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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 71 65
Rank change year-on-year -54 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing React 1,139 1,128 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.12% 3.45% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.73% 13.58% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 802 937
10th Percentile £363 £358 £325
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -7.95% +2.09%
75th Percentile £643 £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 8 8 6
10th Percentile £53.23 £54.57 £47.50
25th Percentile £69.50 £60.06 £55.31
Median hourly rate £74.00 £66.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% +18.22% -24.50%
75th Percentile £79.50 £67.00 £67.69
90th Percentile £91.50 - £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.45% +19.11% -9.27%

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 11,704 8,306 9,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.37% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,703 5,615 6,430
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 183 208
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.35 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.31 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -2.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.88 £79.74 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%

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 25 August 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 25 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for React in the UK

React
Top 18 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 25 August 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 -57 949 £538 +2.38% 815
London -52 561 £571 -4.79% 476
UK excluding London -47 443 £500 +11.11% 452
Work from Home -70 338 £525 - 433
North of England -33 163 £500 +16.28% 133
Yorkshire +2 86 £500 +25.00% 32
Scotland -10 80 £377 -19.36% 39
South West -13 68 £525 +23.53% 105
South East -75 66 £525 +23.53% 68
North West -41 63 £513 +13.32% 80
Midlands -49 51 £481 +4.62% 62
West Midlands -28 43 £545 +6.34% 36
East of England -25 15 £625 +40.45% 18
North East -30 14 £500 +7.53% 22
East Midlands -23 7 £433 +19.35% 26
Northern Ireland +3 2 £190 -53.37% 19
Wales -20 2 £469 +2.18% 10
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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 40 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.16%) Confluence
3 16 (1.40%) SharePoint Server
4 13 (1.14%) CMS
5 12 (1.05%) Camunda
6 9 (0.79%) nginx
7 6 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.44%) WordPress
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.088%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.088%) Kentico
11 1 (0.088%) Moodle
11 1 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Sketch
4 1 (0.088%) Blender
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.088%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Shopify
2 10 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (0.88%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.26%) Magento
3 3 (0.26%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.088%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.088%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 439 (38.54%) AWS
2 315 (27.66%) Azure
3 135 (11.85%) GitHub
4 134 (11.76%) Serverless
5 122 (10.71%) GCP
6 84 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 57 (5.00%) Power Platform
11 45 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (3.95%) Figma
12 41 (3.60%) OpenShift
13 40 (3.51%) PowerApps
14 39 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
14 39 (3.42%) Power Automate
15 32 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (2.81%) Entra ID
16 29 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
17 27 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.88%) Firewall
2 8 (0.70%) DNS
3 7 (0.61%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) Intranet
4 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
7 1 (0.088%) CTI
7 1 (0.088%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.088%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.088%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (13.96%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (7.29%) SQL Server
3 82 (7.20%) Relational Database
4 73 (6.41%) NoSQL
5 70 (6.15%) MongoDB
6 46 (4.04%) MySQL
7 43 (3.78%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
9 37 (3.25%) Power BI
10 31 (2.72%) Redis
11 16 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (0.97%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.88%) Metadata
15 10 (0.88%) Neo4j
16 7 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
17 6 (0.53%) BigQuery
18 5 (0.44%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 223 (19.58%) Git
2 138 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.88%) GitLab
3 67 (5.88%) JIRA
4 55 (4.83%) Gradle
5 53 (4.65%) Cypress.io
6 51 (4.48%) JUnit
7 34 (2.99%) Maven
8 33 (2.90%) Vite
9 31 (2.72%) Mockito
10 21 (1.84%) Claude Code
11 18 (1.58%) webpack
12 17 (1.49%) Bitbucket
12 17 (1.49%) Cucumber
12 17 (1.49%) Liquibase
12 17 (1.49%) REST Assured
12 17 (1.49%) SonarQube
13 15 (1.32%) Storybook
14 13 (1.14%) Selenium
15 12 (1.05%) Postman
General
1 225 (19.75%) Finance
2 224 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 144 (12.64%) Banking
4 136 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 83 (7.29%) Front Office
6 60 (5.27%) Investment Banking
7 50 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (3.60%) Retail
9 29 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.23%) Law
12 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.88%) Marketing
13 10 (0.88%) Military
13 10 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.88%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.70%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 616 (54.08%) Developer
2 240 (21.07%) Senior
3 193 (16.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 156 (13.70%) React Developer
5 137 (12.03%) Software Engineer
6 133 (11.68%) Senior Developer
7 132 (11.59%) Java Developer
8 124 (10.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 112 (9.83%) Lead
10 91 (7.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 60 (5.27%) Python Developer
12 53 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
13 52 (4.57%) Senior React Developer
14 48 (4.21%) UI Developer
15 43 (3.78%) Software Developer
16 41 (3.60%) Architect
17 38 (3.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 37 (3.25%) Technical Leader
19 35 (3.07%) Java Engineer
19 35 (3.07%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (24.58%) Node.js
2 273 (23.97%) REST
3 231 (20.28%) CSS
4 213 (18.70%) HTML
5 171 (15.01%) .NET
6 168 (14.75%) Spring
7 164 (14.40%) RESTful
8 163 (14.31%) Redux
9 158 (13.87%) Spring Boot
10 156 (13.70%) AngularJS
11 139 (12.20%) Kafka
12 137 (12.03%) Next.js
13 127 (11.15%) Terraform
14 98 (8.60%) HTML5
15 92 (8.08%) Vue
16 91 (7.99%) GraphQL
17 83 (7.29%) CSS3
18 81 (7.11%) Jest
19 76 (6.67%) Playwright
20 64 (5.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 173 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (5.53%) Fixed Income
4 58 (5.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 57 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
6 45 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (3.51%) AI Agents
8 36 (3.16%) Equities
9 31 (2.72%) Data Structures
10 30 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (2.11%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.93%) Derivative
13 20 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (0.97%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.88%) Autonomous Agent
16 10 (0.88%) Mobile App
16 10 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.11%) Linux
2 12 (1.05%) Windows
3 7 (0.61%) Unix
4 4 (0.35%) Android
4 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.088%) AIX
6 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (48.20%) CI/CD
2 485 (42.58%) Agile
3 465 (40.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 299 (26.25%) Microservices
5 292 (25.64%) Software Engineering
6 286 (25.11%) DevOps
7 224 (19.67%) Front End Development
8 210 (18.44%) Test Automation
9 207 (18.17%) AI
10 176 (15.45%) Containerisation
11 153 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
12 150 (13.17%) User Experience
13 130 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 126 (11.06%) Event-Driven
15 124 (10.89%) TDD
16 119 (10.45%) Scrum
17 117 (10.27%) Code Quality
18 116 (10.18%) Mentoring
19 110 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
20 103 (9.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 631 (55.40%) TypeScript
2 550 (48.29%) JavaScript
3 369 (32.40%) Java
4 312 (27.39%) Python
5 243 (21.33%) SQL
6 185 (16.24%) C#
7 39 (3.42%) Go
8 32 (2.81%) PL/SQL
9 22 (1.93%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.58%) Bash
11 14 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.79%) C++
13 9 (0.79%) Rust
14 8 (0.70%) PHP
15 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.61%) Ruby
15 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.53%) Bicep
17 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 203 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 173 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 64 (5.62%) Degree
4 53 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.088%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.088%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.088%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (13.35%) Accessibility
2 81 (7.11%) QA
3 76 (6.67%) WCAG
4 9 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.26%) GDPR
6 3 (0.26%) HL7
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.088%) GRC
8 1 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 246 (21.60%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.088%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 223 (19.58%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.07%) Grafana
3 30 (2.63%) Ansible
4 19 (1.67%) Argo
5 16 (1.40%) Control-M
6 15 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.61%) Istio
9 6 (0.53%) Kibana
9 6 (0.53%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.26%) Podman
11 1 (0.088%) Nagios
11 1 (0.088%) QRadar
11 1 (0.088%) Rancher
Vendors
1 85 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.15%) Oracle
3 45 (3.95%) Google
4 26 (2.28%) OpenAI
5 25 (2.19%) Databricks
6 23 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.84%) MuleSoft
8 19 (1.67%) Splunk
9 15 (1.32%) SAP
10 14 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.70%) Conga
11 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.70%) Solace
12 6 (0.53%) Adobe
12 6 (0.53%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.53%) IBM
13 5 (0.44%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.44%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.44%) Veracode
14 4 (0.35%) New Relic