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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 72 75
Rank change year-on-year -27 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing React 1,000 971 1,216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.61% 3.10% 2.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.71% 13.85% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 724 992
10th Percentile £344 £356 £328
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +5.56% -1.10% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £44.95 £26.25 £51.50
25th Percentile £51.66 £31.50 £55.94
Median hourly rate £68.75 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.28% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £81.88 £44.13 £72.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £59.29 £79.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 £27.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +174.55% -58.02% -3.32%

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 8,543 7,010 9,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.26% 22.39% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,689 4,448 6,566
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 89 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.47 £25.98
25th Percentile £49.06 £38.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.44 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.45 £76.63
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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -29 844 £508 -7.68% 1,102
London -27 485 £525 -12.50% 296
UK excluding London -24 380 £475 +5.56% 948
Work from Home -51 282 £510 +1.24% 717
North of England -10 140 £463 +2.78% 200
North West -1 79 £425 -5.56% 105
South East -33 64 £388 -29.55% 318
Yorkshire -20 52 £500 +1.27% 71
Scotland -5 51 £438 -1.69% 38
Midlands -54 51 £525 +5.00% 94
South West -14 41 £545 +21.11% 122
West Midlands -41 40 £525 -4.55% 38
East of England -6 31 £588 +56.67% 129
North East -10 12 £475 +26.67% 24
East Midlands -31 11 £550 +10.00% 55
Northern Ireland -7 6 - - 21
Wales -2 5 £331 -30.26% 43

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 40 (4.00%) CMS
2 24 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 18 (1.80%) Confluence
5 13 (1.30%) Headless CMS
6 12 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
7 11 (1.10%) Camunda
7 11 (1.10%) SAS
8 10 (1.00%) Apache
9 9 (0.90%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.90%) Mendix
10 8 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.40%) IIS
13 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.30%) WordPress
14 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.20%) ColdFusion
14 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
Applications
1 18 (1.80%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.90%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.70%) Sketch
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.20%) Trello
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.10%) Blender
5 1 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.10%) InVision
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.30%) Shopify
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.10%) Endur
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 434 (43.40%) AWS
2 281 (28.10%) Azure
3 149 (14.90%) Serverless
4 135 (13.50%) GitHub
5 121 (12.10%) GCP
6 97 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
7 89 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (5.40%) Amazon S3
10 40 (4.00%) Figma
11 32 (3.20%) SaaS
12 30 (3.00%) Azure Functions
13 28 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (2.70%) Azure AKS
14 27 (2.70%) npm
15 26 (2.60%) Power Platform
16 25 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 25 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.30%) Wireless
2 8 (0.80%) HTTP
3 5 (0.50%) DNS
3 5 (0.50%) Network Security
4 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.20%) VPN
7 1 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.10%) LAN
7 1 (0.10%) Multicast
7 1 (0.10%) RTMP
7 1 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.10%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (8.80%) Relational Database
3 84 (8.40%) NoSQL
4 59 (5.90%) MySQL
5 53 (5.30%) MongoDB
6 51 (5.10%) SQL Server
7 27 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (2.30%) Redis
9 21 (2.10%) Power BI
10 20 (2.00%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (1.70%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.30%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.00%) Metadata
16 8 (0.80%) Big Data
16 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 211 (21.10%) Git
2 74 (7.40%) Cypress.io
3 63 (6.30%) Jenkins
4 61 (6.10%) GitLab
5 57 (5.70%) JIRA
6 48 (4.80%) JUnit
7 27 (2.70%) webpack
8 25 (2.50%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.30%) Mockito
10 22 (2.20%) Maven
10 22 (2.20%) Selenium
11 18 (1.80%) Browser DevTools
12 17 (1.70%) Android Studio
12 17 (1.70%) Storybook
12 17 (1.70%) Xcode
13 16 (1.60%) Eclipse
13 16 (1.60%) Postman
14 15 (1.50%) SonarQube
14 15 (1.50%) Vite
15 14 (1.40%) Mocha
General
1 222 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 165 (16.50%) Finance
3 129 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 79 (7.90%) Banking
5 44 (4.40%) Front Office
6 42 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.40%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.20%) Retail
9 17 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.10%) Marketing
12 10 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.90%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Games
15 5 (0.50%) Law
15 5 (0.50%) Military
15 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 602 (60.20%) Developer
2 213 (21.30%) Full-Stack Developer
3 170 (17.00%) Senior
4 129 (12.90%) React Developer
5 111 (11.10%) Software Engineer
6 106 (10.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 96 (9.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 85 (8.50%) Senior Developer
9 83 (8.30%) Java Developer
10 82 (8.20%) Python Developer
11 70 (7.00%) Lead
12 46 (4.60%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 35 (3.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 33 (3.30%) Software Developer
15 32 (3.20%) AWS Developer
16 30 (3.00%) Architect
17 27 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
18 26 (2.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 26 (2.60%) JavaScript Developer
18 26 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (29.80%) Node.js
2 296 (29.60%) AngularJS
3 252 (25.20%) CSS
4 229 (22.90%) HTML
5 195 (19.50%) RESTful
6 155 (15.50%) Spring
7 146 (14.60%) .NET
8 138 (13.80%) Spring Boot
9 134 (13.40%) REST
10 129 (12.90%) Next.js
11 108 (10.80%) Jest
12 97 (9.70%) Vue
13 95 (9.50%) GraphQL
14 90 (9.00%) Redux
15 77 (7.70%) HTML5
16 72 (7.20%) Kafka
17 62 (6.20%) FastAPI
17 62 (6.20%) Playwright
18 58 (5.80%) CSS3
19 44 (4.40%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 98 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 77 (7.70%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.80%) Mobile App
4 33 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (3.00%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.50%) Derivative
9 15 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.30%) Hedge funds
11 13 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.20%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.00%) NHS
15 9 (0.90%) Equities
16 7 (0.70%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.10%) Linux
2 39 (3.90%) Unix
3 35 (3.50%) Windows
4 26 (2.60%) Android
5 12 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.40%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (45.80%) CI/CD
2 431 (43.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 410 (41.00%) Agile
4 296 (29.60%) DevOps
5 262 (26.20%) Microservices
6 223 (22.30%) Front End Development
7 208 (20.80%) Software Engineering
8 182 (18.20%) User Experience
9 164 (16.40%) Containerisation
9 164 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
10 158 (15.80%) AI
11 156 (15.60%) Test Automation
12 113 (11.30%) Clean Code
13 103 (10.30%) Scrum
14 95 (9.50%) Code Quality
15 88 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 88 (8.80%) TDD
16 74 (7.40%) Analytics
16 74 (7.40%) UX Design
17 73 (7.30%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 491 (49.10%) JavaScript
2 463 (46.30%) TypeScript
3 309 (30.90%) Python
4 298 (29.80%) Java
5 198 (19.80%) SQL
6 133 (13.30%) C#
7 27 (2.70%) Go
8 20 (2.00%) Bicep
8 20 (2.00%) Perl
9 19 (1.90%) C++
10 18 (1.80%) Ruby
11 15 (1.50%) Rust
12 14 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.90%) Formula Language
14 9 (0.90%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.80%) Bash
15 8 (0.80%) JSX
15 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 190 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 160 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.10%) Degree
4 33 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.50%) MCP
8 12 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.20%) OCP
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.10%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (13.60%) Accessibility
2 69 (6.90%) WCAG
3 64 (6.40%) QA
4 7 (0.70%) GDPR
5 6 (0.60%) HL7
6 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.20%) NCSC
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.10%) MiFID
8 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.10%) PSD2
8 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 250 (25.00%) Docker
2 21 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.10%) Varnish
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 199 (19.90%) Kubernetes
2 115 (11.50%) Terraform
3 26 (2.60%) Grafana
4 22 (2.20%) Argo
5 12 (1.20%) Ansible
5 12 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.10%) Kibana
7 9 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.70%) Istio
9 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 1 (0.10%) Consul
10 1 (0.10%) Nagios
10 1 (0.10%) Rancher
10 1 (0.10%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 111 (11.10%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.40%) Oracle
3 48 (4.80%) Google
4 36 (3.60%) Adobe
5 33 (3.30%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.10%) Splunk
7 19 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 19 (1.90%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.20%) Databricks
9 9 (0.90%) Kofax
9 9 (0.90%) Lotus
9 9 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.80%) SAP
11 5 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.50%) Marketo
11 5 (0.50%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.50%) VMware
12 4 (0.40%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.40%) Xamarin