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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 69 69
Rank change year-on-year -37 0 -4
Contract jobs citing React 1,225 1,112 1,309
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.32% 3.43% 3.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.87% 15.17% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 814 1,030
10th Percentile £370 £354 £350
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -8.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £688
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 22
10th Percentile £51.65 £58.38 £41.50
25th Percentile £61.88 £62.69 £55.31
Median hourly rate £76.00 £66.50 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £92.50 £67.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year +13.43% -2.19% +9.60%

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 10,322 7,330 9,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.52% 22.59% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,766 4,948 6,332
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £761 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 159 280
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.21 £22.73
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +0.67% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -35 1,012 £550 +4.76% 438
London -39 610 £575 -2.13% 174
UK excluding London -37 446 £500 +11.11% 344
Work from Home -43 414 £550 +4.76% 248
North of England -18 161 £523 +14.96% 111
North West -33 81 £500 +11.11% 54
South East -61 78 £525 +12.90% 102
Scotland +2 73 £405 -14.74% 15
Yorkshire -3 71 £523 +16.11% 43
South West -1 65 £525 +23.53% 26
Midlands -54 38 £475 +9.20% 43
West Midlands -55 31 £488 - 21
East of England -17 28 £600 +47.24% 24
North East -31 9 £450 -2.70% 15
Northern Ireland +8 6 £190 -41.54% 12
East Midlands -28 5 £443 +20.24% 22
Wales -18 1 £525 +32.91% 16

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 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.53%) Confluence
3 24 (1.96%) CMS
4 15 (1.22%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.73%) Camunda
5 9 (0.73%) nginx
5 9 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.57%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.41%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.16%) Apache
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Kentico
10 2 (0.16%) Mendix
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.082%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.41%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.082%) Blender
3 1 (0.082%) Maya
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.082%) Sketch
3 1 (0.082%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.14%) Shopify
2 9 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.57%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.24%) Magento
4 3 (0.24%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.082%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.082%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 483 (39.43%) AWS
2 350 (28.57%) Azure
3 141 (11.51%) GCP
4 130 (10.61%) Serverless
5 124 (10.12%) GitHub
6 85 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
8 79 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
9 64 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 59 (4.82%) Power Platform
11 52 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (4.00%) Figma
13 38 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (3.02%) Power Automate
14 37 (3.02%) PowerApps
15 35 (2.86%) Entra ID
16 32 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
17 30 (2.45%) SaaS
18 25 (2.04%) OpenShift
19 24 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.49%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.16%) DSL
4 2 (0.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.082%) CTI
5 1 (0.082%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.082%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.082%) MQTT
5 1 (0.082%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (7.92%) Relational Database
3 93 (7.59%) SQL Server
4 76 (6.20%) NoSQL
5 62 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 56 (4.57%) MySQL
7 46 (3.76%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (3.10%) Power BI
9 31 (2.53%) Redis
10 14 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (0.82%) Metadata
12 10 (0.82%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.73%) Neo4j
13 9 (0.73%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.65%) Big Data
14 8 (0.65%) Db2
Development Applications
1 184 (15.02%) Git
2 114 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 68 (5.55%) JIRA
4 64 (5.22%) GitLab
5 51 (4.16%) Cypress.io
6 40 (3.27%) JUnit
7 39 (3.18%) Gradle
8 36 (2.94%) Vite
9 24 (1.96%) Mockito
10 23 (1.88%) webpack
11 19 (1.55%) Maven
12 16 (1.31%) Liquibase
12 16 (1.31%) Postman
12 16 (1.31%) Storybook
13 15 (1.22%) Claude Code
13 15 (1.22%) Cucumber
13 15 (1.22%) REST Assured
14 14 (1.14%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.82%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 272 (22.20%) Finance
2 223 (18.20%) Social Skills
3 150 (12.24%) Banking
4 124 (10.12%) Front Office
5 122 (9.96%) Public Sector
6 67 (5.47%) Investment Banking
7 50 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 34 (2.78%) Retail
9 23 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.90%) Law
13 10 (0.82%) Legal
13 10 (0.82%) Military
14 7 (0.57%) Marketing
15 6 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.49%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.41%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 697 (56.90%) Developer
2 232 (18.94%) Senior
3 217 (17.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 187 (15.27%) React Developer
5 172 (14.04%) Software Engineer
6 146 (11.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 133 (10.86%) Lead
8 132 (10.78%) Java Developer
8 132 (10.78%) Senior Developer
9 97 (7.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 75 (6.12%) Python Developer
11 61 (4.98%) Lead Developer
12 56 (4.57%) Architect
12 56 (4.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 53 (4.33%) Senior React Developer
13 53 (4.33%) UI Developer
14 50 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
15 46 (3.76%) Java Engineer
16 43 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
17 42 (3.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (27.18%) Node.js
2 237 (19.35%) REST
3 224 (18.29%) CSS
4 210 (17.14%) Redux
5 205 (16.73%) HTML
6 196 (16.00%) .NET
7 194 (15.84%) AngularJS
8 177 (14.45%) RESTful
9 163 (13.31%) Spring
10 150 (12.24%) Spring Boot
11 140 (11.43%) Kafka
12 130 (10.61%) GraphQL
13 123 (10.04%) Next.js
14 100 (8.16%) Vue
15 95 (7.76%) HTML5
16 91 (7.43%) Jest
17 74 (6.04%) CSS3
18 69 (5.63%) Playwright
19 61 (4.98%) FastAPI
20 57 (4.65%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 165 (13.47%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.67%) Fixed Income
3 81 (6.61%) Product Ownership
4 66 (5.39%) Greenfield Project
5 60 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 54 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (4.00%) Equities
8 48 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (3.27%) Derivative
10 37 (3.02%) AI Agents
11 34 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.80%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.39%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.98%) Onboarding
16 12 (0.98%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.90%) Mobile App
18 10 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
19 9 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.20%) Linux
2 12 (0.98%) Android
3 11 (0.90%) Windows
4 9 (0.73%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.73%) Unix
5 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 504 (41.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 502 (40.98%) Agile
4 315 (25.71%) DevOps
5 311 (25.39%) Software Engineering
6 296 (24.16%) Microservices
7 251 (20.49%) Front End Development
8 210 (17.14%) AI
9 209 (17.06%) Test Automation
10 172 (14.04%) Containerisation
11 152 (12.41%) User Experience
12 142 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
13 125 (10.20%) Code Quality
14 111 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (9.06%) Event-Driven
14 111 (9.06%) Scrum
15 109 (8.90%) Mentoring
15 109 (8.90%) TDD
16 97 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 91 (7.43%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 681 (55.59%) TypeScript
2 574 (46.86%) JavaScript
3 384 (31.35%) Java
4 371 (30.29%) Python
5 233 (19.02%) SQL
6 209 (17.06%) C#
7 66 (5.39%) Go
8 29 (2.37%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.31%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.98%) Bash
12 10 (0.82%) Rust
13 8 (0.65%) C++
13 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.57%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.57%) Scala
15 6 (0.49%) Bicep
16 4 (0.33%) Perl
16 4 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 208 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 179 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 70 (5.71%) Degree
4 57 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.49%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.33%) PhD
13 2 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.082%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.082%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.082%) CISSP
14 1 (0.082%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.082%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (12.98%) Accessibility
2 80 (6.53%) QA
3 77 (6.29%) WCAG
4 6 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.49%) GDPR
5 4 (0.33%) HL7
6 3 (0.24%) PSD2
7 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.082%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.082%) GRC
7 1 (0.082%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.082%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 248 (20.24%) Docker
2 6 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 211 (17.22%) Kubernetes
2 122 (9.96%) Terraform
3 25 (2.04%) Grafana
4 20 (1.63%) Ansible
5 16 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.06%) Argo
7 11 (0.90%) Control-M
8 8 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.41%) Istio
10 3 (0.24%) Nagios
10 3 (0.24%) Podman
11 2 (0.16%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.47%) Oracle
3 47 (3.84%) Google
4 30 (2.45%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.47%) Databricks
6 17 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.22%) Sitecore
8 13 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 12 (0.98%) SAP
10 10 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.82%) Splunk
11 9 (0.73%) Solace
12 8 (0.65%) Adobe
12 8 (0.65%) Conga
12 8 (0.65%) GoCardless
13 6 (0.49%) Pega
14 5 (0.41%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.33%) Apple
15 4 (0.33%) Netlify
15 4 (0.33%) Red Hat