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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 75 68
Rank change year-on-year -66 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing React 1,105 1,067 1,204
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.02% 3.22% 3.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.35% 12.37% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 741 912
10th Percentile £363 £358 £344
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £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 4
10th Percentile £52.08 £54.57 £38.10
25th Percentile £66.50 £60.06 £40.13
Median hourly rate £74.00 £66.50 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% +22.58% -26.69%
75th Percentile £76.75 £67.00 £72.25
90th Percentile £78.30 - £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +10.45% -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 11,814 8,625 9,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.62% 25.99% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,756 5,728 6,131
10th Percentile £375 £355 £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% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 190 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.20 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.56 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +10.94%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -65 927 £540 +2.76% 2,431
London -52 545 £575 -4.17% 1,196
UK excluding London -53 435 £475 +5.56% 1,566
Work from Home -75 323 £525 - 1,644
North of England -32 158 £500 +20.12% 384
Yorkshire -4 81 £500 +25.00% 110
Scotland -25 72 £377 -18.49% 188
North West -37 67 £500 +17.65% 235
South East -76 66 £475 +11.76% 286
Midlands -20 63 £472 -6.17% 207
South West -28 59 £588 +10.59% 207
West Midlands -12 56 £507 -4.29% 118
East of England -29 15 £613 +44.12% 157
North East -30 10 £500 +150.00% 40
East Midlands -19 7 £433 +3.15% 89
Northern Ireland +5 3 £190 - 66
Wales -15 3 £425 -18.07% 83
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 36 (3.26%) Confluence
2 25 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.36%) Camunda
3 15 (1.36%) CMS
4 11 (1.00%) nginx
5 9 (0.81%) 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%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.090%) Kentico
Applications
1 12 (1.09%) 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 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.090%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.090%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 406 (36.74%) AWS
2 311 (28.14%) Azure
3 132 (11.95%) GitHub
4 124 (11.22%) GCP
5 116 (10.50%) Serverless
6 77 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (4.71%) Amazon S3
10 51 (4.62%) OpenShift
11 50 (4.52%) Figma
12 45 (4.07%) Power Platform
13 36 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
15 32 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (2.90%) Entra ID
16 27 (2.44%) SaaS
17 25 (2.26%) Anthropic Claude
17 25 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
18 24 (2.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.90%) Firewall
2 8 (0.72%) DNS
3 7 (0.63%) HTTP
3 7 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
4 6 (0.54%) VPN
5 4 (0.36%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
6 2 (0.18%) Internet
6 2 (0.18%) OpenVPN
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
1 151 (13.67%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (7.87%) SQL Server
3 80 (7.24%) Relational Database
4 77 (6.97%) MongoDB
5 76 (6.88%) NoSQL
6 52 (4.71%) MySQL
7 36 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
8 35 (3.17%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.81%) Power BI
10 28 (2.53%) Redis
11 19 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.00%) Metadata
14 9 (0.81%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.54%) BigQuery
17 5 (0.45%) Couchbase
17 5 (0.45%) Neo4j
17 5 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 241 (21.81%) Git
2 141 (12.76%) Jenkins
3 78 (7.06%) GitLab
4 61 (5.52%) JIRA
5 60 (5.43%) Gradle
6 54 (4.89%) JUnit
7 47 (4.25%) Cypress.io
7 47 (4.25%) Maven
8 31 (2.81%) Mockito
8 31 (2.81%) Vite
9 30 (2.71%) Claude Code
10 26 (2.35%) SonarQube
10 26 (2.35%) Storybook
11 25 (2.26%) Cucumber
12 22 (1.99%) webpack
13 20 (1.81%) Bitbucket
13 20 (1.81%) REST Assured
14 18 (1.63%) Selenium
15 12 (1.09%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 248 (22.44%) Finance
2 232 (21.00%) Social Skills
3 154 (13.94%) Banking
4 121 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 66 (5.97%) Front Office
6 57 (5.16%) Investment Banking
7 55 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (3.80%) Retail
9 31 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.09%) Back Office
11 12 (1.09%) Law
12 10 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.90%) Marketing
12 10 (0.90%) Military
12 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 591 (53.48%) Developer
2 230 (20.81%) Senior
3 185 (16.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 159 (14.39%) React Developer
5 130 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 128 (11.58%) Senior Developer
7 124 (11.22%) Java Developer
8 123 (11.13%) Software Engineer
9 101 (9.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 98 (8.87%) Lead
11 61 (5.52%) Python Developer
12 53 (4.80%) Senior React Developer
13 51 (4.62%) UI Developer
14 50 (4.52%) Senior Java Developer
15 38 (3.44%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.35%) Technical Leader
17 36 (3.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 36 (3.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 34 (3.08%) Architect
18 34 (3.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (25.79%) REST
2 283 (25.61%) Node.js
3 229 (20.72%) CSS
4 219 (19.82%) HTML
5 176 (15.93%) .NET
5 176 (15.93%) RESTful
6 157 (14.21%) Spring
7 154 (13.94%) AngularJS
8 149 (13.48%) Redux
9 147 (13.30%) Spring Boot
10 132 (11.95%) Kafka
10 132 (11.95%) Next.js
11 120 (10.86%) Terraform
12 106 (9.59%) HTML5
13 95 (8.60%) GraphQL
14 93 (8.42%) Vue
15 88 (7.96%) CSS3
16 83 (7.51%) OAuth
17 82 (7.42%) Playwright
18 72 (6.52%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 171 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 64 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (5.16%) Greenfield Project
5 56 (5.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 53 (4.80%) Fixed Income
7 47 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (3.53%) AI Agents
9 34 (3.08%) Equities
10 32 (2.90%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.99%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.54%) Derivative
15 15 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (1.27%) Onboarding
17 13 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
18 12 (1.09%) Mobile App
19 11 (1.00%) Autonomous Agent
20 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.62%) Linux
2 15 (1.36%) Windows
3 11 (1.00%) 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
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
8 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (50.14%) CI/CD
2 479 (43.35%) Agile
3 458 (41.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 294 (26.61%) Microservices
5 292 (26.43%) DevOps
6 288 (26.06%) Software Engineering
7 241 (21.81%) Front End Development
8 226 (20.45%) Test Automation
9 220 (19.91%) AI
10 167 (15.11%) Containerisation
11 164 (14.84%) User Experience
12 161 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
13 149 (13.48%) Event-Driven
14 137 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 133 (12.04%) Mentoring
16 132 (11.95%) Scrum
17 127 (11.49%) TDD
18 120 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
18 120 (10.86%) Observability
19 116 (10.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 630 (57.01%) TypeScript
2 555 (50.23%) JavaScript
3 369 (33.39%) Java
4 304 (27.51%) Python
5 238 (21.54%) SQL
6 184 (16.65%) C#
7 45 (4.07%) Go
8 32 (2.90%) PL/SQL
9 27 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.35%) Bash
11 14 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.09%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.00%) Rust
14 10 (0.90%) PHP
15 9 (0.81%) Bicep
15 9 (0.81%) C++
16 8 (0.72%) Ruby
17 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 190 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 153 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.79%) Degree
4 55 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 53 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.63%) 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 (14.30%) Accessibility
2 96 (8.69%) QA
3 87 (7.87%) WCAG
4 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.36%) HL7
5 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.27%) GDPR
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.090%) GRC
8 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.090%) SLA
8 1 (0.090%) WAI
8 1 (0.090%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 245 (22.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.090%) Varnish
3 1 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 244 (22.08%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.62%) Grafana
3 33 (2.99%) Ansible
4 18 (1.63%) Argo
5 17 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.45%) Control-M
7 12 (1.09%) Kibana
8 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.63%) Istio
9 7 (0.63%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.27%) Podman
11 2 (0.18%) systemd
12 1 (0.090%) QRadar
Vendors
1 94 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.24%) Oracle
3 53 (4.80%) Google
4 22 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 20 (1.81%) MuleSoft
5 20 (1.81%) Splunk
6 19 (1.72%) Databricks
6 19 (1.72%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.45%) SAP
8 13 (1.18%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.00%) Adobe
10 9 (0.81%) IBM
10 9 (0.81%) Veracode
11 8 (0.72%) Conga
11 8 (0.72%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.72%) Okta
12 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.54%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.45%) Solace