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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 78 75
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 -17
Contract jobs citing React 1,072 923 1,216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.59% 3.01% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.74% 13.24% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 702 977
10th Percentile £358 £360 £334
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -3.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 24
10th Percentile £43.20 £26.25 £43.00
25th Percentile £55.81 £31.50 £57.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £39.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -41.13% -5.36%
75th Percentile £95.00 £44.13 £72.50
90th Percentile - £59.29 £79.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +176.36% -60.71% +6.87%

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 9,132 6,971 9,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.04% 22.72% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,106 4,526 6,332
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -1.69% -7.09%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 90 217
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.15 £22.19
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.69 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.50 £67.88 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.10 £75.61
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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -24 895 £525 - 414
London -22 538 £550 -5.98% 187
UK excluding London -11 387 £500 +11.11% 239
Work from Home -36 336 £540 +8.00% 241
North of England -12 136 £475 +5.56% 84
North West +1 84 £450 - 48
South East -42 68 £450 -10.00% 45
Midlands -27 54 £550 +10.00% 37
Scotland +4 52 £438 -0.79% 5
Yorkshire -39 43 £500 +2.56% 31
West Midlands -27 42 £542 +11.08% 22
South West -16 39 £538 +19.44% 47
East of England -4 33 £600 +65.52% 17
North East -10 12 £475 +3.26% 5
East Midlands -26 11 £550 +10.00% 15
Northern Ireland -1 9 - - 1
Wales -4 5 £331 -22.06% 7

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 42 (3.92%) CMS
2 24 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 17 (1.59%) Confluence
5 16 (1.49%) Headless CMS
6 15 (1.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 11 (1.03%) Apache
7 11 (1.03%) SAS
8 9 (0.84%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.84%) Mendix
9 8 (0.75%) Camunda
10 6 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.47%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.37%) IIS
13 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.28%) WordPress
14 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
15 1 (0.093%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.093%) Traefik
Applications
1 18 (1.68%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.93%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.65%) Sketch
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.093%) Blender
5 1 (0.093%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.093%) InVision
5 1 (0.093%) Maya
5 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.093%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Shopify
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
4 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.093%) Endur
4 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 482 (44.96%) AWS
2 320 (29.85%) Azure
3 148 (13.81%) GCP
4 142 (13.25%) GitHub
5 135 (12.59%) Serverless
6 90 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
8 87 (8.12%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (4.48%) Amazon S3
10 41 (3.82%) Figma
11 30 (2.80%) Power Platform
11 30 (2.80%) SaaS
12 29 (2.71%) Azure Functions
12 29 (2.71%) Entra ID
13 28 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
14 27 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 27 (2.52%) npm
15 24 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.93%) Wireless
2 5 (0.47%) DNS
2 5 (0.47%) HTTP
2 5 (0.47%) Network Security
3 4 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.093%) Firewall
6 1 (0.093%) LAN
6 1 (0.093%) Multicast
6 1 (0.093%) RTMP
6 1 (0.093%) WAN
6 1 (0.093%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (14.83%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (9.14%) NoSQL
3 87 (8.12%) Relational Database
4 66 (6.16%) MongoDB
5 64 (5.97%) SQL Server
6 62 (5.78%) MySQL
7 25 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (2.33%) Redis
8 23 (2.15%) Power BI
9 22 (2.05%) DynamoDB
10 19 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.59%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.21%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.12%) Metadata
14 11 (1.03%) Big Data
15 9 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.75%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 210 (19.59%) Git
2 69 (6.44%) GitLab
3 68 (6.34%) Cypress.io
4 67 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 59 (5.50%) JIRA
6 41 (3.82%) JUnit
7 24 (2.24%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.24%) Mockito
7 24 (2.24%) webpack
8 22 (2.05%) Selenium
9 21 (1.96%) Maven
10 14 (1.31%) Android Studio
10 14 (1.31%) Browser DevTools
10 14 (1.31%) Mocha
10 14 (1.31%) Xcode
11 13 (1.21%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.21%) Eclipse
11 13 (1.21%) SonarQube
11 13 (1.21%) Storybook
11 13 (1.21%) Vite
General
1 220 (20.52%) Social Skills
2 209 (19.50%) Finance
3 130 (12.13%) Public Sector
4 80 (7.46%) Banking
5 79 (7.37%) Front Office
6 44 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 20 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.31%) Retail
10 13 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.12%) Marketing
12 9 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.65%) Games
14 7 (0.65%) Publishing
14 7 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.37%) Legal
16 4 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 648 (60.45%) Developer
2 222 (20.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 173 (16.14%) Senior
4 149 (13.90%) Software Engineer
5 148 (13.81%) React Developer
6 113 (10.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 108 (10.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 101 (9.42%) Lead
9 90 (8.40%) Senior Developer
10 84 (7.84%) Java Developer
11 82 (7.65%) Python Developer
12 51 (4.76%) Lead Developer
13 45 (4.20%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 43 (4.01%) Architect
15 42 (3.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 39 (3.64%) Software Developer
17 34 (3.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 31 (2.89%) .NET Developer
18 31 (2.89%) AWS Developer
19 30 (2.80%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (30.97%) Node.js
2 303 (28.26%) AngularJS
3 254 (23.69%) CSS
4 224 (20.90%) HTML
5 192 (17.91%) RESTful
6 164 (15.30%) .NET
7 157 (14.65%) Spring
8 143 (13.34%) REST
9 134 (12.50%) Spring Boot
10 131 (12.22%) Redux
11 124 (11.57%) Next.js
12 116 (10.82%) Vue
13 112 (10.45%) GraphQL
14 110 (10.26%) Jest
15 97 (9.05%) Kafka
16 72 (6.72%) HTML5
17 62 (5.78%) Playwright
18 59 (5.50%) FastAPI
19 57 (5.32%) CSS3
20 54 (5.04%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 113 (10.54%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 44 (4.10%) Fixed Income
4 37 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 34 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 31 (2.89%) Derivative
7 26 (2.43%) AI Agents
8 23 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.87%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.77%) Equities
13 18 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.40%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.40%) Onboarding
16 11 (1.03%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.93%) Hedge funds
17 10 (0.93%) NHS
18 8 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.29%) Linux
2 31 (2.89%) Unix
3 30 (2.80%) Android
4 29 (2.71%) Windows
5 19 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.37%) CentOS
8 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.19%) VMS
10 1 (0.093%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (44.96%) CI/CD
2 471 (43.94%) Agile
3 453 (42.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 321 (29.94%) DevOps
5 279 (26.03%) Microservices
6 251 (23.41%) Software Engineering
7 240 (22.39%) Front End Development
8 179 (16.70%) AI
9 177 (16.51%) User Experience
10 172 (16.04%) Test Automation
11 169 (15.76%) Containerisation
12 167 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
13 106 (9.89%) Clean Code
14 104 (9.70%) Scrum
15 103 (9.61%) Code Quality
16 92 (8.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 88 (8.21%) TDD
18 85 (7.93%) Mentoring
19 82 (7.65%) Machine Learning
20 78 (7.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 543 (50.65%) JavaScript
2 523 (48.79%) TypeScript
3 361 (33.68%) Python
4 322 (30.04%) Java
5 195 (18.19%) SQL
6 150 (13.99%) C#
7 49 (4.57%) Go
8 17 (1.59%) Bicep
8 17 (1.59%) Perl
9 16 (1.49%) C++
10 14 (1.31%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.31%) Ruby
11 13 (1.21%) Rust
12 9 (0.84%) Formula Language
12 9 (0.84%) LotusScript
13 8 (0.75%) JSX
13 8 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.65%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.65%) Scala
15 6 (0.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 197 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 169 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.16%) Degree
4 41 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.28%) PhD
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.19%) OCP
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (13.62%) Accessibility
2 76 (7.09%) WCAG
3 64 (5.97%) QA
4 7 (0.65%) GDPR
4 7 (0.65%) HL7
5 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.19%) NCSC
7 2 (0.19%) PMO
7 2 (0.19%) PSD2
8 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.093%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.093%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.093%) MiFID
8 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 249 (23.23%) Docker
2 21 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.093%) Varnish
4 1 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 211 (19.68%) Kubernetes
2 125 (11.66%) Terraform
3 32 (2.99%) Grafana
4 24 (2.24%) Argo
5 18 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.03%) Ansible
8 9 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (0.84%) Kibana
9 7 (0.65%) Istio
10 2 (0.19%) Nagios
10 2 (0.19%) Rancher
11 1 (0.093%) Consul
11 1 (0.093%) Podman
11 1 (0.093%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 103 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.78%) Oracle
3 48 (4.48%) Google
4 36 (3.36%) Adobe
5 34 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 23 (2.15%) Sitecore
7 19 (1.77%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.68%) Splunk
9 13 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.12%) Databricks
11 9 (0.84%) Kofax
11 9 (0.84%) Lotus
12 8 (0.75%) SAP
13 7 (0.65%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.47%) Apple
14 5 (0.47%) Marketo
14 5 (0.47%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.47%) Pega
14 5 (0.47%) VMware
15 4 (0.37%) Salesforce