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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 71 68
Rank change year-on-year -37 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing React 1,215 1,127 1,264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.30% 3.44% 3.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.86% 15.20% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 818 998
10th Percentile £373 £358 £350
25th Percentile £422 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £655 £688
90th Percentile £850 £838 £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 19 7 21
10th Percentile £51.65 £59.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £61.88 £63.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% - -6.94%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% -4.29% +21.21%

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 10,242 7,414 8,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.40% 22.60% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,688 5,005 6,121
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £660
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.80% -5.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 154 265
10th Percentile £29.91 £30.08 £22.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -40 1,002 £550 +4.76% 352
London -42 592 £600 - 144
UK excluding London -34 459 £500 +11.11% 271
Work from Home -47 414 £550 +4.76% 168
North of England -14 172 £500 +10.01% 89
North West -28 83 £500 +10.56% 51
Yorkshire 0 79 £523 +16.11% 31
Scotland -6 76 £405 -14.16% 17
South East -72 75 £525 +12.90% 80
South West -7 65 £525 +23.53% 24
Midlands -37 41 £475 +6.15% 29
West Midlands -49 34 £481 -6.10% 12
East of England -6 28 £600 +34.83% 18
North East -34 10 £450 -2.70% 9
Northern Ireland +6 6 £190 -41.54% 3
East Midlands -21 5 £443 +20.24% 17
Wales -21 1 £525 +27.27% 16

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 38 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.72%) Confluence
3 25 (2.06%) CMS
4 16 (1.32%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.74%) nginx
5 9 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
6 8 (0.66%) Camunda
7 6 (0.49%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.41%) IIS
9 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.25%) WordPress
11 2 (0.16%) Apache
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.16%) Kentico
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.082%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.082%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.082%) Blender
4 1 (0.082%) Maya
4 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.082%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.082%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.15%) Shopify
2 9 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.66%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.082%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.082%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 486 (40.00%) AWS
2 344 (28.31%) Azure
3 143 (11.77%) GCP
4 132 (10.86%) Serverless
5 129 (10.62%) GitHub
6 87 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
7 83 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
9 65 (5.35%) Amazon S3
10 55 (4.53%) Power Platform
11 53 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (3.95%) Figma
13 37 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
14 36 (2.96%) Entra ID
14 36 (2.96%) Power Automate
14 36 (2.96%) PowerApps
15 33 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
16 30 (2.47%) OpenShift
17 28 (2.30%) SaaS
18 25 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.49%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.16%) DSL
4 2 (0.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.082%) CTI
5 1 (0.082%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.082%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.082%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (14.24%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (7.74%) SQL Server
3 91 (7.49%) Relational Database
4 81 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 66 (5.43%) MongoDB
6 54 (4.44%) MySQL
7 47 (3.87%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
9 34 (2.80%) Power BI
10 30 (2.47%) Redis
11 14 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (0.82%) Metadata
14 9 (0.74%) Neo4j
14 9 (0.74%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.66%) Big Data
15 8 (0.66%) Db2
15 8 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (15.72%) Git
2 117 (9.63%) Jenkins
3 68 (5.60%) JIRA
4 59 (4.86%) GitLab
5 49 (4.03%) Cypress.io
6 43 (3.54%) Gradle
7 41 (3.37%) JUnit
8 36 (2.96%) Vite
9 25 (2.06%) Mockito
10 22 (1.81%) webpack
11 21 (1.73%) Maven
12 18 (1.48%) Claude Code
13 16 (1.32%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.32%) Postman
13 16 (1.32%) REST Assured
13 16 (1.32%) Storybook
14 15 (1.23%) Cucumber
15 14 (1.15%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.91%) Visual Studio
17 10 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 268 (22.06%) Finance
2 226 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 146 (12.02%) Banking
4 121 (9.96%) Front Office
5 120 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.27%) Investment Banking
7 53 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
8 38 (3.13%) Retail
9 23 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.91%) Law
13 10 (0.82%) Military
14 9 (0.74%) Legal
15 7 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.49%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.49%) Marketing
16 6 (0.49%) Retail Banking
17 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 674 (55.47%) Developer
2 245 (20.16%) Senior
3 213 (17.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 186 (15.31%) React Developer
5 177 (14.57%) Software Engineer
6 149 (12.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 139 (11.44%) Senior Developer
8 134 (11.03%) Java Developer
9 133 (10.95%) Lead
10 89 (7.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 69 (5.68%) Python Developer
12 59 (4.86%) Lead Developer
13 57 (4.69%) Architect
14 56 (4.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 54 (4.44%) Senior React Developer
15 54 (4.44%) UI Developer
16 52 (4.28%) Senior Java Developer
17 44 (3.62%) Java Engineer
17 44 (3.62%) Software Developer
18 43 (3.54%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (27.24%) Node.js
2 248 (20.41%) REST
3 227 (18.68%) CSS
4 210 (17.28%) Redux
5 206 (16.95%) HTML
6 194 (15.97%) .NET
7 189 (15.56%) AngularJS
8 167 (13.74%) RESTful
9 157 (12.92%) Spring
10 148 (12.18%) Spring Boot
11 143 (11.77%) Kafka
12 123 (10.12%) GraphQL
13 119 (9.79%) Next.js
14 101 (8.31%) Vue
15 95 (7.82%) HTML5
16 86 (7.08%) Jest
17 76 (6.26%) CSS3
18 64 (5.27%) Playwright
19 61 (5.02%) FastAPI
20 56 (4.61%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 168 (13.83%) Cloud Native
2 96 (7.90%) Fixed Income
3 82 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
5 59 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 59 (4.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 47 (3.87%) Equities
7 46 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (3.13%) Derivative
9 36 (2.96%) AI Agents
10 32 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (2.14%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.65%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.91%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.91%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.82%) Mobile App
17 9 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.98%) Linux
2 13 (1.07%) Windows
3 11 (0.91%) Android
4 8 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.66%) Unix
5 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (44.36%) CI/CD
2 508 (41.81%) Agile
3 503 (41.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 318 (26.17%) Software Engineering
5 309 (25.43%) DevOps
6 300 (24.69%) Microservices
7 240 (19.75%) Front End Development
8 210 (17.28%) AI
9 207 (17.04%) Test Automation
10 167 (13.74%) Containerisation
11 156 (12.84%) User Experience
12 143 (11.77%) Problem-Solving
13 124 (10.21%) Code Quality
14 116 (9.55%) Event-Driven
15 115 (9.47%) TDD
16 113 (9.30%) Scrum
17 111 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 109 (8.97%) Mentoring
19 102 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
20 91 (7.49%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 675 (55.56%) TypeScript
2 575 (47.33%) JavaScript
3 387 (31.85%) Java
4 366 (30.12%) Python
5 232 (19.09%) SQL
6 209 (17.20%) C#
7 65 (5.35%) Go
8 31 (2.55%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.99%) Bash
12 9 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 9 (0.74%) Rust
13 8 (0.66%) C++
14 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.58%) Scala
15 6 (0.49%) Bicep
15 6 (0.49%) PHP
15 6 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 205 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 177 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 67 (5.51%) Degree
4 56 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 10 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.49%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.33%) PhD
12 2 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.082%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.082%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.082%) CISSP
13 1 (0.082%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.082%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (12.84%) Accessibility
2 80 (6.58%) QA
3 76 (6.26%) WCAG
4 6 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.49%) GDPR
5 4 (0.33%) HL7
6 3 (0.25%) PSD2
7 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.082%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.082%) GRC
7 1 (0.082%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.082%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 243 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 212 (17.45%) Kubernetes
2 125 (10.29%) Terraform
3 27 (2.22%) Grafana
4 24 (1.98%) Ansible
5 17 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.15%) Argo
7 13 (1.07%) Control-M
8 8 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.41%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.16%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 80 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.35%) Oracle
3 48 (3.95%) Google
4 29 (2.39%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.56%) Databricks
6 18 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.32%) MuleSoft
8 14 (1.15%) Sitecore
9 13 (1.07%) SAP
10 10 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.82%) Splunk
11 9 (0.74%) Adobe
11 9 (0.74%) Solace
12 8 (0.66%) Conga
12 8 (0.66%) GoCardless
13 6 (0.49%) Pega
14 5 (0.41%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.33%) IBM
15 4 (0.33%) Netlify
15 4 (0.33%) Red Hat