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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 76 70
Rank change year-on-year -63 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing React 1,114 1,067 1,183
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.04% 3.23% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.42% 12.43% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 741 889
10th Percentile £363 £353 £339
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 £840 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 5
10th Percentile £52.08 £54.57 £37.45
25th Percentile £71.00 £60.06 £38.50
Median hourly rate £75.50 £66.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% +60.24% -43.92%
75th Percentile £76.75 £67.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £78.30 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +11.94% -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 11,824 8,584 9,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 25.97% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,762 5,692 6,068
10th Percentile £377 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
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% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 188 183
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.10 £25.78
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -13.46% +10.11%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -60 936 £537 +2.29% 1,811
London -54 542 £575 -4.17% 1,133
UK excluding London -57 440 £475 +5.56% 796
Work from Home -71 335 £525 -0.80% 893
North of England -22 167 £500 +19.76% 230
Yorkshire +4 87 £494 +23.44% 58
North West -32 70 £510 +20.00% 157
Scotland -22 69 £376 -18.70% 99
South East -75 68 £475 +14.80% 131
Midlands -28 64 £475 -5.94% 104
South West -36 60 £594 +10.47% 89
West Midlands -11 57 £475 -10.59% 73
North East -30 10 £500 +150.00% 15
East of England -49 10 £625 +47.06% 66
East Midlands -24 7 £433 +2.91% 31
Northern Ireland +10 3 £190 - 61
Wales -9 3 £425 -18.07% 23
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 23 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.44%) Camunda
4 15 (1.35%) CMS
4 15 (1.35%) nginx
5 8 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.63%) WordPress
7 6 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Solana
10 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.090%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (1.08%) 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
1 417 (37.43%) AWS
2 320 (28.73%) Azure
3 141 (12.66%) GitHub
4 134 (12.03%) GCP
5 114 (10.23%) Serverless
6 87 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
7 74 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (4.76%) OpenShift
10 50 (4.49%) Amazon S3
10 50 (4.49%) Figma
11 43 (3.86%) Power Platform
12 37 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (2.87%) GitHub Copilot
15 31 (2.78%) Entra ID
16 28 (2.51%) SaaS
17 27 (2.42%) Azure AKS
18 24 (2.15%) Kong
19 23 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.90%) DNS
2 8 (0.72%) Firewall
3 7 (0.63%) 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 82 (7.36%) Relational Database
4 77 (6.91%) MongoDB
4 77 (6.91%) NoSQL
5 55 (4.94%) MySQL
6 37 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 36 (3.23%) DynamoDB
8 30 (2.69%) Power BI
8 30 (2.69%) Redis
9 19 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.08%) Metadata
12 11 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.72%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.54%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.45%) Couchbase
15 5 (0.45%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 255 (22.89%) Git
2 143 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 84 (7.54%) GitLab
4 61 (5.48%) Gradle
4 61 (5.48%) JIRA
5 56 (5.03%) JUnit
6 49 (4.40%) Maven
7 48 (4.31%) Cypress.io
8 33 (2.96%) Mockito
9 31 (2.78%) Claude Code
9 31 (2.78%) Vite
10 27 (2.42%) SonarQube
10 27 (2.42%) Storybook
11 26 (2.33%) Cucumber
12 23 (2.06%) webpack
13 21 (1.89%) REST Assured
14 19 (1.71%) Selenium
15 18 (1.62%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.99%) Liquibase
16 11 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 246 (22.08%) Finance
2 245 (21.99%) Social Skills
3 152 (13.64%) Banking
4 122 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 63 (5.66%) Front Office
6 59 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
7 56 (5.03%) Investment Banking
8 41 (3.68%) Retail
9 31 (2.78%) 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
13 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.81%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 594 (53.32%) Developer
2 230 (20.65%) Senior
3 193 (17.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 159 (14.27%) React Developer
5 129 (11.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 129 (11.58%) Senior Developer
6 125 (11.22%) Java Developer
7 119 (10.68%) Software Engineer
8 102 (9.16%) Lead
9 97 (8.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 67 (6.01%) Python Developer
11 52 (4.67%) Senior React Developer
12 50 (4.49%) UI Developer
13 49 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
14 38 (3.41%) Technical Leader
15 37 (3.32%) Software Developer
16 36 (3.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 35 (3.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 35 (3.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 34 (3.05%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (26.84%) REST
2 286 (25.67%) Node.js
3 234 (21.01%) CSS
4 224 (20.11%) HTML
5 184 (16.52%) RESTful
6 182 (16.34%) .NET
7 166 (14.90%) AngularJS
8 160 (14.36%) Spring
9 149 (13.38%) Spring Boot
10 148 (13.29%) Redux
11 134 (12.03%) Kafka
11 134 (12.03%) Next.js
12 126 (11.31%) Terraform
13 113 (10.14%) HTML5
14 98 (8.80%) Vue
15 95 (8.53%) GraphQL
16 94 (8.44%) CSS3
17 89 (7.99%) Playwright
18 87 (7.81%) OAuth
19 79 (7.09%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 172 (15.44%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 66 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
5 54 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (4.58%) Fixed Income
7 49 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.59%) AI Agents
9 34 (3.05%) Equities
10 33 (2.96%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.97%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.53%) Derivative
15 15 (1.35%) Onboarding
16 14 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
17 12 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 11 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
19 8 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.86%) 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%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (50.99%) CI/CD
2 489 (43.90%) Agile
3 468 (42.01%) Full-Stack Development
4 306 (27.47%) Microservices
5 298 (26.75%) DevOps
6 284 (25.49%) Software Engineering
7 245 (21.99%) Front End Development
8 236 (21.18%) Test Automation
9 223 (20.02%) AI
10 171 (15.35%) Containerisation
11 166 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
12 165 (14.81%) User Experience
13 151 (13.55%) Event-Driven
14 140 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 138 (12.39%) Mentoring
16 135 (12.12%) Scrum
17 129 (11.58%) Observability
18 127 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
19 125 (11.22%) TDD
20 119 (10.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 631 (56.64%) TypeScript
2 564 (50.63%) JavaScript
3 372 (33.39%) Java
4 317 (28.46%) Python
5 240 (21.54%) SQL
6 190 (17.06%) C#
7 46 (4.13%) Go
8 31 (2.78%) PL/SQL
9 29 (2.60%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.51%) Bash
11 13 (1.17%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.08%) Rust
12 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.99%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.90%) Bicep
14 10 (0.90%) PHP
15 9 (0.81%) Ruby
16 8 (0.72%) C++
16 8 (0.72%) Groovy
17 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 200 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 163 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.82%) Degree
4 57 (5.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.090%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.090%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (14.18%) Accessibility
2 101 (9.07%) QA
3 86 (7.72%) WCAG
4 7 (0.63%) 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
1 255 (22.89%) 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
1 254 (22.80%) Kubernetes
2 41 (3.68%) Grafana
3 33 (2.96%) 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%) Istio
8 9 (0.81%) Kustomize
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 97 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.27%) Oracle
3 56 (5.03%) Google
4 22 (1.97%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.89%) Splunk
6 20 (1.80%) MuleSoft
7 19 (1.71%) Databricks
7 19 (1.71%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.44%) SAP
9 13 (1.17%) Dynatrace
10 11 (0.99%) Adobe
11 10 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.81%) IBM
12 9 (0.81%) Veracode
13 8 (0.72%) Conga
13 8 (0.72%) GoCardless
13 8 (0.72%) Okta
14 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.54%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.45%) Solace