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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 72 69
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing React 1,098 966 1,267
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.40% 3.31% 2.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.49% 14.62% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 752 1,018
10th Percentile £357 £358 £338
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £688
90th Percentile £791 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 22
10th Percentile £43.90 - £40.00
25th Percentile £57.28 £26.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £36.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +106.90% -42.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.49 £72.34
90th Percentile - £68.88 £74.75
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 9,558 6,609 8,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.89% 22.61% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,370 4,524 6,239
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 99 176
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £18.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.25 £31.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £62.62
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.95 £72.50
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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -34 911 £525 - 651
London -39 552 £535 -5.93% 273
UK excluding London -18 396 £500 +11.11% 449
Work from Home -46 336 £525 +5.00% 349
North of England -18 151 £475 +5.56% 120
North West 0 84 £450 - 63
South East -33 69 £525 +6.33% 125
Scotland +9 59 £425 -2.86% 16
Yorkshire -22 54 £500 +4.71% 44
Midlands -45 45 £525 +11.11% 55
West Midlands -49 39 £525 +12.60% 31
East of England -10 34 £600 +30.43% 47
South West -23 30 £409 -7.26% 73
North East -14 16 £475 +2.70% 13
Northern Ireland -5 7 - - 4
Wales -11 5 £331 -17.19% 15
East Midlands -30 4 £600 +21.21% 24

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 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.82%) CMS
3 22 (2.00%) Confluence
4 14 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.18%) Headless CMS
5 13 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
6 10 (0.91%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.91%) Mendix
7 8 (0.73%) Camunda
7 8 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.64%) Apache
8 7 (0.64%) IIS
8 7 (0.64%) SAS
9 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.27%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Adobe XD
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.55%) Sketch
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.091%) Blender
4 1 (0.091%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.091%) InVision
4 1 (0.091%) Maya
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.00%) Shopify
2 4 (0.36%) Magento
3 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.091%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 490 (44.63%) AWS
2 339 (30.87%) Azure
3 148 (13.48%) Serverless
4 136 (12.39%) GitHub
5 121 (11.02%) GCP
6 92 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
7 91 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (7.74%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (4.74%) Amazon S3
10 46 (4.19%) Power Platform
11 39 (3.55%) Figma
12 38 (3.46%) Azure Functions
13 36 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (2.91%) Entra ID
15 31 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
15 31 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (2.82%) PowerApps
16 30 (2.73%) Power Automate
17 29 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
18 27 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.46%) Network Security
2 4 (0.36%) Wireless
3 3 (0.27%) Firewall
3 3 (0.27%) VPN
4 2 (0.18%) DHCP
4 2 (0.18%) DNS
4 2 (0.18%) HTTP
4 2 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.091%) LAN
5 1 (0.091%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.091%) RTMP
5 1 (0.091%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (8.38%) NoSQL
2 92 (8.38%) Relational Database
3 77 (7.01%) SQL Server
4 70 (6.38%) MySQL
5 64 (5.83%) MongoDB
6 31 (2.82%) Power BI
7 30 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (2.73%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.64%) Redis
9 18 (1.64%) Oracle Database
10 16 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.09%) Metadata
13 11 (1.00%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.91%) Tableau
15 8 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.73%) Big Data
16 7 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 192 (17.49%) Git
2 72 (6.56%) Jenkins
3 68 (6.19%) GitLab
4 66 (6.01%) JIRA
5 58 (5.28%) Cypress.io
6 41 (3.73%) JUnit
7 29 (2.64%) Mockito
8 21 (1.91%) webpack
9 20 (1.82%) Vite
10 19 (1.73%) Cucumber
11 18 (1.64%) Selenium
12 15 (1.37%) Bitbucket
12 15 (1.37%) Mocha
13 13 (1.18%) CircleCI
13 13 (1.18%) Maven
13 13 (1.18%) Storybook
14 12 (1.09%) Gradle
15 9 (0.82%) Postman
16 8 (0.73%) ESLint
16 8 (0.73%) Liquibase
General
1 205 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 199 (18.12%) Finance
3 130 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 91 (8.29%) Front Office
5 87 (7.92%) Banking
6 43 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (3.01%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.28%) Retail
10 10 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.82%) Marketing
12 8 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.73%) Legal
13 7 (0.64%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.55%) Games
14 6 (0.55%) Publishing
15 5 (0.46%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.36%) Advertising
16 4 (0.36%) Law
16 4 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 670 (61.02%) Developer
2 218 (19.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 186 (16.94%) Senior
4 150 (13.66%) Software Engineer
5 146 (13.30%) React Developer
6 111 (10.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 111 (10.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 100 (9.11%) Lead
8 97 (8.83%) Senior Developer
9 93 (8.47%) Java Developer
10 78 (7.10%) Python Developer
11 55 (5.01%) Lead Developer
12 52 (4.74%) Architect
12 52 (4.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 45 (4.10%) Software Developer
14 38 (3.46%) Lead Software Engineer
15 37 (3.37%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 37 (3.37%) Lead Software Developer
16 35 (3.19%) .NET Developer
16 35 (3.19%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (28.69%) Node.js
2 271 (24.68%) AngularJS
3 255 (23.22%) CSS
4 234 (21.31%) HTML
5 184 (16.76%) RESTful
6 179 (16.30%) .NET
7 166 (15.12%) Spring
8 165 (15.03%) REST
9 162 (14.75%) Redux
10 153 (13.93%) Spring Boot
11 121 (11.02%) Next.js
12 115 (10.47%) Vue
13 108 (9.84%) GraphQL
14 106 (9.65%) Jest
15 105 (9.56%) Kafka
16 91 (8.29%) HTML5
17 73 (6.65%) CSS3
18 56 (5.10%) .NET Core
18 56 (5.10%) Playwright
19 45 (4.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.93%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.19%) Fixed Income
4 37 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
5 33 (3.01%) Derivative
6 32 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.73%) AI Agents
8 29 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 22 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.91%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.82%) Equities
11 20 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.46%) Onboarding
14 15 (1.37%) NHS
15 13 (1.18%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.09%) Low-Code
17 8 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
18 7 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.64%) Linux
2 22 (2.00%) Windows
3 20 (1.82%) Android
4 17 (1.55%) Unix
5 13 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (43.99%) CI/CD
2 479 (43.62%) Agile
3 457 (41.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 309 (28.14%) DevOps
5 287 (26.14%) Microservices
6 249 (22.68%) Software Engineering
7 241 (21.95%) Front End Development
8 175 (15.94%) AI
9 172 (15.66%) Test Automation
10 170 (15.48%) User Experience
11 157 (14.30%) Containerisation
12 136 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
13 106 (9.65%) Code Quality
14 99 (9.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 97 (8.83%) Scrum
16 91 (8.29%) Clean Code
17 90 (8.20%) TDD
18 87 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
19 86 (7.83%) SDLC
20 82 (7.47%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 541 (49.27%) TypeScript
2 523 (47.63%) JavaScript
3 360 (32.79%) Python
4 330 (30.05%) Java
5 219 (19.95%) SQL
6 156 (14.21%) C#
7 51 (4.64%) Go
8 15 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.28%) C++
10 12 (1.09%) Bicep
11 11 (1.00%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.91%) Formula Language
12 10 (0.91%) LotusScript
13 9 (0.82%) Rust
14 8 (0.73%) Perl
14 8 (0.73%) Ruby
15 7 (0.64%) Scala
16 6 (0.55%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.55%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 189 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 161 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.74%) Degree
4 51 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.46%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.27%) PhD
11 2 (0.18%) OCP
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.091%) CCIP
12 1 (0.091%) CISSP
12 1 (0.091%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (13.21%) Accessibility
2 82 (7.47%) WCAG
3 66 (6.01%) QA
4 7 (0.64%) HL7
5 6 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.18%) NCSC
6 2 (0.18%) PSD2
7 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.091%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.091%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.091%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 228 (20.77%) Docker
2 18 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.091%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 186 (16.94%) Kubernetes
2 129 (11.75%) Terraform
3 30 (2.73%) Grafana
4 16 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.28%) Argo
6 10 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.82%) Ansible
8 6 (0.55%) Istio
8 6 (0.55%) Kibana
9 4 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.27%) Nagios
11 2 (0.18%) Rancher
12 1 (0.091%) Consul
12 1 (0.091%) Podman
12 1 (0.091%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 93 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 55 (5.01%) Oracle
3 35 (3.19%) OpenAI
4 31 (2.82%) Google
5 29 (2.64%) Adobe
6 20 (1.82%) Databricks
7 19 (1.73%) Sitecore
8 15 (1.37%) Splunk
9 10 (0.91%) Kofax
9 10 (0.91%) Lotus
10 9 (0.82%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.55%) Solace
13 5 (0.46%) Pega
13 5 (0.46%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.46%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.46%) SAP
14 4 (0.36%) Brio
14 4 (0.36%) Xamarin