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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 68 67
Rank change year-on-year -33 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing React 1,087 988 1,273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.38% 3.37% 2.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.50% 14.87% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 768 1,023
10th Percentile £358 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.98% +0.28%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £691
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £448 £465
% change year-on-year +11.73% -3.76% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 22
10th Percentile £49.92 - £40.00
25th Percentile £58.75 £26.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £36.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.66% -42.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.49 £72.34
90th Percentile - £68.88 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +176.36% -58.02% -

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 9,449 6,643 8,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.67% 22.69% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,293 4,558 6,177
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 102 185
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.28 £18.39
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +39.67% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -26.11%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -34 901 £525 - 635
London -36 545 £535 -6.96% 334
UK excluding London -19 393 £500 +11.73% 378
Work from Home -51 332 £540 +8.00% 364
North of England -24 148 £475 +4.40% 99
North West -7 87 £450 - 50
South East -45 69 £538 +16.85% 119
Scotland +8 62 £425 -2.86% 26
Yorkshire -35 49 £500 +4.71% 34
Midlands -54 42 £525 +11.70% 42
West Midlands -50 36 £500 +8.11% 23
East of England -7 35 £600 +30.43% 32
South West -17 31 £409 -7.26% 50
North East -16 14 £475 +2.15% 15
Northern Ireland -3 7 - - 4
East Midlands -34 4 £600 +22.45% 19
Wales -15 3 £175 -56.25% 9

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 41 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.76%) CMS
3 22 (2.02%) Confluence
4 14 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
6 12 (1.10%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.92%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.92%) Mendix
8 9 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.74%) Camunda
10 7 (0.64%) IIS
10 7 (0.64%) SAS
11 6 (0.55%) Apache
12 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.28%) WordPress
14 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
14 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.92%) Adobe XD
2 9 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.55%) Sketch
4 1 (0.092%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.092%) Blender
4 1 (0.092%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.092%) InVision
4 1 (0.092%) Maya
4 1 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.01%) Shopify
2 3 (0.28%) Magento
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.092%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 480 (44.16%) AWS
2 331 (30.45%) Azure
3 142 (13.06%) Serverless
4 133 (12.24%) GitHub
5 121 (11.13%) GCP
6 89 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
8 84 (7.73%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (4.60%) Amazon S3
10 46 (4.23%) Power Platform
11 39 (3.59%) Figma
12 37 (3.40%) Azure Functions
13 36 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (3.04%) Entra ID
15 32 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
16 31 (2.85%) Power Automate
16 31 (2.85%) PowerApps
17 29 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
18 26 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.46%) Network Security
2 3 (0.28%) Firewall
2 3 (0.28%) VPN
2 3 (0.28%) Wireless
3 2 (0.18%) DHCP
3 2 (0.18%) DNS
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
3 2 (0.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.092%) LAN
4 1 (0.092%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.092%) RTMP
4 1 (0.092%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (8.28%) NoSQL
2 90 (8.28%) Relational Database
3 77 (7.08%) SQL Server
4 69 (6.35%) MySQL
5 64 (5.89%) MongoDB
6 32 (2.94%) Power BI
7 29 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (2.67%) DynamoDB
8 27 (2.48%) Redis
9 17 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (1.47%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.10%) Metadata
13 10 (0.92%) Tableau
14 8 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (0.64%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 184 (16.93%) Git
2 73 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 67 (6.16%) JIRA
4 65 (5.98%) GitLab
5 56 (5.15%) Cypress.io
6 38 (3.50%) JUnit
7 24 (2.21%) Mockito
8 20 (1.84%) Vite
8 20 (1.84%) webpack
9 16 (1.47%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.20%) CircleCI
10 13 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 13 (1.20%) Gradle
10 13 (1.20%) Selenium
10 13 (1.20%) Storybook
11 11 (1.01%) Mocha
12 10 (0.92%) Maven
13 9 (0.83%) Postman
14 8 (0.74%) ESLint
14 8 (0.74%) Liquibase
General
1 200 (18.40%) Finance
2 198 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 127 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 91 (8.37%) Front Office
5 87 (8.00%) Banking
6 44 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.66%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.38%) Retail
10 11 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.83%) Marketing
12 8 (0.74%) Legal
13 7 (0.64%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.55%) Games
14 6 (0.55%) Publishing
15 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.37%) Advertising
16 4 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 662 (60.90%) Developer
2 220 (20.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 177 (16.28%) Senior
4 149 (13.71%) React Developer
4 149 (13.71%) Software Engineer
5 109 (10.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 104 (9.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 101 (9.29%) Lead
8 92 (8.46%) Java Developer
9 90 (8.28%) Senior Developer
10 77 (7.08%) Python Developer
11 56 (5.15%) Lead Developer
12 52 (4.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 51 (4.69%) Architect
14 45 (4.14%) Software Developer
15 38 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
16 37 (3.40%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 37 (3.40%) Lead Software Developer
17 35 (3.22%) .NET Developer
17 35 (3.22%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (27.78%) Node.js
2 267 (24.56%) AngularJS
3 244 (22.45%) CSS
4 221 (20.33%) HTML
5 184 (16.93%) RESTful
6 176 (16.19%) .NET
7 170 (15.64%) REST
8 162 (14.90%) Spring
9 161 (14.81%) Redux
10 149 (13.71%) Spring Boot
11 121 (11.13%) Next.js
12 114 (10.49%) Vue
13 109 (10.03%) GraphQL
14 106 (9.75%) Kafka
15 99 (9.11%) Jest
16 85 (7.82%) HTML5
17 68 (6.26%) CSS3
18 56 (5.15%) .NET Core
19 50 (4.60%) Playwright
20 43 (3.96%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 121 (11.13%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.44%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.24%) Fixed Income
4 37 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
5 34 (3.13%) Derivative
6 32 (2.94%) AI Agents
6 32 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (1.84%) Equities
10 20 (1.84%) Mobile App
11 19 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.47%) NHS
12 16 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.29%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.48%) Linux
2 21 (1.93%) Windows
3 19 (1.75%) Android
4 16 (1.47%) Unix
5 13 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (44.62%) CI/CD
2 467 (42.96%) Agile
3 456 (41.95%) Full-Stack Development
4 302 (27.78%) DevOps
5 282 (25.94%) Microservices
6 245 (22.54%) Software Engineering
7 235 (21.62%) Front End Development
8 178 (16.38%) AI
9 176 (16.19%) Test Automation
10 164 (15.09%) User Experience
11 157 (14.44%) Containerisation
12 135 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
13 111 (10.21%) Code Quality
14 100 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 94 (8.65%) Scrum
16 90 (8.28%) Clean Code
17 89 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 88 (8.10%) TDD
19 85 (7.82%) SDLC
20 80 (7.36%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 543 (49.95%) TypeScript
2 517 (47.56%) JavaScript
3 358 (32.93%) Python
4 326 (29.99%) Java
5 218 (20.06%) SQL
6 154 (14.17%) C#
7 50 (4.60%) Go
8 13 (1.20%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.10%) Bicep
9 12 (1.10%) C++
9 12 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.92%) Formula Language
10 10 (0.92%) LotusScript
11 8 (0.74%) Ruby
11 8 (0.74%) Rust
12 7 (0.64%) Perl
12 7 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.64%) Scala
13 6 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 181 (16.65%) Security Cleared
2 157 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.78%) Degree
4 51 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.84%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.46%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.28%) PhD
11 2 (0.18%) OCP
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.092%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.092%) CCIP
12 1 (0.092%) CISSP
12 1 (0.092%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.092%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (13.06%) Accessibility
2 72 (6.62%) WCAG
3 65 (5.98%) QA
4 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.64%) HL7
5 6 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.18%) NCSC
6 2 (0.18%) PSD2
7 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.092%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.092%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.092%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.092%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 224 (20.61%) Docker
2 18 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.092%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 183 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 129 (11.87%) Terraform
3 26 (2.39%) Grafana
4 16 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.10%) Argo
6 10 (0.92%) Ansible
6 10 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.64%) Istio
8 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.28%) Kibana
9 3 (0.28%) Nagios
10 2 (0.18%) Rancher
11 1 (0.092%) Consul
11 1 (0.092%) Podman
11 1 (0.092%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 89 (8.19%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.88%) Oracle
3 36 (3.31%) OpenAI
4 32 (2.94%) Google
5 29 (2.67%) Adobe
6 20 (1.84%) Databricks
7 18 (1.66%) Sitecore
8 14 (1.29%) Splunk
9 10 (0.92%) Kofax
9 10 (0.92%) Lotus
10 8 (0.74%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.55%) Solace
13 5 (0.46%) Pega
13 5 (0.46%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.46%) SAP
14 4 (0.37%) Brio
14 4 (0.37%) Netlify
14 4 (0.37%) Xamarin