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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 75 74
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 -18
Contract jobs citing React 986 983 1,215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.60% 3.10% 2.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.70% 13.91% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 736 994
10th Percentile £339 £353 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £453
% change year-on-year +5.56% -0.55% -9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £43.90 £26.25 £47.97
25th Percentile £46.00 £31.50 £58.75
Median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £66.25 £44.13 £70.69
90th Percentile £72.10 £59.29 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £27.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +127.27% -56.00% -7.75%

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 8,429 7,067 9,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.30% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,618 4,497 6,583
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £766 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 91 182
10th Percentile £33.20 £22.00 £26.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.19 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 23 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing React over the 6 months to 23 January 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 23 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 -30 833 £508 -7.68% 1,369
London -31 486 £525 -12.50% 294
UK excluding London -28 367 £475 +5.56% 1,250
Work from Home -53 271 £510 +2.00% 827
North of England -8 130 £450 - 259
North West -7 69 £400 -11.11% 132
South East -35 64 £375 -28.57% 403
Yorkshire -23 52 £500 - 91
Scotland -1 51 £438 -1.69% 52
Midlands -55 51 £525 +5.00% 126
South West -5 40 £550 +22.22% 154
West Midlands -50 40 £525 -4.55% 44
East of England -17 29 £588 +59.32% 190
North East -7 12 £475 +13.77% 36
East Midlands -28 11 £550 +11.11% 80
Northern Ireland -7 6 - - 31
Wales -1 5 £331 -30.26% 63

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 41 (4.16%) CMS
2 24 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 18 (1.83%) Confluence
5 13 (1.32%) Headless CMS
6 12 (1.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 11 (1.12%) Camunda
7 11 (1.12%) SAS
8 10 (1.01%) Apache
9 9 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.91%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.91%) Mendix
10 5 (0.51%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.41%) IIS
12 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.30%) WordPress
13 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.20%) ColdFusion
13 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
Applications
1 18 (1.83%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.91%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.71%) Sketch
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) 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 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.30%) Shopify
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.10%) Endur
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 426 (43.20%) AWS
2 273 (27.69%) Azure
3 146 (14.81%) Serverless
4 130 (13.18%) GitHub
5 116 (11.76%) GCP
6 92 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
7 86 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (8.01%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (5.07%) Amazon S3
10 40 (4.06%) Figma
11 31 (3.14%) Azure Functions
11 31 (3.14%) SaaS
12 28 (2.84%) Azure AKS
13 26 (2.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 26 (2.64%) Entra ID
13 26 (2.64%) npm
14 25 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 25 (2.54%) Power Platform
15 24 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.42%) Wireless
2 8 (0.81%) HTTP
3 5 (0.51%) DNS
3 5 (0.51%) Network Security
4 4 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.20%) 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 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (8.92%) Relational Database
3 82 (8.32%) NoSQL
4 57 (5.78%) MySQL
5 52 (5.27%) MongoDB
6 50 (5.07%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (2.23%) Redis
9 20 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.03%) Power BI
10 17 (1.72%) DynamoDB
11 16 (1.62%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.22%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (0.91%) Metadata
16 8 (0.81%) Big Data
16 8 (0.81%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 201 (20.39%) Git
2 74 (7.51%) Cypress.io
3 64 (6.49%) Jenkins
4 57 (5.78%) GitLab
5 56 (5.68%) JIRA
6 46 (4.67%) JUnit
7 27 (2.74%) webpack
8 26 (2.64%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.33%) Mockito
10 20 (2.03%) Selenium
11 19 (1.93%) Browser DevTools
11 19 (1.93%) Maven
12 18 (1.83%) Android Studio
12 18 (1.83%) Xcode
13 17 (1.72%) Eclipse
13 17 (1.72%) Storybook
14 15 (1.52%) SonarQube
14 15 (1.52%) Vite
15 14 (1.42%) Bitbucket
16 13 (1.32%) Mocha
General
1 223 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 166 (16.84%) Finance
3 124 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 81 (8.22%) Banking
5 44 (4.46%) Front Office
6 41 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.33%) Retail
9 17 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.22%) Marketing
12 11 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.91%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Games
15 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.51%) Military
15 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 595 (60.34%) Developer
2 213 (21.60%) Full-Stack Developer
3 159 (16.13%) Senior
4 128 (12.98%) React Developer
5 105 (10.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 105 (10.65%) Software Engineer
6 94 (9.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 86 (8.72%) Java Developer
8 81 (8.22%) Python Developer
8 81 (8.22%) Senior Developer
9 67 (6.80%) Lead
10 46 (4.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 36 (3.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 34 (3.45%) AWS Developer
13 33 (3.35%) Software Developer
14 29 (2.94%) Architect
15 28 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (2.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 26 (2.64%) JavaScript Developer
18 25 (2.54%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (30.53%) Node.js
2 294 (29.82%) AngularJS
3 250 (25.35%) CSS
4 228 (23.12%) HTML
5 192 (19.47%) RESTful
6 146 (14.81%) Spring
7 141 (14.30%) .NET
8 132 (13.39%) REST
9 129 (13.08%) Next.js
10 128 (12.98%) Spring Boot
11 107 (10.85%) Jest
12 96 (9.74%) Vue
13 91 (9.23%) GraphQL
14 85 (8.62%) Redux
15 77 (7.81%) HTML5
16 71 (7.20%) Kafka
17 61 (6.19%) FastAPI
18 59 (5.98%) Playwright
19 58 (5.88%) CSS3
20 41 (4.16%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 92 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 76 (7.71%) Product Ownership
3 39 (3.96%) Mobile App
4 34 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (3.04%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 20 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.52%) Derivative
11 14 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.32%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.32%) Hedge funds
13 12 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.12%) Low-Code
15 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.01%) Equities
15 10 (1.01%) NHS
16 7 (0.71%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.27%) Linux
2 40 (4.06%) Unix
3 35 (3.55%) Windows
4 27 (2.74%) Android
5 13 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.41%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (45.13%) CI/CD
2 428 (43.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 410 (41.58%) Agile
4 285 (28.90%) DevOps
5 259 (26.27%) Microservices
6 221 (22.41%) Front End Development
7 203 (20.59%) Software Engineering
8 181 (18.36%) User Experience
9 162 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
10 161 (16.33%) Containerisation
11 154 (15.62%) AI
12 148 (15.01%) Test Automation
13 110 (11.16%) Clean Code
14 100 (10.14%) Scrum
15 88 (8.92%) Code Quality
16 87 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 85 (8.62%) TDD
18 74 (7.51%) UX Design
19 73 (7.40%) Design Patterns
20 72 (7.30%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 483 (48.99%) JavaScript
2 457 (46.35%) TypeScript
3 304 (30.83%) Python
4 293 (29.72%) Java
5 198 (20.08%) SQL
6 129 (13.08%) C#
7 23 (2.33%) Go
8 21 (2.13%) Bicep
8 21 (2.13%) Perl
9 20 (2.03%) C++
10 18 (1.83%) Ruby
11 15 (1.52%) Rust
12 14 (1.42%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.01%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.91%) Formula Language
14 9 (0.91%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.81%) Bash
15 8 (0.81%) JSX
15 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 188 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 158 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.07%) Degree
4 33 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.42%) MCP
8 11 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.20%) OCP
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (13.39%) Accessibility
2 67 (6.80%) WCAG
3 63 (6.39%) QA
4 7 (0.71%) GDPR
5 6 (0.61%) HL7
6 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.20%) NCSC
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.10%) MiFID
8 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.10%) PSD2
8 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 244 (24.75%) Docker
2 21 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) 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
1 198 (20.08%) Kubernetes
2 114 (11.56%) Terraform
3 24 (2.43%) Grafana
4 21 (2.13%) Argo
5 12 (1.22%) Ansible
5 12 (1.22%) Kibana
5 12 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (0.61%) Istio
9 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 1 (0.10%) Consul
10 1 (0.10%) Nagios
10 1 (0.10%) Rancher
10 1 (0.10%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 108 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.69%) Oracle
3 46 (4.67%) Google
4 36 (3.65%) Adobe
5 32 (3.25%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.23%) Splunk
7 20 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 19 (1.93%) Sitecore
9 12 (1.22%) Databricks
10 9 (0.91%) Kofax
10 9 (0.91%) Lotus
10 9 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.81%) SAP
12 6 (0.61%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.51%) Marketo
13 5 (0.51%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.51%) VMware
14 4 (0.41%) Blue Prism
14 4 (0.41%) Dynatrace