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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 73 68
Rank change year-on-year -38 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing React 1,202 1,124 1,226
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 3.44% 3.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.69% 15.19% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 813 966
10th Percentile £365 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +2.80%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £688
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 16
10th Percentile £47.48 £59.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 £55.94
Median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% - -9.46%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year +13.43% -2.19% +37.00%

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 10,286 7,402 8,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.42% 22.62% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,713 4,997 5,982
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £670
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 158 252
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £22.86
25th Percentile £45.31 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -14.00%
75th Percentile £74.82 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.30 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +12.50% +2.92% -1.24%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -46 985 £550 +4.76% 560
London -37 593 £600 - 285
UK excluding London -39 444 £500 +11.11% 353
Work from Home -43 405 £550 +3.09% 245
North of England -25 165 £500 +11.11% 114
Scotland -7 80 £400 -15.79% 30
Yorkshire -7 77 £523 +30.63% 37
South East -72 77 £525 +15.38% 99
North West -36 75 £500 +10.01% 67
South West -3 64 £525 +23.53% 28
Midlands -50 37 £468 +4.47% 46
West Midlands -45 30 £475 -7.32% 28
East of England -17 20 £600 +41.18% 21
North East -36 13 £475 +2.15% 12
Northern Ireland +5 5 £190 -41.54% 5
East Midlands -22 5 £443 +20.24% 18
Wales -23 1 £525 +23.53% 17

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 38 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.58%) Confluence
3 18 (1.50%) CMS
4 16 (1.33%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.75%) nginx
6 7 (0.58%) Camunda
7 6 (0.50%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.33%) WordPress
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.083%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.083%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.083%) Blender
4 1 (0.083%) Maya
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.083%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.16%) Shopify
2 9 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.67%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.083%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.083%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 484 (40.27%) AWS
2 342 (28.45%) Azure
3 142 (11.81%) GCP
4 133 (11.06%) Serverless
5 127 (10.57%) GitHub
6 89 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
7 79 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
8 71 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
9 66 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 56 (4.66%) Power Platform
11 54 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (4.08%) Figma
13 37 (3.08%) Entra ID
13 37 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (3.08%) Power Automate
13 37 (3.08%) PowerApps
14 31 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (2.58%) OpenShift
15 29 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.75%) Firewall
2 6 (0.50%) HTTP
3 4 (0.33%) DNS
3 4 (0.33%) Intranet
4 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.25%) VPN
5 2 (0.17%) DSL
6 1 (0.083%) CTI
6 1 (0.083%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.083%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.083%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (14.98%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (7.40%) SQL Server
3 88 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 79 (6.57%) NoSQL
5 66 (5.49%) MongoDB
6 55 (4.58%) MySQL
7 47 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 40 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (3.00%) Power BI
10 31 (2.58%) Redis
11 15 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (0.83%) Metadata
15 9 (0.75%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.75%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.67%) Big Data
16 8 (0.67%) Db2
16 8 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 196 (16.31%) Git
2 122 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.57%) JIRA
4 55 (4.58%) GitLab
5 49 (4.08%) Cypress.io
6 47 (3.91%) Gradle
7 42 (3.49%) JUnit
8 35 (2.91%) Vite
9 26 (2.16%) Mockito
10 25 (2.08%) Maven
11 22 (1.83%) webpack
12 20 (1.66%) Claude Code
13 17 (1.41%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.33%) Liquibase
14 16 (1.33%) Storybook
15 15 (1.25%) Cucumber
16 14 (1.16%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.92%) Postman
18 10 (0.83%) SonarQube
18 10 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 273 (22.71%) Finance
2 223 (18.55%) Social Skills
3 146 (12.15%) Banking
4 123 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 120 (9.98%) Front Office
6 64 (5.32%) Investment Banking
7 52 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (3.24%) Retail
9 25 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.33%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.92%) Law
13 10 (0.83%) Military
14 9 (0.75%) Legal
15 8 (0.67%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 661 (54.99%) Developer
2 243 (20.22%) Senior
3 208 (17.30%) Full-Stack Developer
4 179 (14.89%) React Developer
5 175 (14.56%) Software Engineer
6 147 (12.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 140 (11.65%) Senior Developer
8 136 (11.31%) Java Developer
9 132 (10.98%) Lead
10 85 (7.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 65 (5.41%) Python Developer
12 59 (4.91%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 55 (4.58%) Architect
15 54 (4.49%) Senior React Developer
15 54 (4.49%) UI Developer
16 53 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
17 45 (3.74%) Software Developer
18 44 (3.66%) Java Engineer
19 43 (3.58%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (26.96%) Node.js
2 253 (21.05%) REST
3 223 (18.55%) CSS
4 207 (17.22%) Redux
5 203 (16.89%) HTML
6 184 (15.31%) AngularJS
7 183 (15.22%) .NET
8 165 (13.73%) RESTful
9 157 (13.06%) Spring
10 148 (12.31%) Spring Boot
11 147 (12.23%) Kafka
12 123 (10.23%) GraphQL
13 117 (9.73%) Next.js
14 101 (8.40%) Vue
15 97 (8.07%) HTML5
16 86 (7.15%) Jest
17 80 (6.66%) CSS3
18 63 (5.24%) Playwright
19 59 (4.91%) FastAPI
20 53 (4.41%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 172 (14.31%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.07%) Fixed Income
3 78 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (5.24%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.83%) Equities
8 43 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.00%) Derivative
10 35 (2.91%) AI Agents
11 32 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (2.58%) Data Structures
13 27 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
14 25 (2.08%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.00%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.83%) Mobile App
18 9 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
18 9 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.16%) Linux
2 13 (1.08%) Windows
3 11 (0.92%) Android
4 8 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.58%) Unix
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (44.68%) CI/CD
2 500 (41.60%) Agile
3 496 (41.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 322 (26.79%) Software Engineering
5 300 (24.96%) DevOps
6 295 (24.54%) Microservices
7 230 (19.13%) Front End Development
8 213 (17.72%) AI
9 204 (16.97%) Test Automation
10 171 (14.23%) Containerisation
11 147 (12.23%) User Experience
12 146 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
13 120 (9.98%) Code Quality
14 117 (9.73%) Event-Driven
15 116 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 112 (9.32%) TDD
17 110 (9.15%) Mentoring
18 106 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
18 106 (8.82%) Scrum
19 91 (7.57%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 667 (55.49%) TypeScript
2 569 (47.34%) JavaScript
3 386 (32.11%) Java
4 364 (30.28%) Python
5 231 (19.22%) SQL
6 198 (16.47%) C#
7 65 (5.41%) Go
8 32 (2.66%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.00%) Bash
10 12 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.83%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.83%) Rust
12 9 (0.75%) PHP
13 8 (0.67%) C++
14 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.58%) Bicep
14 7 (0.58%) Scala
15 5 (0.42%) Ruby
15 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 202 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 176 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 68 (5.66%) Degree
4 58 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 10 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.33%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.083%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.083%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.083%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (13.14%) Accessibility
2 79 (6.57%) WCAG
3 75 (6.24%) QA
4 7 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) GDPR
6 4 (0.33%) HL7
7 3 (0.25%) PSD2
8 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.083%) GRC
8 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 246 (20.47%) Docker
2 7 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 216 (17.97%) Kubernetes
2 129 (10.73%) Terraform
3 27 (2.25%) Grafana
4 25 (2.08%) Ansible
5 17 (1.41%) Argo
6 16 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.16%) Control-M
8 7 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.42%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.17%) Nagios
11 2 (0.17%) Rancher
12 1 (0.083%) Kibana
Vendors
1 82 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.66%) Oracle
3 46 (3.83%) Google
4 29 (2.41%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.58%) Databricks
6 18 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 14 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.16%) Splunk
9 13 (1.08%) SAP
10 9 (0.75%) Adobe
10 9 (0.75%) Solace
11 8 (0.67%) Conga
11 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.67%) Sitecore
12 6 (0.50%) Pega
13 5 (0.42%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.33%) IBM
14 4 (0.33%) Netlify