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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 72 66
Rank change year-on-year -30 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing React 1,191 1,022 1,333
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.36% 3.43% 3.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.12% 15.07% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 763 1,060
10th Percentile £375 £356 £362
25th Percentile £422 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £673 £653 £688
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +11.67% -4.15% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 22
10th Percentile £51.65 - £41.50
25th Percentile £61.88 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -15.06% -7.50%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - £68.50
% change year-on-year - - +7.03%

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 9,826 6,783 9,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.79% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,451 4,628 6,345
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 127 275
10th Percentile £30.45 £29.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.15 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -31 983 £545 +4.31% 599
London -40 583 £575 - 301
UK excluding London -16 445 £503 +11.67% 410
Work from Home -45 392 £540 +2.86% 339
North of England -7 167 £500 +11.11% 113
North West -12 86 £500 +11.11% 65
Scotland +2 72 £410 -10.68% 23
South East -53 71 £525 +15.64% 112
Yorkshire -14 65 £524 +16.39% 29
South West +11 63 £525 +23.53% 43
Midlands -52 36 £500 +14.94% 41
East of England -5 33 £625 +53.37% 30
West Midlands -43 29 £535 +9.74% 18
North East -28 16 £475 +2.70% 19
Northern Ireland +2 6 £190 -41.54% 41
East Midlands -30 5 £443 +20.24% 23
Wales -17 1 £525 +32.91% 12

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 48 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.52%) Confluence
3 24 (2.02%) CMS
4 15 (1.26%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (0.92%) Camunda
6 9 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.50%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.50%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.50%) Mendix
7 6 (0.50%) nginx
8 5 (0.42%) IIS
9 4 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache
11 2 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.084%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Adobe XD
1 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.084%) Blender
2 1 (0.084%) Maya
2 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.084%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.09%) Shopify
2 11 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.42%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.084%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.084%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 469 (39.38%) AWS
2 342 (28.72%) Azure
3 140 (11.75%) Serverless
4 131 (11.00%) GCP
5 118 (9.91%) GitHub
6 87 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
9 63 (5.29%) Amazon S3
9 63 (5.29%) Power Platform
10 49 (4.11%) Figma
11 47 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
12 42 (3.53%) Power Automate
12 42 (3.53%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (2.35%) Entra ID
15 27 (2.27%) Azure Functions
16 24 (2.02%) OpenShift
17 23 (1.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.50%) Firewall
2 4 (0.34%) HTTP
2 4 (0.34%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.084%) DSL
5 1 (0.084%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.084%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.084%) MQTT
5 1 (0.084%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (7.22%) Relational Database
3 85 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 74 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 60 (5.04%) MongoDB
6 55 (4.62%) MySQL
7 41 (3.44%) DynamoDB
7 41 (3.44%) Power BI
8 37 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (2.35%) Redis
10 14 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.18%) Metadata
11 13 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.01%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
14 8 (0.67%) Big Data
14 8 (0.67%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.67%) Neo4j
14 8 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 169 (14.19%) Git
2 88 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 71 (5.96%) JIRA
4 61 (5.12%) GitLab
5 49 (4.11%) Cypress.io
6 36 (3.02%) JUnit
7 33 (2.77%) Gradle
8 27 (2.27%) Vite
9 24 (2.02%) Mockito
10 20 (1.68%) webpack
11 16 (1.34%) Liquibase
12 15 (1.26%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.26%) Postman
12 15 (1.26%) REST Assured
13 14 (1.18%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.09%) Maven
15 10 (0.84%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.76%) Claude Code
16 9 (0.76%) Mocha
17 8 (0.67%) Storybook
General
1 255 (21.41%) Finance
2 203 (17.04%) Social Skills
3 140 (11.75%) Banking
4 120 (10.08%) Front Office
4 120 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 65 (5.46%) Investment Banking
6 45 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (2.27%) Retail
8 20 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 20 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.01%) Legal
11 11 (0.92%) Law
12 8 (0.67%) Military
13 6 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.50%) Marketing
13 6 (0.50%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 691 (58.02%) Developer
2 223 (18.72%) Full-Stack Developer
2 223 (18.72%) Senior
3 178 (14.95%) React Developer
4 169 (14.19%) Software Engineer
5 136 (11.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 133 (11.17%) Senior Developer
7 120 (10.08%) Lead
8 119 (9.99%) Java Developer
9 96 (8.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 79 (6.63%) Python Developer
11 58 (4.87%) Lead Developer
12 57 (4.79%) Architect
12 57 (4.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 55 (4.62%) Software Developer
14 51 (4.28%) Senior React Developer
15 50 (4.20%) UI Developer
16 47 (3.95%) Java Engineer
17 46 (3.86%) Senior Java Developer
18 42 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (26.11%) Node.js
2 228 (19.14%) CSS
3 212 (17.80%) AngularJS
4 208 (17.46%) HTML
5 205 (17.21%) REST
6 199 (16.71%) Redux
7 188 (15.79%) .NET
8 162 (13.60%) RESTful
9 158 (13.27%) Spring
10 149 (12.51%) Spring Boot
11 128 (10.75%) Kafka
12 119 (9.99%) Next.js
13 113 (9.49%) GraphQL
14 105 (8.82%) Vue
15 83 (6.97%) Jest
16 81 (6.80%) HTML5
17 62 (5.21%) CSS3
18 60 (5.04%) Playwright
19 59 (4.95%) FastAPI
20 48 (4.03%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 149 (12.51%) Cloud Native
2 89 (7.47%) Fixed Income
3 69 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
5 58 (4.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (4.11%) Equities
8 42 (3.53%) Derivative
9 40 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (2.94%) AI Agents
11 30 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.60%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.34%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.26%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
17 10 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
17 10 (0.84%) Mobile App
18 9 (0.76%) Virtual Team
19 8 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.93%) Linux
2 12 (1.01%) Android
3 11 (0.92%) Windows
4 9 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.76%) Unix
5 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (41.81%) CI/CD
2 484 (40.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 474 (39.80%) Agile
4 310 (26.03%) DevOps
5 292 (24.52%) Software Engineering
6 264 (22.17%) Microservices
7 244 (20.49%) Front End Development
8 202 (16.96%) AI
9 198 (16.62%) Test Automation
10 167 (14.02%) Containerisation
11 146 (12.26%) User Experience
12 136 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
13 111 (9.32%) Code Quality
14 102 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
15 101 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (8.23%) Scrum
17 95 (7.98%) TDD
18 92 (7.72%) Event-Driven
18 92 (7.72%) Mentoring
19 83 (6.97%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 635 (53.32%) TypeScript
2 560 (47.02%) JavaScript
3 386 (32.41%) Python
4 368 (30.90%) Java
5 228 (19.14%) SQL
6 208 (17.46%) C#
7 61 (5.12%) Go
8 24 (2.02%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.92%) Rust
12 8 (0.67%) Bash
12 8 (0.67%) C++
13 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.59%) Bicep
13 7 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.50%) Formula Language
14 6 (0.50%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.50%) LotusScript
14 6 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 201 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 177 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 66 (5.54%) Degree
4 50 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.25%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.084%) CISSP
13 1 (0.084%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.084%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.084%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (12.01%) Accessibility
2 72 (6.05%) QA
2 72 (6.05%) WCAG
3 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.50%) GDPR
4 3 (0.25%) HL7
5 2 (0.17%) NCSC
6 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.084%) GRC
6 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.084%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.084%) PSD2
6 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 232 (19.48%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 187 (15.70%) Kubernetes
2 124 (10.41%) Terraform
3 23 (1.93%) Grafana
4 15 (1.26%) Ansible
4 15 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.09%) Argo
6 10 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.76%) Control-M
8 6 (0.50%) Istio
9 3 (0.25%) Nagios
9 3 (0.25%) Podman
10 2 (0.17%) Rancher
11 1 (0.084%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 76 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.12%) Oracle
3 48 (4.03%) Google
4 33 (2.77%) OpenAI
5 17 (1.43%) Databricks
5 17 (1.43%) Sitecore
6 15 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 10 (0.84%) Adobe
7 10 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 10 (0.84%) Splunk
8 8 (0.67%) Conga
8 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
8 8 (0.67%) MuleSoft
8 8 (0.67%) SAP
9 7 (0.59%) Solace
10 6 (0.50%) Apple
10 6 (0.50%) Kofax
10 6 (0.50%) Lotus
10 6 (0.50%) Pega
10 6 (0.50%) Red Hat