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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 76 70
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 -10
Contract jobs citing React 1,068 915 1,253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.42% 3.15% 2.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.41% 13.88% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 711 1,007
10th Percentile £358 £363 £327
25th Percentile £415 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £688
90th Percentile £791 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.28% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 23
10th Percentile £43.55 - £40.00
25th Percentile £56.54 £26.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.50 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.59% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £46.50 £72.19
90th Percentile - £65.68 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +176.36% -57.03% -2.29%

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 9,361 6,592 8,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.23% 22.71% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,230 4,502 6,265
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £498
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.28% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 98 189
10th Percentile £35.15 £26.25 £20.72
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.13 £37.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +29.82% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £85.05 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -29 886 £525 - 651
London -30 547 £536 -6.74% 273
UK excluding London -29 371 £500 +11.11% 449
Work from Home -43 343 £545 +5.31% 349
North of England -21 140 £475 +5.56% 120
North West -4 79 £450 - 63
South East -36 69 £525 - 125
Scotland -3 52 £438 -0.79% 16
Midlands -42 49 £542 +14.00% 55
Yorkshire -31 48 £500 +4.71% 44
West Midlands -40 39 £525 +11.70% 31
East of England -15 29 £600 +30.43% 47
South West -19 25 £409 -7.26% 73
North East -8 16 £475 +2.15% 13
East Midlands -27 8 £600 +21.21% 24
Northern Ireland -5 7 - - 4
Wales -10 5 £331 -17.19% 15

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 38 (3.56%) CMS
2 36 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.97%) Confluence
4 16 (1.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 16 (1.50%) Headless CMS
5 15 (1.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 10 (0.94%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.94%) Mendix
7 9 (0.84%) Camunda
8 8 (0.75%) Apache
9 7 (0.66%) SAS
10 6 (0.56%) IIS
11 5 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
11 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.28%) WordPress
14 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
14 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Adobe XD
2 9 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.56%) Sketch
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.094%) Blender
4 1 (0.094%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.094%) InVision
4 1 (0.094%) Maya
4 1 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.03%) Shopify
2 5 (0.47%) Magento
3 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.094%) Endur
5 1 (0.094%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 473 (44.29%) AWS
2 337 (31.55%) Azure
3 142 (13.30%) Serverless
4 133 (12.45%) GitHub
5 128 (11.99%) GCP
6 91 (8.52%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
8 86 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (4.78%) Amazon S3
10 41 (3.84%) Power Platform
11 40 (3.75%) Figma
12 36 (3.37%) Azure Functions
13 35 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (2.90%) Entra ID
15 29 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 27 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 27 (2.53%) SaaS
17 26 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
17 26 (2.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.56%) Wireless
2 5 (0.47%) Network Security
3 3 (0.28%) DNS
3 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.19%) DHCP
4 2 (0.19%) HTTP
4 2 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.094%) Firewall
5 1 (0.094%) LAN
5 1 (0.094%) Multicast
5 1 (0.094%) RTMP
5 1 (0.094%) WAN
5 1 (0.094%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (8.61%) Relational Database
3 91 (8.52%) NoSQL
4 74 (6.93%) SQL Server
5 66 (6.18%) MySQL
6 65 (6.09%) MongoDB
7 31 (2.90%) Redis
8 28 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (2.62%) DynamoDB
8 28 (2.62%) Power BI
9 18 (1.69%) Oracle Database
10 13 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
10 13 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.12%) Metadata
12 11 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.94%) Tableau
14 8 (0.75%) Big Data
15 6 (0.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 196 (18.35%) Git
2 66 (6.18%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.99%) GitLab
4 63 (5.90%) JIRA
5 61 (5.71%) Cypress.io
6 42 (3.93%) JUnit
7 28 (2.62%) Mockito
8 21 (1.97%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.97%) webpack
9 19 (1.78%) Vite
10 17 (1.59%) Selenium
11 16 (1.50%) Maven
12 15 (1.40%) Mocha
13 13 (1.22%) CircleCI
13 13 (1.22%) Gradle
13 13 (1.22%) Storybook
14 12 (1.12%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.94%) Android Studio
15 10 (0.94%) Xcode
16 9 (0.84%) Eclipse
General
1 205 (19.19%) Social Skills
2 195 (18.26%) Finance
3 134 (12.55%) Public Sector
4 87 (8.15%) Front Office
5 81 (7.58%) Banking
6 44 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 17 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.22%) Retail
10 9 (0.84%) Marketing
11 8 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.66%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.66%) Legal
13 6 (0.56%) Games
13 6 (0.56%) Publishing
14 5 (0.47%) Law
15 4 (0.37%) Advertising
15 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 659 (61.70%) Developer
2 215 (20.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 177 (16.57%) Senior
4 148 (13.86%) Software Engineer
5 144 (13.48%) React Developer
6 108 (10.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 106 (9.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 96 (8.99%) Lead
9 91 (8.52%) Java Developer
9 91 (8.52%) Senior Developer
10 78 (7.30%) Python Developer
11 55 (5.15%) Lead Developer
12 51 (4.78%) Architect
12 51 (4.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 41 (3.84%) Software Developer
14 38 (3.56%) Lead Software Engineer
15 37 (3.46%) Lead Software Developer
16 36 (3.37%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 34 (3.18%) .NET Developer
18 33 (3.09%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (28.46%) Node.js
2 284 (26.59%) AngularJS
3 255 (23.88%) CSS
4 229 (21.44%) HTML
5 195 (18.26%) RESTful
6 177 (16.57%) .NET
7 159 (14.89%) Spring
8 155 (14.51%) REST
9 151 (14.14%) Redux
10 146 (13.67%) Spring Boot
11 119 (11.14%) Next.js
12 117 (10.96%) Vue
13 104 (9.74%) GraphQL
13 104 (9.74%) Kafka
14 102 (9.55%) Jest
15 85 (7.96%) HTML5
16 67 (6.27%) CSS3
17 57 (5.34%) Playwright
18 56 (5.24%) .NET Core
19 49 (4.59%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 110 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.46%) Product Ownership
3 52 (4.87%) Fixed Income
4 37 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
5 34 (3.18%) Derivative
6 31 (2.90%) AI Agents
7 29 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.62%) Mobile App
9 25 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.87%) Equities
11 19 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.22%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.22%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.12%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.12%) NHS
15 8 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
16 7 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.09%) Linux
2 23 (2.15%) Android
2 23 (2.15%) Windows
3 20 (1.87%) Unix
4 14 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.094%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (43.91%) CI/CD
2 468 (43.82%) Agile
3 445 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 308 (28.84%) DevOps
5 282 (26.40%) Microservices
6 242 (22.66%) Software Engineering
7 236 (22.10%) Front End Development
8 175 (16.39%) User Experience
9 174 (16.29%) AI
10 167 (15.64%) Test Automation
11 160 (14.98%) Containerisation
12 138 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
13 100 (9.36%) Scrum
14 98 (9.18%) Code Quality
14 98 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (8.71%) Clean Code
16 87 (8.15%) TDD
17 82 (7.68%) API Integration
18 80 (7.49%) Machine Learning
19 78 (7.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 515 (48.22%) JavaScript
1 515 (48.22%) TypeScript
2 353 (33.05%) Python
3 319 (29.87%) Java
4 215 (20.13%) SQL
5 154 (14.42%) C#
6 54 (5.06%) Go
7 14 (1.31%) C++
7 14 (1.31%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.22%) Bicep
9 10 (0.94%) Formula Language
9 10 (0.94%) LotusScript
9 10 (0.94%) Perl
9 10 (0.94%) Rust
9 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.66%) JSX
10 7 (0.66%) Ruby
10 7 (0.66%) Scala
11 5 (0.47%) Bash
11 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 184 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 158 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.24%) Degree
4 47 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.28%) PhD
11 2 (0.19%) OCP
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.094%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.094%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.094%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.094%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.094%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (13.20%) Accessibility
2 79 (7.40%) WCAG
3 63 (5.90%) QA
4 7 (0.66%) HL7
5 6 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.56%) GDPR
6 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.19%) NCSC
6 2 (0.19%) PSD2
7 1 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.094%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.094%) MiFID
7 1 (0.094%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.094%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 231 (21.63%) Docker
2 18 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.094%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 184 (17.23%) Kubernetes
2 123 (11.52%) Terraform
3 29 (2.72%) Grafana
4 14 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.22%) Argo
6 11 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.94%) Ansible
8 6 (0.56%) Istio
8 6 (0.56%) Kibana
9 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.19%) Nagios
10 2 (0.19%) Rancher
11 1 (0.094%) Consul
11 1 (0.094%) Podman
11 1 (0.094%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 92 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.34%) Oracle
3 36 (3.37%) OpenAI
4 35 (3.28%) Google
5 31 (2.90%) Adobe
6 21 (1.97%) Sitecore
7 18 (1.69%) Databricks
7 18 (1.69%) Splunk
8 10 (0.94%) Kofax
8 10 (0.94%) Lotus
8 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.47%) Pega
11 5 (0.47%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.47%) SAP
11 5 (0.47%) Solace
12 4 (0.37%) Apple
12 4 (0.37%) Brio
12 4 (0.37%) Salesforce