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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 72 69
Rank change year-on-year -40 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing React 1,195 1,122 1,232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.26% 3.43% 3.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.68% 15.22% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 812 972
10th Percentile £366 £358 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £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 17 7 17
10th Percentile £47.48 £59.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 £56.25
Median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% - -9.46%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £76.00
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 10,233 7,373 8,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 22.56% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,676 4,986 6,000
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £545
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -6.93% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £669
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 266 157 255
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.15 £23.17
25th Percentile £45.31 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.82 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.41 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £58.30
% change year-on-year +10.20% +5.06% -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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -45 983 £550 +4.76% 654
London -39 592 £600 +0.42% 315
UK excluding London -46 439 £500 +11.11% 432
Work from Home -44 403 £550 +3.09% 297
North of England -16 165 £500 +11.11% 145
Yorkshire -1 78 £523 +30.63% 41
Scotland -3 76 £402 -15.32% 40
South East -65 76 £525 +15.38% 107
North West -27 75 £500 +10.01% 92
South West -13 63 £525 +23.53% 37
Midlands -50 37 £468 +4.47% 55
West Midlands -53 30 £475 -7.32% 34
East of England -17 21 £600 +41.18% 27
North East -31 12 £450 -2.70% 14
Northern Ireland +6 5 £190 -41.54% 9
East Midlands -19 5 £443 +20.24% 21
Wales -23 1 £525 +23.53% 19

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 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.51%) Confluence
3 18 (1.51%) CMS
4 16 (1.34%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.75%) nginx
6 7 (0.59%) Camunda
7 6 (0.50%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
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 Solr
9 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.084%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.084%) Kentico
11 1 (0.084%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.084%) Blender
4 1 (0.084%) Maya
4 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.084%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.17%) Shopify
2 9 (0.75%) 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 (0.084%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.084%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 476 (39.83%) AWS
2 338 (28.28%) Azure
3 140 (11.72%) GCP
4 130 (10.88%) Serverless
5 125 (10.46%) GitHub
6 86 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
9 65 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 56 (4.69%) Power Platform
11 53 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (4.10%) Figma
13 37 (3.10%) Entra ID
13 37 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (3.10%) Power Automate
13 37 (3.10%) PowerApps
14 31 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (2.59%) OpenShift
15 27 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
16 26 (2.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.59%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (0.25%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) DSL
5 1 (0.084%) CTI
5 1 (0.084%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.084%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.084%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (7.45%) SQL Server
3 87 (7.28%) Relational Database
4 78 (6.53%) NoSQL
5 65 (5.44%) MongoDB
6 55 (4.60%) MySQL
7 47 (3.93%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (3.01%) Power BI
10 31 (2.59%) Redis
11 15 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (0.84%) Metadata
15 9 (0.75%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.75%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.67%) Big Data
16 8 (0.67%) Db2
16 8 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 193 (16.15%) Git
2 121 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 66 (5.52%) JIRA
4 55 (4.60%) GitLab
5 48 (4.02%) Cypress.io
6 47 (3.93%) Gradle
7 41 (3.43%) JUnit
8 35 (2.93%) Vite
9 25 (2.09%) Maven
9 25 (2.09%) Mockito
10 22 (1.84%) webpack
11 20 (1.67%) Claude Code
12 16 (1.34%) Liquibase
12 16 (1.34%) Storybook
13 15 (1.26%) Cucumber
14 14 (1.17%) REST Assured
15 13 (1.09%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.92%) Postman
17 10 (0.84%) SonarQube
17 10 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 272 (22.76%) Finance
2 220 (18.41%) Social Skills
3 146 (12.22%) Banking
4 120 (10.04%) Front Office
4 120 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 64 (5.36%) Investment Banking
6 51 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (3.26%) Retail
8 24 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (1.34%) Financial Institution
11 11 (0.92%) Law
12 10 (0.84%) Military
13 9 (0.75%) Legal
14 8 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.50%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 658 (55.06%) Developer
2 243 (20.33%) Senior
3 205 (17.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 180 (15.06%) React Developer
5 175 (14.64%) Software Engineer
6 148 (12.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 140 (11.72%) Senior Developer
8 134 (11.21%) Java Developer
9 132 (11.05%) Lead
10 85 (7.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 65 (5.44%) Python Developer
12 60 (5.02%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 55 (4.60%) Architect
15 54 (4.52%) Senior React Developer
15 54 (4.52%) UI Developer
16 53 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
17 45 (3.77%) Java Engineer
17 45 (3.77%) Software Developer
18 43 (3.60%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (26.86%) Node.js
2 252 (21.09%) REST
3 220 (18.41%) CSS
4 207 (17.32%) Redux
5 200 (16.74%) HTML
6 182 (15.23%) .NET
6 182 (15.23%) AngularJS
7 162 (13.56%) RESTful
8 155 (12.97%) Spring
9 146 (12.22%) Spring Boot
10 142 (11.88%) Kafka
11 123 (10.29%) GraphQL
12 116 (9.71%) Next.js
13 100 (8.37%) Vue
14 96 (8.03%) HTML5
15 85 (7.11%) Jest
16 79 (6.61%) CSS3
17 62 (5.19%) Playwright
18 58 (4.85%) FastAPI
19 53 (4.44%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 168 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.12%) Fixed Income
3 77 (6.44%) Product Ownership
4 63 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
5 60 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
6 59 (4.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.85%) Equities
8 43 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.01%) Derivative
10 35 (2.93%) AI Agents
11 32 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (2.43%) Data Structures
13 27 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (1.92%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.00%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.84%) Mobile App
18 9 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
18 9 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.18%) Linux
2 13 (1.09%) Windows
3 11 (0.92%) Android
4 8 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.59%) Unix
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (44.27%) CI/CD
2 495 (41.42%) Agile
3 494 (41.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 319 (26.69%) Software Engineering
5 297 (24.85%) DevOps
6 293 (24.52%) Microservices
7 229 (19.16%) Front End Development
8 212 (17.74%) AI
9 202 (16.90%) Test Automation
10 168 (14.06%) Containerisation
11 146 (12.22%) User Experience
12 143 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
13 119 (9.96%) Code Quality
14 116 (9.71%) Event-Driven
15 115 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 112 (9.37%) TDD
17 109 (9.12%) Mentoring
18 104 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
18 104 (8.70%) Scrum
19 90 (7.53%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 659 (55.15%) TypeScript
2 566 (47.36%) JavaScript
3 385 (32.22%) Java
4 361 (30.21%) Python
5 230 (19.25%) SQL
6 197 (16.49%) C#
7 62 (5.19%) Go
8 32 (2.68%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.00%) Bash
10 12 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.84%) Rust
12 9 (0.75%) PHP
13 8 (0.67%) C++
14 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.59%) Bicep
14 7 (0.59%) Scala
15 5 (0.42%) Ruby
15 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 201 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 175 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 66 (5.52%) Degree
4 57 (4.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 10 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.33%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.084%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.084%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.084%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (13.05%) Accessibility
2 78 (6.53%) WCAG
3 73 (6.11%) QA
4 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) GDPR
6 4 (0.33%) HL7
7 3 (0.25%) PSD2
8 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.084%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.084%) GRC
8 1 (0.084%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 244 (20.42%) Docker
2 7 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 210 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 127 (10.63%) Terraform
3 26 (2.18%) Grafana
4 25 (2.09%) Ansible
5 16 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.17%) Control-M
7 13 (1.09%) Argo
8 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.42%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.17%) Nagios
11 2 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 82 (6.86%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.69%) Oracle
3 45 (3.77%) Google
4 29 (2.43%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.59%) Databricks
6 18 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.42%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.09%) SAP
9 10 (0.84%) Dynatrace
9 10 (0.84%) Splunk
10 9 (0.75%) Adobe
10 9 (0.75%) Solace
11 8 (0.67%) Conga
11 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
11 8 (0.67%) Sitecore
12 6 (0.50%) Pega
13 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.33%) IBM
14 4 (0.33%) Netlify
14 4 (0.33%) Red Hat