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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 73 64
Rank change year-on-year -27 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing React 1,192 1,015 1,330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.37% 3.42% 3.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.16% 15.01% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 759 1,057
10th Percentile £375 £356 £362
25th Percentile £422 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £671 £661 £688
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £467
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.69% -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 22
10th Percentile £51.65 - £41.50
25th Percentile £61.88 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -15.06% -7.50%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - £68.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 9,799 6,764 9,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.47% 22.79% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,435 4,614 6,310
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £767 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 126 272
10th Percentile £30.50 £29.16 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -34 985 £545 +4.56% 1,434
London -37 587 £575 - 321
UK excluding London -14 444 £500 +11.11% 1,485
Work from Home -44 390 £540 +2.86% 1,445
North of England -4 168 £500 +11.11% 325
North West -14 87 £500 +11.11% 155
Scotland +2 72 £410 -10.68% 153
South East -53 70 £525 +15.64% 326
Yorkshire -9 65 £523 +16.11% 108
South West +8 62 £525 +23.53% 132
Midlands -55 36 £500 +14.94% 180
East of England -5 33 £625 +53.37% 203
West Midlands -46 29 £535 +9.74% 85
North East -24 16 £475 +2.70% 62
Northern Ireland +4 6 £190 -41.54% 97
East Midlands -28 5 £443 +20.24% 95
Wales -15 1 £525 +32.91% 89

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 48 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.52%) Confluence
3 24 (2.01%) CMS
4 15 (1.26%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (0.92%) Camunda
6 9 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.50%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.50%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.50%) Mendix
7 6 (0.50%) nginx
8 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.42%) IIS
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache
11 2 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.084%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Adobe XD
1 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.084%) Blender
2 1 (0.084%) Maya
2 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.084%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.09%) Shopify
2 11 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.42%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.084%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.084%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 468 (39.26%) AWS
2 340 (28.52%) Azure
3 140 (11.74%) Serverless
4 135 (11.33%) GCP
5 123 (10.32%) GitHub
6 86 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
7 82 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (5.20%) Amazon S3
8 62 (5.20%) Power Platform
9 48 (4.03%) Figma
10 47 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
11 42 (3.52%) Power Automate
11 42 (3.52%) PowerApps
12 30 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (2.35%) Azure Functions
13 28 (2.35%) Entra ID
14 24 (2.01%) OpenShift
15 23 (1.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.50%) Firewall
2 4 (0.34%) HTTP
2 4 (0.34%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.084%) DSL
5 1 (0.084%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.084%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.084%) MQTT
5 1 (0.084%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (14.18%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (7.05%) SQL Server
3 83 (6.96%) Relational Database
4 74 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 59 (4.95%) MongoDB
6 55 (4.61%) MySQL
7 40 (3.36%) DynamoDB
7 40 (3.36%) Power BI
8 37 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (2.35%) Redis
10 15 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.17%) Metadata
12 12 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.01%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
14 8 (0.67%) Big Data
14 8 (0.67%) Neo4j
14 8 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 171 (14.35%) Git
2 92 (7.72%) Jenkins
3 71 (5.96%) JIRA
4 65 (5.45%) GitLab
5 49 (4.11%) Cypress.io
6 36 (3.02%) JUnit
7 33 (2.77%) Gradle
8 27 (2.27%) Vite
9 24 (2.01%) Mockito
10 20 (1.68%) webpack
11 16 (1.34%) Liquibase
12 15 (1.26%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.26%) Postman
12 15 (1.26%) REST Assured
13 14 (1.17%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.09%) Maven
15 10 (0.84%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.76%) Mocha
17 8 (0.67%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.67%) Storybook
General
1 253 (21.22%) Finance
2 202 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 139 (11.66%) Banking
4 119 (9.98%) Front Office
4 119 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 65 (5.45%) Investment Banking
6 45 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (2.60%) Retail
8 20 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 20 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.01%) Legal
11 11 (0.92%) Law
12 7 (0.59%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.50%) Marketing
13 6 (0.50%) Military
14 5 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.42%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 686 (57.55%) Developer
2 225 (18.88%) Senior
3 220 (18.46%) Full-Stack Developer
4 177 (14.85%) React Developer
5 168 (14.09%) Software Engineer
6 136 (11.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 132 (11.07%) Senior Developer
8 120 (10.07%) Lead
9 118 (9.90%) Java Developer
10 97 (8.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 77 (6.46%) Python Developer
12 58 (4.87%) Architect
12 58 (4.87%) Lead Developer
13 57 (4.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 54 (4.53%) Software Developer
15 51 (4.28%) Senior React Developer
16 50 (4.19%) UI Developer
17 46 (3.86%) Java Engineer
18 45 (3.78%) Senior Java Developer
19 41 (3.44%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (26.51%) Node.js
2 230 (19.30%) CSS
3 215 (18.04%) AngularJS
4 210 (17.62%) HTML
5 206 (17.28%) REST
6 199 (16.69%) Redux
7 188 (15.77%) .NET
8 163 (13.67%) Spring
9 161 (13.51%) RESTful
10 153 (12.84%) Spring Boot
11 129 (10.82%) Kafka
12 118 (9.90%) Next.js
13 113 (9.48%) GraphQL
14 103 (8.64%) Vue
15 84 (7.05%) Jest
16 81 (6.80%) HTML5
17 62 (5.20%) CSS3
18 61 (5.12%) Playwright
19 57 (4.78%) FastAPI
20 48 (4.03%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 149 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 89 (7.47%) Fixed Income
3 68 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
5 58 (4.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (4.11%) Equities
8 42 (3.52%) Derivative
9 37 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (2.85%) AI Agents
11 29 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.59%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.34%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.26%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.92%) Mobile App
18 10 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
19 9 (0.76%) NHS
19 9 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.85%) Linux
2 12 (1.01%) Android
3 11 (0.92%) Windows
4 9 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.76%) Unix
5 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (41.95%) CI/CD
2 481 (40.35%) Full-Stack Development
3 473 (39.68%) Agile
4 313 (26.26%) DevOps
5 291 (24.41%) Software Engineering
6 267 (22.40%) Microservices
7 246 (20.64%) Front End Development
8 204 (17.11%) AI
9 195 (16.36%) Test Automation
10 170 (14.26%) Containerisation
11 148 (12.42%) User Experience
12 136 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
13 110 (9.23%) Code Quality
14 105 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
15 103 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (8.22%) Scrum
17 93 (7.80%) TDD
18 92 (7.72%) Mentoring
19 91 (7.63%) Event-Driven
20 85 (7.13%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 638 (53.52%) TypeScript
2 561 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 383 (32.13%) Python
4 368 (30.87%) Java
5 224 (18.79%) SQL
6 208 (17.45%) C#
7 60 (5.03%) Go
8 23 (1.93%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 11 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.84%) Rust
12 8 (0.67%) Bash
13 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.59%) Bicep
13 7 (0.59%) C++
13 7 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.50%) Formula Language
14 6 (0.50%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.50%) LotusScript
14 6 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 201 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 177 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 66 (5.54%) Degree
4 51 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.25%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.084%) CISSP
14 1 (0.084%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.084%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 72 (6.04%) WCAG
3 70 (5.87%) QA
4 7 (0.59%) GDPR
5 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.34%) HL7
7 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.17%) NCSC
7 2 (0.17%) PSD2
8 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.084%) GRC
8 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 237 (19.88%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 191 (16.02%) Kubernetes
2 128 (10.74%) Terraform
3 25 (2.10%) Grafana
4 17 (1.43%) Argo
4 17 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.26%) Ansible
6 10 (0.84%) Istio
6 10 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.76%) Control-M
8 3 (0.25%) Nagios
8 3 (0.25%) Podman
9 2 (0.17%) Rancher
10 1 (0.084%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 75 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.12%) Oracle
3 51 (4.28%) Google
4 32 (2.68%) OpenAI
5 17 (1.43%) Databricks
5 17 (1.43%) Sitecore
6 15 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 11 (0.92%) Adobe
9 10 (0.84%) Splunk
10 8 (0.67%) Conga
10 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
10 8 (0.67%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.59%) SAP
11 7 (0.59%) Solace
12 6 (0.50%) Apple
12 6 (0.50%) Kofax
12 6 (0.50%) Lotus
12 6 (0.50%) Pega
12 6 (0.50%) Red Hat