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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 69 67
Rank change year-on-year -29 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing React 1,098 984 1,307
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.33% 3.37% 3.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.65% 14.89% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 769 1,055
10th Percentile £362 £362 £350
25th Percentile £413 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.26% +1.87%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 21
10th Percentile £56.69 - £40.00
25th Percentile £60.31 £26.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +176.36% -56.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.61 £72.50
90th Percentile - £68.52 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +176.36% -58.02% -

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 9,427 6,610 8,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.02% 22.66% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,248 4,533 6,165
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £780 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 112 226
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.14 £21.01
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.87 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -26.81%

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 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -34 902 £525 - 497
London -43 541 £550 -4.35% 243
UK excluding London -19 402 £500 +11.11% 336
Work from Home -43 350 £540 +4.85% 287
North of England -23 145 £500 +8.70% 84
North West -11 84 £450 - 44
South East -50 69 £525 +6.33% 115
Scotland +16 66 £425 -3.63% 19
Yorkshire -35 49 £509 +8.24% 28
South West -8 43 £410 -7.03% 46
Midlands -55 40 £494 +5.90% 38
East of England -15 34 £600 +26.98% 22
West Midlands -52 31 £488 +5.41% 23
North East -13 14 £475 +2.15% 12
Northern Ireland +1 7 - - 7
East Midlands -38 7 £505 +3.06% 15
Wales -15 3 £175 -56.25% 9

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 47 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.64%) CMS
2 29 (2.64%) Confluence
3 14 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 13 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
5 12 (1.09%) Headless CMS
6 11 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
7 10 (0.91%) Camunda
7 10 (0.91%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.91%) Mendix
8 7 (0.64%) IIS
9 5 (0.46%) Apache
9 5 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.27%) nginx
11 3 (0.27%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.18%) SAS
13 1 (0.091%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.55%) Sketch
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.091%) Blender
4 1 (0.091%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.091%) InVision
4 1 (0.091%) Maya
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.00%) Shopify
2 3 (0.27%) Magento
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.27%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.091%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.091%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 475 (43.26%) AWS
2 334 (30.42%) Azure
3 144 (13.11%) Serverless
4 132 (12.02%) GitHub
5 128 (11.66%) GCP
6 89 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
7 86 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (4.74%) Amazon S3
8 52 (4.74%) Power Platform
9 46 (4.19%) Figma
10 38 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
11 37 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (3.37%) Azure Functions
11 37 (3.37%) Power Automate
11 37 (3.37%) PowerApps
12 32 (2.91%) Entra ID
13 31 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
15 25 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.36%) HTTP
1 4 (0.36%) Network Security
2 3 (0.27%) Firewall
2 3 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.18%) Intranet
4 1 (0.091%) DHCP
4 1 (0.091%) DNS
4 1 (0.091%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.091%) LAN
4 1 (0.091%) RTMP
4 1 (0.091%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.091%) WAN
4 1 (0.091%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 82 (7.47%) NoSQL
4 79 (7.19%) SQL Server
5 66 (6.01%) MySQL
6 64 (5.83%) MongoDB
7 34 (3.10%) Power BI
8 31 (2.82%) DynamoDB
9 29 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (2.64%) Redis
10 17 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.46%) Oracle Database
12 14 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.18%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.09%) Metadata
15 11 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (0.82%) Tableau
17 7 (0.64%) Big Data
17 7 (0.64%) DB2
Development Applications
1 176 (16.03%) Git
2 76 (6.92%) JIRA
3 75 (6.83%) Jenkins
4 64 (5.83%) GitLab
5 61 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 37 (3.37%) JUnit
7 24 (2.19%) Mockito
8 18 (1.64%) Vite
9 17 (1.55%) webpack
10 15 (1.37%) Gradle
11 14 (1.28%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.18%) CircleCI
12 13 (1.18%) Storybook
13 10 (0.91%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.91%) Liquibase
13 10 (0.91%) Mocha
14 9 (0.82%) Selenium
15 8 (0.73%) Maven
15 8 (0.73%) Postman
15 8 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 197 (17.94%) Finance
2 193 (17.58%) Social Skills
3 129 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 90 (8.20%) Front Office
5 84 (7.65%) Banking
6 41 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (2.55%) Investment Banking
8 19 (1.73%) Retail
9 18 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 8 (0.73%) Legal
12 8 (0.73%) Marketing
13 6 (0.55%) Games
13 6 (0.55%) Publishing
14 5 (0.46%) Law
14 5 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.36%) Advertising
15 4 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 654 (59.56%) Developer
2 218 (19.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 181 (16.48%) Senior
4 152 (13.84%) Software Engineer
5 147 (13.39%) React Developer
6 114 (10.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 109 (9.93%) Lead
8 103 (9.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 97 (8.83%) Senior Developer
10 88 (8.01%) Java Developer
11 67 (6.10%) Python Developer
12 60 (5.46%) Lead Developer
13 52 (4.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 51 (4.64%) Architect
15 49 (4.46%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.46%) Lead Software Developer
16 38 (3.46%) Lead Software Engineer
17 37 (3.37%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 37 (3.37%) Java Engineer
18 34 (3.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (27.87%) Node.js
2 256 (23.32%) AngularJS
3 247 (22.50%) CSS
4 223 (20.31%) HTML
5 179 (16.30%) RESTful
6 176 (16.03%) .NET
6 176 (16.03%) REST
7 162 (14.75%) Redux
8 160 (14.57%) Spring
9 144 (13.11%) Spring Boot
10 119 (10.84%) Next.js
11 115 (10.47%) Vue
12 114 (10.38%) GraphQL
13 105 (9.56%) Kafka
14 91 (8.29%) Jest
15 87 (7.92%) HTML5
16 68 (6.19%) CSS3
17 52 (4.74%) .NET Core
18 50 (4.55%) Playwright
19 45 (4.10%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 129 (11.75%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.19%) Fixed Income
4 38 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (3.19%) AI Agents
6 35 (3.19%) Derivative
7 27 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 23 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.82%) Equities
11 19 (1.73%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.46%) NHS
12 16 (1.46%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.09%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.00%) Low-Code
15 10 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.00%) Linux
2 18 (1.64%) Android
2 18 (1.64%) Windows
3 13 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.09%) Unix
5 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (43.26%) CI/CD
2 465 (42.35%) Agile
3 451 (41.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 298 (27.14%) DevOps
5 277 (25.23%) Microservices
6 249 (22.68%) Software Engineering
7 233 (21.22%) Front End Development
8 190 (17.30%) AI
9 179 (16.30%) Test Automation
10 164 (14.94%) User Experience
11 158 (14.39%) Containerisation
12 133 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
13 113 (10.29%) Code Quality
14 102 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
15 92 (8.38%) Scrum
16 91 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 88 (8.01%) SDLC
18 86 (7.83%) Clean Code
19 83 (7.56%) API Integration
19 83 (7.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 553 (50.36%) TypeScript
2 530 (48.27%) JavaScript
3 354 (32.24%) Python
4 322 (29.33%) Java
5 222 (20.22%) SQL
6 160 (14.57%) C#
7 49 (4.46%) Go
8 17 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.28%) Bicep
10 13 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.91%) Formula Language
11 10 (0.91%) LotusScript
12 9 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.73%) C++
14 7 (0.64%) Ruby
15 6 (0.55%) Bash
15 6 (0.55%) Perl
15 6 (0.55%) Scala
15 6 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 189 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 166 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.10%) Degree
4 54 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.27%) PhD
12 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.18%) OCP
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.091%) CISSP
13 1 (0.091%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.091%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (13.30%) Accessibility
2 74 (6.74%) WCAG
3 64 (5.83%) QA
4 8 (0.73%) HL7
5 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.64%) GDPR
6 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.18%) NCSC
6 2 (0.18%) PSD2
7 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.091%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.091%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 222 (20.22%) Docker
2 14 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.091%) Varnish
3 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 175 (15.94%) Kubernetes
2 128 (11.66%) Terraform
3 24 (2.19%) Grafana
4 16 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.18%) Argo
6 10 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.64%) Ansible
7 7 (0.64%) Istio
8 4 (0.36%) Podman
9 3 (0.27%) Nagios
10 2 (0.18%) Rancher
11 1 (0.091%) Kibana
11 1 (0.091%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 83 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.10%) Oracle
3 39 (3.55%) Google
4 35 (3.19%) OpenAI
5 29 (2.64%) Adobe
6 19 (1.73%) Databricks
7 18 (1.64%) Sitecore
8 15 (1.37%) Splunk
9 10 (0.91%) Kofax
9 10 (0.91%) Lotus
10 9 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.64%) SAP
13 6 (0.55%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.55%) Solace
14 5 (0.46%) Pega
15 4 (0.36%) Brio
15 4 (0.36%) Netlify
15 4 (0.36%) Xamarin