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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 69 68
Rank change year-on-year -30 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing React 1,095 997 1,302
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.37% 3.39% 2.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.60% 14.97% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 776 1,047
10th Percentile £358 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -7.83% +1.21%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £694
90th Percentile £791 £813 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.74% -1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 21
10th Percentile £56.69 - £40.00
25th Percentile £60.31 £26.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £36.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.66% -42.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.49 £72.50
90th Percentile - £68.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +176.36% -58.02% -

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 9,440 6,661 8,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.47% 22.63% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,290 4,565 6,235
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 101 195
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.00 £20.61
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.50 £36.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -35 908 £525 +0.48% 581
London -33 550 £530 -5.57% 305
UK excluding London -15 395 £500 +11.11% 355
Work from Home -47 334 £535 +7.00% 328
North of England -22 146 £475 +3.26% 93
North West -20 85 £450 - 43
South East -32 71 £544 +14.12% 120
Scotland +11 63 £425 -3.24% 22
Yorkshire -31 49 £500 +4.71% 34
Midlands -52 43 £515 +11.35% 37
West Midlands -53 36 £500 +8.11% 23
South West -11 34 £409 -7.26% 46
East of England -13 33 £600 +27.66% 27
North East -11 14 £475 +2.15% 16
Northern Ireland +1 7 - - 3
East Midlands -33 5 £600 +31.87% 14
Wales -10 3 £175 -56.25% 11

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 43 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.83%) CMS
3 24 (2.19%) Confluence
4 14 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.19%) Headless CMS
5 13 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
6 10 (0.91%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.91%) Mendix
6 10 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
7 9 (0.82%) Camunda
8 7 (0.64%) IIS
8 7 (0.64%) SAS
9 6 (0.55%) Apache
10 5 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.37%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.27%) nginx
12 3 (0.27%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.27%) WordPress
13 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Adobe XD
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.55%) Sketch
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.091%) Blender
4 1 (0.091%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.091%) InVision
4 1 (0.091%) Maya
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.00%) Shopify
2 3 (0.27%) Magento
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.091%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 489 (44.66%) AWS
2 336 (30.68%) Azure
3 148 (13.52%) Serverless
4 138 (12.60%) GitHub
5 130 (11.87%) GCP
6 90 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
7 87 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
8 86 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (4.93%) Amazon S3
10 48 (4.38%) Power Platform
11 40 (3.65%) Figma
12 39 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (3.47%) Azure Functions
14 34 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
15 33 (3.01%) Entra ID
15 33 (3.01%) Power Automate
15 33 (3.01%) PowerApps
16 31 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
18 27 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.46%) Network Security
2 3 (0.27%) Firewall
2 3 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (0.27%) VPN
2 3 (0.27%) Wireless
3 2 (0.18%) DHCP
3 2 (0.18%) DNS
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
3 2 (0.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.091%) LAN
4 1 (0.091%) RTMP
4 1 (0.091%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (8.22%) Relational Database
3 89 (8.13%) NoSQL
4 77 (7.03%) SQL Server
5 67 (6.12%) MySQL
6 64 (5.84%) MongoDB
7 33 (3.01%) Power BI
8 32 (2.92%) DynamoDB
9 29 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (2.56%) Redis
11 17 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.46%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.19%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.10%) Metadata
15 11 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (0.91%) Tableau
17 8 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
17 8 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 187 (17.08%) Git
2 74 (6.76%) Jenkins
3 69 (6.30%) JIRA
4 66 (6.03%) GitLab
5 59 (5.39%) Cypress.io
6 38 (3.47%) JUnit
7 24 (2.19%) Mockito
8 20 (1.83%) Vite
8 20 (1.83%) webpack
9 16 (1.46%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.19%) CircleCI
10 13 (1.19%) Cucumber
10 13 (1.19%) Gradle
10 13 (1.19%) Selenium
10 13 (1.19%) Storybook
11 11 (1.00%) Mocha
12 10 (0.91%) Maven
13 9 (0.82%) Postman
14 8 (0.73%) ESLint
14 8 (0.73%) Liquibase
General
1 200 (18.26%) Finance
2 197 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 129 (11.78%) Public Sector
4 90 (8.22%) Front Office
5 85 (7.76%) Banking
6 42 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (2.83%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.37%) Retail
10 12 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (0.91%) Marketing
12 8 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 8 (0.73%) Legal
13 6 (0.55%) Games
13 6 (0.55%) Publishing
14 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.37%) Advertising
15 4 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 664 (60.64%) Developer
2 221 (20.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 179 (16.35%) Senior
4 149 (13.61%) React Developer
5 148 (13.52%) Software Engineer
6 116 (10.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 108 (9.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 100 (9.13%) Lead
9 91 (8.31%) Java Developer
9 91 (8.31%) Senior Developer
10 75 (6.85%) Python Developer
11 56 (5.11%) Lead Developer
12 52 (4.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 51 (4.66%) Architect
14 45 (4.11%) Software Developer
15 38 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
16 37 (3.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 37 (3.38%) Java Engineer
16 37 (3.38%) Lead Software Developer
17 34 (3.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (27.76%) Node.js
2 265 (24.20%) AngularJS
3 247 (22.56%) CSS
4 224 (20.46%) HTML
5 182 (16.62%) RESTful
6 173 (15.80%) .NET
7 171 (15.62%) REST
8 162 (14.79%) Spring
9 160 (14.61%) Redux
10 148 (13.52%) Spring Boot
11 121 (11.05%) Next.js
12 114 (10.41%) Vue
13 110 (10.05%) GraphQL
14 105 (9.59%) Kafka
15 97 (8.86%) Jest
16 86 (7.85%) HTML5
17 68 (6.21%) CSS3
18 55 (5.02%) .NET Core
19 52 (4.75%) Playwright
20 42 (3.84%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 124 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.21%) Fixed Income
4 36 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
5 34 (3.11%) AI Agents
5 34 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (3.01%) Derivative
7 27 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (1.83%) Equities
10 20 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 19 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.46%) NHS
12 16 (1.46%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.00%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
15 8 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.28%) Linux
2 20 (1.83%) Windows
3 19 (1.74%) Android
4 15 (1.37%) Unix
5 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (44.47%) CI/CD
2 471 (43.01%) Agile
3 463 (42.28%) Full-Stack Development
4 299 (27.31%) DevOps
5 280 (25.57%) Microservices
6 245 (22.37%) Software Engineering
7 241 (22.01%) Front End Development
8 185 (16.89%) AI
9 181 (16.53%) Test Automation
10 161 (14.70%) Containerisation
11 158 (14.43%) User Experience
12 132 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
13 110 (10.05%) Code Quality
14 102 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
15 95 (8.68%) Scrum
16 89 (8.13%) Clean Code
17 88 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 87 (7.95%) SDLC
19 86 (7.85%) TDD
20 79 (7.21%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 551 (50.32%) TypeScript
2 527 (48.13%) JavaScript
3 366 (33.42%) Python
4 327 (29.86%) Java
5 221 (20.18%) SQL
6 154 (14.06%) C#
7 49 (4.47%) Go
8 16 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.10%) Bicep
11 11 (1.00%) C++
12 10 (0.91%) Formula Language
12 10 (0.91%) LotusScript
13 8 (0.73%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.64%) Perl
14 7 (0.64%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Rust
15 6 (0.55%) Bash
15 6 (0.55%) Scala
15 6 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 185 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 161 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.02%) Degree
4 53 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.46%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.27%) PhD
12 2 (0.18%) OCP
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.091%) CISSP
13 1 (0.091%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.091%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (13.06%) Accessibility
2 73 (6.67%) WCAG
3 64 (5.84%) QA
4 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.64%) GDPR
4 7 (0.64%) HL7
5 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.18%) NCSC
5 2 (0.18%) PSD2
6 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.091%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.091%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.091%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 226 (20.64%) Docker
2 17 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.091%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 183 (16.71%) Kubernetes
2 130 (11.87%) Terraform
3 26 (2.37%) Grafana
4 16 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.10%) Argo
6 10 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.82%) Ansible
8 7 (0.64%) Istio
9 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.37%) Podman
10 3 (0.27%) Kibana
10 3 (0.27%) Nagios
11 2 (0.18%) Rancher
12 1 (0.091%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 89 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.93%) Oracle
3 38 (3.47%) Google
4 37 (3.38%) OpenAI
5 29 (2.65%) Adobe
6 21 (1.92%) Databricks
7 18 (1.64%) Sitecore
8 16 (1.46%) Splunk
9 10 (0.91%) Kofax
9 10 (0.91%) Lotus
10 8 (0.73%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.55%) Solace
13 5 (0.46%) Pega
13 5 (0.46%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.46%) SAP
14 4 (0.37%) Brio
14 4 (0.37%) Netlify
14 4 (0.37%) Xamarin