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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 69 65
Rank change year-on-year -60 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing React 1,142 1,130 1,203
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 3.43% 3.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.29% 15.36% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 808 937
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 £660 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 11
10th Percentile £53.23 £59.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £69.50 £63.63 £55.63
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% - -10.07%
75th Percentile £79.50 - £72.19
90th Percentile £91.50 - £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +10.45% - +8.06%

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 10,111 7,358 8,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 22.35% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,580 4,929 5,791
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £748 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 176 243
10th Percentile £28.07 £29.63 £22.96
25th Percentile £41.30 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -1.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 14 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 14 August 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 14 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 -56 954 £541 +4.09% 1,442
London -44 574 £575 -3.16% 941
UK excluding London -53 429 £500 +11.11% 643
Work from Home -64 347 £533 +1.43% 648
North of England -26 167 £500 +11.11% 188
Yorkshire +5 89 £500 +25.00% 41
Scotland -9 77 £377 -19.36% 80
South East -82 68 £525 +20.00% 126
North West -41 64 £500 +8.17% 128
South West -20 62 £525 +27.27% 92
Midlands -45 41 £460 -0.27% 84
West Midlands -44 34 £468 -8.78% 49
East of England -21 15 £625 +40.45% 37
North East -35 14 £500 +7.53% 21
East Midlands -28 5 £443 +20.24% 35
Northern Ireland +7 3 £190 -47.77% 17
Wales -22 1 £525 +14.44% 22

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 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.54%) Confluence
3 16 (1.40%) CMS
3 16 (1.40%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (0.79%) nginx
5 8 (0.70%) Camunda
6 7 (0.61%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.44%) WordPress
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.088%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.088%) Moodle
12 1 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Sketch
4 1 (0.088%) Blender
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.088%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Shopify
2 10 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.79%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Magento
4 3 (0.26%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.18%) Endur
6 1 (0.088%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.088%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 441 (38.62%) AWS
2 320 (28.02%) Azure
3 134 (11.73%) GitHub
4 130 (11.38%) Serverless
5 126 (11.03%) GCP
6 81 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
9 61 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.99%) Power Platform
11 45 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (3.68%) Figma
13 39 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
14 38 (3.33%) Power Automate
14 38 (3.33%) PowerApps
15 35 (3.06%) Entra ID
15 35 (3.06%) OpenShift
16 30 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
18 27 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.88%) Firewall
2 7 (0.61%) DNS
3 6 (0.53%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) Intranet
4 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
7 1 (0.088%) CTI
7 1 (0.088%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.088%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.088%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.01%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (7.01%) Relational Database
2 80 (7.01%) SQL Server
3 72 (6.30%) NoSQL
4 66 (5.78%) MongoDB
5 43 (3.77%) MySQL
6 39 (3.42%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 38 (3.33%) Power BI
8 27 (2.36%) Redis
9 16 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (0.96%) Metadata
12 10 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (0.88%) Neo4j
12 10 (0.88%) RDBMS
13 9 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.53%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 211 (18.48%) Git
2 128 (11.21%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.60%) GitLab
4 61 (5.34%) JIRA
5 54 (4.73%) Cypress.io
6 51 (4.47%) Gradle
7 48 (4.20%) JUnit
8 33 (2.89%) Vite
9 29 (2.54%) Maven
10 28 (2.45%) Mockito
11 21 (1.84%) Claude Code
11 21 (1.84%) webpack
12 17 (1.49%) Cucumber
12 17 (1.49%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.40%) Storybook
14 14 (1.23%) Bitbucket
14 14 (1.23%) REST Assured
15 13 (1.14%) SonarQube
16 12 (1.05%) Postman
17 11 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 239 (20.93%) Finance
2 217 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 146 (12.78%) Banking
4 131 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 96 (8.41%) Front Office
6 62 (5.43%) Investment Banking
7 52 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (3.50%) Retail
9 27 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.14%) Law
13 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.88%) Military
14 10 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.79%) Marketing
16 8 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.70%) Legal
16 8 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 621 (54.38%) Developer
2 243 (21.28%) Senior
3 196 (17.16%) Full-Stack Developer
4 160 (14.01%) React Developer
5 150 (13.13%) Software Engineer
6 137 (12.00%) Senior Developer
7 133 (11.65%) Java Developer
8 127 (11.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 114 (9.98%) Lead
10 86 (7.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 60 (5.25%) Python Developer
12 53 (4.64%) Senior Java Developer
13 52 (4.55%) Senior React Developer
14 49 (4.29%) UI Developer
15 45 (3.94%) Architect
15 45 (3.94%) Lead Developer
16 43 (3.77%) Software Developer
17 38 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 36 (3.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
19 33 (2.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (25.74%) Node.js
2 265 (23.20%) REST
3 214 (18.74%) CSS
4 196 (17.16%) HTML
5 176 (15.41%) Redux
6 173 (15.15%) .NET
7 163 (14.27%) RESTful
8 162 (14.19%) AngularJS
9 156 (13.66%) Spring
10 146 (12.78%) Spring Boot
11 142 (12.43%) Kafka
12 128 (11.21%) Next.js
13 99 (8.67%) GraphQL
14 96 (8.41%) HTML5
15 91 (7.97%) Vue
16 87 (7.62%) Jest
17 79 (6.92%) CSS3
18 74 (6.48%) Playwright
19 58 (5.08%) OAuth
20 54 (4.73%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 169 (14.80%) Cloud Native
2 74 (6.48%) Fixed Income
3 70 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 62 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 59 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 59 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
6 44 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (3.42%) Equities
8 38 (3.33%) AI Agents
9 32 (2.80%) Data Structures
10 31 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (2.54%) Derivative
12 26 (2.28%) Algorithms
13 24 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.96%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.88%) Autonomous Agent
16 10 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.88%) Mobile App
16 10 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.93%) Linux
2 12 (1.05%) Windows
3 5 (0.44%) Unix
4 4 (0.35%) Android
4 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (46.94%) CI/CD
2 488 (42.73%) Agile
3 474 (41.51%) Full-Stack Development
4 297 (26.01%) Software Engineering
5 291 (25.48%) Microservices
6 285 (24.96%) DevOps
7 216 (18.91%) Front End Development
8 211 (18.48%) AI
9 199 (17.43%) Test Automation
10 172 (15.06%) Containerisation
11 151 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
12 136 (11.91%) User Experience
13 127 (11.12%) TDD
14 126 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 120 (10.51%) Event-Driven
16 119 (10.42%) Code Quality
17 114 (9.98%) Scrum
18 113 (9.89%) Mentoring
19 109 (9.54%) Infrastructure as Code
20 98 (8.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 640 (56.04%) TypeScript
2 550 (48.16%) JavaScript
3 365 (31.96%) Java
4 327 (28.63%) Python
5 229 (20.05%) SQL
6 193 (16.90%) C#
7 46 (4.03%) Go
8 33 (2.89%) PL/SQL
9 23 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.40%) Bash
11 14 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.88%) PHP
13 10 (0.88%) Rust
14 9 (0.79%) C++
15 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.53%) Bicep
16 6 (0.53%) Ruby
16 6 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 198 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 171 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.17%) Degree
4 46 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.96%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.088%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.088%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.088%) PhD
14 1 (0.088%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (12.96%) Accessibility
2 74 (6.48%) QA
2 74 (6.48%) WCAG
3 8 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.44%) GDPR
5 4 (0.35%) HL7
6 3 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.26%) PSD2
7 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.088%) GRC
7 1 (0.088%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.088%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 239 (20.93%) Docker
2 6 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.088%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 213 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 131 (11.47%) Terraform
3 30 (2.63%) Ansible
4 29 (2.54%) Grafana
5 17 (1.49%) Argo
6 16 (1.40%) Control-M
7 14 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.53%) Istio
9 6 (0.53%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.44%) Kibana
11 3 (0.26%) Podman
12 1 (0.088%) Nagios
12 1 (0.088%) Rancher
Vendors
1 79 (6.92%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.04%) Oracle
3 46 (4.03%) Google
4 26 (2.28%) OpenAI
5 22 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.84%) Databricks
7 20 (1.75%) MuleSoft
8 15 (1.31%) Splunk
9 13 (1.14%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.14%) SAP
10 8 (0.70%) Adobe
10 8 (0.70%) Conga
10 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
10 8 (0.70%) Solace
11 6 (0.53%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.44%) Hitachi
12 5 (0.44%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.44%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.35%) Apple
13 4 (0.35%) Red Hat