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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 72 68
Rank change year-on-year -40 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing React 1,186 1,131 1,211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.26% 3.45% 3.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.74% 15.28% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 820 952
10th Percentile £365 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% -6.82% +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £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 14 7 14
10th Percentile £41.24 £59.05 £44.50
25th Percentile £60.31 £63.63 £56.25
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% -2.19% -7.43%
75th Percentile £86.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £76.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% -4.29% +40.00%

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 10,100 7,404 8,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.22% 22.56% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,594 5,003 5,902
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 160 247
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.23 £23.38
25th Percentile £44.38 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £74.07 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £80.10 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.37% -0.42%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -45 979 £550 +4.76% 662
London -37 595 £600 - 341
UK excluding London -48 432 £500 +11.11% 413
Work from Home -51 386 £550 +3.09% 309
North of England -22 165 £500 +11.11% 133
Yorkshire -1 79 £523 +30.63% 38
Scotland -13 75 £377 -20.63% 35
South East -72 74 £525 +15.51% 97
North West -34 73 £500 +9.41% 83
South West -12 63 £525 +23.53% 45
Midlands -57 36 £475 +6.15% 49
West Midlands -51 29 £481 -6.10% 30
East of England -19 18 £625 +47.06% 29
North East -40 13 £475 +2.15% 14
Northern Ireland +2 5 £190 -41.54% 14
East Midlands -20 5 £443 +20.24% 19
Wales -21 1 £525 +14.44% 19

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 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.61%) Confluence
3 17 (1.43%) CMS
4 16 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.76%) nginx
6 7 (0.59%) Camunda
7 6 (0.51%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.34%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.34%) IIS
8 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.34%) WordPress
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.084%) Moodle
11 1 (0.084%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.34%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.084%) Blender
4 1 (0.084%) Maya
4 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.084%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.18%) Shopify
2 10 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.67%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.084%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.084%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 478 (40.30%) AWS
2 339 (28.58%) Azure
3 142 (11.97%) GCP
4 127 (10.71%) GitHub
5 126 (10.62%) Serverless
6 81 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
9 61 (5.14%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.81%) Power Platform
11 48 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (4.05%) Figma
12 37 (3.12%) Entra ID
12 37 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
12 37 (3.12%) Power Automate
12 37 (3.12%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.61%) OpenShift
14 29 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (2.36%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.84%) Firewall
2 5 (0.42%) HTTP
3 4 (0.34%) DNS
3 4 (0.34%) Intranet
3 4 (0.34%) VPN
4 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.17%) DSL
6 1 (0.084%) CTI
6 1 (0.084%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.084%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.084%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (14.84%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (7.08%) SQL Server
3 83 (7.00%) Relational Database
4 78 (6.58%) NoSQL
5 65 (5.48%) MongoDB
6 49 (4.13%) MySQL
7 43 (3.63%) DynamoDB
8 37 (3.12%) Power BI
9 35 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (2.53%) Redis
11 14 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (0.76%) Metadata
14 9 (0.76%) Neo4j
14 9 (0.76%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.67%) Db2
16 7 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 192 (16.19%) Git
2 121 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.40%) JIRA
4 55 (4.64%) GitLab
5 50 (4.22%) Cypress.io
6 45 (3.79%) Gradle
7 42 (3.54%) JUnit
8 34 (2.87%) Vite
9 26 (2.19%) Mockito
10 22 (1.85%) Maven
11 21 (1.77%) webpack
12 20 (1.69%) Claude Code
13 17 (1.43%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.35%) Liquibase
15 15 (1.26%) Cucumber
15 15 (1.26%) REST Assured
15 15 (1.26%) Storybook
16 11 (0.93%) Postman
17 10 (0.84%) SonarQube
17 10 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 276 (23.27%) Finance
2 225 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 148 (12.48%) Banking
4 120 (10.12%) Front Office
5 119 (10.03%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.40%) Investment Banking
7 53 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
8 38 (3.20%) Retail
9 25 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.93%) Law
13 10 (0.84%) Military
14 9 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.67%) Legal
15 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.59%) Marketing
16 7 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 656 (55.31%) Developer
2 238 (20.07%) Senior
3 210 (17.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 177 (14.92%) React Developer
5 173 (14.59%) Software Engineer
6 145 (12.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 138 (11.64%) Senior Developer
8 137 (11.55%) Java Developer
9 131 (11.05%) Lead
10 87 (7.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 66 (5.56%) Python Developer
12 58 (4.89%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 54 (4.55%) Senior React Developer
15 53 (4.47%) UI Developer
16 52 (4.38%) Architect
16 52 (4.38%) Senior Java Developer
17 45 (3.79%) Software Developer
18 43 (3.63%) Lead Software Engineer
19 39 (3.29%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (26.98%) Node.js
2 254 (21.42%) REST
3 217 (18.30%) CSS
4 204 (17.20%) Redux
5 198 (16.69%) HTML
6 181 (15.26%) AngularJS
7 176 (14.84%) .NET
8 164 (13.83%) RESTful
9 149 (12.56%) Kafka
9 149 (12.56%) Spring
10 139 (11.72%) Spring Boot
11 118 (9.95%) GraphQL
12 116 (9.78%) Next.js
13 104 (8.77%) Vue
14 95 (8.01%) HTML5
15 83 (7.00%) Jest
16 78 (6.58%) CSS3
17 63 (5.31%) Playwright
18 58 (4.89%) FastAPI
19 50 (4.22%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 168 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.18%) Fixed Income
3 75 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
5 60 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (4.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.88%) Equities
8 43 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.04%) Derivative
10 35 (2.95%) AI Agents
11 33 (2.78%) Data Structures
12 30 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (2.19%) Algorithms
13 26 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.01%) Onboarding
16 11 (0.93%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.93%) Virtual Team
17 9 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
17 9 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.11%) Linux
2 13 (1.10%) Windows
3 10 (0.84%) Android
4 7 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.59%) Unix
5 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (44.69%) CI/CD
2 507 (42.75%) Agile
3 499 (42.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 322 (27.15%) Software Engineering
5 291 (24.54%) DevOps
6 289 (24.37%) Microservices
7 231 (19.48%) Front End Development
8 211 (17.79%) AI
9 199 (16.78%) Test Automation
10 171 (14.42%) Containerisation
11 148 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
12 145 (12.23%) User Experience
13 119 (10.03%) Code Quality
14 118 (9.95%) Event-Driven
15 114 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (9.61%) TDD
16 113 (9.53%) Mentoring
17 107 (9.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 104 (8.77%) Scrum
19 90 (7.59%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 660 (55.65%) TypeScript
2 569 (47.98%) JavaScript
3 379 (31.96%) Java
4 363 (30.61%) Python
5 225 (18.97%) SQL
6 193 (16.27%) C#
7 64 (5.40%) Go
8 32 (2.70%) PL/SQL
9 19 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.01%) Bash
10 12 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.84%) Rust
13 9 (0.76%) C++
13 9 (0.76%) PHP
14 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.59%) Bicep
14 7 (0.59%) Scala
15 5 (0.42%) Ruby
15 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 203 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 178 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 68 (5.73%) Degree
4 52 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.76%) Master's Degree
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
12 4 (0.34%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.084%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.084%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.084%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (13.07%) Accessibility
2 78 (6.58%) WCAG
3 73 (6.16%) QA
4 7 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) GDPR
6 4 (0.34%) HL7
7 3 (0.25%) PSD2
8 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.084%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.084%) GRC
8 1 (0.084%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 243 (20.49%) Docker
2 7 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 215 (18.13%) Kubernetes
2 127 (10.71%) Terraform
3 27 (2.28%) Grafana
4 26 (2.19%) Ansible
5 17 (1.43%) Argo
6 16 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 15 (1.26%) Control-M
8 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.34%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.17%) Nagios
11 2 (0.17%) Rancher
12 1 (0.084%) Kibana
Vendors
1 79 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.65%) Oracle
3 45 (3.79%) Google
4 28 (2.36%) OpenAI
5 20 (1.69%) Databricks
6 19 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.43%) MuleSoft
8 14 (1.18%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.18%) Splunk
9 13 (1.10%) SAP
10 9 (0.76%) Adobe
10 9 (0.76%) Solace
11 8 (0.67%) Conga
11 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
12 7 (0.59%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.42%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.34%) Hitachi
14 4 (0.34%) IBM
14 4 (0.34%) Pega