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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 80 68
Rank change year-on-year -57 -12 +7
Contract jobs citing React 1,114 1,040 1,159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 3.16% 3.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.35% 12.17% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 720 870
10th Percentile £368 £351 £331
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +5.03% -4.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile £52.08 £51.34 £37.45
25th Percentile £71.00 £55.00 £38.50
Median hourly rate £75.50 £66.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.39% +59.04% -43.15%
75th Percentile £76.75 £67.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £78.30 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +12.69% -3.60% +2.21%

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 11,916 8,548 9,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.70% 25.96% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,822 5,680 5,977
10th Percentile £380 £356 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
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% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 188 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.40
25th Percentile £50.25 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.90 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +13.04%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -58 934 £537 +2.29% 1,601
London -47 541 £575 -4.17% 975
UK excluding London -59 438 £475 +5.03% 738
Work from Home -69 335 £525 -1.59% 841
North of England -20 164 £500 +19.76% 211
Yorkshire +3 86 £494 +23.44% 55
Midlands -19 68 £466 -10.31% 104
Scotland -30 68 £376 -18.70% 91
North West -36 68 £520 +22.35% 143
South East -74 67 £475 +14.46% 114
West Midlands -15 61 £468 -12.11% 74
South West -30 59 £594 +10.47% 85
North East -33 10 £500 +150.00% 13
East of England -40 9 £625 +47.06% 63
East Midlands -22 7 £433 -3.29% 30
Wales -17 4 £419 -19.28% 21
Northern Ireland +5 3 £190 - 53
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 (3.32%) Confluence
2 21 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.44%) Camunda
4 15 (1.35%) CMS
4 15 (1.35%) nginx
5 7 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (0.63%) WordPress
6 6 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.54%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.54%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.18%) Solana
9 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.090%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (0.99%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.27%) Sketch
3 1 (0.090%) Blender
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.090%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.90%) SAP CRM
2 6 (0.54%) Shopify
3 2 (0.18%) Endur
3 2 (0.18%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.090%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.090%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 416 (37.34%) AWS
2 318 (28.55%) Azure
3 146 (13.11%) GitHub
4 132 (11.85%) GCP
5 115 (10.32%) Serverless
6 87 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
7 75 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (4.76%) OpenShift
10 51 (4.58%) Amazon S3
10 51 (4.58%) Figma
11 41 (3.68%) Power Platform
12 38 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
14 33 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (2.69%) Entra ID
16 28 (2.51%) SaaS
17 27 (2.42%) Azure AKS
18 24 (2.15%) Kong
19 23 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.90%) DNS
2 8 (0.72%) Firewall
2 8 (0.72%) HTTP
3 7 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
3 7 (0.63%) VPN
4 5 (0.45%) OpenVPN
5 4 (0.36%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
6 2 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.090%) CTI
7 1 (0.090%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.090%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.090%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.090%) MQTT
7 1 (0.090%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (7.99%) SQL Server
3 83 (7.45%) Relational Database
4 82 (7.36%) MongoDB
5 78 (7.00%) NoSQL
6 57 (5.12%) MySQL
7 37 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 37 (3.32%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.60%) Power BI
9 28 (2.51%) Redis
10 19 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.08%) Metadata
13 11 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.72%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.45%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.45%) ObjectStore
15 5 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 259 (23.25%) Git
2 144 (12.93%) Jenkins
3 87 (7.81%) GitLab
4 62 (5.57%) JUnit
5 61 (5.48%) Gradle
6 60 (5.39%) JIRA
7 50 (4.49%) Cypress.io
8 49 (4.40%) Maven
9 34 (3.05%) Mockito
10 33 (2.96%) Claude Code
11 31 (2.78%) Vite
12 29 (2.60%) Cucumber
13 28 (2.51%) SonarQube
14 27 (2.42%) Storybook
15 23 (2.06%) webpack
16 22 (1.97%) REST Assured
16 22 (1.97%) Selenium
17 17 (1.53%) Bitbucket
18 14 (1.26%) Gatling
19 11 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 249 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 246 (22.08%) Finance
3 152 (13.64%) Banking
4 125 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 63 (5.66%) Front Office
6 58 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
7 56 (5.03%) Investment Banking
8 40 (3.59%) Retail
9 30 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.26%) Law
11 12 (1.08%) Back Office
11 12 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.90%) Marketing
13 10 (0.90%) Military
14 9 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 591 (53.05%) Developer
2 232 (20.83%) Senior
3 188 (16.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 157 (14.09%) React Developer
5 132 (11.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 130 (11.67%) Senior Developer
7 125 (11.22%) Java Developer
8 117 (10.50%) Software Engineer
9 102 (9.16%) Lead
10 97 (8.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 68 (6.10%) Python Developer
12 51 (4.58%) Senior React Developer
13 50 (4.49%) UI Developer
14 49 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
15 38 (3.41%) Technical Leader
16 37 (3.32%) Software Developer
17 35 (3.14%) Architect
17 35 (3.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 35 (3.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 34 (3.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (26.48%) REST
2 285 (25.58%) Node.js
3 232 (20.83%) CSS
4 222 (19.93%) HTML
5 186 (16.70%) RESTful
6 183 (16.43%) .NET
7 167 (14.99%) AngularJS
8 161 (14.45%) Spring
9 150 (13.46%) Spring Boot
10 148 (13.29%) Redux
11 134 (12.03%) Kafka
12 133 (11.94%) Next.js
13 125 (11.22%) Terraform
14 113 (10.14%) HTML5
15 98 (8.80%) Vue
16 96 (8.62%) Playwright
17 95 (8.53%) GraphQL
18 94 (8.44%) CSS3
19 87 (7.81%) OAuth
20 81 (7.27%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 170 (15.26%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 66 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 54 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
5 51 (4.58%) Fixed Income
6 50 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (3.59%) AI Agents
8 35 (3.14%) Equities
9 33 (2.96%) Data Structures
10 31 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.89%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.44%) Derivative
14 15 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.35%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.08%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
16 11 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
17 8 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.95%) Linux
2 18 (1.62%) Windows
3 12 (1.08%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) Android
5 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) AIX
7 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.27%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (51.35%) CI/CD
2 492 (44.17%) Agile
3 465 (41.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 306 (27.47%) Microservices
5 299 (26.84%) DevOps
6 281 (25.22%) Software Engineering
7 244 (21.90%) Front End Development
8 240 (21.54%) Test Automation
9 223 (20.02%) AI
10 170 (15.26%) Containerisation
11 166 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
12 165 (14.81%) User Experience
13 153 (13.73%) Event-Driven
14 144 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 139 (12.48%) Mentoring
16 138 (12.39%) Scrum
17 131 (11.76%) TDD
18 130 (11.67%) Observability
19 128 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
20 119 (10.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 627 (56.28%) TypeScript
2 565 (50.72%) JavaScript
3 375 (33.66%) Java
4 322 (28.90%) Python
5 241 (21.63%) SQL
6 190 (17.06%) C#
7 46 (4.13%) Go
8 30 (2.69%) PL/SQL
9 29 (2.60%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.51%) Bash
11 13 (1.17%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.08%) Rust
13 11 (0.99%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.90%) Bicep
14 10 (0.90%) PHP
14 10 (0.90%) Ruby
14 10 (0.90%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.72%) C++
15 8 (0.72%) Groovy
16 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 205 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 168 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.73%) Degree
4 58 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 53 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.090%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.090%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (14.18%) Accessibility
2 104 (9.34%) QA
3 89 (7.99%) WCAG
4 6 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.45%) HL7
6 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.27%) GDPR
8 2 (0.18%) PSD2
9 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.090%) GRC
9 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.090%) SLA
9 1 (0.090%) WAI
9 1 (0.090%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 261 (23.43%) Docker
2 5 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.090%) Varnish
4 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 259 (23.25%) Kubernetes
2 42 (3.77%) Grafana
3 32 (2.87%) Ansible
4 18 (1.62%) Argo
5 17 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.44%) Control-M
7 15 (1.35%) Kibana
8 9 (0.81%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.72%) Istio
9 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.27%) Podman
11 2 (0.18%) systemd
12 1 (0.090%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.090%) QRadar
Vendors
1 99 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.63%) Oracle
3 55 (4.94%) Google
4 22 (1.97%) Salesforce
4 22 (1.97%) Splunk
5 20 (1.80%) Databricks
5 20 (1.80%) MuleSoft
6 19 (1.71%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.44%) SAP
8 14 (1.26%) Dynatrace
9 11 (0.99%) Adobe
10 10 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.81%) IBM
11 9 (0.81%) Veracode
12 8 (0.72%) Conga
12 8 (0.72%) GoCardless
12 8 (0.72%) Okta
13 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.54%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.45%) Solace