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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 77 72
Rank change year-on-year -23 -5 -16
Contract jobs citing React 1,019 932 1,263
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.61% 3.00% 2.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.78% 13.36% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 698 1,027
10th Percentile £350 £356 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -1.19% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £713 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 19
10th Percentile £45.65 £26.25 £48.00
25th Percentile £54.11 £31.50 £56.88
Median hourly rate £68.75 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.28% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £90.63 £44.13 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £59.29 £78.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year +176.36% -59.41% -

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 8,649 6,975 9,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.11% 22.43% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,770 4,452 6,609
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 86 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.32 £25.80
25th Percentile £50.13 £38.69 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.83 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 February 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 February 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 8 February 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 -24 848 £513 -6.82% 743
London -31 490 £536 -8.33% 312
UK excluding London -8 387 £475 +5.56% 530
Work from Home -38 304 £520 +2.46% 450
North of England -16 136 £475 +5.56% 165
North West -1 79 £425 -5.56% 100
South East -33 67 £411 -21.67% 145
Scotland +5 55 £438 -0.79% 22
Midlands -33 51 £525 +5.00% 61
Yorkshire -29 48 £500 +1.27% 49
South West -7 42 £545 +21.11% 86
West Midlands -32 40 £525 +7.69% 25
East of England -11 33 £600 +65.52% 41
North East -11 12 £475 +13.77% 16
East Midlands -21 11 £550 +10.00% 36
Northern Ireland 0 7 - - 5
Wales +1 5 £331 -22.06% 10

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 42 (4.12%) CMS
2 23 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 17 (1.67%) Confluence
5 14 (1.37%) Sitecore CMS
6 13 (1.28%) Headless CMS
7 11 (1.08%) Apache
7 11 (1.08%) SAS
8 10 (0.98%) Camunda
9 9 (0.88%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.88%) Mendix
10 7 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.39%) IIS
13 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.29%) WordPress
14 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
15 1 (0.098%) Traefik
Applications
1 18 (1.77%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.98%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.69%) Sketch
4 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) Trello
6 1 (0.098%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.098%) Blender
6 1 (0.098%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.098%) InVision
6 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.39%) Shopify
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.098%) Endur
4 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 451 (44.26%) AWS
2 290 (28.46%) Azure
3 142 (13.94%) Serverless
4 131 (12.86%) GCP
5 129 (12.66%) GitHub
6 94 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
7 88 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (4.91%) Amazon S3
10 44 (4.32%) Figma
11 32 (3.14%) SaaS
12 29 (2.85%) Azure Functions
13 26 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (2.55%) Entra ID
13 26 (2.55%) npm
13 26 (2.55%) Power Platform
14 25 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (2.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 24 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.18%) Wireless
2 5 (0.49%) DNS
2 5 (0.49%) HTTP
2 5 (0.49%) Network Security
3 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.20%) VPN
6 1 (0.098%) Firewall
6 1 (0.098%) LAN
6 1 (0.098%) Multicast
6 1 (0.098%) RTMP
6 1 (0.098%) WAN
6 1 (0.098%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (8.64%) NoSQL
3 86 (8.44%) Relational Database
4 62 (6.08%) MySQL
5 57 (5.59%) SQL Server
6 54 (5.30%) MongoDB
7 27 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (2.26%) Redis
9 21 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (2.06%) Power BI
10 18 (1.77%) DynamoDB
11 15 (1.47%) Oracle Database
12 14 (1.37%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (0.98%) Metadata
15 9 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (0.88%) Big Data
16 8 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 204 (20.02%) Git
2 70 (6.87%) Cypress.io
3 64 (6.28%) GitLab
4 62 (6.08%) Jenkins
5 55 (5.40%) JIRA
6 42 (4.12%) JUnit
7 26 (2.55%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.26%) Mockito
8 23 (2.26%) Selenium
9 21 (2.06%) Maven
9 21 (2.06%) webpack
10 17 (1.67%) Browser DevTools
11 16 (1.57%) Android Studio
11 16 (1.57%) Xcode
12 15 (1.47%) Eclipse
12 15 (1.47%) Storybook
13 14 (1.37%) Mocha
13 14 (1.37%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.28%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.28%) Vite
General
1 215 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 178 (17.47%) Finance
3 130 (12.76%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.65%) Banking
5 55 (5.40%) Front Office
6 41 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (3.24%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.16%) Retail
9 17 (1.67%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.08%) Marketing
10 11 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.79%) Health Technology
13 7 (0.69%) Publishing
13 7 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.49%) Games
14 5 (0.49%) Law
14 5 (0.49%) Military
15 4 (0.39%) Legal
15 4 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 616 (60.45%) Developer
2 212 (20.80%) Full-Stack Developer
3 170 (16.68%) Senior
4 138 (13.54%) React Developer
5 127 (12.46%) Software Engineer
6 110 (10.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 93 (9.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 88 (8.64%) Senior Developer
9 85 (8.34%) Java Developer
10 81 (7.95%) Python Developer
11 78 (7.65%) Lead
12 41 (4.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 37 (3.63%) Software Developer
14 35 (3.43%) Architect
15 34 (3.34%) AWS Developer
16 33 (3.24%) Lead Developer
17 32 (3.14%) Full-Stack Python Developer
18 29 (2.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 28 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
20 27 (2.65%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (29.93%) Node.js
2 289 (28.36%) AngularJS
3 253 (24.83%) CSS
4 228 (22.37%) HTML
5 189 (18.55%) RESTful
6 158 (15.51%) Spring
7 150 (14.72%) .NET
8 140 (13.74%) Spring Boot
9 132 (12.95%) REST
10 130 (12.76%) Next.js
11 107 (10.50%) Jest
12 104 (10.21%) Vue
13 102 (10.01%) Redux
14 96 (9.42%) GraphQL
15 82 (8.05%) Kafka
16 74 (7.26%) HTML5
17 62 (6.08%) Playwright
18 61 (5.99%) FastAPI
19 57 (5.59%) CSS3
20 48 (4.71%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 104 (10.21%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.85%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.63%) Mobile App
4 36 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
5 28 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 23 (2.26%) Fixed Income
7 22 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.86%) Derivative
9 19 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.28%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.28%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.18%) Equities
14 12 (1.18%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.08%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.98%) NHS
17 7 (0.69%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.00%) Linux
2 35 (3.43%) Unix
3 33 (3.24%) Windows
4 30 (2.94%) Android
5 17 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.39%) CentOS
8 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.098%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.098%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 426 (41.81%) Full-Stack Development
3 417 (40.92%) Agile
4 301 (29.54%) DevOps
5 273 (26.79%) Microservices
6 231 (22.67%) Software Engineering
7 225 (22.08%) Front End Development
8 183 (17.96%) User Experience
9 166 (16.29%) AI
10 165 (16.19%) Containerisation
11 163 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
12 162 (15.90%) Test Automation
13 107 (10.50%) Clean Code
14 102 (10.01%) Code Quality
15 98 (9.62%) Scrum
16 91 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (8.05%) TDD
18 81 (7.95%) Analytics
19 75 (7.36%) Design Patterns
19 75 (7.36%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 506 (49.66%) JavaScript
2 480 (47.11%) TypeScript
3 324 (31.80%) Python
4 311 (30.52%) Java
5 194 (19.04%) SQL
6 134 (13.15%) C#
7 33 (3.24%) Go
8 20 (1.96%) Perl
9 19 (1.86%) C++
10 18 (1.77%) Bicep
11 14 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.37%) Ruby
11 14 (1.37%) Rust
12 9 (0.88%) Formula Language
12 9 (0.88%) LotusScript
13 8 (0.79%) JSX
13 8 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.69%) Bash
14 7 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 193 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 163 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.59%) Degree
4 36 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.20%) OCP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.098%) CCIP
12 1 (0.098%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.098%) CISSP
12 1 (0.098%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (13.44%) Accessibility
2 71 (6.97%) WCAG
3 58 (5.69%) QA
4 6 (0.59%) GDPR
4 6 (0.59%) HL7
5 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.20%) NCSC
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.098%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.098%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.098%) MiFID
8 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.098%) PSD2
8 1 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 246 (24.14%) Docker
2 22 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.098%) Varnish
4 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.098%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 204 (20.02%) Kubernetes
2 118 (11.58%) Terraform
3 30 (2.94%) Grafana
4 24 (2.36%) Argo
5 16 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.08%) Ansible
7 11 (1.08%) Kibana
8 9 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.69%) Istio
10 2 (0.20%) Nagios
10 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 2 (0.20%) Rancher
11 1 (0.098%) Consul
11 1 (0.098%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 110 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.28%) Oracle
3 47 (4.61%) Google
4 36 (3.53%) Adobe
5 34 (3.34%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.16%) Sitecore
7 20 (1.96%) Splunk
8 19 (1.86%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.18%) Databricks
11 9 (0.88%) Kofax
11 9 (0.88%) Lotus
12 8 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.69%) SAP
14 6 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.49%) Dynatrace
15 5 (0.49%) Marketo
15 5 (0.49%) MuleSoft
15 5 (0.49%) VMware
16 4 (0.39%) Xamarin