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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 70 64
Rank change year-on-year -30 -6 0
Contract jobs citing React 1,166 1,007 1,338
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.39% 3.48% 3.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.16% 15.18% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 758 1,072
10th Percentile £366 £358 £363
25th Percentile £415 £410 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £800 £833 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 22
10th Percentile £51.65 £56.30 £41.50
25th Percentile £61.88 £58.25 £55.31
Median hourly rate £76.00 £64.11 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.54% -0.98% -7.50%
75th Percentile £92.50 £72.60 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.12 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £73.23 £68.50
% change year-on-year +3.79% +6.90% +7.03%

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 9,585 6,632 9,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.65% 22.92% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,291 4,549 6,284
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -3.07% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 117 257
10th Percentile £30.98 £29.18 £21.89
25th Percentile £52.38 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.15 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -37 958 £525 - 725
London -34 567 £550 -5.98% 371
UK excluding London -14 433 £500 +11.11% 435
Work from Home -39 388 £540 +3.35% 440
North of England -12 160 £500 +11.11% 132
North West -16 87 £488 +8.33% 84
South East -47 72 £525 +14.13% 119
Scotland -1 69 £410 -10.63% 19
South West +7 59 £525 +17.85% 49
Yorkshire -18 59 £523 +11.76% 29
Midlands -48 39 £475 +9.20% 46
East of England -15 33 £600 +27.66% 30
West Midlands -49 31 £481 +4.62% 18
North East -19 16 £475 +3.26% 19
Northern Ireland +2 7 £190 -41.54% 26
East Midlands -32 6 £446 +13.26% 28
Wales -17 1 £525 +34.62% 18

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 50 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.49%) Confluence
3 24 (2.06%) CMS
4 15 (1.29%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (0.94%) Camunda
6 9 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.69%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.69%) IIS
7 8 (0.69%) Mendix
8 6 (0.51%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.51%) nginx
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.26%) Apache
10 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (0.86%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.51%) Sketch
3 4 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.086%) Blender
4 1 (0.086%) Maya
4 1 (0.086%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.086%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.03%) Shopify
2 10 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.43%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.086%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.086%) Endur
6 1 (0.086%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.086%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 463 (39.71%) AWS
2 341 (29.25%) Azure
3 140 (12.01%) Serverless
4 129 (11.06%) GCP
5 120 (10.29%) GitHub
6 86 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (6.95%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (5.15%) Power Platform
10 58 (4.97%) Amazon S3
11 54 (4.63%) Figma
12 44 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
13 43 (3.69%) Power Automate
13 43 (3.69%) PowerApps
14 31 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (2.66%) Azure Functions
15 30 (2.57%) Entra ID
16 26 (2.23%) SaaS
17 25 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.34%) Firewall
1 4 (0.34%) HTTP
2 3 (0.26%) Intranet
2 3 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (0.26%) VPN
3 1 (0.086%) DNS
3 1 (0.086%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.086%) LAN
3 1 (0.086%) Network Security
3 1 (0.086%) RTMP
3 1 (0.086%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (13.38%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (7.20%) Relational Database
2 84 (7.20%) SQL Server
3 76 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 57 (4.89%) MongoDB
5 56 (4.80%) MySQL
6 40 (3.43%) DynamoDB
7 39 (3.34%) Power BI
8 35 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (2.06%) Redis
10 15 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.20%) Oracle Database
12 12 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.94%) Metadata
14 9 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (0.69%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.69%) Tableau
16 7 (0.60%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 171 (14.67%) Git
2 77 (6.60%) Jenkins
3 68 (5.83%) JIRA
4 66 (5.66%) GitLab
5 50 (4.29%) Cypress.io
6 34 (2.92%) JUnit
7 25 (2.14%) Gradle
7 25 (2.14%) Mockito
8 24 (2.06%) Vite
9 20 (1.72%) webpack
10 16 (1.37%) Liquibase
11 15 (1.29%) Postman
12 14 (1.20%) REST Assured
13 13 (1.11%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.11%) Cucumber
14 12 (1.03%) Storybook
15 11 (0.94%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.86%) Mocha
16 10 (0.86%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.69%) Maven
General
1 227 (19.47%) Finance
2 198 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 119 (10.21%) Public Sector
4 112 (9.61%) Banking
5 102 (8.75%) Front Office
6 47 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 41 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (2.23%) Retail
9 21 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.72%) Financial Institution
11 16 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (0.94%) Law
13 10 (0.86%) Legal
14 6 (0.51%) Marketing
15 5 (0.43%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.43%) Military
16 4 (0.34%) Games
16 4 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 666 (57.12%) Developer
2 211 (18.10%) Full-Stack Developer
3 205 (17.58%) Senior
4 162 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 161 (13.81%) React Developer
6 134 (11.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 125 (10.72%) Lead
8 115 (9.86%) Senior Developer
9 107 (9.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 96 (8.23%) Java Developer
11 74 (6.35%) Python Developer
12 58 (4.97%) Lead Developer
13 57 (4.89%) Architect
14 53 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 49 (4.20%) Software Developer
16 46 (3.95%) Java Engineer
17 41 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
18 38 (3.26%) Lead Software Developer
19 37 (3.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
20 36 (3.09%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (26.24%) Node.js
2 243 (20.84%) CSS
3 235 (20.15%) AngularJS
4 224 (19.21%) HTML
5 193 (16.55%) REST
6 184 (15.78%) .NET
7 178 (15.27%) Redux
8 168 (14.41%) RESTful
9 157 (13.46%) Spring
10 141 (12.09%) Spring Boot
11 120 (10.29%) Next.js
12 117 (10.03%) GraphQL
13 114 (9.78%) Kafka
14 106 (9.09%) Vue
15 84 (7.20%) Jest
16 83 (7.12%) HTML5
17 65 (5.57%) CSS3
18 60 (5.15%) Playwright
19 50 (4.29%) FastAPI
20 45 (3.86%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 142 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.09%) Fixed Income
3 66 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 48 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 39 (3.34%) Derivative
8 34 (2.92%) Equities
9 33 (2.83%) AI Agents
9 33 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.37%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.20%) Algorithms
16 11 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
17 10 (0.86%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.80%) Linux
2 16 (1.37%) Windows
3 15 (1.29%) Android
4 12 (1.03%) Unix
5 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (42.28%) CI/CD
2 470 (40.31%) Agile
3 467 (40.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 313 (26.84%) DevOps
5 273 (23.41%) Software Engineering
6 262 (22.47%) Microservices
7 253 (21.70%) Front End Development
8 194 (16.64%) AI
9 185 (15.87%) Test Automation
10 169 (14.49%) Containerisation
11 165 (14.15%) User Experience
12 135 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
13 108 (9.26%) Code Quality
14 100 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (8.49%) Infrastructure as Code
16 95 (8.15%) Scrum
17 94 (8.06%) TDD
18 89 (7.63%) Mentoring
19 87 (7.46%) Event-Driven
20 83 (7.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 606 (51.97%) TypeScript
2 559 (47.94%) JavaScript
3 369 (31.65%) Python
4 349 (29.93%) Java
5 222 (19.04%) SQL
6 187 (16.04%) C#
7 58 (4.97%) Go
8 20 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.11%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.77%) Bash
11 9 (0.77%) Rust
12 8 (0.69%) Bicep
12 8 (0.69%) Formula Language
12 8 (0.69%) LotusScript
12 8 (0.69%) Scala
12 8 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.60%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 199 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 175 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 66 (5.66%) Degree
4 51 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.51%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.26%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.086%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.086%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.086%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.086%) OCP
14 1 (0.086%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (12.44%) Accessibility
2 75 (6.43%) WCAG
3 64 (5.49%) QA
4 7 (0.60%) GDPR
5 6 (0.51%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.43%) HL7
7 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.17%) NCSC
7 2 (0.17%) PSD2
8 1 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.086%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.086%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.086%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 235 (20.15%) Docker
2 6 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 193 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 128 (10.98%) Terraform
3 23 (1.97%) Grafana
4 17 (1.46%) Argo
4 17 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.77%) Ansible
6 9 (0.77%) Istio
7 4 (0.34%) Podman
8 3 (0.26%) Nagios
9 2 (0.17%) Rancher
10 1 (0.086%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.086%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 81 (6.95%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.80%) Oracle
3 45 (3.86%) Google
4 30 (2.57%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.06%) Adobe
6 18 (1.54%) Databricks
7 17 (1.46%) Sitecore
8 15 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 11 (0.94%) MuleSoft
9 11 (0.94%) Splunk
10 9 (0.77%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.69%) Conga
11 8 (0.69%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.69%) Kofax
11 8 (0.69%) Lotus
12 7 (0.60%) SAP
13 6 (0.51%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.51%) Solace
14 5 (0.43%) Pega
14 5 (0.43%) ServiceNow