5
Wales +3 5 £331 -22.06% 10

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 42 (4.15%) CMS
2 24 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 17 (1.68%) Confluence
5 14 (1.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 13 (1.28%) Headless CMS
7 11 (1.09%) Apache
7 11 (1.09%) SAS
8 10 (0.99%) Camunda
9 9 (0.89%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.89%) Mendix
10 7 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.40%) IIS
13 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.30%) WordPress
14 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
15 1 (0.099%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 18 (1.78%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.89%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.69%) 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 (0.099%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.099%) Blender
6 1 (0.099%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.099%) InVision
6 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.49%) Shopify
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.099%) Endur
5 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 434 (42.89%) AWS
2 291 (28.75%) Azure
3 144 (14.23%) Serverless
4 132 (13.04%) GCP
4 132 (13.04%) GitHub
5 93 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 50 (4.94%) Amazon S3
9 44 (4.35%) Figma
10 33 (3.26%) SaaS
11 30 (2.96%) Azure Functions
12 27 (2.67%) npm
12 27 (2.67%) Power Platform
13 26 (2.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 26 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (2.57%) Entra ID
14 25 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (2.47%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.19%) Wireless
2 6 (0.59%) HTTP
3 5 (0.49%) DNS
3 5 (0.49%) Network Security
4 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.20%) VPN
7 1 (0.099%) Firewall
7 1 (0.099%) LAN
7 1 (0.099%) Multicast
7 1 (0.099%) RTMP
7 1 (0.099%) WAN
7 1 (0.099%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (8.60%) NoSQL
3 85 (8.40%) Relational Database
4 60 (5.93%) MySQL
5 58 (5.73%) SQL Server
6 53 (5.24%) MongoDB
7 27 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (2.17%) Power BI
8 22 (2.17%) Redis
9 18 (1.78%) DynamoDB
10 16 (1.58%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.48%) Oracle Database
12 11 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.99%) Big Data
13 10 (0.99%) Metadata
14 9 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 206 (20.36%) Git
2 73 (7.21%) Cypress.io
3 63 (6.23%) GitLab
3 63 (6.23%) Jenkins
4 53 (5.24%) JIRA
5 45 (4.45%) JUnit
6 26 (2.57%) Cucumber
7 23 (2.27%) Mockito
7 23 (2.27%) Selenium
8 22 (2.17%) webpack
9 21 (2.08%) Maven
10 17 (1.68%) Browser DevTools
11 16 (1.58%) Android Studio
11 16 (1.58%) Xcode
12 15 (1.48%) Eclipse
12 15 (1.48%) Storybook
13 14 (1.38%) Mocha
13 14 (1.38%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.28%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 217 (21.44%) Social Skills
2 169 (16.70%) Finance
3 132 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 77 (7.61%) Banking
5 47 (4.64%) Front Office
6 41 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.36%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.27%) Retail
9 17 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.09%) Marketing
10 11 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.79%) Health Technology
13 7 (0.69%) Publishing
13 7 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.49%) Games
14 5 (0.49%) Law
14 5 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.49%) Military
15 4 (0.40%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 607 (59.98%) Developer
2 212 (20.95%) Full-Stack Developer
3 164 (16.21%) Senior
4 130 (12.85%) React Developer
5 118 (11.66%) Software Engineer
6 111 (10.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 90 (8.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 86 (8.50%) Senior Developer
9 84 (8.30%) Java Developer
10 80 (7.91%) Python Developer
11 73 (7.21%) Lead
12 43 (4.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 35 (3.46%) Software Developer
14 34 (3.36%) Architect
15 32 (3.16%) Full-Stack Python Developer
16 30 (2.96%) AWS Developer
16 30 (2.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 28 (2.77%) Lead Developer
18 27 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
19 25 (2.47%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (29.64%) Node.js
2 290 (28.66%) AngularJS
3 253 (25.00%) CSS
4 229 (22.63%) HTML
5 194 (19.17%) RESTful
6 156 (15.42%) Spring
7 153 (15.12%) .NET
8 138 (13.64%) Spring Boot
9 132 (13.04%) REST
10 131 (12.94%) Next.js
11 108 (10.67%) Jest
12 101 (9.98%) Vue
13 94 (9.29%) Redux
14 89 (8.79%) GraphQL
15 73 (7.21%) HTML5
16 71 (7.02%) Kafka
17 66 (6.52%) Playwright
18 61 (6.03%) FastAPI
19 56 (5.53%) CSS3
20 48 (4.74%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.18%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.66%) Mobile App
4 36 (3.56%) Data Protection Act
5 28 (2.77%) AI Agents
6 20 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (1.88%) Derivative
8 18 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.48%) Fixed Income
9 15 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.19%) Equities
11 12 (1.19%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.09%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.99%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.99%) NHS
14 7 (0.69%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.04%) Linux
2 35 (3.46%) Unix
3 32 (3.16%) Windows
4 29 (2.87%) Android
5 16 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.40%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.099%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.099%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (45.65%) CI/CD
2 420 (41.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 409 (40.42%) Agile
4 302 (29.84%) DevOps
5 272 (26.88%) Microservices
6 225 (22.23%) Front End Development
7 218 (21.54%) Software Engineering
8 181 (17.89%) User Experience
9 165 (16.30%) Containerisation
10 164 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
11 163 (16.11%) AI
12 160 (15.81%) Test Automation
13 108 (10.67%) Clean Code
14 98 (9.68%) Scrum
15 97 (9.58%) Code Quality
16 91 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 84 (8.30%) TDD
18 79 (7.81%) Analytics
19 76 (7.51%) UX Design
20 75 (7.41%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 499 (49.31%) JavaScript
2 474 (46.84%) TypeScript
3 319 (31.52%) Python
4 303 (29.94%) Java
5 192 (18.97%) SQL
6 137 (13.54%) C#
7 24 (2.37%) Go
8 20 (1.98%) Bicep
8 20 (1.98%) Perl
9 19 (1.88%) C++
10 15 (1.48%) Ruby
11 14 (1.38%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.38%) Rust
12 9 (0.89%) Formula Language
12 9 (0.89%) LotusScript
13 8 (0.79%) JSX
13 8 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 192 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 161 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.43%) Degree
4 36 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.20%) OCP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.099%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (13.83%) Accessibility
2 74 (7.31%) WCAG
3 61 (6.03%) QA
4 7 (0.69%) GDPR
5 6 (0.59%) HL7
6 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.20%) NCSC
8 2 (0.20%) PMO
9 1 (0.099%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.099%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.099%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.099%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.099%) MiFID
9 1 (0.099%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.099%) PSD2
9 1 (0.099%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 246 (24.31%) Docker
2 22 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.099%) Varnish
4 1 (0.099%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 205 (20.26%) Kubernetes
2 117 (11.56%) Terraform
3 29 (2.87%) Grafana
4 23 (2.27%) Argo
5 15 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.19%) Ansible
6 12 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.09%) Kibana
8 9 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.69%) Istio
10 2 (0.20%) Nagios
10 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 2 (0.20%) Rancher
11 1 (0.099%) Consul
11 1 (0.099%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 111 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.32%) Oracle
3 48 (4.74%) Google
4 35 (3.46%) Adobe
4 35 (3.46%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.17%) Sitecore
6 20 (1.98%) Splunk
7 19 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.19%) Databricks
10 9 (0.89%) Kofax
10 9 (0.89%) Lotus
10 9 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.69%) SAP
12 6 (0.59%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.49%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.49%) Marketo
13 5 (0.49%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.49%) VMware
14 4 (0.40%) Xamarin