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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 73 68
Rank change year-on-year -64 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing React 1,117 1,121 1,219
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.04% 3.40% 3.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.40% 13.16% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 793 927
10th Percentile £363 £358 £337
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £49.15 £54.57 £38.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 £66.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +20.91% -26.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £79.60 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +7.46% - -9.46%

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 11,886 8,520 9,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.67% 25.86% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,817 5,696 6,345
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £437 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £635 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 187 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.20 £74.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +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 19 September 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 September 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 September 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 -65 939 £537 +2.33% 1,959
London -51 550 £575 -4.17% 1,228
UK excluding London -63 440 £475 +5.56% 916
Work from Home -74 323 £525 - 953
North of England -43 165 £500 +17.65% 269
Yorkshire +2 85 £500 +25.00% 62
Scotland -23 74 £377 -18.49% 102
North West -53 69 £500 +16.28% 174
South West -22 67 £525 +2.44% 127
South East -78 60 £438 +2.94% 179
Midlands -31 58 £464 -2.40% 109
West Midlands -24 51 £464 -10.84% 67
East of England -31 15 £625 +40.45% 58
North East -44 11 £500 +7.53% 35
East Midlands -21 7 £433 +16.62% 42
Northern Ireland +3 2 £190 - 50
Wales -14 2 £469 -9.64% 26
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 36 (3.22%) Confluence
2 32 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.43%) Camunda
4 14 (1.25%) CMS
5 12 (1.07%) SharePoint Server
6 11 (0.98%) nginx
7 6 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.54%) WordPress
8 5 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.45%) Apache
8 5 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.45%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.27%) IIS
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.27%) Sketch
3 1 (0.090%) Blender
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.090%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.90%) SAP CRM
2 6 (0.54%) Shopify
3 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.090%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 417 (37.33%) AWS
2 295 (26.41%) Azure
3 138 (12.35%) GitHub
4 127 (11.37%) Serverless
5 119 (10.65%) GCP
6 83 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
8 68 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
9 60 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 51 (4.57%) Power Platform
11 50 (4.48%) Figma
11 50 (4.48%) OpenShift
12 43 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
13 32 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
14 31 (2.78%) PowerApps
15 30 (2.69%) Power Automate
16 29 (2.60%) Entra ID
17 27 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.90%) Firewall
2 8 (0.72%) DNS
3 7 (0.63%) HTTP
4 6 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.45%) VPN
6 4 (0.36%) Intranet
7 2 (0.18%) DSL
8 1 (0.090%) CTI
8 1 (0.090%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.090%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.090%) Internet
8 1 (0.090%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.090%) MQTT
8 1 (0.090%) Network Security
8 1 (0.090%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (13.52%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (7.88%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.89%) Relational Database
4 75 (6.71%) NoSQL
5 71 (6.36%) MongoDB
6 58 (5.19%) MySQL
7 42 (3.76%) DynamoDB
8 41 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
9 34 (3.04%) Power BI
10 27 (2.42%) Redis
11 18 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (0.98%) Metadata
15 10 (0.90%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.72%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.54%) Neo4j
18 5 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
18 5 (0.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 236 (21.13%) Git
2 138 (12.35%) Jenkins
3 76 (6.80%) GitLab
4 65 (5.82%) JIRA
5 59 (5.28%) Gradle
6 52 (4.66%) JUnit
7 50 (4.48%) Cypress.io
8 45 (4.03%) Maven
9 35 (3.13%) Vite
10 30 (2.69%) Mockito
11 25 (2.24%) Storybook
12 24 (2.15%) SonarQube
13 23 (2.06%) Cucumber
14 22 (1.97%) Claude Code
15 20 (1.79%) webpack
16 19 (1.70%) Bitbucket
16 19 (1.70%) REST Assured
17 18 (1.61%) Selenium
18 13 (1.16%) Liquibase
19 11 (0.98%) Postman
General
1 240 (21.49%) Finance
2 231 (20.68%) Social Skills
3 159 (14.23%) Banking
4 120 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.27%) Front Office
6 59 (5.28%) Investment Banking
7 55 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (3.85%) Retail
9 30 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.25%) Law
12 13 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.90%) Back Office
13 10 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.90%) Marketing
13 10 (0.90%) Military
13 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.72%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 596 (53.36%) Developer
2 234 (20.95%) Senior
3 186 (16.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 157 (14.06%) React Developer
5 135 (12.09%) Java Developer
6 134 (12.00%) Senior Developer
7 127 (11.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 123 (11.01%) Software Engineer
9 97 (8.68%) Lead
10 96 (8.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 58 (5.19%) Python Developer
12 55 (4.92%) Senior React Developer
13 51 (4.57%) Senior Java Developer
13 51 (4.57%) UI Developer
14 40 (3.58%) Software Developer
15 38 (3.40%) Architect
15 38 (3.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 38 (3.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 36 (3.22%) Technical Leader
17 35 (3.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (25.87%) Node.js
2 286 (25.60%) REST
3 243 (21.75%) CSS
4 233 (20.86%) HTML
5 173 (15.49%) Spring
6 168 (15.04%) .NET
7 166 (14.86%) RESTful
8 161 (14.41%) Spring Boot
9 160 (14.32%) Redux
10 150 (13.43%) AngularJS
11 137 (12.26%) Next.js
12 132 (11.82%) Kafka
13 125 (11.19%) Terraform
14 116 (10.38%) HTML5
15 94 (8.42%) GraphQL
16 92 (8.24%) CSS3
17 87 (7.79%) Jest
18 86 (7.70%) Playwright
18 86 (7.70%) Vue
19 80 (7.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 171 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 85 (7.61%) Product Ownership
3 62 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 55 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
6 53 (4.74%) Fixed Income
7 49 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.58%) AI Agents
9 33 (2.95%) Data Structures
10 32 (2.86%) Equities
11 31 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (2.15%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.52%) Derivative
15 16 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.43%) Onboarding
16 14 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
17 11 (0.98%) Autonomous Agent
18 10 (0.90%) Mobile App
19 9 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.51%) Linux
2 15 (1.34%) Windows
3 8 (0.72%) Unix
4 5 (0.45%) Android
4 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.090%) AIX
7 1 (0.090%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (48.97%) CI/CD
2 481 (43.06%) Agile
3 461 (41.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 292 (26.14%) Microservices
5 288 (25.78%) DevOps
6 284 (25.43%) Software Engineering
7 233 (20.86%) Front End Development
8 224 (20.05%) Test Automation
9 212 (18.98%) AI
10 172 (15.40%) Containerisation
11 162 (14.50%) User Experience
12 161 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
13 144 (12.89%) Event-Driven
14 140 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 132 (11.82%) Scrum
16 126 (11.28%) Mentoring
17 121 (10.83%) Code Quality
17 121 (10.83%) TDD
18 115 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
19 112 (10.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 637 (57.03%) TypeScript
2 566 (50.67%) JavaScript
3 383 (34.29%) Java
4 306 (27.39%) Python
5 246 (22.02%) SQL
6 175 (15.67%) C#
7 42 (3.76%) Go
8 34 (3.04%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.79%) Bash
11 14 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.90%) Rust
12 10 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.81%) PHP
14 8 (0.72%) C++
15 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.63%) Bicep
15 7 (0.63%) Ruby
15 7 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 192 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 157 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 73 (6.54%) Degree
4 52 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.090%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.090%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (13.88%) Accessibility
2 89 (7.97%) QA
3 87 (7.79%) WCAG
4 8 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.27%) HL7
7 2 (0.18%) GDPR
7 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
7 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.090%) GRC
8 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 239 (21.40%) Docker
2 3 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.090%) Varnish
3 1 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 229 (20.50%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.40%) Grafana
3 32 (2.86%) Ansible
4 19 (1.70%) Argo
5 17 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.43%) Control-M
7 9 (0.81%) Kibana
8 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.63%) Istio
9 7 (0.63%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.27%) Podman
11 1 (0.090%) Nagios
11 1 (0.090%) QRadar
11 1 (0.090%) systemd
Vendors
1 89 (7.97%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.89%) Oracle
3 48 (4.30%) Google
4 24 (2.15%) Databricks
5 23 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.79%) MuleSoft
6 20 (1.79%) Splunk
7 18 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.34%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.34%) SAP
9 10 (0.90%) Adobe
10 9 (0.81%) IBM
11 8 (0.72%) Conga
11 8 (0.72%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.72%) Veracode
12 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.63%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.63%) Solace
13 6 (0.54%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.54%) Okta