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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 71 68
Rank change year-on-year -41 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing React 1,200 1,125 1,248
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.28% 3.45% 3.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.72% 15.29% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 815 985
10th Percentile £366 £358 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £688
90th Percentile £850 £838 £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 17 7 20
10th Percentile £47.48 £59.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% - -9.46%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £75.25
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 10,242 7,356 8,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.42% 22.55% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,688 4,963 6,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £543
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +5.87% -5.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 154 260
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.08 £22.73
25th Percentile £46.53 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.71 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +6.00% +7.20% -0.87%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -40 985 £550 +4.76% 607
London -39 590 £600 +0.84% 318
UK excluding London -33 445 £500 +11.11% 369
Work from Home -44 410 £550 +3.09% 269
North of England -18 170 £500 +10.01% 114
North West -27 80 £500 +9.41% 67
Yorkshire +4 79 £523 +30.63% 38
Scotland -5 78 £405 -14.84% 30
South East -67 73 £525 +14.13% 105
South West -11 61 £525 +23.53% 33
Midlands -50 39 £475 +6.15% 48
West Midlands -45 32 £475 -7.32% 26
East of England -16 23 £600 +34.83% 24
North East -33 11 £475 +2.70% 11
Northern Ireland +6 5 £190 -41.54% 6
East Midlands -20 5 £443 +20.24% 22
Wales -24 1 £525 +23.53% 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 37 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.58%) Confluence
3 19 (1.58%) CMS
4 16 (1.33%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.75%) nginx
6 7 (0.58%) Camunda
7 6 (0.50%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.33%) WordPress
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.083%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.083%) Moodle
11 1 (0.083%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.083%) Blender
4 1 (0.083%) Maya
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.083%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.17%) Shopify
2 9 (0.75%) 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 (0.083%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.083%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 476 (39.67%) AWS
2 337 (28.08%) Azure
3 143 (11.92%) GCP
4 129 (10.75%) Serverless
5 127 (10.58%) GitHub
6 86 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
9 65 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 55 (4.58%) Power Platform
11 53 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (4.08%) Figma
13 36 (3.00%) Entra ID
13 36 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
13 36 (3.00%) Power Automate
13 36 (3.00%) PowerApps
14 31 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (2.58%) OpenShift
15 27 (2.25%) SaaS
16 26 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.50%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) DSL
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.083%) CTI
5 1 (0.083%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.083%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.083%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (14.50%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (7.33%) Relational Database
2 88 (7.33%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.42%) NoSQL
4 66 (5.50%) MongoDB
5 56 (4.67%) MySQL
6 47 (3.92%) DynamoDB
7 39 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
8 35 (2.92%) Power BI
9 31 (2.58%) Redis
10 14 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (0.83%) Metadata
14 9 (0.75%) Neo4j
14 9 (0.75%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.67%) Big Data
15 8 (0.67%) Db2
15 8 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 193 (16.08%) Git
2 121 (10.08%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.58%) JIRA
4 58 (4.83%) GitLab
5 50 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 47 (3.92%) Gradle
7 42 (3.50%) JUnit
8 36 (3.00%) Vite
9 25 (2.08%) Maven
9 25 (2.08%) Mockito
10 22 (1.83%) webpack
11 19 (1.58%) Claude Code
12 17 (1.42%) Storybook
13 16 (1.33%) Liquibase
14 15 (1.25%) Cucumber
15 14 (1.17%) Bitbucket
15 14 (1.17%) Postman
15 14 (1.17%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.83%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 269 (22.42%) Finance
2 219 (18.25%) Social Skills
3 144 (12.00%) Banking
4 120 (10.00%) Front Office
4 120 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 64 (5.33%) Investment Banking
6 51 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (3.17%) Retail
8 24 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 11 (0.92%) Law
12 10 (0.83%) Military
13 9 (0.75%) Legal
14 8 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.50%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.50%) Marketing
16 6 (0.50%) Retail Banking
16 6 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 664 (55.33%) Developer
2 245 (20.42%) Senior
3 207 (17.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 181 (15.08%) React Developer
5 177 (14.75%) Software Engineer
6 148 (12.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 139 (11.58%) Senior Developer
8 134 (11.17%) Java Developer
9 133 (11.08%) Lead
10 88 (7.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 68 (5.67%) Python Developer
12 61 (5.08%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 55 (4.58%) Architect
15 54 (4.50%) UI Developer
16 53 (4.42%) Senior Java Developer
16 53 (4.42%) Senior React Developer
17 45 (3.75%) Java Engineer
18 44 (3.67%) Software Developer
19 43 (3.58%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (27.00%) Node.js
2 246 (20.50%) REST
3 222 (18.50%) CSS
4 208 (17.33%) Redux
5 201 (16.75%) HTML
6 184 (15.33%) AngularJS
7 182 (15.17%) .NET
8 163 (13.58%) RESTful
9 159 (13.25%) Spring
10 150 (12.50%) Spring Boot
11 145 (12.08%) Kafka
12 123 (10.25%) GraphQL
13 116 (9.67%) Next.js
14 100 (8.33%) Vue
15 95 (7.92%) HTML5
16 86 (7.17%) Jest
17 77 (6.42%) CSS3
18 64 (5.33%) Playwright
19 60 (5.00%) FastAPI
20 52 (4.33%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 165 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.08%) Fixed Income
3 81 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 63 (5.25%) Greenfield Project
5 60 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 59 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.83%) Equities
8 44 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.00%) Derivative
10 35 (2.92%) AI Agents
11 31 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (2.25%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.75%) Algorithms
15 18 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.92%) Onboarding
18 10 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
18 10 (0.83%) Mobile App
19 9 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.17%) Linux
2 13 (1.08%) Windows
3 11 (0.92%) Android
4 8 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.58%) Unix
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (44.33%) CI/CD
2 497 (41.42%) Agile
3 495 (41.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 318 (26.50%) Software Engineering
5 297 (24.75%) DevOps
6 295 (24.58%) Microservices
7 235 (19.58%) Front End Development
8 210 (17.50%) AI
9 206 (17.17%) Test Automation
10 167 (13.92%) Containerisation
11 151 (12.58%) User Experience
12 140 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
13 121 (10.08%) Code Quality
14 118 (9.83%) Event-Driven
15 116 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (9.42%) TDD
17 108 (9.00%) Scrum
18 107 (8.92%) Mentoring
19 102 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
20 93 (7.75%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 663 (55.25%) TypeScript
2 568 (47.33%) JavaScript
3 385 (32.08%) Java
4 363 (30.25%) Python
5 226 (18.83%) SQL
6 196 (16.33%) C#
7 65 (5.42%) Go
8 32 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.00%) Bash
10 12 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.83%) Rust
12 9 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.67%) C++
13 8 (0.67%) PHP
14 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.58%) Scala
15 6 (0.50%) Bicep
16 5 (0.42%) Ruby
16 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 200 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 174 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 67 (5.58%) Degree
4 56 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.33%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.083%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.083%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.083%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (13.00%) Accessibility
2 78 (6.50%) WCAG
3 75 (6.25%) QA
4 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) GDPR
6 4 (0.33%) HL7
7 3 (0.25%) PSD2
8 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.083%) GRC
8 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 242 (20.17%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 211 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 124 (10.33%) Terraform
3 28 (2.33%) Grafana
4 25 (2.08%) Ansible
5 18 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.17%) Control-M
7 13 (1.08%) Argo
8 7 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.42%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.17%) Nagios
11 2 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 79 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.50%) Oracle
3 47 (3.92%) Google
4 29 (2.42%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.58%) Databricks
6 18 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.42%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.08%) SAP
9 10 (0.83%) Dynatrace
9 10 (0.83%) Splunk
10 9 (0.75%) Adobe
10 9 (0.75%) Sitecore
10 9 (0.75%) Solace
11 8 (0.67%) Conga
11 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
12 6 (0.50%) Pega
13 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.33%) IBM
14 4 (0.33%) Netlify
14 4 (0.33%) Red Hat