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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 77 68
Rank change year-on-year -64 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing React 1,110 1,045 1,180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 3.18% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.38% 12.27% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 726 890
10th Percentile £363 £355 £340
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -5.77% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 5
10th Percentile £55.00 £54.57 £37.45
25th Percentile £68.00 £60.06 £38.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £66.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% +60.24% -43.92%
75th Percentile £76.50 £67.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £77.00 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +11.94% -3.60% +2.21%

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 11,828 8,514 9,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.64% 25.95% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,768 5,649 6,037
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.10 £25.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -13.46% +10.53%

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 6 October 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 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for React in the UK

React
Top 18 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 6 October 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 -58 931 £540 +2.76% 2,176
London -52 544 £575 -4.17% 1,138
UK excluding London -60 439 £475 +5.56% 1,346
Work from Home -70 327 £525 - 1,430
North of England -32 160 £500 +20.12% 333
Yorkshire -3 80 £500 +25.00% 96
Scotland -29 72 £377 -18.49% 194
North West -37 70 £500 +17.65% 202
South East -70 67 £475 +14.46% 240
Midlands -17 64 £475 -5.47% 167
South West -32 60 £594 +11.76% 153
West Midlands -12 57 £475 -10.38% 102
East of England -35 14 £600 +41.18% 132
North East -28 10 £500 +150.00% 35
East Midlands -18 7 £433 +3.15% 65
Northern Ireland +7 3 £190 - 66
Wales -16 3 £425 -18.07% 71
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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 37 (3.33%) Confluence
2 24 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.35%) Camunda
3 15 (1.35%) CMS
4 11 (0.99%) nginx
5 9 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.63%) WordPress
7 6 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Solana
10 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.090%) Kentico
Applications
1 12 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.27%) Sketch
3 1 (0.090%) Blender
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.090%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.90%) SAP CRM
2 6 (0.54%) Shopify
3 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.090%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.090%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 409 (36.85%) AWS
2 314 (28.29%) Azure
3 132 (11.89%) GitHub
4 128 (11.53%) GCP
5 117 (10.54%) Serverless
6 77 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (4.68%) Amazon S3
9 52 (4.68%) OpenShift
10 50 (4.50%) Figma
11 44 (3.96%) Power Platform
12 36 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
14 32 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (2.88%) Entra ID
15 28 (2.52%) SaaS
16 25 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
17 24 (2.16%) Azure AKS
17 24 (2.16%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.90%) Firewall
2 8 (0.72%) DNS
3 7 (0.63%) HTTP
3 7 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
4 6 (0.54%) VPN
5 4 (0.36%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
6 2 (0.18%) Internet
6 2 (0.18%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.090%) CTI
7 1 (0.090%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.090%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.090%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.090%) MQTT
7 1 (0.090%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 82 (7.39%) Relational Database
4 78 (7.03%) MongoDB
5 75 (6.76%) NoSQL
6 54 (4.86%) MySQL
7 36 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
7 36 (3.24%) DynamoDB
8 31 (2.79%) Power BI
9 28 (2.52%) Redis
10 19 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (0.99%) Metadata
13 9 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.54%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.45%) Couchbase
16 5 (0.45%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 245 (22.07%) Git
2 141 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 79 (7.12%) GitLab
4 61 (5.50%) JIRA
5 60 (5.41%) Gradle
6 54 (4.86%) JUnit
7 48 (4.32%) Maven
8 47 (4.23%) Cypress.io
9 31 (2.79%) Claude Code
9 31 (2.79%) Mockito
9 31 (2.79%) Vite
10 27 (2.43%) SonarQube
11 26 (2.34%) Cucumber
11 26 (2.34%) Storybook
12 23 (2.07%) webpack
13 20 (1.80%) Bitbucket
13 20 (1.80%) REST Assured
14 18 (1.62%) Selenium
15 11 (0.99%) Gatling
15 11 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 247 (22.25%) Finance
2 235 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 153 (13.78%) Banking
4 122 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 64 (5.77%) Front Office
6 56 (5.05%) Investment Banking
7 55 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (3.78%) Retail
9 31 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.08%) Back Office
11 12 (1.08%) Law
12 10 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.90%) Marketing
12 10 (0.90%) Military
12 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 596 (53.69%) Developer
2 228 (20.54%) Senior
3 191 (17.21%) Full-Stack Developer
4 164 (14.77%) React Developer
5 130 (11.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 127 (11.44%) Senior Developer
7 123 (11.08%) Java Developer
8 122 (10.99%) Software Engineer
9 101 (9.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 99 (8.92%) Lead
11 64 (5.77%) Python Developer
12 52 (4.68%) Senior React Developer
13 51 (4.59%) UI Developer
14 49 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
15 38 (3.42%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 38 (3.42%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.33%) Technical Leader
17 36 (3.24%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 34 (3.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 33 (2.97%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (26.22%) REST
2 287 (25.86%) Node.js
3 235 (21.17%) CSS
4 224 (20.18%) HTML
5 179 (16.13%) RESTful
6 178 (16.04%) .NET
7 159 (14.32%) Spring
8 155 (13.96%) AngularJS
9 148 (13.33%) Spring Boot
10 147 (13.24%) Redux
11 133 (11.98%) Kafka
11 133 (11.98%) Next.js
12 120 (10.81%) Terraform
13 110 (9.91%) HTML5
14 98 (8.83%) GraphQL
15 95 (8.56%) Vue
16 92 (8.29%) CSS3
17 84 (7.57%) OAuth
18 82 (7.39%) Playwright
19 72 (6.49%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 171 (15.41%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.57%) Product Ownership
3 65 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
5 55 (4.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (4.59%) Fixed Income
7 46 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (3.51%) AI Agents
9 34 (3.06%) Equities
10 32 (2.88%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.98%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.62%) Derivative
15 16 (1.44%) Onboarding
16 14 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
17 12 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 11 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
19 8 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.69%) Linux
2 15 (1.35%) Windows
3 12 (1.08%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) Android
5 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (50.36%) CI/CD
2 480 (43.24%) Agile
3 463 (41.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 294 (26.49%) Microservices
5 293 (26.40%) DevOps
6 286 (25.77%) Software Engineering
7 244 (21.98%) Front End Development
8 227 (20.45%) Test Automation
9 220 (19.82%) AI
10 168 (15.14%) Containerisation
11 165 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (14.68%) User Experience
13 150 (13.51%) Event-Driven
14 137 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (12.25%) Mentoring
16 133 (11.98%) Scrum
17 126 (11.35%) TDD
18 123 (11.08%) Observability
19 121 (10.90%) Infrastructure as Code
20 117 (10.54%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 632 (56.94%) TypeScript
2 561 (50.54%) JavaScript
3 367 (33.06%) Java
4 307 (27.66%) Python
5 237 (21.35%) SQL
6 186 (16.76%) C#
7 45 (4.05%) Go
8 31 (2.79%) PL/SQL
9 27 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.34%) Bash
11 14 (1.26%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.99%) Rust
13 11 (0.99%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.90%) PHP
15 9 (0.81%) Bicep
15 9 (0.81%) C++
16 8 (0.72%) Ruby
17 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 194 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 157 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.85%) Degree
4 55 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.090%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.090%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (14.32%) Accessibility
2 98 (8.83%) QA
3 87 (7.84%) WCAG
4 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.36%) HL7
5 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.27%) GDPR
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.090%) GRC
8 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.090%) SLA
8 1 (0.090%) WAI
8 1 (0.090%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 249 (22.43%) Docker
2 5 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.090%) Varnish
3 1 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 248 (22.34%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.60%) Grafana
3 33 (2.97%) Ansible
4 18 (1.62%) Argo
5 17 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.44%) Control-M
7 12 (1.08%) Kibana
8 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.63%) Istio
9 7 (0.63%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.27%) Podman
11 2 (0.18%) systemd
12 1 (0.090%) QRadar
Vendors
1 94 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.21%) Oracle
3 55 (4.95%) Google
4 22 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 20 (1.80%) MuleSoft
5 20 (1.80%) Splunk
6 19 (1.71%) Databricks
6 19 (1.71%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.44%) SAP
8 13 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 11 (0.99%) Adobe
10 9 (0.81%) IBM
10 9 (0.81%) Veracode
11 8 (0.72%) Conga
11 8 (0.72%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.72%) Okta
12 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.54%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.45%) Solace