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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 74 68
Rank change year-on-year -55 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing React 1,132 1,131 1,212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.07% 3.43% 3.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.56% 13.42% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 808 928
10th Percentile £364 £358 £343
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +2.80%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £651
90th Percentile £850 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile £49.30 £54.57 £56.50
25th Percentile £68.00 £60.06 £58.75
Median hourly rate £72.00 £66.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% -0.75% -10.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £73.00
90th Percentile £81.60 - £73.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +7.46% - +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 11,843 8,430 9,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 25.53% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,765 5,674 6,372
10th Percentile £375 £355 £359
25th Percentile £435 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.63% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 182 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £45.31 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.30% -14.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +8.33%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -59 951 £537 +2.33% 932
London -53 561 £575 -4.17% 573
UK excluding London -60 439 £488 +8.33% 489
Work from Home -74 324 £525 - 595
North of England -41 163 £500 +17.65% 129
Yorkshire -4 84 £500 +25.00% 34
Scotland -18 75 £405 -12.54% 43
North West -44 67 £500 +16.28% 86
South West -33 65 £525 +1.20% 82
South East -77 63 £475 +11.76% 120
Midlands -29 57 £464 +6.58% 63
West Midlands -22 50 £475 -5.00% 34
East of England -38 15 £625 +40.45% 28
North East -39 12 £500 +7.53% 11
East Midlands -19 7 £433 +17.73% 29
Northern Ireland +2 2 £190 -53.37% 17
Wales -17 2 £469 -9.64% 11
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 (3.27%) Confluence
2 35 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.50%) Camunda
4 13 (1.15%) CMS
4 13 (1.15%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.80%) nginx
6 6 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.44%) WordPress
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.27%) IIS
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.088%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.088%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.27%) Sketch
4 1 (0.088%) Blender
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.088%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.88%) SAP CRM
2 9 (0.80%) Shopify
3 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.088%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 426 (37.63%) AWS
2 306 (27.03%) Azure
3 143 (12.63%) GitHub
4 133 (11.75%) Serverless
5 118 (10.42%) GCP
6 85 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
8 67 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (5.12%) Amazon S3
10 55 (4.86%) Power Platform
11 49 (4.33%) Figma
12 47 (4.15%) OpenShift
13 43 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
14 36 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
15 35 (3.09%) PowerApps
16 34 (3.00%) Power Automate
17 33 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
18 30 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
19 29 (2.56%) Entra ID
20 27 (2.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.88%) Firewall
2 8 (0.71%) DNS
3 7 (0.62%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) Intranet
4 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
7 1 (0.088%) CTI
7 1 (0.088%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.088%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.088%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (7.77%) SQL Server
3 80 (7.07%) Relational Database
4 75 (6.63%) NoSQL
5 70 (6.18%) MongoDB
6 54 (4.77%) MySQL
7 43 (3.80%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (3.18%) Power BI
10 28 (2.47%) Redis
11 17 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (0.88%) Metadata
14 10 (0.88%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.62%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.53%) Neo4j
17 5 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
17 5 (0.44%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 230 (20.32%) Git
2 137 (12.10%) Jenkins
3 75 (6.63%) GitLab
4 66 (5.83%) JIRA
5 62 (5.48%) Gradle
6 55 (4.86%) JUnit
7 52 (4.59%) Cypress.io
8 43 (3.80%) Maven
9 34 (3.00%) Mockito
9 34 (3.00%) Vite
10 23 (2.03%) SonarQube
11 22 (1.94%) Claude Code
11 22 (1.94%) Cucumber
12 21 (1.86%) Storybook
13 20 (1.77%) REST Assured
13 20 (1.77%) webpack
14 18 (1.59%) Bitbucket
15 17 (1.50%) Liquibase
15 17 (1.50%) Selenium
16 11 (0.97%) Postman
General
1 237 (20.94%) Finance
2 228 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 155 (13.69%) Banking
4 128 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.18%) Front Office
6 61 (5.39%) Investment Banking
7 53 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (3.80%) Retail
9 31 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.24%) Law
12 13 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.88%) Marketing
13 10 (0.88%) Military
13 10 (0.88%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.80%) Back Office
14 9 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.71%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 600 (53.00%) Developer
2 239 (21.11%) Senior
3 186 (16.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 153 (13.52%) React Developer
5 134 (11.84%) Senior Developer
6 132 (11.66%) Java Developer
7 127 (11.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 126 (11.13%) Software Engineer
9 103 (9.10%) Lead
10 97 (8.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 59 (5.21%) Python Developer
12 54 (4.77%) Senior React Developer
13 52 (4.59%) Senior Java Developer
14 51 (4.51%) UI Developer
15 41 (3.62%) Software Developer
16 39 (3.45%) Architect
16 39 (3.45%) Technical Leader
17 38 (3.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 34 (3.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
18 34 (3.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (25.44%) Node.js
2 282 (24.91%) REST
3 242 (21.38%) CSS
4 231 (20.41%) HTML
5 174 (15.37%) Spring
6 173 (15.28%) .NET
7 165 (14.58%) RESTful
8 163 (14.40%) Spring Boot
9 161 (14.22%) Redux
10 152 (13.43%) AngularJS
11 136 (12.01%) Kafka
12 135 (11.93%) Next.js
13 128 (11.31%) Terraform
14 113 (9.98%) HTML5
15 95 (8.39%) GraphQL
16 94 (8.30%) CSS3
17 88 (7.77%) Vue
18 87 (7.69%) Jest
19 84 (7.42%) Playwright
20 74 (6.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 172 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 85 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (5.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 57 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
6 52 (4.59%) Fixed Income
7 48 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.53%) AI Agents
9 34 (3.00%) Data Structures
10 32 (2.83%) Equities
11 31 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (2.21%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.41%) Derivative
15 12 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (1.06%) Onboarding
16 11 (0.97%) Autonomous Agent
17 9 (0.80%) Mobile App
17 9 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.39%) Linux
2 14 (1.24%) Windows
3 8 (0.71%) Unix
4 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.35%) Android
5 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.088%) AIX
6 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (48.94%) CI/CD
2 485 (42.84%) Agile
3 462 (40.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 302 (26.68%) Microservices
5 295 (26.06%) DevOps
6 288 (25.44%) Software Engineering
7 237 (20.94%) Front End Development
8 219 (19.35%) Test Automation
9 212 (18.73%) AI
10 177 (15.64%) Containerisation
11 160 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
11 160 (14.13%) User Experience
12 141 (12.46%) Event-Driven
13 140 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 128 (11.31%) Scrum
15 124 (10.95%) Mentoring
15 124 (10.95%) TDD
16 119 (10.51%) Code Quality
17 114 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
18 113 (9.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 633 (55.92%) TypeScript
2 563 (49.73%) JavaScript
3 383 (33.83%) Java
4 308 (27.21%) Python
5 249 (22.00%) SQL
6 179 (15.81%) C#
7 37 (3.27%) Go
8 34 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.77%) Bash
11 14 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 11 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.88%) C++
13 10 (0.88%) Rust
14 8 (0.71%) PHP
14 8 (0.71%) Ruby
15 7 (0.62%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.53%) Bicep
16 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 204 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 170 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.18%) Degree
4 53 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 46 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.088%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.088%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.088%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (13.87%) Accessibility
2 85 (7.51%) WCAG
3 84 (7.42%) QA
4 9 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.27%) GDPR
6 3 (0.27%) HL7
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.088%) GRC
8 1 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 239 (21.11%) Docker
2 4 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.088%) Varnish
3 1 (0.088%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 226 (19.96%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.27%) Grafana
3 31 (2.74%) Ansible
4 19 (1.68%) Argo
5 16 (1.41%) Control-M
6 15 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.71%) Kibana
7 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.62%) Istio
8 7 (0.62%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.27%) Podman
10 1 (0.088%) Nagios
10 1 (0.088%) QRadar
Vendors
1 90 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.54%) Oracle
3 48 (4.24%) Google
4 28 (2.47%) Databricks
5 23 (2.03%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.77%) MuleSoft
6 20 (1.77%) OpenAI
6 20 (1.77%) Splunk
7 15 (1.33%) SAP
8 14 (1.24%) Dynatrace
9 10 (0.88%) Adobe
10 9 (0.80%) IBM
11 8 (0.71%) Conga
11 8 (0.71%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.71%) Solace
11 8 (0.71%) Veracode
12 6 (0.53%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.53%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.44%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.44%) Sitecore