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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 70 66
Rank change year-on-year -58 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing React 1,146 1,133 1,221
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 3.46% 3.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.76% 13.63% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 804 942
10th Percentile £363 £358 £325
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.72% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 9
10th Percentile £53.23 £54.57 £37.25
25th Percentile £69.50 £60.06 £55.00
Median hourly rate £74.00 £66.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% +18.22% -24.50%
75th Percentile £79.50 £67.00 £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 11,743 8,312 9,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.92% 25.36% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,724 5,611 6,463
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £634 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 184 227
10th Percentile £29.54 £30.08 £22.50
25th Percentile £47.60 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -4.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +4.35%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -59 954 £545 +4.81% 438
London -46 574 £575 -4.17% 162
UK excluding London -50 435 £494 +9.72% 356
Work from Home -71 346 £527 +0.38% 283
North of England -41 160 £500 +14.94% 102
Yorkshire -1 87 £500 +25.00% 27
Scotland -14 80 £377 -19.36% 11
South West -20 68 £525 +23.53% 69
South East -78 68 £525 +23.53% 90
North West -49 59 £500 +10.01% 65
Midlands -45 43 £460 -0.27% 52
West Midlands -41 36 £475 -7.32% 26
East of England -18 15 £625 +40.45% 22
North East -27 14 £500 +7.53% 12
East Midlands -25 6 £433 +17.73% 26
Northern Ireland +4 3 £190 -53.37% 2
Wales -22 2 £469 +2.18% 11
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 34 (2.97%) Confluence
3 16 (1.40%) SharePoint Server
4 14 (1.22%) CMS
5 9 (0.79%) Camunda
5 9 (0.79%) nginx
6 6 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.44%) Headless CMS
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%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.087%) Kentico
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
1 453 (39.53%) AWS
2 319 (27.84%) Azure
3 135 (11.78%) GitHub
4 132 (11.52%) Serverless
5 129 (11.26%) GCP
6 83 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
7 82 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
8 62 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 62 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (4.97%) Power Platform
10 45 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (3.84%) Figma
12 40 (3.49%) PowerApps
13 39 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
13 39 (3.40%) Power Automate
14 38 (3.32%) OpenShift
15 34 (2.97%) Entra ID
16 31 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
18 27 (2.36%) 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%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.087%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (7.24%) Relational Database
3 77 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 73 (6.37%) NoSQL
5 68 (5.93%) MongoDB
6 43 (3.75%) MySQL
7 41 (3.58%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
9 37 (3.23%) Power BI
10 32 (2.79%) Redis
11 16 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (0.96%) Metadata
14 11 (0.96%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.87%) Neo4j
16 7 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
17 6 (0.52%) BigQuery
18 5 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 223 (19.46%) Git
2 132 (11.52%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.85%) JIRA
4 63 (5.50%) GitLab
5 53 (4.62%) Cypress.io
6 52 (4.54%) Gradle
7 47 (4.10%) JUnit
8 33 (2.88%) Vite
9 30 (2.62%) Maven
10 27 (2.36%) Mockito
11 21 (1.83%) Claude Code
12 18 (1.57%) webpack
13 17 (1.48%) Cucumber
13 17 (1.48%) Liquibase
14 16 (1.40%) Bitbucket
15 15 (1.31%) Storybook
16 14 (1.22%) REST Assured
16 14 (1.22%) SonarQube
17 13 (1.13%) Selenium
18 12 (1.05%) Postman
General
1 235 (20.51%) Finance
2 223 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 142 (12.39%) Banking
4 134 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 97 (8.46%) Front Office
6 62 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 49 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (3.58%) Retail
9 29 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.75%) 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 (0.79%) Marketing
14 9 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.70%) Back Office
15 8 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 622 (54.28%) Developer
2 239 (20.86%) Senior
3 195 (17.02%) Full-Stack Developer
4 157 (13.70%) React Developer
5 149 (13.00%) Software Engineer
6 133 (11.61%) Java Developer
6 133 (11.61%) Senior Developer
7 128 (11.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 117 (10.21%) Lead
9 88 (7.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 63 (5.50%) Python Developer
11 53 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
12 52 (4.54%) Senior React Developer
13 49 (4.28%) UI Developer
14 44 (3.84%) Lead Developer
15 43 (3.75%) Software Developer
16 42 (3.66%) Architect
17 38 (3.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 36 (3.14%) Technical Leader
19 34 (2.97%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (25.48%) Node.js
2 273 (23.82%) REST
3 226 (19.72%) CSS
4 207 (18.06%) HTML
5 174 (15.18%) Redux
6 170 (14.83%) .NET
7 167 (14.57%) RESTful
8 163 (14.22%) Spring
9 160 (13.96%) AngularJS
10 153 (13.35%) Spring Boot
11 144 (12.57%) Kafka
12 140 (12.22%) Next.js
13 127 (11.08%) Terraform
14 99 (8.64%) HTML5
15 98 (8.55%) GraphQL
16 93 (8.12%) Vue
17 84 (7.33%) Jest
18 82 (7.16%) CSS3
19 76 (6.63%) Playwright
20 58 (5.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 171 (14.92%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.54%) Fixed Income
2 75 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 62 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 57 (4.97%) Greenfield Project
6 44 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (3.49%) AI Agents
7 40 (3.49%) Equities
8 30 (2.62%) Data Structures
8 30 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (2.53%) Derivative
10 24 (2.09%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (0.96%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.87%) Autonomous Agent
14 10 (0.87%) Mobile App
14 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
1 548 (47.82%) CI/CD
2 495 (43.19%) Agile
3 474 (41.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 306 (26.70%) Software Engineering
5 297 (25.92%) Microservices
6 286 (24.96%) DevOps
7 219 (19.11%) Front End Development
8 211 (18.41%) AI
9 210 (18.32%) Test Automation
10 177 (15.45%) Containerisation
11 152 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
12 148 (12.91%) User Experience
13 129 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 126 (10.99%) Event-Driven
15 124 (10.82%) TDD
16 119 (10.38%) Code Quality
17 117 (10.21%) Mentoring
18 116 (10.12%) Scrum
19 112 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
20 102 (8.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 647 (56.46%) TypeScript
2 557 (48.60%) JavaScript
3 369 (32.20%) Java
4 323 (28.18%) Python
5 237 (20.68%) SQL
6 189 (16.49%) C#
7 46 (4.01%) Go
8 32 (2.79%) PL/SQL
9 22 (1.92%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.57%) Bash
11 14 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.87%) Rust
14 9 (0.79%) C++
14 9 (0.79%) PHP
15 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.61%) Ruby
15 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.44%) Bicep
16 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 204 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 174 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 63 (5.50%) Degree
4 47 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.087%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.087%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (13.00%) Accessibility
2 81 (7.07%) QA
3 74 (6.46%) WCAG
4 9 (0.79%) 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
1 247 (21.55%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 216 (18.85%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.05%) Grafana
3 30 (2.62%) Ansible
4 17 (1.48%) Argo
5 16 (1.40%) Control-M
6 15 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.61%) Istio
9 6 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.44%) Kibana
11 3 (0.26%) Podman
12 1 (0.087%) Nagios
12 1 (0.087%) QRadar
12 1 (0.087%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (7.24%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.11%) Oracle
3 46 (4.01%) Google
4 27 (2.36%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.83%) Databricks
6 21 (1.83%) MuleSoft
7 18 (1.57%) Splunk
8 15 (1.31%) 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%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.35%) Apple
14 4 (0.35%) Foundry
14 4 (0.35%) Red Hat