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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 72 68
Rank change year-on-year -43 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing React 1,201 1,132 1,206
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.26% 3.45% 3.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.76% 15.30% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 822 946
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £424 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 14
10th Percentile £41.24 £59.05 £44.50
25th Percentile £60.31 £63.63 £56.25
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% -2.19% -7.43%
75th Percentile £86.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £76.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% -4.29% +40.00%

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 10,209 7,401 8,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.23% 22.57% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,659 5,007 5,884
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -8.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £636 £665
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 163 248
10th Percentile £28.30 £30.05 £23.49
25th Percentile £42.31 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.47 £79.74 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.60
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.88% +0.10%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -46 992 £550 +4.76% 687
London -40 602 £600 +0.42% 361
UK excluding London -37 444 £500 +11.11% 431
Work from Home -51 389 £550 +3.09% 336
North of England -19 168 £500 +11.11% 137
Yorkshire -6 83 £500 +25.00% 35
Scotland -2 81 £377 -20.00% 37
South East -68 73 £525 +15.51% 106
North West -40 72 £500 +8.81% 90
South West -14 62 £525 +23.53% 46
Midlands -45 41 £475 +6.15% 47
West Midlands -48 34 £481 -6.10% 28
East of England -20 18 £625 +47.06% 29
North East -37 13 £475 +2.15% 14
Northern Ireland +2 5 £190 -41.54% 16
East Midlands -20 5 £443 +20.24% 19
Wales -22 1 £525 +14.44% 20

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 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.58%) Confluence
3 18 (1.50%) CMS
4 16 (1.33%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.75%) nginx
6 8 (0.67%) Camunda
7 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.33%) WordPress
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.083%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.083%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.083%) Blender
4 1 (0.083%) Maya
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.083%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.17%) Shopify
2 10 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.67%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.083%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.083%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 481 (40.05%) AWS
2 342 (28.48%) Azure
3 142 (11.82%) GCP
4 130 (10.82%) GitHub
5 129 (10.74%) Serverless
6 82 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
7 77 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
9 63 (5.25%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.75%) Power Platform
11 48 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
12 47 (3.91%) Figma
13 38 (3.16%) Entra ID
14 37 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (3.08%) Power Automate
14 37 (3.08%) PowerApps
15 34 (2.83%) OpenShift
16 29 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.83%) Firewall
2 5 (0.42%) HTTP
3 4 (0.33%) DNS
3 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 4 (0.33%) VPN
4 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.17%) DSL
6 1 (0.083%) CTI
6 1 (0.083%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.083%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.083%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.99%) SQL Server
3 83 (6.91%) NoSQL
3 83 (6.91%) Relational Database
4 74 (6.16%) MongoDB
5 49 (4.08%) MySQL
6 44 (3.66%) DynamoDB
7 37 (3.08%) Power BI
8 35 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (2.50%) Redis
10 14 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.75%) Metadata
13 9 (0.75%) Neo4j
13 9 (0.75%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.67%) Db2
Development Applications
1 199 (16.57%) Git
2 129 (10.74%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.58%) JIRA
4 61 (5.08%) GitLab
5 50 (4.16%) Cypress.io
6 47 (3.91%) Gradle
7 46 (3.83%) JUnit
8 34 (2.83%) Vite
9 27 (2.25%) Mockito
10 24 (2.00%) Maven
11 20 (1.67%) Claude Code
11 20 (1.67%) webpack
12 17 (1.42%) Cucumber
12 17 (1.42%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.33%) Bitbucket
14 15 (1.25%) REST Assured
14 15 (1.25%) Storybook
15 13 (1.08%) SonarQube
16 12 (1.00%) Postman
17 10 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 277 (23.06%) Finance
2 224 (18.65%) Social Skills
3 150 (12.49%) Banking
4 125 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 120 (9.99%) Front Office
6 64 (5.33%) Investment Banking
7 54 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (3.25%) Retail
9 25 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.33%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.08%) Law
13 10 (0.83%) Military
14 9 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.67%) Legal
15 8 (0.67%) Marketing
15 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 664 (55.29%) Developer
2 244 (20.32%) Senior
3 211 (17.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 177 (14.74%) React Developer
5 173 (14.40%) Software Engineer
6 144 (11.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 141 (11.74%) Java Developer
8 140 (11.66%) Senior Developer
9 134 (11.16%) Lead
10 88 (7.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 66 (5.50%) Python Developer
12 60 (5.00%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 54 (4.50%) Senior React Developer
15 53 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
15 53 (4.41%) UI Developer
16 52 (4.33%) Architect
17 46 (3.83%) Software Developer
18 43 (3.58%) Lead Software Engineer
19 40 (3.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (27.39%) Node.js
2 263 (21.90%) REST
3 219 (18.23%) CSS
4 203 (16.90%) Redux
5 201 (16.74%) HTML
6 182 (15.15%) AngularJS
7 179 (14.90%) .NET
8 164 (13.66%) RESTful
9 158 (13.16%) Spring
10 151 (12.57%) Kafka
11 146 (12.16%) Spring Boot
12 123 (10.24%) Next.js
13 118 (9.83%) GraphQL
14 103 (8.58%) Vue
15 96 (7.99%) HTML5
16 85 (7.08%) Jest
17 79 (6.58%) CSS3
18 67 (5.58%) Playwright
19 58 (4.83%) FastAPI
20 54 (4.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 169 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.08%) Fixed Income
3 74 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 66 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
5 60 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.83%) Equities
8 43 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.00%) Derivative
10 35 (2.91%) AI Agents
11 33 (2.75%) Data Structures
11 33 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
12 26 (2.16%) Algorithms
12 26 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.00%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.92%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.83%) Mobile App
17 9 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.08%) Linux
2 13 (1.08%) Windows
3 8 (0.67%) Android
4 7 (0.58%) Unix
5 5 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (45.13%) CI/CD
2 516 (42.96%) Agile
3 505 (42.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 323 (26.89%) Software Engineering
5 297 (24.73%) Microservices
6 295 (24.56%) DevOps
7 236 (19.65%) Front End Development
8 211 (17.57%) AI
9 206 (17.15%) Test Automation
10 173 (14.40%) Containerisation
11 149 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
12 145 (12.07%) User Experience
13 122 (10.16%) Code Quality
13 122 (10.16%) Event-Driven
14 121 (10.07%) TDD
15 119 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 119 (9.91%) Mentoring
16 110 (9.16%) Scrum
17 109 (9.08%) Infrastructure as Code
18 93 (7.74%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 670 (55.79%) TypeScript
2 581 (48.38%) JavaScript
3 388 (32.31%) Java
4 364 (30.31%) Python
5 228 (18.98%) SQL
6 194 (16.15%) C#
7 64 (5.33%) Go
8 32 (2.66%) PL/SQL
9 19 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.00%) Bash
10 12 (1.00%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.83%) Rust
12 9 (0.75%) C++
12 9 (0.75%) PHP
13 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.58%) Bicep
13 7 (0.58%) Scala
14 6 (0.50%) Ruby
15 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 207 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 180 (14.99%) SC Cleared
3 68 (5.66%) Degree
4 53 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.33%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.083%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.083%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.083%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (13.24%) Accessibility
2 80 (6.66%) WCAG
3 76 (6.33%) QA
4 7 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) GDPR
6 4 (0.33%) HL7
7 3 (0.25%) PSD2
8 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.083%) GRC
9 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 247 (20.57%) Docker
2 7 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 221 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 128 (10.66%) Terraform
3 29 (2.41%) Grafana
4 27 (2.25%) Ansible
5 16 (1.33%) Argo
6 15 (1.25%) Control-M
6 15 (1.25%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.33%) Istio
8 4 (0.33%) Kibana
9 3 (0.25%) Podman
10 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.17%) Rancher
11 1 (0.083%) Nagios
Vendors
1 80 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 70 (5.83%) Oracle
3 45 (3.75%) Google
4 28 (2.33%) OpenAI
5 20 (1.67%) Databricks
5 20 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.50%) MuleSoft
7 14 (1.17%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.17%) Splunk
8 13 (1.08%) SAP
9 10 (0.83%) Solace
10 9 (0.75%) Adobe
10 9 (0.75%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.67%) Conga
11 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
12 5 (0.42%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.33%) Hitachi
13 4 (0.33%) New Relic
13 4 (0.33%) Pega