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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 70 65
Rank change year-on-year -50 -5 0
Contract jobs citing React 1,181 1,148 1,203
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.20% 3.49% 3.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.54% 15.42% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 828 937
10th Percentile £363 £358 £331
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 11
10th Percentile £37.38 £59.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £63.44 £63.63 £55.63
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% - -9.46%
75th Percentile £79.50 - £72.19
90th Percentile £94.50 - £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +10.45% - +34.00%

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 10,238 7,443 8,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.10% 22.63% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,667 5,008 5,796
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 171 243
10th Percentile £28.22 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.30 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £57.25
% change year-on-year +13.04% +0.44% -2.29%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -58 981 £550 +4.76% 1,042
London -48 597 £575 -3.16% 637
UK excluding London -40 438 £500 +11.11% 518
Work from Home -57 371 £550 +4.76% 453
North of England -30 168 £500 +11.11% 152
Yorkshire +2 86 £500 +25.00% 34
Scotland +1 81 £376 -19.57% 50
South East -75 69 £525 +16.67% 117
North West -39 68 £513 +10.87% 104
South West -21 61 £525 +23.53% 68
Midlands -42 42 £468 +4.47% 65
West Midlands -39 35 £475 -7.32% 37
East of England -17 17 £625 +47.06% 30
North East -35 14 £500 +7.53% 15
East Midlands -18 5 £443 +20.24% 28
Northern Ireland +7 4 £190 -47.77% 17
Wales -20 1 £525 +14.44% 22

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 39 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.46%) Confluence
3 17 (1.44%) CMS
4 16 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.76%) nginx
6 8 (0.68%) Camunda
7 7 (0.59%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.42%) WordPress
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.34%) IIS
9 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.085%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.085%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.085%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.085%) Blender
4 1 (0.085%) Maya
4 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.085%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.10%) Shopify
2 10 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.68%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.085%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.085%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 466 (39.46%) AWS
2 331 (28.03%) Azure
3 137 (11.60%) GitHub
4 135 (11.43%) GCP
5 133 (11.26%) Serverless
6 84 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
8 66 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
9 63 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 58 (4.91%) Power Platform
11 47 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (3.73%) Figma
13 38 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
13 38 (3.22%) Power Automate
13 38 (3.22%) PowerApps
14 37 (3.13%) Entra ID
15 35 (2.96%) OpenShift
16 30 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
17 28 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.85%) Firewall
2 7 (0.59%) DNS
3 6 (0.51%) HTTP
4 4 (0.34%) Intranet
4 4 (0.34%) VPN
5 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.17%) DSL
7 1 (0.085%) CTI
7 1 (0.085%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.085%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.085%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (6.86%) NoSQL
2 81 (6.86%) Relational Database
3 80 (6.77%) SQL Server
4 72 (6.10%) MongoDB
5 47 (3.98%) MySQL
6 43 (3.64%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
7 38 (3.22%) Power BI
8 27 (2.29%) Redis
9 15 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (0.85%) Metadata
12 9 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.76%) Neo4j
12 9 (0.76%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.59%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.51%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 211 (17.87%) Git
2 131 (11.09%) Jenkins
3 63 (5.33%) GitLab
3 63 (5.33%) JIRA
4 55 (4.66%) Cypress.io
5 50 (4.23%) Gradle
6 48 (4.06%) JUnit
7 34 (2.88%) Vite
8 28 (2.37%) Maven
8 28 (2.37%) Mockito
9 22 (1.86%) webpack
10 21 (1.78%) Claude Code
11 17 (1.44%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.44%) Liquibase
11 17 (1.44%) Storybook
12 16 (1.35%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.27%) REST Assured
14 14 (1.19%) SonarQube
15 12 (1.02%) Postman
16 10 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 258 (21.85%) Finance
2 222 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 147 (12.45%) Banking
4 129 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 108 (9.14%) Front Office
6 63 (5.33%) Investment Banking
7 53 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (3.39%) Retail
9 28 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.10%) Law
13 11 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.85%) Military
14 10 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.76%) Marketing
16 8 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.68%) Legal
17 7 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 640 (54.19%) Developer
2 241 (20.41%) Senior
3 204 (17.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 169 (14.31%) React Developer
5 161 (13.63%) Software Engineer
6 140 (11.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 138 (11.69%) Senior Developer
8 134 (11.35%) Java Developer
9 128 (10.84%) Lead
10 84 (7.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 65 (5.50%) Python Developer
12 53 (4.49%) Senior React Developer
13 52 (4.40%) Lead Developer
13 52 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
14 51 (4.32%) UI Developer
15 49 (4.15%) Architect
16 44 (3.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 44 (3.73%) Software Developer
17 40 (3.39%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
18 39 (3.30%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (26.67%) Node.js
2 267 (22.61%) REST
3 216 (18.29%) CSS
4 197 (16.68%) HTML
5 194 (16.43%) Redux
6 175 (14.82%) .NET
7 174 (14.73%) AngularJS
8 168 (14.23%) RESTful
9 157 (13.29%) Spring
10 148 (12.53%) Kafka
11 144 (12.19%) Spring Boot
12 125 (10.58%) Next.js
13 112 (9.48%) GraphQL
14 100 (8.47%) Vue
15 96 (8.13%) HTML5
16 88 (7.45%) Jest
17 79 (6.69%) CSS3
18 73 (6.18%) Playwright
19 59 (5.00%) OAuth
20 58 (4.91%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 173 (14.65%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.28%) Fixed Income
3 74 (6.27%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
6 58 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (3.56%) Equities
9 35 (2.96%) AI Agents
10 33 (2.79%) Data Structures
11 32 (2.71%) Derivative
12 31 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (2.20%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (1.10%) Onboarding
17 10 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
17 10 (0.85%) Mobile App
17 10 (0.85%) Virtual Team
18 9 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.03%) Linux
2 13 (1.10%) Windows
3 6 (0.51%) Android
3 6 (0.51%) Unix
4 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (46.23%) CI/CD
2 507 (42.93%) Agile
3 495 (41.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 306 (25.91%) Software Engineering
5 297 (25.15%) Microservices
6 293 (24.81%) DevOps
7 225 (19.05%) Front End Development
8 214 (18.12%) AI
9 205 (17.36%) Test Automation
10 173 (14.65%) Containerisation
11 150 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
12 138 (11.69%) User Experience
13 126 (10.67%) TDD
14 124 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 123 (10.41%) Event-Driven
16 119 (10.08%) Code Quality
16 119 (10.08%) Mentoring
17 112 (9.48%) Scrum
18 110 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
19 95 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 657 (55.63%) TypeScript
2 568 (48.09%) JavaScript
3 375 (31.75%) Java
4 351 (29.72%) Python
5 227 (19.22%) SQL
6 192 (16.26%) C#
7 54 (4.57%) Go
8 33 (2.79%) PL/SQL
9 22 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.35%) Bash
11 14 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.02%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.85%) Rust
14 9 (0.76%) PHP
15 8 (0.68%) C++
16 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.59%) Bicep
16 7 (0.59%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.51%) Ruby
17 6 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 203 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 177 (14.99%) SC Cleared
3 63 (5.33%) Degree
4 51 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.51%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.25%) PhD
14 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.085%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.085%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.085%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.085%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (13.12%) Accessibility
2 79 (6.69%) WCAG
3 78 (6.60%) QA
4 7 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) GDPR
6 4 (0.34%) HL7
7 3 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.25%) PSD2
8 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.085%) GRC
8 1 (0.085%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.085%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 242 (20.49%) Docker
2 6 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.085%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 219 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 131 (11.09%) Terraform
3 29 (2.46%) Ansible
3 29 (2.46%) Grafana
4 16 (1.35%) Argo
4 16 (1.35%) Control-M
5 14 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.51%) Istio
8 5 (0.42%) Kibana
9 4 (0.34%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 1 (0.085%) Nagios
11 1 (0.085%) Rancher
Vendors
1 78 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.76%) Oracle
3 46 (3.90%) Google
4 27 (2.29%) OpenAI
5 21 (1.78%) Databricks
5 21 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 15 (1.27%) Splunk
8 14 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.10%) SAP
10 8 (0.68%) Adobe
10 8 (0.68%) Conga
10 8 (0.68%) GoCardless
10 8 (0.68%) Solace
11 6 (0.51%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.51%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.42%) Hitachi
12 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.34%) Apple
13 4 (0.34%) Red Hat