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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 78 75
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 -14
Contract jobs citing React 1,068 902 1,227
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.49% 3.06% 2.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.48% 13.49% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 688 992
10th Percentile £358 £361 £325
25th Percentile £413 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £763 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.28% -2.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 25
10th Percentile £43.55 £26.25 £40.00
25th Percentile £56.54 £29.31 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.50 £40.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.58% -35.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £45.31 £72.50
90th Percentile - £62.48 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year +176.36% -59.41% +3.44%

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 9,302 6,686 9,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.72% 22.69% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,202 4,463 6,264
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 95 217
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.13 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.62 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -24 890 £525 - 631
London -21 549 £550 -4.35% 298
UK excluding London -23 371 £500 +11.11% 418
Work from Home -38 337 £550 +6.80% 407
North of England -19 133 £475 +5.56% 123
North West -6 78 £450 - 62
South East -47 71 £500 -9.09% 114
Midlands -46 52 £550 +10.00% 63
Scotland +5 51 £438 -0.79% 17
Yorkshire -32 44 £500 +2.83% 47
West Midlands -43 41 £542 +8.30% 34
East of England -10 31 £600 +50.00% 31
South West -19 29 £504 +14.23% 63
North East -8 14 £475 +3.26% 14
East Midlands -33 9 £600 +20.00% 29
Northern Ireland -3 7 - - 2
Wales -9 5 £331 -17.19% 13

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 40 (3.75%) CMS
2 29 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 18 (1.69%) Confluence
5 16 (1.50%) Headless CMS
6 15 (1.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 10 (0.94%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.94%) Mendix
8 9 (0.84%) Apache
9 8 (0.75%) Camunda
10 7 (0.66%) SAS
11 5 (0.47%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.47%) IIS
11 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.28%) WordPress
13 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.84%) Adobe XD
3 6 (0.56%) Sketch
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.094%) Blender
4 1 (0.094%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.094%) InVision
4 1 (0.094%) Maya
4 1 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.84%) Shopify
2 5 (0.47%) Magento
3 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.094%) Endur
5 1 (0.094%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 469 (43.91%) AWS
2 335 (31.37%) Azure
3 143 (13.39%) GCP
4 142 (13.30%) GitHub
4 142 (13.30%) Serverless
5 89 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 88 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
7 84 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (4.87%) Amazon S3
9 40 (3.75%) Figma
10 34 (3.18%) Power Platform
11 33 (3.09%) Azure Functions
12 30 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (2.72%) SaaS
14 28 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 28 (2.62%) Entra ID
15 26 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
16 21 (1.97%) OpenShift
17 20 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.75%) Wireless
2 5 (0.47%) Network Security
3 3 (0.28%) DNS
3 3 (0.28%) HTTP
3 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.19%) DHCP
4 2 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.094%) Firewall
5 1 (0.094%) LAN
5 1 (0.094%) Multicast
5 1 (0.094%) RTMP
5 1 (0.094%) WAN
5 1 (0.094%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.98%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (8.90%) NoSQL
3 88 (8.24%) Relational Database
4 69 (6.46%) SQL Server
5 67 (6.27%) MongoDB
6 60 (5.62%) MySQL
7 30 (2.81%) Redis
8 26 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (2.43%) Power BI
9 24 (2.25%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.69%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.12%) Metadata
14 11 (1.03%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.84%) Big Data
15 9 (0.84%) Tableau
16 6 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 209 (19.57%) Git
2 69 (6.46%) GitLab
3 65 (6.09%) Jenkins
4 62 (5.81%) Cypress.io
5 59 (5.52%) JIRA
6 40 (3.75%) JUnit
7 25 (2.34%) Mockito
8 22 (2.06%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.97%) webpack
10 20 (1.87%) Selenium
11 17 (1.59%) Maven
12 15 (1.40%) Vite
13 14 (1.31%) Mocha
14 13 (1.22%) Storybook
15 12 (1.12%) Android Studio
15 12 (1.12%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.12%) CircleCI
15 12 (1.12%) Xcode
16 11 (1.03%) Browser DevTools
16 11 (1.03%) Eclipse
General
1 221 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 199 (18.63%) Finance
3 131 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 88 (8.24%) Front Office
5 78 (7.30%) Banking
6 42 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (3.00%) Investment Banking
8 19 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.22%) Retail
10 10 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 8 (0.75%) Marketing
12 7 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.66%) Games
12 7 (0.66%) Legal
12 7 (0.66%) Publishing
13 6 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 664 (62.17%) Developer
2 224 (20.97%) Full-Stack Developer
3 173 (16.20%) Senior
4 154 (14.42%) Software Engineer
5 151 (14.14%) React Developer
6 116 (10.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 106 (9.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 94 (8.80%) Lead
9 88 (8.24%) Senior Developer
10 84 (7.87%) Java Developer
11 78 (7.30%) Python Developer
12 54 (5.06%) Lead Developer
13 50 (4.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 45 (4.21%) Architect
15 41 (3.84%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 37 (3.46%) Lead Software Developer
18 35 (3.28%) Lead Software Engineer
19 34 (3.18%) .NET Developer
19 34 (3.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (30.15%) Node.js
2 298 (27.90%) AngularJS
3 254 (23.78%) CSS
4 225 (21.07%) HTML
5 191 (17.88%) RESTful
6 167 (15.64%) .NET
7 155 (14.51%) Spring
8 147 (13.76%) REST
9 140 (13.11%) Redux
10 134 (12.55%) Spring Boot
11 120 (11.24%) Vue
12 115 (10.77%) Next.js
13 110 (10.30%) GraphQL
14 101 (9.46%) Kafka
15 100 (9.36%) Jest
16 72 (6.74%) HTML5
17 60 (5.62%) Playwright
18 57 (5.34%) CSS3
18 57 (5.34%) FastAPI
19 56 (5.24%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 114 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 73 (6.84%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.06%) Fixed Income
4 37 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
5 36 (3.37%) Derivative
6 32 (3.00%) AI Agents
6 32 (3.00%) Mobile App
7 24 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.87%) Equities
9 19 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.40%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.12%) Low-Code
15 11 (1.03%) NHS
16 7 (0.66%) Equity Derivative
16 7 (0.66%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.56%) Linux
2 27 (2.53%) Android
3 25 (2.34%) Unix
3 25 (2.34%) Windows
4 17 (1.59%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.094%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.094%) CentOS
6 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (44.57%) Agile
2 472 (44.19%) CI/CD
3 457 (42.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 313 (29.31%) DevOps
5 285 (26.69%) Microservices
6 254 (23.78%) Software Engineering
7 241 (22.57%) Front End Development
8 178 (16.67%) AI
9 172 (16.10%) User Experience
10 170 (15.92%) Test Automation
11 166 (15.54%) Containerisation
12 154 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
13 102 (9.55%) Scrum
14 101 (9.46%) Clean Code
15 98 (9.18%) Code Quality
16 91 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
17 87 (8.15%) TDD
18 84 (7.87%) Machine Learning
19 78 (7.30%) API Integration
20 77 (7.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 532 (49.81%) JavaScript
2 518 (48.50%) TypeScript
3 365 (34.18%) Python
4 316 (29.59%) Java
5 204 (19.10%) SQL
6 150 (14.04%) C#
7 55 (5.15%) Go
8 14 (1.31%) C++
8 14 (1.31%) Ruby
9 13 (1.22%) Bicep
9 13 (1.22%) Perl
9 13 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.12%) Rust
11 10 (0.94%) Formula Language
11 10 (0.94%) LotusScript
12 8 (0.75%) JSX
13 7 (0.66%) Scala
13 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 185 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 159 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 64 (5.99%) Degree
4 44 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.28%) PhD
11 2 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.19%) OCP
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.094%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.094%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.094%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.094%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (13.39%) Accessibility
2 79 (7.40%) WCAG
3 64 (5.99%) QA
4 7 (0.66%) HL7
5 5 (0.47%) GDPR
6 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.19%) NCSC
7 2 (0.19%) PSD2
8 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.094%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.094%) MiFID
8 1 (0.094%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.094%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 244 (22.85%) Docker
2 17 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.094%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 204 (19.10%) Kubernetes
2 115 (10.77%) Terraform
3 31 (2.90%) Grafana
4 23 (2.15%) Argo
5 15 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.03%) Ansible
8 6 (0.56%) Istio
8 6 (0.56%) Kibana
9 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.19%) Nagios
10 2 (0.19%) Rancher
11 1 (0.094%) Consul
11 1 (0.094%) Podman
11 1 (0.094%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 93 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.34%) Oracle
3 45 (4.21%) Google
4 38 (3.56%) OpenAI
5 35 (3.28%) Adobe
6 21 (1.97%) Sitecore
7 18 (1.69%) Splunk
8 16 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.12%) Databricks
10 11 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.94%) Kofax
11 10 (0.94%) Lotus
12 7 (0.66%) SAP
13 6 (0.56%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.56%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.47%) Apple
14 5 (0.47%) Pega
15 4 (0.37%) Brio
15 4 (0.37%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.37%) Xamarin