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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 72 67
Rank change year-on-year -35 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing React 1,212 1,105 1,304
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.30% 3.41% 3.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.81% 15.10% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 805 1,027
10th Percentile £375 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £675
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 21
10th Percentile £51.65 £58.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £61.88 £62.69 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £66.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -0.75% -4.29%
75th Percentile £92.50 £67.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% -4.29% +21.21%

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 10,262 7,319 9,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.55% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,720 4,947 6,290
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% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £756 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 161 277
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.25 £22.65
25th Percentile £50.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -38 1,000 £550 +4.76% 793
London -33 596 £588 -2.08% 185
UK excluding London -36 451 £500 +11.11% 817
Work from Home -49 412 £550 +4.76% 733
North of England -15 167 £523 +14.96% 222
North West -25 83 £500 +11.11% 120
South East -65 76 £525 +12.90% 180
Yorkshire -2 75 £523 +16.11% 80
Scotland -6 75 £405 -14.06% 88
South West 0 65 £525 +23.53% 61
Midlands -51 39 £475 +6.15% 107
West Midlands -54 32 £488 -4.88% 46
East of England -13 27 £600 +71.43% 88
North East -38 9 £450 -2.70% 24
Northern Ireland +5 6 £190 -41.54% 30
East Midlands -20 5 £443 +20.24% 61
Wales -15 1 £525 +32.91% 56

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 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.56%) Confluence
3 26 (2.15%) CMS
4 16 (1.32%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.74%) Camunda
5 9 (0.74%) nginx
5 9 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.41%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.25%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.17%) Kentico
10 2 (0.17%) Mendix
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.083%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.083%) Blender
3 1 (0.083%) Maya
3 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.083%) Sketch
3 1 (0.083%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.16%) Shopify
2 9 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.58%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.083%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.083%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 477 (39.36%) AWS
2 343 (28.30%) Azure
3 141 (11.63%) GCP
4 129 (10.64%) Serverless
5 124 (10.23%) GitHub
6 85 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
9 65 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 59 (4.87%) Power Platform
11 51 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (3.80%) Figma
13 38 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (3.05%) Power Automate
14 37 (3.05%) PowerApps
15 36 (2.97%) Entra ID
16 32 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
17 28 (2.31%) OpenShift
18 27 (2.23%) SaaS
19 23 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.50%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) DSL
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.083%) CTI
5 1 (0.083%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.083%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.083%) MQTT
5 1 (0.083%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (7.76%) Relational Database
2 94 (7.76%) SQL Server
3 76 (6.27%) NoSQL
4 62 (5.12%) MongoDB
5 55 (4.54%) MySQL
6 46 (3.80%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
7 38 (3.14%) Power BI
8 31 (2.56%) Redis
9 14 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (0.83%) Metadata
11 10 (0.83%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.74%) Neo4j
12 9 (0.74%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.66%) Big Data
13 8 (0.66%) Db2
Development Applications
1 183 (15.10%) Git
2 113 (9.32%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.53%) JIRA
4 59 (4.87%) GitLab
5 50 (4.13%) Cypress.io
6 41 (3.38%) Gradle
7 40 (3.30%) JUnit
8 36 (2.97%) Vite
9 24 (1.98%) Mockito
10 22 (1.82%) webpack
11 18 (1.49%) Maven
12 16 (1.32%) Liquibase
12 16 (1.32%) Postman
13 15 (1.24%) Claude Code
13 15 (1.24%) Cucumber
13 15 (1.24%) REST Assured
13 15 (1.24%) Storybook
14 14 (1.16%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.83%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 270 (22.28%) Finance
2 222 (18.32%) Social Skills
3 144 (11.88%) Banking
4 124 (10.23%) Front Office
5 120 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 66 (5.45%) Investment Banking
7 52 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
8 34 (2.81%) Retail
9 23 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.91%) Law
13 10 (0.83%) Military
14 9 (0.74%) Legal
15 7 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.50%) Marketing
16 6 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.50%) Retail Banking
17 5 (0.41%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 684 (56.44%) Developer
2 233 (19.22%) Senior
3 209 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 184 (15.18%) React Developer
5 175 (14.44%) Software Engineer
6 145 (11.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 134 (11.06%) Senior Developer
8 132 (10.89%) Java Developer
9 131 (10.81%) Lead
10 92 (7.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 73 (6.02%) Python Developer
12 59 (4.87%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.62%) Architect
13 56 (4.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 54 (4.46%) UI Developer
15 53 (4.37%) Senior React Developer
16 51 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
17 44 (3.63%) Java Engineer
17 44 (3.63%) Software Developer
18 43 (3.55%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (26.82%) Node.js
2 237 (19.55%) REST
3 220 (18.15%) CSS
4 207 (17.08%) Redux
5 201 (16.58%) HTML
6 197 (16.25%) .NET
7 191 (15.76%) AngularJS
8 170 (14.03%) RESTful
9 158 (13.04%) Spring
10 148 (12.21%) Spring Boot
11 140 (11.55%) Kafka
12 127 (10.48%) GraphQL
13 119 (9.82%) Next.js
14 99 (8.17%) Vue
15 90 (7.43%) HTML5
16 88 (7.26%) Jest
17 69 (5.69%) CSS3
18 64 (5.28%) Playwright
19 61 (5.03%) FastAPI
20 55 (4.54%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 164 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 95 (7.84%) Fixed Income
3 80 (6.60%) Product Ownership
4 65 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
5 59 (4.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 54 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (4.04%) Equities
8 47 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (3.30%) Derivative
10 36 (2.97%) AI Agents
11 33 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.82%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.40%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.99%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.91%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.91%) Onboarding
17 10 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
18 9 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.15%) Linux
2 13 (1.07%) Windows
3 12 (0.99%) Android
4 9 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.74%) Unix
5 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (43.89%) CI/CD
2 496 (40.92%) Agile
3 494 (40.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 311 (25.66%) Software Engineering
5 309 (25.50%) DevOps
6 292 (24.09%) Microservices
7 246 (20.30%) Front End Development
8 207 (17.08%) Test Automation
9 206 (17.00%) AI
10 167 (13.78%) Containerisation
11 151 (12.46%) User Experience
12 142 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
13 122 (10.07%) Code Quality
14 111 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (9.16%) Event-Driven
14 111 (9.16%) TDD
15 107 (8.83%) Mentoring
15 107 (8.83%) Scrum
16 98 (8.09%) Infrastructure as Code
17 89 (7.34%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 673 (55.53%) TypeScript
2 571 (47.11%) JavaScript
3 382 (31.52%) Java
4 371 (30.61%) Python
5 233 (19.22%) SQL
6 209 (17.24%) C#
7 65 (5.36%) Go
8 31 (2.56%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.99%) Bash
12 9 (0.74%) Rust
13 8 (0.66%) C++
13 8 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.58%) Scala
15 6 (0.50%) Bicep
15 6 (0.50%) PHP
16 4 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 204 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 176 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 70 (5.78%) Degree
4 57 (4.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.33%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.083%) CISSP
14 1 (0.083%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.083%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (12.87%) Accessibility
2 80 (6.60%) QA
3 76 (6.27%) WCAG
4 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.50%) GDPR
5 4 (0.33%) HL7
6 3 (0.25%) PSD2
7 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.083%) GRC
7 1 (0.083%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 242 (19.97%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 207 (17.08%) Kubernetes
2 121 (9.98%) Terraform
3 26 (2.15%) Grafana
4 21 (1.73%) Ansible
5 16 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.07%) Argo
6 13 (1.07%) Control-M
7 8 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.41%) Istio
9 3 (0.25%) Nagios
9 3 (0.25%) Podman
10 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (6.85%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.69%) Oracle
3 48 (3.96%) Google
4 29 (2.39%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.49%) Databricks
6 17 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.24%) Sitecore
8 14 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 12 (0.99%) SAP
10 10 (0.83%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.83%) Splunk
11 9 (0.74%) Solace
12 8 (0.66%) Conga
12 8 (0.66%) GoCardless
13 7 (0.58%) Adobe
14 6 (0.50%) Pega
15 5 (0.41%) ServiceNow
16 4 (0.33%) Apple
16 4 (0.33%) Netlify
16 4 (0.33%) Red Hat