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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 69 62
Rank change year-on-year -31 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing React 1,169 1,001 1,341
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.38% 3.47% 3.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.11% 15.16% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 753 1,075
10th Percentile £365 £358 £363
25th Percentile £415 £410 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £472
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.71% -0.58%
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% +1.11%

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 9,652 6,603 9,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.64% 22.87% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,335 4,534 6,269
10th Percentile £363 £361 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
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 283 110 254
10th Percentile £31.33 £28.91 £21.96
25th Percentile £51.63 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.05 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.47
% change year-on-year - +28.80% -22.36%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -32 962 £525 - 540
London -35 569 £550 -4.35% 258
UK excluding London -21 434 £500 +11.11% 356
Work from Home -45 389 £540 +3.60% 291
North of England -11 160 £500 +11.11% 107
North West -17 89 £475 +5.56% 69
South East -53 73 £525 +14.13% 105
Scotland -4 67 £410 -10.63% 15
Yorkshire -21 59 £523 +11.76% 24
South West -1 58 £525 +19.05% 36
Midlands -49 41 £475 +9.20% 41
East of England -12 33 £600 +27.66% 28
West Midlands -55 33 £481 +4.62% 15
North East -19 14 £475 +3.26% 14
Northern Ireland +3 7 £190 -41.54% 16
East Midlands -27 6 £446 +13.26% 26
Wales -16 2 £525 +34.62% 11

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 53 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.48%) Confluence
3 24 (2.05%) CMS
4 15 (1.28%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (0.94%) Camunda
6 10 (0.86%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.86%) Mendix
7 9 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.68%) IIS
9 6 (0.51%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.51%) nginx
10 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.26%) Apache
11 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.17%) Kentico
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 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
1 467 (39.95%) AWS
2 343 (29.34%) Azure
3 142 (12.15%) Serverless
4 129 (11.04%) GCP
5 121 (10.35%) GitHub
6 88 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
8 82 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
9 63 (5.39%) Power Platform
10 58 (4.96%) Amazon S3
11 54 (4.62%) Figma
12 46 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
12 46 (3.93%) Power Automate
12 46 (3.93%) PowerApps
13 44 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (2.82%) Azure Functions
15 31 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
16 30 (2.57%) Entra ID
17 27 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (2.31%) SaaS
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
1 157 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (7.27%) Relational Database
2 85 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.59%) NoSQL
4 58 (4.96%) MongoDB
5 57 (4.88%) MySQL
6 41 (3.51%) Power BI
7 40 (3.42%) DynamoDB
8 35 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (2.05%) Redis
10 16 (1.37%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.03%) Metadata
14 10 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (0.68%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.68%) Tableau
16 7 (0.60%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 174 (14.88%) Git
2 80 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 71 (6.07%) JIRA
4 67 (5.73%) GitLab
5 50 (4.28%) Cypress.io
6 35 (2.99%) JUnit
7 26 (2.22%) Mockito
8 25 (2.14%) Gradle
9 24 (2.05%) Vite
10 20 (1.71%) webpack
11 16 (1.37%) Liquibase
12 15 (1.28%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.28%) Postman
13 14 (1.20%) REST Assured
14 13 (1.11%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.03%) Storybook
16 11 (0.94%) CircleCI
17 10 (0.86%) Mocha
17 10 (0.86%) TeamCity
18 8 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 222 (18.99%) Finance
2 201 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 120 (10.27%) Public Sector
4 104 (8.90%) Banking
5 94 (8.04%) Front Office
6 41 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (3.34%) Investment Banking
8 26 (2.22%) Retail
9 22 (1.88%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
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
1 664 (56.80%) Developer
2 211 (18.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 200 (17.11%) Senior
4 163 (13.94%) Software Engineer
5 153 (13.09%) React Developer
6 135 (11.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 125 (10.69%) Lead
8 109 (9.32%) Senior Developer
9 108 (9.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 89 (7.61%) Java Developer
11 74 (6.33%) Python Developer
12 58 (4.96%) Lead Developer
13 57 (4.88%) Architect
14 53 (4.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 50 (4.28%) Software Developer
16 46 (3.93%) Java Engineer
17 41 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
18 38 (3.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
18 38 (3.25%) Lead Software Developer
19 32 (2.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (26.35%) Node.js
2 247 (21.13%) CSS
3 238 (20.36%) AngularJS
4 226 (19.33%) HTML
5 195 (16.68%) REST
6 187 (16.00%) .NET
7 171 (14.63%) Redux
8 168 (14.37%) RESTful
9 159 (13.60%) Spring
10 143 (12.23%) Spring Boot
11 122 (10.44%) Next.js
12 118 (10.09%) GraphQL
13 115 (9.84%) Kafka
14 107 (9.15%) Vue
15 85 (7.27%) Jest
16 83 (7.10%) HTML5
17 65 (5.56%) CSS3
18 60 (5.13%) Playwright
19 50 (4.28%) FastAPI
20 45 (3.85%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 143 (12.23%) Cloud Native
2 69 (5.90%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.39%) Fixed Income
4 45 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
6 39 (3.34%) Derivative
7 33 (2.82%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (2.22%) Equities
9 26 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.20%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.03%) Low-Code
14 11 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.97%) Linux
2 18 (1.54%) Windows
3 16 (1.37%) Android
4 13 (1.11%) Unix
5 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (42.60%) CI/CD
2 475 (40.63%) Agile
3 468 (40.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 317 (27.12%) DevOps
5 275 (23.52%) Software Engineering
6 265 (22.67%) Microservices
7 254 (21.73%) Front End Development
8 195 (16.68%) AI
9 187 (16.00%) Test Automation
10 170 (14.54%) Containerisation
11 167 (14.29%) User Experience
12 137 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
13 108 (9.24%) Code Quality
14 101 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
16 96 (8.21%) Scrum
16 96 (8.21%) TDD
17 91 (7.78%) Mentoring
18 87 (7.44%) Event-Driven
19 83 (7.10%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 601 (51.41%) TypeScript
2 556 (47.56%) JavaScript
3 372 (31.82%) Python
4 347 (29.68%) Java
5 225 (19.25%) SQL
6 181 (15.48%) C#
7 58 (4.96%) Go
8 21 (1.80%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.11%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.86%) Formula Language
11 10 (0.86%) LotusScript
12 9 (0.77%) Bash
12 9 (0.77%) Rust
13 8 (0.68%) Bicep
13 8 (0.68%) Scala
13 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.60%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.60%) Perl
15 6 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 200 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 176 (15.06%) SC Cleared
3 67 (5.73%) Degree
4 51 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.48%) 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 Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.086%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.086%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.086%) OCP
14 1 (0.086%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (12.40%) Accessibility
2 75 (6.42%) WCAG
3 66 (5.65%) 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
1 237 (20.27%) Docker
2 6 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 194 (16.60%) Kubernetes
2 129 (11.04%) Terraform
3 23 (1.97%) Grafana
4 17 (1.45%) Argo
4 17 (1.45%) 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 84 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.05%) Oracle
3 45 (3.85%) Google
4 30 (2.57%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.05%) Adobe
6 18 (1.54%) Databricks
7 17 (1.45%) Sitecore
8 16 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.03%) Splunk
10 11 (0.94%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.86%) Kofax
11 10 (0.86%) Lotus
12 9 (0.77%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.68%) Conga
13 8 (0.68%) GoCardless
14 7 (0.60%) SAP
15 6 (0.51%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.51%) Solace
16 5 (0.43%) Pega
16 5 (0.43%) ServiceNow