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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 69 67
Rank change year-on-year -34 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing React 1,091 995 1,290
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.36% 3.38% 2.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.60% 14.88% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 775 1,039
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -7.41% +0.93%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £691
90th Percentile £796 £813 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.15% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 21
10th Percentile £56.69 - £40.00
25th Percentile £60.31 £26.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £36.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.66% -42.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.49 £72.50
90th Percentile - £68.88 £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 9,405 6,685 8,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.32% 22.70% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,253 4,581 6,172
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 £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 104 204
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.80 £37.49
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 £83.69 £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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -36 904 £525 +0.96% 573
London -38 549 £530 -5.57% 296
UK excluding London -25 394 £500 +11.11% 358
Work from Home -46 333 £536 +7.20% 348
North of England -21 145 £475 +3.26% 91
North West -19 85 £450 - 44
South East -46 68 £544 +14.12% 112
Scotland +14 64 £425 -3.63% 21
Yorkshire -40 48 £500 +4.71% 32
Midlands -51 43 £515 +11.35% 44
West Midlands -50 36 £500 +8.11% 27
South West -12 35 £410 -7.14% 48
East of England -11 34 £600 +27.66% 27
North East -12 14 £475 +2.15% 15
Northern Ireland 0 7 - - 10
East Midlands -33 5 £600 +31.87% 17
Wales -11 3 £175 -56.25% 10

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 44 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.84%) CMS
3 24 (2.20%) Confluence
4 14 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.19%) Headless CMS
5 13 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
6 11 (1.01%) SharePoint Server
7 10 (0.92%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.92%) Mendix
8 9 (0.82%) Camunda
9 7 (0.64%) IIS
10 5 (0.46%) Apache
10 5 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.46%) SAS
11 4 (0.37%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.27%) nginx
12 3 (0.27%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.27%) WordPress
13 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 3 (0.27%) Magento
2 3 (0.27%) 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
1 483 (44.27%) AWS
2 337 (30.89%) Azure
3 146 (13.38%) Serverless
4 137 (12.56%) GitHub
5 130 (11.92%) GCP
6 89 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 86 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (4.95%) Amazon S3
9 49 (4.49%) Power Platform
10 40 (3.67%) Figma
11 39 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (3.48%) Azure Functions
13 35 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
14 34 (3.12%) Entra ID
14 34 (3.12%) Power Automate
14 34 (3.12%) PowerApps
15 31 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.46%) Network Security
2 3 (0.27%) Firewall
2 3 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
3 2 (0.18%) Wireless
4 1 (0.092%) DHCP
4 1 (0.092%) DNS
4 1 (0.092%) LAN
4 1 (0.092%) RTMP
4 1 (0.092%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.092%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (14.21%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (8.07%) NoSQL
2 88 (8.07%) Relational Database
3 76 (6.97%) SQL Server
4 66 (6.05%) MySQL
5 63 (5.77%) MongoDB
6 34 (3.12%) Power BI
7 31 (2.84%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (2.57%) Redis
10 17 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.47%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.10%) Metadata
14 11 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (0.92%) Tableau
16 7 (0.64%) Big Data
16 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 185 (16.96%) Git
2 72 (6.60%) Jenkins
3 70 (6.42%) JIRA
4 65 (5.96%) GitLab
5 59 (5.41%) Cypress.io
6 38 (3.48%) JUnit
7 24 (2.20%) Mockito
8 20 (1.83%) Vite
8 20 (1.83%) webpack
9 16 (1.47%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.19%) CircleCI
10 13 (1.19%) Cucumber
10 13 (1.19%) Gradle
10 13 (1.19%) Selenium
10 13 (1.19%) Storybook
11 11 (1.01%) Mocha
12 10 (0.92%) Maven
13 9 (0.82%) Postman
14 8 (0.73%) ESLint
14 8 (0.73%) Liquibase
General
1 199 (18.24%) Finance
2 195 (17.87%) Social Skills
3 127 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 90 (8.25%) Front Office
5 84 (7.70%) Banking
6 42 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.37%) Retail
10 13 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.82%) Marketing
13 8 (0.73%) Health Technology
13 8 (0.73%) Legal
14 6 (0.55%) Games
14 6 (0.55%) Publishing
15 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.37%) Advertising
16 4 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 662 (60.68%) Developer
2 219 (20.07%) Full-Stack Developer
3 177 (16.22%) Senior
4 151 (13.84%) React Developer
5 148 (13.57%) Software Engineer
6 114 (10.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 108 (9.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 100 (9.17%) Lead
9 91 (8.34%) Java Developer
10 90 (8.25%) Senior Developer
11 74 (6.78%) Python Developer
12 55 (5.04%) Lead Developer
13 52 (4.77%) Architect
13 52 (4.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 45 (4.12%) Software Developer
15 38 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
16 37 (3.39%) Lead Software Developer
17 36 (3.30%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 36 (3.30%) Java Engineer
18 34 (3.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (27.59%) Node.js
2 260 (23.83%) AngularJS
3 247 (22.64%) CSS
4 225 (20.62%) HTML
5 179 (16.41%) RESTful
6 173 (15.86%) REST
7 172 (15.77%) .NET
8 160 (14.67%) Redux
9 159 (14.57%) Spring
10 145 (13.29%) Spring Boot
11 121 (11.09%) Next.js
12 114 (10.45%) Vue
13 109 (9.99%) GraphQL
14 103 (9.44%) Kafka
15 97 (8.89%) Jest
16 87 (7.97%) HTML5
17 68 (6.23%) CSS3
18 55 (5.04%) .NET Core
19 52 (4.77%) Playwright
20 41 (3.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 122 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.22%) Fixed Income
4 37 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 34 (3.12%) AI Agents
5 34 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (3.02%) Derivative
7 26 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (1.83%) Equities
11 19 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.74%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.47%) NHS
12 16 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.11%) Linux
2 18 (1.65%) Android
2 18 (1.65%) Windows
3 14 (1.28%) Unix
4 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (44.18%) CI/CD
2 469 (42.99%) Agile
3 458 (41.98%) Full-Stack Development
4 296 (27.13%) DevOps
5 278 (25.48%) Microservices
6 245 (22.46%) Software Engineering
7 240 (22.00%) Front End Development
8 187 (17.14%) AI
9 179 (16.41%) Test Automation
10 159 (14.57%) Containerisation
11 157 (14.39%) User Experience
12 131 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
13 109 (9.99%) Code Quality
14 100 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (8.52%) Scrum
16 88 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 87 (7.97%) Clean Code
17 87 (7.97%) SDLC
18 85 (7.79%) TDD
19 79 (7.24%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 550 (50.41%) TypeScript
2 521 (47.75%) JavaScript
3 362 (33.18%) Python
4 322 (29.51%) Java
5 220 (20.16%) SQL
6 150 (13.75%) C#
7 49 (4.49%) Go
8 15 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.10%) Bicep
9 12 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.92%) Formula Language
10 10 (0.92%) LotusScript
11 9 (0.82%) C++
12 8 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.64%) Ruby
14 6 (0.55%) Bash
14 6 (0.55%) Perl
14 6 (0.55%) Rust
14 6 (0.55%) Scala
14 6 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 181 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 157 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.04%) Degree
4 54 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.02%) 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 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.27%) 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
1 142 (13.02%) Accessibility
2 73 (6.69%) WCAG
3 62 (5.68%) 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
6 1 (0.092%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 221 (20.26%) Docker
2 16 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.092%) Varnish
3 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 178 (16.32%) Kubernetes
2 129 (11.82%) Terraform
3 26 (2.38%) Grafana
4 16 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.10%) Argo
6 10 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.73%) Ansible
8 7 (0.64%) Istio
9 4 (0.37%) Podman
10 3 (0.27%) Kibana
10 3 (0.27%) Nagios
11 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.18%) Rancher
12 1 (0.092%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 86 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.95%) Oracle
3 37 (3.39%) Google
3 37 (3.39%) OpenAI
4 29 (2.66%) Adobe
5 21 (1.92%) Databricks
6 18 (1.65%) Sitecore
7 15 (1.37%) Splunk
8 10 (0.92%) Kofax
8 10 (0.92%) Lotus
9 7 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.64%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.55%) Solace
11 5 (0.46%) Pega
11 5 (0.46%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.46%) SAP
12 4 (0.37%) Brio
12 4 (0.37%) Netlify
12 4 (0.37%) Xamarin