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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 75 69
Rank change year-on-year -62 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing React 1,124 1,109 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.05% 3.36% 3.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.42% 12.91% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 783 919
10th Percentile £363 £358 £344
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
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 9 8 5
10th Percentile £49.15 £54.57 £38.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 £66.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +20.91% -26.17%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £79.60 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +7.46% - -9.46%

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 11,928 8,587 9,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.74% 26.02% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,844 5,729 6,245
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £438
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% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 190 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.50 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.85 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.51% -10.96% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.75 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +10.11%

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 September 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 September 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 25 September 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 -63 947 £538 +2.38% 1,897
London -52 547 £575 -4.17% 1,153
UK excluding London -54 449 £475 +5.56% 955
Work from Home -70 323 £525 - 950
North of England -25 170 £500 +17.65% 263
Yorkshire +2 88 £500 +25.00% 65
Scotland -25 73 £377 -18.92% 88
North West -51 71 £500 +16.96% 173
South West -27 64 £550 +7.32% 123
Midlands -23 63 £470 -4.03% 111
South East -90 62 £453 +6.59% 186
West Midlands -9 56 £481 -8.33% 75
East of England -39 17 £625 +47.06% 69
North East -37 11 £500 +7.53% 26
East Midlands -18 7 £433 +16.62% 36
Northern Ireland +3 2 £190 - 92
Wales -16 2 £469 -9.64% 30
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 37 (3.29%) Confluence
2 28 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.51%) Camunda
4 14 (1.25%) CMS
5 12 (1.07%) nginx
6 11 (0.98%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.53%) Apache
7 6 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.53%) WordPress
8 5 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) IIS
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.089%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.089%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.27%) Sketch
3 1 (0.089%) Blender
3 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.089%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.89%) SAP CRM
2 6 (0.53%) Shopify
3 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.089%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 417 (37.10%) AWS
2 303 (26.96%) Azure
3 137 (12.19%) GitHub
4 127 (11.30%) Serverless
5 124 (11.03%) GCP
6 80 (7.12%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (5.25%) Amazon S3
10 52 (4.63%) OpenShift
11 50 (4.45%) Figma
12 48 (4.27%) Power Platform
13 40 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
15 30 (2.67%) Entra ID
16 28 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
17 27 (2.40%) PowerApps
17 27 (2.40%) SaaS
18 26 (2.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.89%) Firewall
2 8 (0.71%) DNS
2 8 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
3 7 (0.62%) HTTP
4 6 (0.53%) VPN
5 4 (0.36%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
6 2 (0.18%) Internet
6 2 (0.18%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.089%) CTI
7 1 (0.089%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.089%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.089%) MQTT
7 1 (0.089%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (13.52%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (7.83%) SQL Server
3 81 (7.21%) Relational Database
4 75 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 73 (6.49%) NoSQL
6 55 (4.89%) MySQL
7 41 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
8 39 (3.47%) DynamoDB
9 33 (2.94%) Power BI
10 27 (2.40%) Redis
11 18 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (0.98%) Metadata
14 10 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.80%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.71%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.53%) Neo4j
18 5 (0.44%) Data Lake
18 5 (0.44%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 237 (21.09%) Git
2 141 (12.54%) Jenkins
3 80 (7.12%) GitLab
4 65 (5.78%) JIRA
5 60 (5.34%) Gradle
6 54 (4.80%) JUnit
7 47 (4.18%) Maven
8 46 (4.09%) Cypress.io
9 33 (2.94%) Vite
10 31 (2.76%) Mockito
11 26 (2.31%) SonarQube
11 26 (2.31%) Storybook
12 25 (2.22%) Claude Code
12 25 (2.22%) Cucumber
13 20 (1.78%) REST Assured
13 20 (1.78%) webpack
14 19 (1.69%) Selenium
15 18 (1.60%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.07%) Liquibase
17 11 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 248 (22.06%) Finance
2 238 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 157 (13.97%) Banking
4 119 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 69 (6.14%) Front Office
6 58 (5.16%) Investment Banking
7 56 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (3.74%) Retail
9 30 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.07%) Law
13 11 (0.98%) Back Office
13 11 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.89%) Marketing
14 10 (0.89%) Military
14 10 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.71%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.71%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 594 (52.85%) Developer
2 237 (21.09%) Senior
3 189 (16.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 158 (14.06%) React Developer
5 133 (11.83%) Senior Developer
6 132 (11.74%) Java Developer
7 130 (11.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 122 (10.85%) Software Engineer
9 101 (8.99%) Lead
10 97 (8.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 55 (4.89%) Senior React Developer
12 54 (4.80%) Python Developer
13 52 (4.63%) Senior Java Developer
13 52 (4.63%) UI Developer
14 40 (3.56%) Software Developer
15 39 (3.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 39 (3.47%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 38 (3.38%) Technical Leader
17 37 (3.29%) Architect
18 35 (3.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (26.25%) Node.js
2 287 (25.53%) REST
3 232 (20.64%) CSS
4 222 (19.75%) HTML
5 173 (15.39%) .NET
6 168 (14.95%) Spring
7 167 (14.86%) RESTful
8 157 (13.97%) Spring Boot
9 155 (13.79%) AngularJS
9 155 (13.79%) Redux
10 135 (12.01%) Next.js
11 134 (11.92%) Kafka
12 124 (11.03%) Terraform
13 106 (9.43%) HTML5
14 93 (8.27%) GraphQL
15 89 (7.92%) Vue
16 86 (7.65%) Playwright
17 85 (7.56%) CSS3
18 82 (7.30%) OAuth
19 80 (7.12%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 175 (15.57%) Cloud Native
2 85 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 66 (5.87%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (5.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 57 (5.07%) Greenfield Project
6 55 (4.89%) Fixed Income
7 48 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.56%) AI Agents
9 33 (2.94%) Data Structures
9 33 (2.94%) Equities
10 30 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (2.05%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.51%) Derivative
14 16 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.42%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (0.98%) Autonomous Agent
16 11 (0.98%) Mobile App
17 9 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.02%) Linux
2 15 (1.33%) Windows
3 9 (0.80%) Unix
4 5 (0.44%) Android
4 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.089%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (49.20%) CI/CD
2 483 (42.97%) Agile
3 465 (41.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 299 (26.60%) Microservices
5 294 (26.16%) DevOps
6 289 (25.71%) Software Engineering
7 237 (21.09%) Front End Development
8 226 (20.11%) Test Automation
9 220 (19.57%) AI
10 173 (15.39%) Containerisation
11 164 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
12 161 (14.32%) User Experience
13 154 (13.70%) Event-Driven
14 138 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 132 (11.74%) Scrum
16 131 (11.65%) Mentoring
17 125 (11.12%) TDD
18 121 (10.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 119 (10.59%) Infrastructure as Code
20 116 (10.32%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 643 (57.21%) TypeScript
2 565 (50.27%) JavaScript
3 389 (34.61%) Java
4 309 (27.49%) Python
5 238 (21.17%) SQL
6 178 (15.84%) C#
7 45 (4.00%) Go
8 32 (2.85%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 22 (1.96%) Bash
11 15 (1.33%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.89%) Rust
13 9 (0.80%) C++
13 9 (0.80%) PHP
13 9 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.62%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.62%) Bicep
15 7 (0.62%) Ruby
16 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 193 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 158 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.76%) Degree
4 55 (4.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 53 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.89%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.089%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.089%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (13.61%) Accessibility
2 90 (8.01%) QA
3 85 (7.56%) WCAG
4 8 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.27%) HL7
7 2 (0.18%) GDPR
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.089%) GRC
8 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 244 (21.71%) Docker
2 3 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.089%) Varnish
3 1 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 239 (21.26%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.47%) Grafana
3 33 (2.94%) Ansible
4 19 (1.69%) Argo
5 18 (1.60%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.42%) Control-M
7 10 (0.89%) Kibana
8 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.62%) Istio
9 7 (0.62%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.27%) Podman
11 2 (0.18%) systemd
12 1 (0.089%) Nagios
12 1 (0.089%) QRadar
Vendors
1 93 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 79 (7.03%) Oracle
3 53 (4.72%) Google
4 23 (2.05%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.87%) Databricks
6 20 (1.78%) MuleSoft
7 18 (1.60%) OpenAI
7 18 (1.60%) Splunk
8 15 (1.33%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.33%) SAP
9 10 (0.89%) Adobe
9 10 (0.89%) IBM
9 10 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.80%) Veracode
11 8 (0.71%) Conga
11 8 (0.71%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.71%) Okta
12 7 (0.62%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.53%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.53%) Solace