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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 74 73
Rank change year-on-year -30 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing React 1,078 909 1,240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.49% 3.10% 2.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.58% 13.66% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 696 1,002
10th Percentile £358 £360 £328
25th Percentile £415 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £637 £652 £684
90th Percentile £800 £769 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 24
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 £72.50
90th Percentile - £65.68 £76.75
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 9,307 6,654 9,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.51% 22.70% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,213 4,471 6,269
10th Percentile £358 £363 £335
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 96 209
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.48 £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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -28 898 £525 - 588
London -24 554 £550 -4.35% 275
UK excluding London -18 374 £500 +11.11% 388
Work from Home -40 342 £550 +7.26% 374
North of England -14 136 £475 +5.56% 117
North West -7 79 £450 - 59
South East -39 70 £513 +2.50% 100
Midlands -39 53 £550 +10.00% 53
Scotland +2 52 £438 -1.24% 16
Yorkshire -37 45 £500 +4.71% 42
West Midlands -36 42 £540 +7.90% 34
East of England -5 31 £600 +33.33% 31
South West -19 28 £508 +15.08% 64
North East -5 15 £475 +3.26% 16
East Midlands -38 9 £600 +20.00% 19
Northern Ireland -4 7 - - 1
Wales -7 5 £331 -17.19% 12

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 (3.62%) CMS
2 30 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 18 (1.67%) Confluence
5 16 (1.48%) Headless CMS
6 15 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
7 10 (0.93%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.93%) Mendix
8 9 (0.83%) Apache
9 8 (0.74%) Camunda
10 7 (0.65%) SAS
11 5 (0.46%) IIS
11 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.28%) WordPress
14 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
14 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.93%) Adobe XD
3 6 (0.56%) Sketch
4 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.093%) Blender
4 1 (0.093%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.093%) InVision
4 1 (0.093%) Maya
4 1 (0.093%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.02%) Shopify
2 5 (0.46%) Magento
3 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.093%) Endur
5 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 473 (43.88%) AWS
2 338 (31.35%) Azure
3 146 (13.54%) GitHub
4 145 (13.45%) Serverless
5 138 (12.80%) GCP
6 90 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
8 86 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (4.82%) Amazon S3
10 41 (3.80%) Figma
11 35 (3.25%) Azure Functions
11 35 (3.25%) Power Platform
12 31 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
13 29 (2.69%) Entra ID
13 29 (2.69%) SaaS
14 27 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
16 21 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.65%) Wireless
2 5 (0.46%) Network Security
3 3 (0.28%) DNS
3 3 (0.28%) HTTP
3 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.19%) DHCP
4 2 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.093%) Firewall
5 1 (0.093%) LAN
5 1 (0.093%) Multicast
5 1 (0.093%) RTMP
5 1 (0.093%) WAN
5 1 (0.093%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (15.03%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (8.53%) NoSQL
3 89 (8.26%) Relational Database
4 69 (6.40%) SQL Server
5 65 (6.03%) MongoDB
6 59 (5.47%) MySQL
7 29 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (2.69%) Redis
8 27 (2.50%) Power BI
9 26 (2.41%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.67%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.11%) Metadata
13 11 (1.02%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.83%) Big Data
15 9 (0.83%) Tableau
16 6 (0.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 209 (19.39%) Git
2 69 (6.40%) GitLab
3 67 (6.22%) Jenkins
4 62 (5.75%) Cypress.io
5 58 (5.38%) JIRA
6 44 (4.08%) JUnit
7 29 (2.69%) Mockito
8 22 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 22 (2.04%) webpack
9 19 (1.76%) Selenium
10 17 (1.58%) Maven
11 15 (1.39%) Mocha
11 15 (1.39%) Vite
12 13 (1.21%) CircleCI
12 13 (1.21%) Gradle
12 13 (1.21%) Storybook
13 12 (1.11%) Bitbucket
14 11 (1.02%) Android Studio
14 11 (1.02%) Xcode
15 10 (0.93%) Eclipse
General
1 214 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 198 (18.37%) Finance
3 137 (12.71%) Public Sector
4 89 (8.26%) Front Office
5 78 (7.24%) Banking
6 40 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (2.97%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.21%) Retail
10 9 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.83%) Marketing
11 8 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (0.74%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.65%) Games
12 7 (0.65%) Legal
12 7 (0.65%) Publishing
13 5 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.37%) Advertising
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 666 (61.78%) Developer
2 221 (20.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 175 (16.23%) Senior
4 154 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 148 (13.73%) React Developer
6 116 (10.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 107 (9.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 97 (9.00%) Lead
9 90 (8.35%) Senior Developer
10 82 (7.61%) Java Developer
11 77 (7.14%) Python Developer
12 55 (5.10%) Lead Developer
13 51 (4.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 46 (4.27%) Architect
15 42 (3.90%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 37 (3.43%) Lead Software Developer
17 35 (3.25%) .NET Developer
17 35 (3.25%) Lead Software Engineer
18 33 (3.06%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (29.96%) Node.js
2 296 (27.46%) AngularJS
3 256 (23.75%) CSS
4 227 (21.06%) HTML
5 192 (17.81%) RESTful
6 171 (15.86%) .NET
7 158 (14.66%) Spring
8 152 (14.10%) REST
9 143 (13.27%) Redux
10 137 (12.71%) Spring Boot
11 121 (11.22%) Vue
12 118 (10.95%) Next.js
13 111 (10.30%) GraphQL
14 104 (9.65%) Kafka
15 101 (9.37%) Jest
16 75 (6.96%) HTML5
17 61 (5.66%) CSS3
17 61 (5.66%) Playwright
18 57 (5.29%) .NET Core
18 57 (5.29%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 119 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 74 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.01%) Fixed Income
4 39 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (3.25%) Derivative
6 31 (2.88%) AI Agents
6 31 (2.88%) Mobile App
7 25 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.86%) Equities
9 20 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 17 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.39%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.11%) Low-Code
15 11 (1.02%) NHS
16 7 (0.65%) Equity Derivative
16 7 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.34%) Linux
2 26 (2.41%) Android
3 24 (2.23%) Windows
4 22 (2.04%) Unix
5 16 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.093%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (44.62%) Agile
2 478 (44.34%) CI/CD
3 457 (42.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 317 (29.41%) DevOps
5 289 (26.81%) Microservices
6 255 (23.65%) Software Engineering
7 241 (22.36%) Front End Development
8 177 (16.42%) AI
9 176 (16.33%) User Experience
10 171 (15.86%) Containerisation
11 170 (15.77%) Test Automation
12 151 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (9.37%) Code Quality
14 100 (9.28%) Clean Code
14 100 (9.28%) Scrum
15 95 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
16 93 (8.63%) TDD
17 84 (7.79%) Machine Learning
18 80 (7.42%) API Integration
19 78 (7.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 530 (49.17%) JavaScript
1 530 (49.17%) TypeScript
2 362 (33.58%) Python
3 319 (29.59%) Java
4 206 (19.11%) SQL
5 151 (14.01%) C#
6 55 (5.10%) Go
7 14 (1.30%) Ruby
8 13 (1.21%) Bicep
8 13 (1.21%) C++
8 13 (1.21%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.02%) Perl
9 11 (1.02%) Rust
10 10 (0.93%) Formula Language
10 10 (0.93%) LotusScript
11 8 (0.74%) JSX
12 7 (0.65%) Scala
12 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 193 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 167 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 64 (5.94%) Degree
4 47 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.39%) 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%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.19%) OCP
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.093%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.093%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 79 (7.33%) WCAG
3 66 (6.12%) QA
4 7 (0.65%) HL7
5 6 (0.56%) GDPR
6 5 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.19%) NCSC
7 2 (0.19%) PSD2
8 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.093%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.093%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.093%) MiFID
8 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 246 (22.82%) Docker
2 17 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.093%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 201 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 120 (11.13%) Terraform
3 31 (2.88%) Grafana
4 23 (2.13%) Argo
5 14 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.02%) 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 (0.093%) Consul
11 1 (0.093%) Podman
11 1 (0.093%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 92 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.01%) Oracle
3 44 (4.08%) Google
4 38 (3.53%) OpenAI
5 35 (3.25%) Adobe
6 21 (1.95%) Sitecore
7 17 (1.58%) Splunk
8 15 (1.39%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.30%) Databricks
10 10 (0.93%) Kofax
10 10 (0.93%) Lotus
10 10 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.56%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.56%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.46%) Pega
12 5 (0.46%) SAP
13 4 (0.37%) Apple
13 4 (0.37%) Brio
13 4 (0.37%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.37%) Xamarin