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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 74 70
Rank change year-on-year -59 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing React 1,117 1,116 1,202
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 3.39% 3.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.37% 13.01% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 789 910
10th Percentile £363 £357 £344
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £49.15 £54.57 £38.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 £66.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +20.91% -26.17%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £79.60 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +7.46% - -9.46%

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 11,917 8,579 9,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.71% 26.02% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,834 5,726 6,195
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 187 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.20 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +10.11%

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 24 September 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 24 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for React in the UK

React
Top 18 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 24 September 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 -63 941 £538 +2.38% 1,935
London -47 547 £575 -4.17% 1,172
UK excluding London -59 443 £475 +5.56% 961
Work from Home -75 322 £525 - 939
North of England -31 166 £500 +17.65% 270
Yorkshire +5 87 £500 +25.00% 66
Scotland -27 72 £377 -18.92% 88
North West -53 68 £500 +16.96% 178
South West -28 64 £550 +7.32% 131
Midlands -23 62 £466 -3.52% 118
South East -82 62 £453 +6.59% 185
West Midlands -14 55 £488 -6.70% 77
East of England -36 17 £625 +47.06% 70
North East -38 11 £500 +7.53% 27
East Midlands -25 7 £433 +16.62% 41
Northern Ireland +4 2 £190 - 75
Wales -14 2 £469 -9.64% 30
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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 (3.13%) Confluence
2 29 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.43%) Camunda
4 14 (1.25%) CMS
5 11 (0.98%) nginx
5 11 (0.98%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.54%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.54%) WordPress
7 5 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.45%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.27%) Sketch
3 1 (0.090%) Blender
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.090%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.90%) SAP CRM
2 6 (0.54%) Shopify
3 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.090%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 414 (37.06%) AWS
2 302 (27.04%) Azure
3 136 (12.18%) GitHub
4 127 (11.37%) Serverless
5 123 (11.01%) GCP
6 80 (7.16%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (5.28%) Amazon S3
10 51 (4.57%) OpenShift
11 49 (4.39%) Figma
11 49 (4.39%) Power Platform
12 40 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (2.95%) GitHub Copilot
14 30 (2.69%) Entra ID
15 29 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
16 28 (2.51%) PowerApps
17 27 (2.42%) Power Automate
17 27 (2.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.90%) Firewall
2 8 (0.72%) DNS
2 8 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
3 7 (0.63%) HTTP
4 5 (0.45%) VPN
5 4 (0.36%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
6 2 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.090%) CTI
7 1 (0.090%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.090%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.090%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.090%) MQTT
7 1 (0.090%) Network Security
7 1 (0.090%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (7.70%) SQL Server
3 79 (7.07%) Relational Database
4 74 (6.62%) MongoDB
5 73 (6.54%) NoSQL
6 53 (4.74%) MySQL
7 41 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
8 39 (3.49%) DynamoDB
9 33 (2.95%) Power BI
10 27 (2.42%) Redis
11 18 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (0.98%) Metadata
14 10 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.81%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.72%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.54%) Neo4j
18 5 (0.45%) Data Lake
18 5 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 235 (21.04%) Git
2 139 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 78 (6.98%) GitLab
4 63 (5.64%) JIRA
5 59 (5.28%) Gradle
6 53 (4.74%) JUnit
7 47 (4.21%) Cypress.io
8 46 (4.12%) Maven
9 34 (3.04%) Vite
10 30 (2.69%) Mockito
11 26 (2.33%) Storybook
12 25 (2.24%) Cucumber
12 25 (2.24%) SonarQube
13 24 (2.15%) Claude Code
14 20 (1.79%) webpack
15 19 (1.70%) REST Assured
15 19 (1.70%) Selenium
16 18 (1.61%) Bitbucket
17 12 (1.07%) Liquibase
18 11 (0.98%) Gatling
General
1 245 (21.93%) Finance
2 234 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 156 (13.97%) Banking
4 120 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 69 (6.18%) Front Office
6 58 (5.19%) Investment Banking
7 55 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (3.76%) Retail
9 30 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.16%) Law
11 13 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 11 (0.98%) Back Office
13 10 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.90%) Marketing
13 10 (0.90%) Military
13 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.72%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.72%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 589 (52.73%) Developer
2 235 (21.04%) Senior
3 185 (16.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 158 (14.15%) React Developer
5 132 (11.82%) Senior Developer
6 130 (11.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 130 (11.64%) Java Developer
7 121 (10.83%) Software Engineer
8 100 (8.95%) Lead
9 97 (8.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 55 (4.92%) Senior React Developer
11 53 (4.74%) Python Developer
12 52 (4.66%) Senior Java Developer
12 52 (4.66%) UI Developer
13 39 (3.49%) Software Developer
14 38 (3.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 38 (3.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 38 (3.40%) Technical Leader
15 37 (3.31%) Architect
16 35 (3.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (26.32%) Node.js
2 284 (25.43%) REST
3 231 (20.68%) CSS
4 221 (19.79%) HTML
5 169 (15.13%) .NET
6 168 (15.04%) Spring
7 167 (14.95%) RESTful
8 156 (13.97%) Redux
8 156 (13.97%) Spring Boot
9 150 (13.43%) AngularJS
10 136 (12.18%) Next.js
11 133 (11.91%) Kafka
12 123 (11.01%) Terraform
13 107 (9.58%) HTML5
14 94 (8.42%) GraphQL
15 86 (7.70%) CSS3
15 86 (7.70%) Playwright
16 85 (7.61%) Vue
17 82 (7.34%) OAuth
18 81 (7.25%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 173 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.52%) Product Ownership
3 65 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (5.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 57 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
6 55 (4.92%) Fixed Income
7 47 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.58%) AI Agents
9 33 (2.95%) Equities
10 32 (2.86%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (2.06%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.52%) Derivative
15 16 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.43%) Onboarding
16 14 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
17 11 (0.98%) Autonomous Agent
17 11 (0.98%) Mobile App
18 9 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.86%) Linux
2 14 (1.25%) Windows
3 9 (0.81%) Unix
4 5 (0.45%) Android
4 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.090%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 481 (43.06%) Agile
3 460 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 295 (26.41%) Microservices
5 291 (26.05%) DevOps
6 287 (25.69%) Software Engineering
7 234 (20.95%) Front End Development
8 226 (20.23%) Test Automation
9 217 (19.43%) AI
10 174 (15.58%) Containerisation
11 162 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
12 161 (14.41%) User Experience
13 151 (13.52%) Event-Driven
14 138 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 132 (11.82%) Scrum
16 128 (11.46%) Mentoring
17 124 (11.10%) TDD
18 118 (10.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 117 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
20 114 (10.21%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 642 (57.48%) TypeScript
2 562 (50.31%) JavaScript
3 385 (34.47%) Java
4 307 (27.48%) Python
5 236 (21.13%) SQL
6 174 (15.58%) C#
7 44 (3.94%) Go
8 33 (2.95%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 21 (1.88%) Bash
11 15 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.90%) Rust
13 9 (0.81%) C++
13 9 (0.81%) PHP
13 9 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.63%) Bicep
14 7 (0.63%) Ruby
14 7 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 192 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 157 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.80%) Degree
4 55 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.090%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.090%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (13.88%) Accessibility
2 90 (8.06%) QA
3 87 (7.79%) WCAG
4 8 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.27%) HL7
7 2 (0.18%) GDPR
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.090%) GRC
8 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 242 (21.67%) Docker
2 3 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.090%) Varnish
3 1 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 237 (21.22%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.49%) Grafana
3 33 (2.95%) Ansible
4 19 (1.70%) Argo
5 18 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.43%) Control-M
7 9 (0.81%) Kibana
8 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.63%) Istio
9 7 (0.63%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.27%) Podman
11 2 (0.18%) systemd
12 1 (0.090%) Nagios
12 1 (0.090%) QRadar
Vendors
1 92 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 79 (7.07%) Oracle
3 52 (4.66%) Google
4 23 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.88%) Databricks
6 20 (1.79%) MuleSoft
7 18 (1.61%) OpenAI
7 18 (1.61%) Splunk
8 15 (1.34%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.34%) SAP
9 10 (0.90%) Adobe
10 9 (0.81%) IBM
10 9 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.72%) Conga
11 8 (0.72%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.72%) Okta
11 8 (0.72%) Veracode
12 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.54%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.54%) Solace