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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 73 74
Rank change year-on-year -28 +1 -18
Contract jobs citing React 955 978 1,222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.58% 3.11% 2.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.64% 13.97% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 729 999
10th Percentile £339 £356 £349
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £458 £465
% change year-on-year +3.71% -1.51% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile £43.20 £26.25 £45.94
25th Percentile £44.25 £31.50 £58.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £51.93 £44.13 £72.00
90th Percentile £54.28 £59.29 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £27.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +98.91% -57.03% -8.57%

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 8,205 7,000 9,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.19% 22.23% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,452 4,443 6,581
10th Percentile £356 £356 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 90 179
10th Percentile £33.00 £22.00 £27.58
25th Percentile £46.00 £35.44 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.22 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.46% +18.18% -15.38%

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 19 January 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
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 19 January 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 -28 808 £505 -8.18% 1,611
London -28 475 £525 -12.50% 298
UK excluding London -32 351 £475 +3.71% 1,500
Work from Home -53 261 £510 +2.00% 908
North of England -4 129 £445 -1.11% 304
North West -7 64 £400 -11.11% 143
South East -33 64 £375 -34.78% 459
Yorkshire -13 56 £445 -11.00% 115
Scotland -4 49 £442 -0.62% 65
Midlands -49 47 £540 +7.90% 168
West Midlands -43 36 £525 -4.55% 52
South West -11 35 £550 +22.22% 190
East of England -14 24 £675 +83.05% 237
North East -8 12 £475 +13.77% 46
East Midlands -25 11 £550 +11.11% 112
Wales -2 7 £488 -7.14% 78
Northern Ireland -8 5 - - 35

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 (3.66%) CMS
2 23 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (1.57%) Confluence
5 14 (1.47%) Headless CMS
6 11 (1.15%) Apache
6 11 (1.15%) SAS
7 9 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.94%) HCL Notes
7 9 (0.94%) Mendix
8 8 (0.84%) Camunda
9 6 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.52%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.31%) IIS
12 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.21%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.21%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.21%) Moodle
Applications
1 18 (1.88%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.94%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.73%) Sketch
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.21%) Trello
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.10%) Blender
6 1 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.10%) InVision
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.31%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 409 (42.83%) AWS
2 260 (27.23%) Azure
3 147 (15.39%) Serverless
4 126 (13.19%) GitHub
5 111 (11.62%) GCP
6 93 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
8 76 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 39 (4.08%) Figma
11 31 (3.25%) Azure Functions
11 31 (3.25%) SaaS
12 28 (2.93%) Azure AKS
12 28 (2.93%) npm
13 26 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 26 (2.72%) Entra ID
14 25 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
15 24 (2.51%) Power Platform
16 23 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.57%) Wireless
2 8 (0.84%) HTTP
3 5 (0.52%) DNS
3 5 (0.52%) Network Security
4 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.31%) DHCP
6 2 (0.21%) VPN
7 1 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.10%) LAN
7 1 (0.10%) Multicast
7 1 (0.10%) RTMP
7 1 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.10%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (14.24%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (9.01%) Relational Database
3 77 (8.06%) NoSQL
4 57 (5.97%) MySQL
5 50 (5.24%) MongoDB
6 43 (4.50%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (2.41%) Redis
8 20 (2.09%) Power BI
9 19 (1.99%) DynamoDB
9 19 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (1.68%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.15%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (0.94%) Big Data
13 9 (0.94%) Metadata
14 8 (0.84%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 196 (20.52%) Git
2 76 (7.96%) Cypress.io
3 66 (6.91%) Jenkins
4 55 (5.76%) GitLab
4 55 (5.76%) JIRA
5 45 (4.71%) JUnit
6 31 (3.25%) webpack
7 26 (2.72%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.41%) Mockito
9 20 (2.09%) Browser DevTools
9 20 (2.09%) Selenium
10 19 (1.99%) Android Studio
10 19 (1.99%) Maven
10 19 (1.99%) Xcode
11 18 (1.88%) Eclipse
12 17 (1.78%) SonarQube
12 17 (1.78%) Storybook
13 13 (1.36%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.36%) Vite
14 12 (1.26%) Mocha
General
1 214 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 161 (16.86%) Finance
3 124 (12.98%) Public Sector
4 79 (8.27%) Banking
5 41 (4.29%) Front Office
6 36 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (3.35%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.41%) Retail
9 17 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.26%) Marketing
12 11 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.94%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.63%) Games
15 6 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.52%) Law
16 5 (0.52%) Military
16 5 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 566 (59.27%) Developer
2 201 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 159 (16.65%) Senior
4 122 (12.77%) React Developer
5 108 (11.31%) Software Engineer
6 98 (10.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 90 (9.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 81 (8.48%) Java Developer
9 79 (8.27%) Senior Developer
10 78 (8.17%) Python Developer
11 70 (7.33%) Lead
12 45 (4.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 36 (3.77%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 32 (3.35%) AWS Developer
14 32 (3.35%) Software Developer
15 30 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (2.72%) Architect
17 25 (2.62%) Python Engineer
18 24 (2.51%) JavaScript Developer
19 23 (2.41%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (30.26%) Node.js
2 282 (29.53%) AngularJS
3 238 (24.92%) CSS
4 213 (22.30%) HTML
5 180 (18.85%) RESTful
6 139 (14.55%) Spring
7 129 (13.51%) .NET
8 128 (13.40%) Next.js
9 121 (12.67%) REST
9 121 (12.67%) Spring Boot
10 110 (11.52%) Jest
11 91 (9.53%) GraphQL
11 91 (9.53%) Vue
12 80 (8.38%) Redux
13 72 (7.54%) HTML5
14 71 (7.43%) Kafka
15 57 (5.97%) FastAPI
16 56 (5.86%) Playwright
17 55 (5.76%) CSS3
18 39 (4.08%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 90 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.33%) Product Ownership
3 40 (4.19%) Mobile App
4 31 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (3.04%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.36%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.36%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.26%) Derivative
12 12 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.15%) Low-Code
14 10 (1.05%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.05%) NHS
15 8 (0.84%) Equities
16 6 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.55%) Linux
2 38 (3.98%) Unix
3 35 (3.66%) Windows
4 28 (2.93%) Android
5 13 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.42%) CentOS
8 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.21%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (44.61%) CI/CD
2 412 (43.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 390 (40.84%) Agile
4 267 (27.96%) DevOps
5 245 (25.65%) Microservices
6 212 (22.20%) Front End Development
7 206 (21.57%) Software Engineering
8 174 (18.22%) User Experience
9 161 (16.86%) Containerisation
10 153 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
11 147 (15.39%) AI
12 141 (14.76%) Test Automation
13 106 (11.10%) Clean Code
14 88 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 88 (9.21%) Scrum
15 85 (8.90%) Code Quality
16 84 (8.80%) TDD
17 72 (7.54%) Design Patterns
18 69 (7.23%) UX Design
19 68 (7.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 465 (48.69%) JavaScript
2 440 (46.07%) TypeScript
3 293 (30.68%) Python
4 284 (29.74%) Java
5 190 (19.90%) SQL
6 116 (12.15%) C#
7 22 (2.30%) Go
7 22 (2.30%) Perl
8 21 (2.20%) Bicep
8 21 (2.20%) C++
9 18 (1.88%) Ruby
10 15 (1.57%) Rust
11 14 (1.47%) PowerShell
12 9 (0.94%) Formula Language
12 9 (0.94%) LotusScript
13 8 (0.84%) Bash
13 8 (0.84%) JSX
13 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.84%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 154 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.92%) Degree
4 31 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.36%) MCP
8 10 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.73%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.21%) OCP
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (13.93%) Accessibility
2 68 (7.12%) WCAG
3 58 (6.07%) QA
4 6 (0.63%) GDPR
4 6 (0.63%) HL7
5 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.21%) NCSC
6 2 (0.21%) PMO
7 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.10%) MiFID
7 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.10%) PSD2
7 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 238 (24.92%) Docker
2 21 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.10%) Varnish
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 194 (20.31%) Kubernetes
2 113 (11.83%) Terraform
3 22 (2.30%) Grafana
4 20 (2.09%) Argo
5 12 (1.26%) Ansible
5 12 (1.26%) Kibana
6 11 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (0.84%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.63%) Istio
10 2 (0.21%) Podman
11 1 (0.10%) Consul
11 1 (0.10%) Rancher
11 1 (0.10%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 112 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.49%) Oracle
3 44 (4.61%) Google
4 36 (3.77%) Adobe
5 32 (3.35%) OpenAI
6 23 (2.41%) Splunk
7 21 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.09%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.36%) Sitecore
10 12 (1.26%) Databricks
11 9 (0.94%) Kofax
11 9 (0.94%) Lotus
11 9 (0.94%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.84%) SAP
13 6 (0.63%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.52%) Marketo
14 5 (0.52%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.52%) VMware
15 4 (0.42%) Blue Prism
15 4 (0.42%) Dynatrace