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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 73 70
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing React 1,092 954 1,254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.43% 3.28% 2.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.56% 14.52% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 741 1,006
10th Percentile £358 £356 £336
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -5.57% -0.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £692
90th Percentile £800 £788 £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 22
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 £72.34
90th Percentile - £65.68 £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 9,448 6,572 8,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.06% 22.60% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,298 4,490 6,266
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 98 172
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.25 £20.47
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.19 £31.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.87 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £85.43 £72.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -33 907 £525 - 651
London -39 549 £550 -1.79% 273
UK excluding London -19 390 £500 +11.11% 449
Work from Home -48 339 £545 +9.00% 349
North of England -16 150 £475 +4.40% 120
North West -14 83 £450 - 63
South East -39 70 £525 +7.69% 125
Scotland +5 54 £431 -1.82% 16
Yorkshire -32 54 £500 +4.71% 44
Midlands -44 48 £540 +14.18% 55
West Midlands -48 40 £525 +12.60% 31
South West -19 31 £409 -7.26% 73
East of England -19 30 £600 +30.43% 47
North East -10 16 £475 +2.70% 13
Northern Ireland -5 7 - - 4
East Midlands -28 6 £600 +21.21% 24
Wales -10 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 39 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.11%) CMS
3 22 (2.01%) Confluence
4 15 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (1.37%) Headless CMS
5 14 (1.28%) Sitecore CMS
6 10 (0.92%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.92%) Mendix
7 8 (0.73%) Apache
7 8 (0.73%) Camunda
8 7 (0.64%) IIS
8 7 (0.64%) SAS
8 7 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.27%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.92%) Adobe XD
2 8 (0.73%) 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 5 (0.46%) Magento
3 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 487 (44.60%) AWS
2 342 (31.32%) Azure
3 150 (13.74%) Serverless
4 141 (12.91%) GitHub
5 129 (11.81%) GCP
6 93 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
7 92 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (8.15%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (4.85%) Amazon S3
10 44 (4.03%) Power Platform
11 42 (3.85%) Figma
12 37 (3.39%) Azure Functions
13 36 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (2.93%) Entra ID
15 30 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
16 29 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
16 29 (2.66%) PowerApps
17 28 (2.56%) Power Automate
18 27 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.46%) Network Security
1 5 (0.46%) Wireless
2 3 (0.27%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.18%) DHCP
3 2 (0.18%) DNS
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
3 2 (0.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.092%) Firewall
4 1 (0.092%) LAN
4 1 (0.092%) Multicast
4 1 (0.092%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.092%) RTMP
4 1 (0.092%) WAN
4 1 (0.092%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.65%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (8.42%) NoSQL
2 92 (8.42%) Relational Database
3 77 (7.05%) SQL Server
4 70 (6.41%) MySQL
5 63 (5.77%) MongoDB
6 31 (2.84%) DynamoDB
7 30 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (2.75%) Power BI
8 29 (2.66%) Redis
9 18 (1.65%) Oracle Database
10 15 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.19%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.10%) Metadata
13 10 (0.92%) Tableau
14 9 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.73%) Big Data
16 7 (0.64%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 203 (18.59%) Git
2 69 (6.32%) GitLab
2 69 (6.32%) Jenkins
3 67 (6.14%) JIRA
4 61 (5.59%) Cypress.io
5 41 (3.75%) JUnit
6 28 (2.56%) Mockito
7 21 (1.92%) webpack
8 20 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.83%) Vite
9 18 (1.65%) Selenium
10 15 (1.37%) Maven
10 15 (1.37%) Mocha
11 13 (1.19%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.19%) Storybook
12 12 (1.10%) Gradle
13 9 (0.82%) Android Studio
13 9 (0.82%) Postman
13 9 (0.82%) Xcode
General
1 207 (18.96%) Social Skills
2 195 (17.86%) Finance
3 132 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 89 (8.15%) Front Office
5 83 (7.60%) Banking
6 43 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 17 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.19%) Retail
10 10 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.82%) Marketing
12 8 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.64%) Health Technology
13 7 (0.64%) Legal
14 6 (0.55%) Games
14 6 (0.55%) Publishing
15 5 (0.46%) Law
16 4 (0.37%) Advertising
16 4 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 663 (60.71%) Developer
2 216 (19.78%) Full-Stack Developer
3 190 (17.40%) Senior
4 150 (13.74%) Software Engineer
5 141 (12.91%) React Developer
6 110 (10.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 106 (9.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 100 (9.16%) Senior Developer
9 99 (9.07%) Lead
10 94 (8.61%) Java Developer
11 78 (7.14%) Python Developer
12 55 (5.04%) Lead Developer
13 53 (4.85%) Architect
14 50 (4.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 44 (4.03%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
17 37 (3.39%) Lead Software Developer
18 35 (3.21%) .NET Developer
18 35 (3.21%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
19 34 (3.11%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (28.75%) Node.js
2 279 (25.55%) AngularJS
3 257 (23.53%) CSS
4 232 (21.25%) HTML
5 190 (17.40%) RESTful
6 181 (16.58%) .NET
7 165 (15.11%) Spring
8 163 (14.93%) REST
9 159 (14.56%) Redux
10 151 (13.83%) Spring Boot
11 120 (10.99%) Next.js
12 116 (10.62%) Vue
13 108 (9.89%) Jest
14 106 (9.71%) GraphQL
15 104 (9.52%) Kafka
16 91 (8.33%) HTML5
17 72 (6.59%) CSS3
18 60 (5.49%) Playwright
19 58 (5.31%) .NET Core
20 47 (4.30%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 55 (5.04%) Fixed Income
4 36 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 34 (3.11%) AI Agents
6 33 (3.02%) Derivative
7 32 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (2.20%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.83%) Equities
11 20 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (1.37%) NHS
13 15 (1.37%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.28%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.10%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
17 7 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.75%) Linux
2 23 (2.11%) Windows
3 21 (1.92%) Android
4 18 (1.65%) Unix
5 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.092%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (44.41%) CI/CD
2 478 (43.77%) Agile
3 458 (41.94%) Full-Stack Development
4 315 (28.85%) DevOps
5 286 (26.19%) Microservices
6 249 (22.80%) Software Engineering
7 238 (21.79%) Front End Development
8 180 (16.48%) AI
9 174 (15.93%) User Experience
10 173 (15.84%) Test Automation
11 162 (14.84%) Containerisation
12 136 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
13 107 (9.80%) Code Quality
14 100 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
15 97 (8.88%) Scrum
16 96 (8.79%) Clean Code
17 87 (7.97%) TDD
18 85 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 85 (7.78%) SDLC
19 83 (7.60%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 536 (49.08%) TypeScript
2 528 (48.35%) JavaScript
3 364 (33.33%) Python
4 328 (30.04%) Java
5 222 (20.33%) SQL
6 155 (14.19%) C#
7 51 (4.67%) Go
8 15 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.19%) C++
10 12 (1.10%) Bicep
11 10 (0.92%) Formula Language
11 10 (0.92%) LotusScript
11 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.82%) Perl
12 9 (0.82%) Rust
13 8 (0.73%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) JSX
14 7 (0.64%) Scala
15 5 (0.46%) Bash
15 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 190 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 163 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.13%) Degree
4 50 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.46%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.27%) PhD
11 2 (0.18%) OCP
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.092%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.092%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.092%) CCIP
12 1 (0.092%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.092%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (13.10%) Accessibility
2 81 (7.42%) WCAG
3 66 (6.04%) QA
4 7 (0.64%) HL7
5 6 (0.55%) Data Quality
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%) MiFID
7 1 (0.092%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.092%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 235 (21.52%) Docker
2 18 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.092%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 188 (17.22%) Kubernetes
2 129 (11.81%) Terraform
3 30 (2.75%) Grafana
4 16 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.28%) Argo
6 11 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.82%) Ansible
8 6 (0.55%) Istio
8 6 (0.55%) Kibana
9 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.27%) Nagios
11 2 (0.18%) Rancher
12 1 (0.092%) Consul
12 1 (0.092%) Podman
12 1 (0.092%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 96 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.13%) Oracle
3 36 (3.30%) Google
3 36 (3.30%) OpenAI
4 30 (2.75%) Adobe
5 20 (1.83%) Databricks
5 20 (1.83%) Sitecore
6 16 (1.47%) Splunk
7 10 (0.92%) Kofax
7 10 (0.92%) Lotus
7 10 (0.92%) ServiceNow
8 7 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.55%) Solace
10 5 (0.46%) Pega
10 5 (0.46%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.46%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.46%) SAP
11 4 (0.37%) Brio
11 4 (0.37%) Xamarin