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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 72 73
Rank change year-on-year -30 +1 -17
Contract jobs citing React 974 990 1,233
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.61% 3.11% 2.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.71% 14.05% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 738 1,010
10th Percentile £344 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% -8.70%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £459 £470
% change year-on-year +3.49% -2.24% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile £43.20 £26.25 £45.94
25th Percentile £44.25 £31.50 £58.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £51.93 £44.13 £72.00
90th Percentile £54.28 £59.29 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £27.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +98.91% -57.03% -8.57%

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 8,321 7,044 9,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.31% 22.14% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,527 4,470 6,601
10th Percentile £356 £356 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 91 177
10th Percentile £33.00 £22.00 £28.21
25th Percentile £46.00 £35.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -15.38%

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 17 January 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
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 17 January 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 -26 823 £510 -7.27% 1,114
London -26 486 £525 -12.50% 273
UK excluding London -34 353 £475 +3.49% 966
Work from Home -44 272 £513 +2.50% 642
North of England -16 129 £445 -1.11% 225
North West -8 64 £400 -11.11% 122
South East -30 64 £375 -34.78% 300
Yorkshire -20 56 £445 -9.87% 77
Scotland -7 49 £442 -0.62% 40
Midlands -48 47 £540 +7.90% 106
West Midlands -45 36 £525 -4.55% 37
South West -20 35 £550 +22.22% 126
East of England -19 24 £675 +83.05% 126
North East -5 12 £475 +13.77% 26
East Midlands -29 11 £550 +11.11% 67
Wales +6 9 £518 -1.43% 43
Northern Ireland -6 5 - - 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 35 (3.59%) CMS
2 23 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (1.54%) Confluence
5 14 (1.44%) Headless CMS
6 11 (1.13%) Apache
6 11 (1.13%) SAS
7 10 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.92%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.92%) Mendix
9 8 (0.82%) Camunda
10 6 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.51%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.31%) IIS
13 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.21%) ColdFusion
13 2 (0.21%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.85%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.92%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.72%) Sketch
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.21%) Trello
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.10%) Blender
6 1 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.10%) InVision
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.31%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 419 (43.02%) AWS
2 261 (26.80%) Azure
3 149 (15.30%) Serverless
4 131 (13.45%) GitHub
5 113 (11.60%) GCP
6 95 (9.75%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
8 51 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 39 (4.00%) Figma
10 31 (3.18%) Azure Functions
10 31 (3.18%) SaaS
11 29 (2.98%) npm
12 28 (2.87%) Azure AKS
13 26 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 26 (2.67%) Entra ID
14 25 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
15 24 (2.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.54%) Wireless
2 8 (0.82%) HTTP
3 5 (0.51%) DNS
3 5 (0.51%) Network Security
4 4 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.31%) DHCP
6 2 (0.21%) VPN
7 1 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.10%) LAN
7 1 (0.10%) Multicast
7 1 (0.10%) RTMP
7 1 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.10%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.37%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (8.83%) Relational Database
3 77 (7.91%) NoSQL
4 58 (5.95%) MySQL
5 50 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 44 (4.52%) SQL Server
7 24 (2.46%) Redis
8 23 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.05%) Power BI
10 19 (1.95%) DynamoDB
11 16 (1.64%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.13%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (0.92%) Big Data
15 9 (0.92%) Metadata
16 8 (0.82%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 201 (20.64%) Git
2 78 (8.01%) Cypress.io
3 66 (6.78%) Jenkins
4 55 (5.65%) GitLab
4 55 (5.65%) JIRA
5 45 (4.62%) JUnit
6 32 (3.29%) webpack
7 26 (2.67%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.36%) Mockito
9 20 (2.05%) Browser DevTools
9 20 (2.05%) Selenium
10 19 (1.95%) Android Studio
10 19 (1.95%) Maven
10 19 (1.95%) Xcode
11 18 (1.85%) Eclipse
12 17 (1.75%) SonarQube
12 17 (1.75%) Storybook
13 14 (1.44%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.33%) Vite
15 12 (1.23%) Postman
General
1 214 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 167 (17.15%) Finance
3 126 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 81 (8.32%) Banking
5 44 (4.52%) Front Office
6 36 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.49%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.36%) Retail
9 17 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 15 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.23%) Marketing
12 11 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.92%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.62%) Games
15 6 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Law
16 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 574 (58.93%) Developer
2 203 (20.84%) Full-Stack Developer
3 162 (16.63%) Senior
4 124 (12.73%) React Developer
5 109 (11.19%) Software Engineer
6 98 (10.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 92 (9.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 83 (8.52%) Java Developer
9 81 (8.32%) Python Developer
9 81 (8.32%) Senior Developer
10 74 (7.60%) Lead
11 45 (4.62%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 37 (3.80%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 34 (3.49%) AWS Developer
14 32 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (3.29%) Software Developer
15 30 (3.08%) Architect
16 27 (2.77%) Python Engineer
17 25 (2.57%) JavaScript Developer
18 24 (2.46%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (30.18%) Node.js
2 285 (29.26%) AngularJS
3 240 (24.64%) CSS
4 214 (21.97%) HTML
5 181 (18.58%) RESTful
6 140 (14.37%) Spring
7 133 (13.66%) .NET
8 131 (13.45%) Next.js
9 124 (12.73%) Spring Boot
10 122 (12.53%) REST
11 112 (11.50%) Jest
12 93 (9.55%) Vue
13 92 (9.45%) GraphQL
14 81 (8.32%) Redux
15 73 (7.49%) HTML5
16 72 (7.39%) Kafka
17 59 (6.06%) FastAPI
18 56 (5.75%) CSS3
18 56 (5.75%) Playwright
19 41 (4.21%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 40 (4.11%) Mobile App
4 31 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (3.08%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.54%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.44%) Hedge funds
12 13 (1.33%) Derivative
13 12 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.13%) Low-Code
15 10 (1.03%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.03%) NHS
16 9 (0.92%) Equities
17 6 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.54%) Linux
2 39 (4.00%) Unix
3 35 (3.59%) Windows
4 28 (2.87%) Android
5 13 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.41%) CentOS
8 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.21%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (44.46%) CI/CD
2 419 (43.02%) Full-Stack Development
3 398 (40.86%) Agile
4 270 (27.72%) DevOps
5 251 (25.77%) Microservices
6 216 (22.18%) Front End Development
7 212 (21.77%) Software Engineering
8 174 (17.86%) User Experience
9 161 (16.53%) Containerisation
10 153 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
11 149 (15.30%) AI
12 143 (14.68%) Test Automation
13 108 (11.09%) Clean Code
14 89 (9.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 89 (9.14%) Scrum
14 89 (9.14%) TDD
15 87 (8.93%) Code Quality
16 72 (7.39%) Design Patterns
17 69 (7.08%) UX Design
18 68 (6.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 470 (48.25%) JavaScript
2 454 (46.61%) TypeScript
3 299 (30.70%) Python
4 290 (29.77%) Java
5 195 (20.02%) SQL
6 118 (12.11%) C#
7 22 (2.26%) C++
7 22 (2.26%) Go
7 22 (2.26%) Perl
8 21 (2.16%) Bicep
9 19 (1.95%) Ruby
10 16 (1.64%) Rust
11 14 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.92%) Formula Language
13 9 (0.92%) LotusScript
14 8 (0.82%) Bash
14 8 (0.82%) JSX
14 8 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 184 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 157 (16.12%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.83%) Degree
4 31 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.44%) MCP
8 10 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.72%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.21%) OCP
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (13.86%) Accessibility
2 69 (7.08%) WCAG
3 60 (6.16%) QA
4 6 (0.62%) GDPR
4 6 (0.62%) HL7
5 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.21%) MiFID
6 2 (0.21%) NCSC
6 2 (0.21%) PMO
7 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.10%) EMIR
7 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.10%) PSD2
7 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 242 (24.85%) Docker
2 21 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.10%) Varnish
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 196 (20.12%) Kubernetes
2 120 (12.32%) Terraform
3 22 (2.26%) Grafana
4 20 (2.05%) Argo
5 13 (1.33%) Kibana
6 12 (1.23%) Ansible
7 11 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (0.82%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.62%) Istio
11 2 (0.21%) Podman
12 1 (0.10%) Consul
12 1 (0.10%) Rancher
12 1 (0.10%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 113 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.37%) Oracle
3 44 (4.52%) Google
4 36 (3.70%) Adobe
5 32 (3.29%) OpenAI
6 23 (2.36%) Splunk
7 21 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.05%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.33%) Sitecore
10 12 (1.23%) Databricks
11 9 (0.92%) Kofax
11 9 (0.92%) Lotus
11 9 (0.92%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.82%) SAP
13 7 (0.72%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.51%) Marketo
14 5 (0.51%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.51%) VMware
15 4 (0.41%) Blue Prism
15 4 (0.41%) Dynatrace