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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 77 67
Rank change year-on-year -61 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing React 1,115 1,102 1,213
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 3.33% 3.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.37% 12.78% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 769 917
10th Percentile £363 £358 £344
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
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 10 8 4
10th Percentile £52.08 £54.57 £38.10
25th Percentile £66.50 £60.06 £40.13
Median hourly rate £74.00 £66.50 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% +22.58% -27.67%
75th Percentile £76.75 £67.00 £72.25
90th Percentile £78.30 - £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +10.45% -3.60% -8.25%

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 11,905 8,624 9,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 26.09% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,826 5,738 6,104
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
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% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 188 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.50 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.94%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -64 937 £539 +2.57% 1,678
London -49 544 £575 -4.17% 978
UK excluding London -57 445 £475 +5.56% 843
Work from Home -75 320 £525 - 809
North of England -31 163 £500 +18.69% 232
Yorkshire -1 84 £500 +25.00% 49
Scotland -21 73 £377 -18.92% 90
North West -46 69 £500 +16.96% 169
South East -79 64 £466 +9.53% 141
Midlands -27 63 £472 -5.70% 110
South West -28 63 £550 +4.76% 123
West Midlands -6 56 £507 -3.84% 78
East of England -32 17 £625 +47.06% 71
North East -28 10 £500 +150.00% 15
East Midlands -25 7 £433 +3.15% 32
Northern Ireland +8 3 £190 - 59
Wales -16 3 £425 -18.07% 23
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 (3.14%) Confluence
2 26 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.35%) Camunda
3 15 (1.35%) CMS
4 12 (1.08%) nginx
5 10 (0.90%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.63%) WordPress
7 6 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Solana
10 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.090%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (1.08%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.090%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 412 (36.95%) AWS
2 309 (27.71%) Azure
3 134 (12.02%) GitHub
4 126 (11.30%) GCP
5 118 (10.58%) Serverless
6 78 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
7 70 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (4.84%) Amazon S3
10 51 (4.57%) OpenShift
11 50 (4.48%) Figma
12 46 (4.13%) Power Platform
13 38 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (3.05%) GitHub Copilot
15 32 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (2.87%) Entra ID
16 27 (2.42%) SaaS
17 26 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
18 25 (2.24%) PowerApps
19 24 (2.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.90%) Firewall
2 8 (0.72%) DNS
2 8 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
3 7 (0.63%) HTTP
4 6 (0.54%) VPN
5 4 (0.36%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
6 2 (0.18%) Internet
6 2 (0.18%) OpenVPN
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (13.63%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (7.80%) SQL Server
3 79 (7.09%) Relational Database
4 76 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 75 (6.73%) NoSQL
6 54 (4.84%) MySQL
7 38 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
8 35 (3.14%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.87%) Power BI
10 27 (2.42%) Redis
11 17 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (0.99%) Metadata
13 9 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.72%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.54%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.45%) Couchbase
16 5 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 242 (21.70%) Git
2 143 (12.83%) Jenkins
3 79 (7.09%) GitLab
4 63 (5.65%) JIRA
5 60 (5.38%) Gradle
6 54 (4.84%) JUnit
7 48 (4.30%) Cypress.io
8 47 (4.22%) Maven
9 31 (2.78%) Mockito
9 31 (2.78%) Vite
10 28 (2.51%) Claude Code
11 26 (2.33%) SonarQube
11 26 (2.33%) Storybook
12 25 (2.24%) Cucumber
13 22 (1.97%) webpack
14 20 (1.79%) Bitbucket
14 20 (1.79%) REST Assured
15 19 (1.70%) Selenium
16 12 (1.08%) Liquibase
17 11 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 249 (22.33%) Finance
2 233 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 156 (13.99%) Banking
4 119 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 67 (6.01%) Front Office
6 58 (5.20%) Investment Banking
7 54 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (3.86%) Retail
9 31 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.08%) Back Office
12 12 (1.08%) Law
13 10 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.90%) Marketing
13 10 (0.90%) Military
13 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.72%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.72%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 592 (53.09%) Developer
2 236 (21.17%) Senior
3 187 (16.77%) Full-Stack Developer
4 159 (14.26%) React Developer
5 132 (11.84%) Senior Developer
6 131 (11.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 127 (11.39%) Java Developer
8 122 (10.94%) Software Engineer
9 99 (8.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 98 (8.79%) Lead
11 58 (5.20%) Python Developer
12 54 (4.84%) Senior React Developer
13 52 (4.66%) Senior Java Developer
14 51 (4.57%) UI Developer
15 40 (3.59%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.32%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 37 (3.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 37 (3.32%) Technical Leader
17 35 (3.14%) Architect
18 34 (3.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (25.83%) Node.js
1 288 (25.83%) REST
2 231 (20.72%) CSS
3 221 (19.82%) HTML
4 176 (15.78%) .NET
5 175 (15.70%) RESTful
6 162 (14.53%) Spring
7 156 (13.99%) AngularJS
8 152 (13.63%) Redux
9 151 (13.54%) Spring Boot
10 134 (12.02%) Kafka
11 131 (11.75%) Next.js
12 122 (10.94%) Terraform
13 107 (9.60%) HTML5
14 92 (8.25%) GraphQL
15 91 (8.16%) Vue
16 89 (7.98%) CSS3
17 82 (7.35%) OAuth
17 82 (7.35%) Playwright
18 74 (6.64%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 174 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 88 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 66 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (5.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 57 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
5 54 (4.84%) Fixed Income
6 47 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (3.50%) AI Agents
8 34 (3.05%) Equities
9 33 (2.96%) Data Structures
10 30 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (2.06%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.52%) Derivative
14 15 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.35%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 11 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
18 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.59%) Linux
2 15 (1.35%) Windows
3 11 (0.99%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) Android
5 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
8 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (50.49%) CI/CD
2 486 (43.59%) Agile
3 465 (41.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 299 (26.82%) Microservices
5 295 (26.46%) DevOps
6 293 (26.28%) Software Engineering
7 242 (21.70%) Front End Development
8 227 (20.36%) Test Automation
9 222 (19.91%) AI
10 172 (15.43%) Containerisation
11 164 (14.71%) User Experience
12 161 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
13 153 (13.72%) Event-Driven
14 137 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 132 (11.84%) Scrum
16 131 (11.75%) Mentoring
17 126 (11.30%) TDD
18 123 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
19 120 (10.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 119 (10.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 636 (57.04%) TypeScript
2 562 (50.40%) JavaScript
3 378 (33.90%) Java
4 307 (27.53%) Python
5 239 (21.43%) SQL
6 183 (16.41%) C#
7 45 (4.04%) Go
8 32 (2.87%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.33%) Bash
9 26 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.99%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.90%) PHP
13 10 (0.90%) Rust
14 9 (0.81%) C++
15 8 (0.72%) Bicep
16 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.63%) Ruby
17 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 189 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 155 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.82%) Degree
4 56 (5.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.81%) 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
1 158 (14.17%) Accessibility
2 97 (8.70%) QA
3 87 (7.80%) WCAG
4 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.36%) HL7
5 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.27%) GDPR
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.090%) GRC
8 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.090%) SLA
System Software
1 247 (22.15%) Docker
2 4 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.090%) Varnish
3 1 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 245 (21.97%) Kubernetes
2 41 (3.68%) Grafana
3 33 (2.96%) Ansible
4 19 (1.70%) Argo
5 18 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.43%) Control-M
7 12 (1.08%) 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 (8.25%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.17%) Oracle
3 55 (4.93%) Google
4 22 (1.97%) Salesforce
5 20 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 20 (1.79%) Splunk
6 19 (1.70%) Databricks
7 18 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.43%) SAP
9 13 (1.17%) Dynatrace
10 11 (0.99%) Adobe
11 9 (0.81%) IBM
11 9 (0.81%) Veracode
12 8 (0.72%) Conga
12 8 (0.72%) GoCardless
12 8 (0.72%) Okta
13 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.63%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.54%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.54%) Solace