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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 70 68
Rank change year-on-year -32 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing React 1,088 1,000 1,300
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.34% 3.39% 2.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.59% 14.94% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 782 1,048
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.05% +2.59%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £688
90th Percentile £800 £813 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 21
10th Percentile £56.69 - £40.00
25th Percentile £60.31 £26.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +176.36% -56.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.61 £72.50
90th Percentile - £68.52 £75.00
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 9,389 6,693 8,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.23% 22.66% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,227 4,582 6,235
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £729 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 105 209
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.26 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.58 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -38 901 £525 +0.96% 505
London -39 540 £543 -3.56% 254
UK excluding London -12 400 £500 +11.11% 344
Work from Home -45 334 £536 +7.20% 297
North of England -20 146 £475 +3.26% 74
North West -11 85 £450 - 40
South East -41 70 £531 +8.92% 109
Scotland +13 65 £425 -3.63% 23
Yorkshire -27 49 £500 +4.71% 22
Midlands -48 43 £515 +11.65% 45
South West -13 37 £410 -7.03% 48
West Midlands -49 36 £500 +8.11% 26
East of England -6 34 £600 +27.66% 26
North East -17 14 £475 +2.15% 12
Northern Ireland +1 7 - - 11
East Midlands -33 5 £600 +42.86% 19
Wales -12 3 £175 -56.25% 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 45 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.57%) CMS
3 23 (2.11%) Confluence
4 14 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
6 12 (1.10%) Headless CMS
7 11 (1.01%) SharePoint Server
8 10 (0.92%) Camunda
8 10 (0.92%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.92%) Mendix
9 7 (0.64%) IIS
10 5 (0.46%) Apache
10 5 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.37%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.28%) nginx
12 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.18%) SAS
14 1 (0.092%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 10 (0.92%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.64%) 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 3 (0.28%) Magento
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.092%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 482 (44.30%) AWS
2 334 (30.70%) Azure
3 147 (13.51%) Serverless
4 134 (12.32%) GitHub
5 129 (11.86%) GCP
6 89 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
7 87 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (7.90%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (4.96%) Amazon S3
10 49 (4.50%) Power Platform
11 39 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (3.49%) Azure Functions
12 38 (3.49%) Figma
13 36 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
14 35 (3.22%) Power Automate
14 35 (3.22%) PowerApps
15 34 (3.13%) Entra ID
16 32 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
17 30 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
18 27 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.46%) Network Security
2 4 (0.37%) HTTP
3 3 (0.28%) Firewall
3 3 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (0.28%) VPN
4 2 (0.18%) Wireless
5 1 (0.092%) DHCP
5 1 (0.092%) DNS
5 1 (0.092%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.092%) Intranet
5 1 (0.092%) LAN
5 1 (0.092%) RTMP
5 1 (0.092%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.092%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (8.18%) Relational Database
3 87 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 76 (6.99%) SQL Server
5 68 (6.25%) MySQL
6 64 (5.88%) MongoDB
7 33 (3.03%) Power BI
8 31 (2.85%) DynamoDB
9 29 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (2.57%) Redis
11 17 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.47%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.19%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (1.01%) Metadata
16 9 (0.83%) Tableau
17 7 (0.64%) Big Data
17 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 185 (17.00%) Git
2 74 (6.80%) Jenkins
3 67 (6.16%) JIRA
4 66 (6.07%) GitLab
5 57 (5.24%) Cypress.io
6 39 (3.58%) JUnit
7 25 (2.30%) Mockito
8 20 (1.84%) Vite
9 18 (1.65%) webpack
10 16 (1.47%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.19%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.19%) Gradle
11 13 (1.19%) Storybook
12 12 (1.10%) Selenium
13 11 (1.01%) Mocha
14 10 (0.92%) Maven
15 8 (0.74%) Liquibase
15 8 (0.74%) Postman
16 7 (0.64%) Android Studio
General
1 197 (18.11%) Finance
2 194 (17.83%) Social Skills
3 124 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 89 (8.18%) Front Office
5 84 (7.72%) Banking
6 41 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (2.76%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.38%) Retail
10 13 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.83%) Marketing
13 8 (0.74%) Health Technology
13 8 (0.74%) Legal
14 6 (0.55%) Games
14 6 (0.55%) Publishing
15 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.37%) Advertising
16 4 (0.37%) Law
16 4 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 657 (60.39%) Developer
2 221 (20.31%) Full-Stack Developer
3 176 (16.18%) Senior
4 150 (13.79%) Software Engineer
5 149 (13.69%) React Developer
6 110 (10.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 102 (9.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 102 (9.38%) Lead
8 92 (8.46%) Java Developer
9 90 (8.27%) Senior Developer
10 74 (6.80%) Python Developer
11 56 (5.15%) Lead Developer
12 52 (4.78%) Architect
12 52 (4.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 46 (4.23%) Software Developer
14 38 (3.49%) Lead Software Engineer
15 37 (3.40%) Lead Software Developer
16 36 (3.31%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 36 (3.31%) Java Engineer
17 35 (3.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (27.57%) Node.js
2 261 (23.99%) AngularJS
3 247 (22.70%) CSS
4 224 (20.59%) HTML
5 179 (16.45%) RESTful
6 176 (16.18%) .NET
6 176 (16.18%) REST
7 162 (14.89%) Spring
8 160 (14.71%) Redux
9 148 (13.60%) Spring Boot
10 120 (11.03%) Next.js
11 114 (10.48%) GraphQL
12 113 (10.39%) Vue
13 103 (9.47%) Kafka
14 94 (8.64%) Jest
15 86 (7.90%) HTML5
16 67 (6.16%) CSS3
17 57 (5.24%) .NET Core
18 51 (4.69%) Playwright
19 42 (3.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 125 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.16%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.24%) Fixed Income
4 37 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
5 36 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (3.22%) AI Agents
7 33 (3.03%) Derivative
8 26 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.84%) Equities
12 20 (1.84%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.47%) NHS
13 16 (1.47%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.10%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.01%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
17 8 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.21%) Linux
2 19 (1.75%) Android
2 19 (1.75%) Windows
3 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.19%) Unix
4 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (43.93%) CI/CD
2 464 (42.65%) Agile
3 458 (42.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 298 (27.39%) DevOps
5 279 (25.64%) Microservices
6 247 (22.70%) Software Engineering
7 234 (21.51%) Front End Development
8 189 (17.37%) AI
9 172 (15.81%) Test Automation
10 160 (14.71%) Containerisation
11 156 (14.34%) User Experience
12 134 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
13 111 (10.20%) Code Quality
14 102 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (8.55%) Scrum
16 88 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 86 (7.90%) Clean Code
17 86 (7.90%) SDLC
18 85 (7.81%) TDD
19 79 (7.26%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 545 (50.09%) TypeScript
2 518 (47.61%) JavaScript
3 359 (33.00%) Python
4 325 (29.87%) Java
5 218 (20.04%) SQL
6 154 (14.15%) C#
7 49 (4.50%) Go
8 16 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.19%) Bicep
10 12 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.92%) Formula Language
11 10 (0.92%) LotusScript
12 9 (0.83%) C++
13 8 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.64%) Perl
14 7 (0.64%) Ruby
15 6 (0.55%) Bash
15 6 (0.55%) Rust
15 6 (0.55%) Scala
15 6 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 179 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 156 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.15%) Degree
4 54 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.28%) PhD
12 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.18%) OCP
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.092%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.092%) CISSP
13 1 (0.092%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.092%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 68 (6.25%) WCAG
3 61 (5.61%) QA
4 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.64%) GDPR
4 7 (0.64%) HL7
5 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.18%) NCSC
5 2 (0.18%) PSD2
6 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.092%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.092%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.092%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 221 (20.31%) Docker
2 16 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.092%) Varnish
3 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 177 (16.27%) Kubernetes
2 131 (12.04%) Terraform
3 25 (2.30%) Grafana
4 16 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.10%) Argo
6 10 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.74%) Ansible
8 7 (0.64%) Istio
9 4 (0.37%) Podman
10 3 (0.28%) Kibana
10 3 (0.28%) Nagios
11 2 (0.18%) Rancher
12 1 (0.092%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 89 (8.18%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.15%) Oracle
3 38 (3.49%) Google
4 37 (3.40%) OpenAI
5 29 (2.67%) Adobe
6 21 (1.93%) Databricks
7 18 (1.65%) Sitecore
8 16 (1.47%) Splunk
9 10 (0.92%) Kofax
9 10 (0.92%) Lotus
10 7 (0.64%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.64%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.55%) Solace
12 5 (0.46%) Pega
12 5 (0.46%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.46%) SAP
13 4 (0.37%) Brio
13 4 (0.37%) Netlify
13 4 (0.37%) Xamarin