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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 79 74
Rank change year-on-year -25 -5 -14
Contract jobs citing React 1,072 908 1,231
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.53% 3.07% 2.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.62% 13.44% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 694 993
10th Percentile £358 £363 £326
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -2.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £628 £655 £675
90th Percentile £800 £771 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.23% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 26
10th Percentile £43.55 £26.25 £40.00
25th Percentile £56.54 £31.50 £55.31
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 £78.75
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 9,229 6,756 9,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.75% 22.85% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,171 4,490 6,316
10th Percentile £358 £361 £336
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 94 222
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.75 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.62%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.88 £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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -23 892 £525 - 727
London -24 545 £550 -5.98% 260
UK excluding London -13 376 £500 +11.11% 490
Work from Home -37 341 £550 +6.28% 489
North of England -13 133 £475 +5.56% 123
North West -5 79 £450 - 61
South East -34 71 £488 -11.36% 147
Midlands -45 53 £550 +10.00% 61
Scotland +2 51 £438 -0.79% 18
Yorkshire -34 43 £500 +2.83% 47
West Midlands -41 41 £542 +8.30% 35
South West -18 33 £529 +19.90% 80
East of England -15 31 £600 +50.00% 45
North East -8 14 £475 +3.26% 15
East Midlands -30 10 £575 +15.00% 26
Northern Ireland -3 8 - - 9
Wales -4 5 £331 -17.19% 14

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 41 (3.82%) CMS
2 29 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 17 (1.59%) Headless CMS
5 16 (1.49%) Confluence
6 15 (1.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 11 (1.03%) SAS
8 10 (0.93%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.93%) Mendix
9 9 (0.84%) Apache
10 8 (0.75%) Camunda
11 5 (0.47%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.47%) IIS
11 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.28%) WordPress
13 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.19%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.84%) Adobe XD
3 6 (0.56%) Sketch
4 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.093%) Blender
4 1 (0.093%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.093%) InVision
4 1 (0.093%) Maya
4 1 (0.093%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Shopify
2 5 (0.47%) Magento
3 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.093%) Endur
5 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 471 (43.94%) AWS
2 334 (31.16%) Azure
3 146 (13.62%) GCP
4 139 (12.97%) GitHub
5 135 (12.59%) Serverless
6 90 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
8 84 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (4.57%) Amazon S3
10 40 (3.73%) Figma
11 34 (3.17%) Power Platform
12 31 (2.89%) SaaS
13 30 (2.80%) Azure Functions
13 30 (2.80%) Entra ID
14 29 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
17 24 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (1.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.84%) Wireless
2 5 (0.47%) Network Security
3 3 (0.28%) DNS
3 3 (0.28%) HTTP
3 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.19%) DHCP
4 2 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.093%) Firewall
5 1 (0.093%) LAN
5 1 (0.093%) Multicast
5 1 (0.093%) RTMP
5 1 (0.093%) WAN
5 1 (0.093%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.30%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (8.96%) NoSQL
3 88 (8.21%) Relational Database
4 69 (6.44%) SQL Server
5 67 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 61 (5.69%) MySQL
7 29 (2.71%) Redis
8 26 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (2.43%) Power BI
9 22 (2.05%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.68%) Oracle Database
11 17 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.12%) Metadata
14 11 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.03%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.84%) Big Data
15 9 (0.84%) Tableau
16 6 (0.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 212 (19.78%) Git
2 68 (6.34%) GitLab
3 66 (6.16%) Jenkins
4 62 (5.78%) Cypress.io
5 57 (5.32%) JIRA
6 40 (3.73%) JUnit
7 24 (2.24%) Mockito
8 23 (2.15%) Cucumber
9 22 (2.05%) webpack
10 21 (1.96%) Selenium
11 19 (1.77%) Maven
12 14 (1.31%) Mocha
12 14 (1.31%) Vite
13 13 (1.21%) Android Studio
13 13 (1.21%) Storybook
13 13 (1.21%) Xcode
14 12 (1.12%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
14 12 (1.12%) CircleCI
14 12 (1.12%) Eclipse
General
1 224 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 200 (18.66%) Finance
3 131 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 86 (8.02%) Front Office
5 78 (7.28%) Banking
6 42 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (2.89%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.21%) Retail
10 11 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.84%) Marketing
12 8 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 7 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.65%) Games
13 7 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.65%) Publishing
14 6 (0.56%) Legal
14 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.37%) Electronics
15 4 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 661 (61.66%) Developer
2 224 (20.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 175 (16.32%) Senior
4 157 (14.65%) Software Engineer
5 151 (14.09%) React Developer
6 115 (10.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 112 (10.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 96 (8.96%) Lead
9 90 (8.40%) Senior Developer
10 85 (7.93%) Java Developer
11 78 (7.28%) Python Developer
12 55 (5.13%) Lead Developer
13 50 (4.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 43 (4.01%) Architect
15 42 (3.92%) Software Developer
16 41 (3.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 37 (3.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 37 (3.45%) Lead Software Developer
18 35 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
19 33 (3.08%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (30.50%) Node.js
2 293 (27.33%) AngularJS
3 252 (23.51%) CSS
4 223 (20.80%) HTML
5 194 (18.10%) RESTful
6 167 (15.58%) .NET
7 156 (14.55%) Spring
8 144 (13.43%) REST
9 141 (13.15%) Redux
10 133 (12.41%) Spring Boot
11 120 (11.19%) Next.js
12 117 (10.91%) Vue
13 112 (10.45%) GraphQL
14 105 (9.79%) Jest
15 102 (9.51%) Kafka
16 72 (6.72%) HTML5
17 60 (5.60%) Playwright
18 58 (5.41%) FastAPI
19 56 (5.22%) .NET Core
19 56 (5.22%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 111 (10.35%) Cloud Native
2 75 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.04%) Fixed Income
4 38 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
5 36 (3.36%) Derivative
6 34 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 30 (2.80%) AI Agents
8 23 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.87%) Equities
10 18 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 17 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.49%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.12%) Low-Code
15 11 (1.03%) NHS
16 8 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (0.65%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.73%) Linux
2 28 (2.61%) Android
3 26 (2.43%) Unix
3 26 (2.43%) Windows
4 18 (1.68%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.093%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.093%) CentOS
6 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (44.50%) CI/CD
2 474 (44.22%) Agile
3 462 (43.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 315 (29.38%) DevOps
5 282 (26.31%) Microservices
6 256 (23.88%) Software Engineering
7 242 (22.57%) Front End Development
8 178 (16.60%) AI
9 172 (16.04%) User Experience
10 168 (15.67%) Test Automation
11 164 (15.30%) Containerisation
12 159 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
13 102 (9.51%) Clean Code
14 101 (9.42%) Code Quality
14 101 (9.42%) Scrum
15 90 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 87 (8.12%) TDD
17 82 (7.65%) Machine Learning
18 81 (7.56%) Mentoring
19 78 (7.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 533 (49.72%) JavaScript
2 524 (48.88%) TypeScript
3 365 (34.05%) Python
4 320 (29.85%) Java
5 202 (18.84%) SQL
6 151 (14.09%) C#
7 55 (5.13%) Go
8 15 (1.40%) Bicep
9 14 (1.31%) C++
9 14 (1.31%) Perl
9 14 (1.31%) Ruby
10 13 (1.21%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.12%) Rust
12 10 (0.93%) Formula Language
12 10 (0.93%) LotusScript
13 8 (0.75%) JSX
14 7 (0.65%) Scala
14 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 192 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 166 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 64 (5.97%) Degree
4 44 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.37%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.28%) PhD
11 2 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.19%) OCP
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.093%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.093%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (13.25%) Accessibility
2 79 (7.37%) WCAG
3 64 (5.97%) QA
4 7 (0.65%) HL7
5 6 (0.56%) GDPR
6 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.19%) NCSC
7 2 (0.19%) PSD2
8 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.093%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.093%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.093%) MiFID
8 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 250 (23.32%) Docker
2 19 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.093%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 209 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 112 (10.45%) Terraform
3 31 (2.89%) Grafana
4 23 (2.15%) Argo
5 15 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.03%) Ansible
8 9 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (0.75%) Kibana
10 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 2 (0.19%) Nagios
11 2 (0.19%) Rancher
12 1 (0.093%) Consul
12 1 (0.093%) Podman
12 1 (0.093%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 96 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.41%) Oracle
3 46 (4.29%) Google
4 36 (3.36%) OpenAI
5 35 (3.26%) Adobe
6 21 (1.96%) Sitecore
7 18 (1.68%) Splunk
8 16 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.93%) Databricks
10 10 (0.93%) Kofax
10 10 (0.93%) Lotus
11 8 (0.75%) SAP
12 6 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.56%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.47%) Apple
13 5 (0.47%) Pega
14 4 (0.37%) Brio
14 4 (0.37%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.37%) Xamarin