React Contract Job Trends

React.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 81 71
Rank change year-on-year -56 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing React 1,133 1,064 1,127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.07% 3.11% 3.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.32% 11.92% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 727 839
10th Percentile £363 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -3.72% +0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £800 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 6
10th Percentile £58.13 £45.65 £37.63
25th Percentile £68.56 £53.91 £39.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £64.75 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% +49.71% -39.93%
75th Percentile £76.25 £67.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £77.50 - £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +11.94% -3.60% +2.21%

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

6 months to
29 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12,155 8,927 9,050
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 22.20% 26.11% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,044 5,946 5,831
10th Percentile £375 £356 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
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 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.20% -3.10% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 185 133
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.10 £25.15
25th Percentile £50.69 £41.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +12.55%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.10 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +16.99%

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 29 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 for jobs citing React over the 6 months to 29 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 29 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -64 952 £527 +0.45% 201
London -50 532 £575 - 77
UK excluding London -54 459 £475 +5.56% 162
Work from Home -58 345 £518 -2.22% 111
North of England -13 184 £500 +20.48% 46
North West -17 88 £537 +26.35% 36
Yorkshire -5 86 £475 +18.75% 8
Midlands -6 77 £475 -9.52% 26
West Midlands +6 73 £475 -10.80% 22
Scotland -30 69 £377 -18.49% 15
South East -73 67 £453 +10.15% 32
South West -39 49 £575 +6.73% 25
North East -33 10 £500 +150.00% 2
East of England -47 7 £557 +30.94% 11
Wales -12 5 £413 -20.29% 7
Northern Ireland +6 4 £370 - 2
East Midlands -22 4 £423 -5.69% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

React Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1REST28.8%326
2Node.js26.0%295
3CSS22.0%249
4HTML21.4%242
5RESTful17.4%197
6.NET16.9%192
7Spring16.0%181
8AngularJS15.6%177
9Spring Boot14.7%166
10Redux12.7%144
11Next.js12.5%142
12Kafka11.9%135
13Terraform11.3%128
14HTML510.9%124
15Playwright9.7%110
16CSS39.4%106
17Vue9.0%102
18GraphQL8.7%99
19Jest7.9%90
19OAuth7.9%90