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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 69 67
Rank change year-on-year -50 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing React 1,178 1,145 1,204
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.21% 3.48% 3.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.58% 15.40% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 827 940
10th Percentile £363 £358 £331
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -7.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile £676 £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 12 7 11
10th Percentile £37.38 £59.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £63.44 £63.63 £55.63
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% - -9.46%
75th Percentile £79.50 - £72.19
90th Percentile £94.50 - £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +10.45% - +34.00%

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 10,172 7,434 8,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 22.62% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,633 5,010 5,809
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 169 244
10th Percentile £28.65 £29.85 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.35 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £57.28
% change year-on-year +15.56% -1.79% -2.24%

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 7 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 7 August 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 7 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 -50 982 £550 +4.76% 1,034
London -42 599 £598 -0.33% 633
UK excluding London -45 434 £500 +11.11% 510
Work from Home -57 374 £550 +4.76% 458
North of England -31 167 £500 +11.11% 156
Yorkshire +1 85 £500 +25.00% 36
Scotland -3 78 £375 -19.79% 49
South East -80 70 £525 +16.67% 112
North West -34 68 £513 +10.87% 105
South West -13 61 £525 +23.53% 66
Midlands -50 41 £475 +6.15% 61
West Midlands -50 34 £481 -6.10% 35
East of England -22 17 £625 +47.06% 31
North East -34 14 £500 +7.53% 16
East Midlands -21 5 £443 +20.24% 26
Northern Ireland +7 4 £190 -47.77% 17
Wales -16 1 £525 +14.44% 20

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 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.46%) Confluence
3 17 (1.44%) CMS
4 16 (1.36%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.76%) nginx
6 8 (0.68%) Camunda
7 7 (0.59%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.42%) WordPress
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.34%) IIS
9 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.085%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.085%) Mendix
12 1 (0.085%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.085%) Blender
4 1 (0.085%) Maya
4 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.085%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.10%) Shopify
2 10 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.68%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.085%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.085%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 469 (39.81%) AWS
2 329 (27.93%) Azure
3 135 (11.46%) GCP
3 135 (11.46%) GitHub
4 132 (11.21%) Serverless
5 83 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
7 66 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (5.35%) Amazon S3
9 58 (4.92%) Power Platform
10 47 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (3.74%) Figma
12 38 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
12 38 (3.23%) Power Automate
12 38 (3.23%) PowerApps
13 37 (3.14%) Entra ID
14 35 (2.97%) OpenShift
15 30 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
16 28 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.76%) Firewall
2 5 (0.42%) HTTP
3 4 (0.34%) DNS
3 4 (0.34%) Intranet
3 4 (0.34%) VPN
4 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.17%) DSL
6 1 (0.085%) CTI
6 1 (0.085%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.085%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.085%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (6.88%) NoSQL
2 81 (6.88%) Relational Database
3 80 (6.79%) SQL Server
4 71 (6.03%) MongoDB
5 45 (3.82%) MySQL
6 43 (3.65%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.23%) Power BI
8 36 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (2.29%) Redis
10 15 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (0.85%) Metadata
13 9 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.76%) Neo4j
13 9 (0.76%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.59%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.51%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 206 (17.49%) Git
2 129 (10.95%) Jenkins
3 63 (5.35%) JIRA
4 60 (5.09%) GitLab
5 53 (4.50%) Cypress.io
6 48 (4.07%) Gradle
7 47 (3.99%) JUnit
8 34 (2.89%) Vite
9 28 (2.38%) Mockito
10 26 (2.21%) Maven
11 21 (1.78%) Claude Code
12 20 (1.70%) webpack
13 17 (1.44%) Liquibase
13 17 (1.44%) Storybook
14 16 (1.36%) Cucumber
15 15 (1.27%) Bitbucket
15 15 (1.27%) REST Assured
16 14 (1.19%) SonarQube
17 12 (1.02%) Postman
18 9 (0.76%) GoCD
General
1 266 (22.58%) Finance
2 218 (18.51%) Social Skills
3 145 (12.31%) Banking
4 125 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 115 (9.76%) Front Office
6 62 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 53 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (3.40%) Retail
9 28 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.10%) Law
13 11 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.85%) Military
14 10 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.76%) Marketing
16 8 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.68%) Legal
17 7 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 646 (54.84%) Developer
2 241 (20.46%) Senior
3 205 (17.40%) Full-Stack Developer
4 169 (14.35%) React Developer
5 166 (14.09%) Software Engineer
6 142 (12.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 139 (11.80%) Senior Developer
8 136 (11.54%) Java Developer
9 133 (11.29%) Lead
10 83 (7.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 66 (5.60%) Python Developer
12 57 (4.84%) Lead Developer
13 53 (4.50%) Senior Java Developer
13 53 (4.50%) Senior React Developer
14 52 (4.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 51 (4.33%) UI Developer
16 49 (4.16%) Architect
17 45 (3.82%) Software Developer
18 41 (3.48%) Java Engineer
19 40 (3.40%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (27.16%) Node.js
2 265 (22.50%) REST
3 214 (18.17%) CSS
4 199 (16.89%) Redux
5 195 (16.55%) HTML
6 174 (14.77%) .NET
7 172 (14.60%) AngularJS
8 165 (14.01%) RESTful
9 154 (13.07%) Spring
10 153 (12.99%) Kafka
11 142 (12.05%) Spring Boot
12 122 (10.36%) Next.js
13 118 (10.02%) GraphQL
14 100 (8.49%) Vue
15 96 (8.15%) HTML5
16 86 (7.30%) Jest
17 79 (6.71%) CSS3
18 70 (5.94%) Playwright
19 58 (4.92%) FastAPI
20 56 (4.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 170 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 93 (7.89%) Fixed Income
3 74 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 63 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
5 59 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
6 57 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (3.57%) Equities
9 35 (2.97%) AI Agents
10 33 (2.80%) Data Structures
11 32 (2.72%) Derivative
12 31 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (2.21%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (1.10%) Onboarding
17 10 (0.85%) Mobile App
17 10 (0.85%) Virtual Team
18 9 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
18 9 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.04%) Linux
2 13 (1.10%) Windows
3 6 (0.51%) Android
3 6 (0.51%) Unix
4 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (45.59%) CI/CD
2 510 (43.29%) Agile
3 499 (42.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 311 (26.40%) Software Engineering
5 293 (24.87%) Microservices
6 292 (24.79%) DevOps
7 223 (18.93%) Front End Development
8 214 (18.17%) AI
9 204 (17.32%) Test Automation
10 172 (14.60%) Containerisation
11 148 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
12 137 (11.63%) User Experience
13 124 (10.53%) TDD
14 121 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (10.27%) Event-Driven
15 119 (10.10%) Code Quality
16 117 (9.93%) Mentoring
17 110 (9.34%) Scrum
18 108 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
19 94 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 658 (55.86%) TypeScript
2 569 (48.30%) JavaScript
3 379 (32.17%) Java
4 356 (30.22%) Python
5 227 (19.27%) SQL
6 192 (16.30%) C#
7 63 (5.35%) Go
8 33 (2.80%) PL/SQL
9 20 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.02%) Bash
11 12 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.85%) Rust
13 9 (0.76%) PHP
14 8 (0.68%) C++
15 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.59%) Bicep
16 6 (0.51%) Ruby
16 6 (0.51%) Scala
17 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 203 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 178 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 63 (5.35%) Degree
4 51 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.51%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.25%) PhD
14 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.085%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.085%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.085%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.085%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (13.07%) Accessibility
2 78 (6.62%) QA
2 78 (6.62%) WCAG
3 7 (0.59%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.42%) GDPR
5 4 (0.34%) HL7
6 3 (0.25%) PSD2
7 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.085%) GRC
8 1 (0.085%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.085%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 240 (20.37%) Docker
2 6 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.085%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 216 (18.34%) Kubernetes
2 129 (10.95%) Terraform
3 29 (2.46%) Ansible
3 29 (2.46%) Grafana
4 16 (1.36%) Control-M
5 15 (1.27%) Argo
6 14 (1.19%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.42%) Kibana
9 4 (0.34%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.085%) Nagios
12 1 (0.085%) Rancher
Vendors
1 77 (6.54%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.69%) Oracle
3 45 (3.82%) Google
4 27 (2.29%) OpenAI
5 21 (1.78%) Databricks
5 21 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 14 (1.19%) Splunk
8 13 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.10%) SAP
9 8 (0.68%) Adobe
9 8 (0.68%) Conga
9 8 (0.68%) GoCardless
9 8 (0.68%) Solace
10 6 (0.51%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.42%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.42%) Hitachi
11 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.34%) New Relic
12 4 (0.34%) Red Hat