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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 78 74
Rank change year-on-year -22 -4 -17
Contract jobs citing React 1,053 928 1,227
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.59% 3.01% 2.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.66% 13.39% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 705 990
10th Percentile £357 £356 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.74% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 21
10th Percentile £43.55 £26.25 £50.00
25th Percentile £54.11 £31.50 £58.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £39.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.28% -40.46% -6.43%
75th Percentile £90.63 £44.13 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £59.29 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +176.36% -60.71% +6.87%

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 9,030 6,932 9,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.18% 22.50% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,041 4,493 6,378
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 84 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £23.88
25th Percentile £51.44 £39.06 £43.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +21.50% -17.69%

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 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 19 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 19 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 -21 879 £525 - 760
London -29 520 £550 -5.98% 373
UK excluding London -11 386 £500 +11.11% 491
Work from Home -42 327 £525 +3.14% 435
North of England -19 135 £475 +5.56% 153
North West +2 84 £438 -2.78% 87
South East -36 67 £450 -18.18% 141
Midlands -44 53 £550 +10.00% 66
Scotland +1 51 £438 -0.79% 20
Yorkshire -35 42 £500 +1.27% 47
South West -10 41 £540 +20.00% 66
West Midlands -40 41 £542 +11.08% 33
East of England -12 35 £600 +65.52% 32
North East -12 12 £475 +3.26% 19
East Midlands -22 11 £550 +10.00% 33
Northern Ireland 0 8 - - 4
Wales -4 5 £331 -22.06% 14

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 39 (3.70%) CMS
2 24 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (1.42%) Confluence
4 15 (1.42%) Sitecore CMS
5 14 (1.33%) Headless CMS
6 11 (1.04%) Apache
6 11 (1.04%) SAS
7 9 (0.85%) HCL Notes
7 9 (0.85%) Mendix
8 8 (0.76%) Camunda
9 7 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.47%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.38%) IIS
12 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.28%) WordPress
13 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
14 1 (0.095%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.095%) Traefik
Applications
1 18 (1.71%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.95%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.66%) Sketch
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.095%) Blender
5 1 (0.095%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.095%) InVision
5 1 (0.095%) Maya
5 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Shopify
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
4 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.095%) Endur
4 1 (0.095%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 475 (45.11%) AWS
2 304 (28.87%) Azure
3 143 (13.58%) GCP
4 139 (13.20%) GitHub
5 137 (13.01%) Serverless
6 93 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
7 90 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (4.75%) Amazon S3
10 40 (3.80%) Figma
11 31 (2.94%) SaaS
12 29 (2.75%) Azure Functions
12 29 (2.75%) Power Platform
13 28 (2.66%) npm
14 27 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
15 26 (2.47%) Entra ID
16 25 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
17 23 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.04%) Wireless
2 5 (0.47%) DNS
2 5 (0.47%) HTTP
2 5 (0.47%) Network Security
3 4 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.095%) Firewall
6 1 (0.095%) LAN
6 1 (0.095%) Multicast
6 1 (0.095%) RTMP
6 1 (0.095%) WAN
6 1 (0.095%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (9.12%) NoSQL
3 87 (8.26%) Relational Database
4 64 (6.08%) MySQL
5 63 (5.98%) MongoDB
6 62 (5.89%) SQL Server
7 25 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.28%) Redis
9 22 (2.09%) Power BI
10 21 (1.99%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (1.61%) Oracle Database
13 14 (1.33%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (1.04%) Metadata
16 10 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (0.95%) Big Data
17 8 (0.76%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 205 (19.47%) Git
2 73 (6.93%) Cypress.io
3 69 (6.55%) GitLab
4 67 (6.36%) Jenkins
5 55 (5.22%) JIRA
6 42 (3.99%) JUnit
7 24 (2.28%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.28%) Mockito
8 23 (2.18%) webpack
9 21 (1.99%) Maven
9 21 (1.99%) Selenium
10 16 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
11 15 (1.42%) Android Studio
11 15 (1.42%) Xcode
12 14 (1.33%) Eclipse
12 14 (1.33%) Mocha
12 14 (1.33%) SonarQube
12 14 (1.33%) Vite
13 13 (1.23%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.23%) Storybook
General
1 221 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 194 (18.42%) Finance
3 129 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 81 (7.69%) Banking
5 68 (6.46%) Front Office
6 42 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 19 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.33%) Retail
10 13 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.04%) Marketing
12 10 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.66%) Publishing
14 7 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.57%) Games
16 5 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.38%) Legal
17 4 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 634 (60.21%) Developer
2 216 (20.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 168 (15.95%) Senior
4 145 (13.77%) React Developer
5 140 (13.30%) Software Engineer
6 111 (10.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 103 (9.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 93 (8.83%) Lead
9 86 (8.17%) Senior Developer
10 83 (7.88%) Java Developer
11 82 (7.79%) Python Developer
12 44 (4.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 42 (3.99%) Lead Developer
14 41 (3.89%) Architect
15 39 (3.70%) Software Developer
16 33 (3.13%) AWS Developer
17 32 (3.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 31 (2.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 30 (2.85%) Full-Stack Python Developer
20 29 (2.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (30.29%) Node.js
2 297 (28.21%) AngularJS
3 252 (23.93%) CSS
4 223 (21.18%) HTML
5 190 (18.04%) RESTful
6 159 (15.10%) .NET
6 159 (15.10%) Spring
7 138 (13.11%) REST
8 136 (12.92%) Spring Boot
9 123 (11.68%) Next.js
10 116 (11.02%) Redux
11 114 (10.83%) Vue
12 109 (10.35%) Jest
13 105 (9.97%) GraphQL
14 89 (8.45%) Kafka
15 69 (6.55%) HTML5
16 62 (5.89%) FastAPI
17 60 (5.70%) Playwright
18 55 (5.22%) CSS3
19 50 (4.75%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 110 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 81 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
3 36 (3.42%) Mobile App
4 34 (3.23%) Fixed Income
5 27 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 24 (2.28%) Derivative
7 23 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 22 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.52%) Equities
13 15 (1.42%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.33%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.04%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.95%) NHS
17 8 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.94%) Linux
2 34 (3.23%) Unix
2 34 (3.23%) Windows
3 31 (2.94%) Android
4 19 (1.80%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.38%) CentOS
7 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.095%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (45.20%) CI/CD
2 446 (42.36%) Agile
3 441 (41.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 312 (29.63%) DevOps
5 272 (25.83%) Microservices
6 244 (23.17%) Software Engineering
7 237 (22.51%) Front End Development
8 179 (17.00%) User Experience
9 178 (16.90%) AI
10 168 (15.95%) Containerisation
11 166 (15.76%) Test Automation
12 165 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
13 106 (10.07%) Clean Code
14 99 (9.40%) Code Quality
14 99 (9.40%) Scrum
15 91 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 86 (8.17%) TDD
17 82 (7.79%) Machine Learning
18 79 (7.50%) Mentoring
19 78 (7.41%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 532 (50.52%) JavaScript
2 502 (47.67%) TypeScript
3 353 (33.52%) Python
4 318 (30.20%) Java
5 193 (18.33%) SQL
6 143 (13.58%) C#
7 42 (3.99%) Go
8 19 (1.80%) Perl
9 18 (1.71%) C++
10 16 (1.52%) Bicep
11 14 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.33%) Ruby
12 13 (1.23%) Rust
13 9 (0.85%) Formula Language
13 9 (0.85%) LotusScript
14 8 (0.76%) JSX
14 8 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.66%) Bash
15 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 198 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 170 (16.14%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.08%) Degree
4 40 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.28%) PhD
12 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.19%) OCP
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.095%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.095%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.095%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (13.87%) Accessibility
2 75 (7.12%) WCAG
3 62 (5.89%) QA
4 7 (0.66%) GDPR
4 7 (0.66%) HL7
5 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.19%) NCSC
7 2 (0.19%) PMO
7 2 (0.19%) PSD2
8 1 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.095%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.095%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.095%) MiFID
8 1 (0.095%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.095%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 248 (23.55%) Docker
2 20 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.095%) Varnish
4 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.095%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 211 (20.04%) Kubernetes
2 123 (11.68%) Terraform
3 31 (2.94%) Grafana
4 24 (2.28%) Argo
5 17 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.23%) Ansible
7 12 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (0.85%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) Istio
10 2 (0.19%) Nagios
10 2 (0.19%) Podman
10 2 (0.19%) Rancher
11 1 (0.095%) Consul
11 1 (0.095%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 104 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.98%) Oracle
3 47 (4.46%) Google
4 35 (3.32%) Adobe
5 34 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 23 (2.18%) Sitecore
7 19 (1.80%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.80%) Splunk
8 14 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.14%) Databricks
10 9 (0.85%) Kofax
10 9 (0.85%) Lotus
11 8 (0.76%) SAP
12 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.47%) Marketo
13 5 (0.47%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.47%) Pega
13 5 (0.47%) VMware
14 4 (0.38%) Apple
14 4 (0.38%) Brio