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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 81 76
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 -17
Contract jobs citing React 1,105 921 1,227
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.59% 3.02% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.87% 13.30% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 703 987
10th Percentile £354 £363 £330
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £800 £785 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +10.62% -4.84% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 25
10th Percentile £43.55 £26.25 £44.00
25th Percentile £56.54 £31.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate £75.50 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.59% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £44.13 £72.50
90th Percentile - £59.29 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year +176.36% -59.41% +3.44%

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 9,313 6,923 9,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.83% 22.71% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,221 4,544 6,332
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 87 222
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.45 £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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -19 921 £525 - 703
London -24 559 £550 -5.98% 290
UK excluding London -10 394 £500 +10.62% 508
Work from Home -33 350 £545 +5.57% 411
North of England -17 136 £475 +5.56% 139
North West +6 82 £450 - 67
South East -38 72 £475 -13.64% 140
Scotland +7 55 £438 -1.69% 19
Midlands -31 54 £550 +10.00% 69
Yorkshire -35 44 £500 +2.83% 57
West Midlands -27 42 £542 +8.30% 42
South West -13 41 £539 +19.72% 85
East of England -9 32 £600 +50.00% 46
North East -9 13 £475 +3.26% 15
East Midlands -22 10 £575 +15.00% 25
Northern Ireland -3 8 - - 3
Wales 0 5 £331 -17.19% 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 42 (3.80%) CMS
2 28 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 17 (1.54%) Confluence
4 17 (1.54%) Headless CMS
5 15 (1.36%) Sitecore CMS
6 11 (1.00%) SAS
7 10 (0.90%) Apache
7 10 (0.90%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.90%) Mendix
8 8 (0.72%) Camunda
9 5 (0.45%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.45%) IIS
9 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.27%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (1.63%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.90%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.63%) Sketch
4 1 (0.090%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.090%) Blender
4 1 (0.090%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.090%) InVision
4 1 (0.090%) Maya
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.72%) Shopify
2 5 (0.45%) Magento
3 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.090%) Endur
5 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 494 (44.71%) AWS
2 338 (30.59%) Azure
3 152 (13.76%) GCP
4 142 (12.85%) GitHub
5 137 (12.40%) Serverless
6 93 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
8 87 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (4.52%) Amazon S3
10 42 (3.80%) Figma
11 33 (2.99%) Power Platform
12 32 (2.90%) SaaS
13 31 (2.81%) Entra ID
14 30 (2.71%) Azure Functions
15 29 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
16 28 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
17 26 (2.35%) npm
18 24 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
19 23 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.90%) Wireless
2 5 (0.45%) Network Security
3 4 (0.36%) DNS
3 4 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.27%) DHCP
4 3 (0.27%) HTTP
5 2 (0.18%) VPN
6 1 (0.090%) Firewall
6 1 (0.090%) LAN
6 1 (0.090%) Multicast
6 1 (0.090%) RTMP
6 1 (0.090%) WAN
6 1 (0.090%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (15.57%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (9.32%) NoSQL
3 92 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 70 (6.33%) SQL Server
5 69 (6.24%) MongoDB
6 63 (5.70%) MySQL
7 28 (2.53%) Redis
8 26 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (2.26%) Power BI
10 22 (1.99%) DynamoDB
11 18 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.63%) Oracle Database
12 14 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.09%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.09%) Metadata
14 9 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (0.81%) Big Data
14 9 (0.81%) Tableau
15 7 (0.63%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 212 (19.19%) Git
2 73 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 71 (6.43%) GitLab
4 66 (5.97%) Cypress.io
5 58 (5.25%) JIRA
6 43 (3.89%) JUnit
7 26 (2.35%) Mockito
8 23 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.08%) webpack
9 21 (1.90%) Maven
9 21 (1.90%) Selenium
10 14 (1.27%) Android Studio
10 14 (1.27%) Mocha
10 14 (1.27%) Xcode
11 13 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
11 13 (1.18%) Eclipse
11 13 (1.18%) Storybook
11 13 (1.18%) Vite
12 12 (1.09%) Bitbucket
12 12 (1.09%) CircleCI
General
1 230 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 211 (19.10%) Finance
3 136 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 90 (8.14%) Front Office
5 82 (7.42%) Banking
6 42 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.08%) Investment Banking
8 20 (1.81%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.27%) Retail
10 11 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.81%) Marketing
12 8 (0.72%) Health Technology
12 8 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.63%) Games
13 7 (0.63%) Publishing
13 7 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.45%) Legal
15 4 (0.36%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 676 (61.18%) Developer
2 225 (20.36%) Full-Stack Developer
3 178 (16.11%) Senior
4 159 (14.39%) Software Engineer
5 154 (13.94%) React Developer
6 115 (10.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 114 (10.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 112 (10.14%) Lead
9 92 (8.33%) Senior Developer
10 87 (7.87%) Java Developer
11 81 (7.33%) Python Developer
12 61 (5.52%) Lead Developer
13 51 (4.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 44 (3.98%) Architect
15 43 (3.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 41 (3.71%) Software Developer
17 37 (3.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 37 (3.35%) Lead Software Developer
17 37 (3.35%) Lead Software Engineer
18 34 (3.08%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (31.31%) Node.js
2 308 (27.87%) AngularJS
3 258 (23.35%) CSS
4 230 (20.81%) HTML
5 198 (17.92%) RESTful
6 170 (15.38%) .NET
7 162 (14.66%) Spring
8 147 (13.30%) REST
9 143 (12.94%) Redux
10 138 (12.49%) Spring Boot
11 126 (11.40%) Next.js
12 120 (10.86%) Vue
13 116 (10.50%) GraphQL
14 110 (9.95%) Jest
15 106 (9.59%) Kafka
16 74 (6.70%) HTML5
17 61 (5.52%) Playwright
18 60 (5.43%) FastAPI
19 58 (5.25%) CSS3
20 56 (5.07%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 117 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.24%) Product Ownership
3 55 (4.98%) Fixed Income
4 38 (3.44%) Data Protection Act
5 37 (3.35%) Derivative
6 35 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 29 (2.62%) AI Agents
8 24 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.90%) Equities
10 20 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 17 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.45%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.45%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.09%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.90%) NHS
15 8 (0.72%) Hedge funds
15 8 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.98%) Linux
2 30 (2.71%) Android
3 29 (2.62%) Unix
3 29 (2.62%) Windows
4 19 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.27%) CentOS
7 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (44.25%) CI/CD
2 483 (43.71%) Agile
3 468 (42.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 322 (29.14%) DevOps
5 289 (26.15%) Microservices
6 265 (23.98%) Software Engineering
7 245 (22.17%) Front End Development
8 183 (16.56%) AI
9 176 (15.93%) User Experience
10 173 (15.66%) Containerisation
11 172 (15.57%) Test Automation
12 169 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
13 106 (9.59%) Clean Code
14 104 (9.41%) Code Quality
14 104 (9.41%) Scrum
15 93 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (8.42%) TDD
16 91 (8.24%) Mentoring
17 84 (7.60%) Machine Learning
18 83 (7.51%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 557 (50.41%) JavaScript
2 544 (49.23%) TypeScript
3 370 (33.48%) Python
4 331 (29.95%) Java
5 207 (18.73%) SQL
6 153 (13.85%) C#
7 57 (5.16%) Go
8 17 (1.54%) Bicep
9 16 (1.45%) Perl
10 14 (1.27%) C++
10 14 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.27%) Ruby
11 12 (1.09%) Rust
12 10 (0.90%) Formula Language
12 10 (0.90%) LotusScript
13 8 (0.72%) JSX
13 8 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.63%) Scala
15 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 202 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 173 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 66 (5.97%) Degree
4 43 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.27%) PhD
12 2 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.18%) OCP
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (13.39%) Accessibility
2 80 (7.24%) WCAG
3 65 (5.88%) QA
4 7 (0.63%) HL7
5 6 (0.54%) GDPR
6 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.18%) NCSC
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.090%) MiFID
8 1 (0.090%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.090%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 256 (23.17%) Docker
2 22 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.090%) Varnish
4 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 216 (19.55%) Kubernetes
2 123 (11.13%) Terraform
3 32 (2.90%) Grafana
4 24 (2.17%) Argo
5 17 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.00%) Ansible
8 9 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (0.81%) Kibana
9 7 (0.63%) Istio
10 3 (0.27%) Rancher
11 2 (0.18%) Nagios
12 1 (0.090%) Consul
12 1 (0.090%) Podman
12 1 (0.090%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 103 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.61%) Oracle
3 46 (4.16%) Google
4 36 (3.26%) Adobe
4 36 (3.26%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.08%) Sitecore
6 18 (1.63%) Red Hat
6 18 (1.63%) Splunk
7 13 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.90%) Databricks
8 10 (0.90%) Kofax
8 10 (0.90%) Lotus
9 8 (0.72%) SAP
10 6 (0.54%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.54%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.45%) Apple
11 5 (0.45%) Marketo
11 5 (0.45%) Pega
11 5 (0.45%) VMware
12 4 (0.36%) Brio