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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 69 65
Rank change year-on-year -63 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing React 1,148 1,140 1,209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 3.46% 3.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.28% 15.45% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 814 938
10th Percentile £363 £358 £325
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.47%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile £53.23 £59.05 £38.63
25th Percentile £69.50 £63.63 £55.31
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% +8.72% -17.28%
75th Percentile £79.50 - £72.34
90th Percentile £91.50 - £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +10.45% - +8.06%

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 10,177 7,379 8,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.97% 22.39% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,619 4,943 5,786
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 176 242
10th Percentile £28.15 £29.63 £22.86
25th Percentile £41.35 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -54 958 £545 +4.81% 1,587
London -47 577 £575 -2.13% 1,014
UK excluding London -53 431 £500 +11.11% 732
Work from Home -64 348 £533 +1.43% 730
North of England -29 167 £500 +11.11% 224
Yorkshire -2 89 £500 +25.00% 52
Scotland -15 77 £377 -19.36% 80
South East -77 69 £525 +23.53% 141
North West -50 64 £500 +8.17% 141
South West -24 62 £525 +23.53% 100
Midlands -43 41 £460 -0.27% 92
West Midlands -36 34 £468 -8.78% 56
East of England -21 15 £625 +40.45% 46
North East -35 14 £500 +7.53% 33
East Midlands -23 5 £443 +20.24% 36
Northern Ireland +5 3 £190 -47.77% 31
Wales -19 2 £469 +2.18% 22

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 39 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.53%) Confluence
3 16 (1.39%) CMS
3 16 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (0.78%) nginx
5 8 (0.70%) Camunda
6 7 (0.61%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.44%) WordPress
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.087%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.087%) Moodle
12 1 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.087%) Blender
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.087%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Shopify
2 10 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (0.87%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.26%) Magento
3 3 (0.26%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.087%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.087%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 445 (38.76%) AWS
2 321 (27.96%) Azure
3 135 (11.76%) GitHub
4 131 (11.41%) Serverless
5 127 (11.06%) GCP
6 82 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (5.40%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.97%) Power Platform
11 45 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (3.66%) Figma
13 39 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
14 38 (3.31%) Power Automate
14 38 (3.31%) PowerApps
15 35 (3.05%) Entra ID
15 35 (3.05%) OpenShift
16 30 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
18 27 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.87%) Firewall
2 7 (0.61%) DNS
3 6 (0.52%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) Intranet
4 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.17%) DSL
7 1 (0.087%) CTI
7 1 (0.087%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.087%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.087%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.02%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 80 (6.97%) SQL Server
4 72 (6.27%) NoSQL
5 66 (5.75%) MongoDB
6 43 (3.75%) MySQL
7 40 (3.48%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (3.31%) Power BI
9 27 (2.35%) Redis
10 16 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (0.96%) Metadata
13 10 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (0.87%) Neo4j
13 10 (0.87%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.52%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 214 (18.64%) Git
2 129 (11.24%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.57%) GitLab
4 61 (5.31%) JIRA
5 55 (4.79%) Cypress.io
6 51 (4.44%) Gradle
7 48 (4.18%) JUnit
8 33 (2.87%) Vite
9 29 (2.53%) Maven
10 28 (2.44%) Mockito
11 22 (1.92%) Claude Code
12 21 (1.83%) webpack
13 17 (1.48%) Cucumber
13 17 (1.48%) Liquibase
14 16 (1.39%) Storybook
15 14 (1.22%) Bitbucket
15 14 (1.22%) REST Assured
16 13 (1.13%) SonarQube
17 12 (1.05%) Postman
18 11 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 240 (20.91%) Finance
2 218 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 146 (12.72%) Banking
4 133 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 96 (8.36%) Front Office
6 62 (5.40%) Investment Banking
7 52 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (3.57%) Retail
9 29 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.13%) Law
13 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.87%) Military
14 10 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.78%) Marketing
16 8 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.70%) Legal
16 8 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 625 (54.44%) Developer
2 244 (21.25%) Senior
3 197 (17.16%) Full-Stack Developer
4 160 (13.94%) React Developer
5 150 (13.07%) Software Engineer
6 138 (12.02%) Senior Developer
7 134 (11.67%) Java Developer
8 128 (11.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 115 (10.02%) Lead
10 86 (7.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 61 (5.31%) Python Developer
12 53 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
13 52 (4.53%) Senior React Developer
14 49 (4.27%) UI Developer
15 45 (3.92%) Architect
15 45 (3.92%) Lead Developer
16 43 (3.75%) Software Developer
17 38 (3.31%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 36 (3.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
19 34 (2.96%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (25.70%) Node.js
2 267 (23.26%) REST
3 215 (18.73%) CSS
4 197 (17.16%) HTML
5 176 (15.33%) Redux
6 173 (15.07%) .NET
7 166 (14.46%) RESTful
8 162 (14.11%) AngularJS
9 158 (13.76%) Spring
10 148 (12.89%) Spring Boot
11 143 (12.46%) Kafka
12 129 (11.24%) Next.js
13 99 (8.62%) GraphQL
14 96 (8.36%) HTML5
15 91 (7.93%) Vue
16 88 (7.67%) Jest
17 79 (6.88%) CSS3
18 75 (6.53%) Playwright
19 59 (5.14%) OAuth
20 54 (4.70%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 172 (14.98%) Cloud Native
2 74 (6.45%) Fixed Income
3 73 (6.36%) Product Ownership
4 63 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 59 (5.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 59 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
6 44 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (3.40%) Equities
8 38 (3.31%) AI Agents
9 32 (2.79%) Data Structures
9 32 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (2.53%) Derivative
11 26 (2.26%) Algorithms
12 24 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.96%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.87%) Autonomous Agent
15 10 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (0.87%) Mobile App
15 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.92%) Linux
2 12 (1.05%) Windows
3 5 (0.44%) Unix
4 4 (0.35%) Android
4 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.087%) AIX
6 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (47.13%) CI/CD
2 492 (42.86%) Agile
3 476 (41.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 299 (26.05%) Software Engineering
5 295 (25.70%) Microservices
6 287 (25.00%) DevOps
7 216 (18.82%) Front End Development
8 212 (18.47%) AI
9 201 (17.51%) Test Automation
10 173 (15.07%) Containerisation
11 152 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
12 137 (11.93%) User Experience
13 128 (11.15%) TDD
14 126 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 122 (10.63%) Event-Driven
16 121 (10.54%) Code Quality
17 115 (10.02%) Mentoring
17 115 (10.02%) Scrum
18 110 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
19 99 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 642 (55.92%) TypeScript
2 554 (48.26%) JavaScript
3 368 (32.06%) Java
4 329 (28.66%) Python
5 231 (20.12%) SQL
6 194 (16.90%) C#
7 46 (4.01%) Go
8 33 (2.87%) PL/SQL
9 23 (2.00%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.39%) Bash
11 14 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.87%) PHP
13 10 (0.87%) Rust
14 9 (0.78%) C++
15 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.61%) Ruby
15 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.52%) Bicep
16 6 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 200 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 173 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 60 (5.23%) Degree
4 47 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.087%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.087%) PhD
14 1 (0.087%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (13.07%) Accessibility
2 77 (6.71%) QA
3 75 (6.53%) WCAG
4 8 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.44%) GDPR
6 4 (0.35%) HL7
7 3 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.26%) PSD2
8 1 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.087%) GRC
8 1 (0.087%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 240 (20.91%) Docker
2 6 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 214 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 131 (11.41%) Terraform
3 30 (2.61%) Ansible
3 30 (2.61%) Grafana
4 17 (1.48%) Argo
5 16 (1.39%) Control-M
6 15 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.52%) Istio
8 6 (0.52%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.44%) Kibana
10 3 (0.26%) Podman
11 1 (0.087%) Nagios
11 1 (0.087%) Rancher
Vendors
1 80 (6.97%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.18%) Oracle
3 46 (4.01%) Google
4 26 (2.26%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.83%) Databricks
6 21 (1.83%) MuleSoft
7 15 (1.31%) Splunk
8 14 (1.22%) SAP
9 13 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.70%) Adobe
10 8 (0.70%) Conga
10 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
10 8 (0.70%) Solace
11 6 (0.52%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.44%) Hitachi
12 5 (0.44%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.44%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.35%) Apple
13 4 (0.35%) Red Hat