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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 71 69
Rank change year-on-year -35 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing React 1,191 1,074 1,319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.31% 3.43% 3.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.88% 15.07% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 797 1,041
10th Percentile £375 £356 £360
25th Percentile £424 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £688
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
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 - - +9.60%

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 10,024 7,127 9,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 22.79% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,578 4,824 6,384
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 146 280
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.29 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.51 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -40 984 £550 +4.76% 676
London -39 590 £586 +0.21% 319
UK excluding London -32 438 £500 +11.11% 429
Work from Home -45 399 £550 +4.76% 412
North of England -26 159 £523 +16.11% 145
North West -29 78 £500 +11.11% 74
South East -59 76 £525 +11.70% 127
Scotland +1 72 £405 -14.74% 17
Yorkshire -4 70 £523 +16.11% 48
South West +9 63 £525 +23.53% 38
Midlands -58 37 £475 +9.20% 43
West Midlands -53 30 £494 +1.28% 24
East of England -6 28 £600 +47.24% 35
North East -34 11 £575 +24.32% 24
Northern Ireland +6 6 £190 -41.54% 16
East Midlands -22 5 £443 +20.24% 19
Wales -22 1 £525 +32.91% 13

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 41 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.43%) Confluence
3 24 (2.02%) CMS
4 15 (1.26%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.76%) Camunda
5 9 (0.76%) nginx
5 9 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.59%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.42%) IIS
8 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.25%) Mendix
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) Kentico
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.084%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.084%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.084%) Blender
3 1 (0.084%) Maya
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.084%) Sketch
3 1 (0.084%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.18%) Shopify
2 9 (0.76%) 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
1 462 (38.79%) AWS
2 340 (28.55%) Azure
3 136 (11.42%) GCP
4 127 (10.66%) Serverless
5 115 (9.66%) GitHub
6 82 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
7 76 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (5.12%) Amazon S3
10 60 (5.04%) Power Platform
11 49 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (3.86%) Figma
13 39 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
14 38 (3.19%) Power Automate
14 38 (3.19%) PowerApps
15 31 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
15 31 (2.60%) Entra ID
16 28 (2.35%) SaaS
17 24 (2.02%) OpenShift
18 22 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
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%) DSL
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.084%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.084%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.084%) MQTT
5 1 (0.084%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (14.69%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (7.64%) Relational Database
3 89 (7.47%) SQL Server
4 77 (6.47%) NoSQL
5 61 (5.12%) MongoDB
6 56 (4.70%) MySQL
7 44 (3.69%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.27%) Power BI
9 37 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (2.60%) Redis
11 14 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (0.84%) Metadata
14 10 (0.84%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.76%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.76%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.67%) Big Data
16 8 (0.67%) Db2
Development Applications
1 171 (14.36%) Git
2 104 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 66 (5.54%) JIRA
4 58 (4.87%) GitLab
5 48 (4.03%) Cypress.io
6 37 (3.11%) JUnit
7 36 (3.02%) Gradle
8 35 (2.94%) Vite
9 23 (1.93%) Mockito
10 22 (1.85%) webpack
11 16 (1.34%) Liquibase
11 16 (1.34%) Postman
12 15 (1.26%) Maven
12 15 (1.26%) REST Assured
13 14 (1.18%) Cucumber
14 13 (1.09%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.92%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.92%) Storybook
16 10 (0.84%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 266 (22.33%) Finance
2 217 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 147 (12.34%) Banking
4 124 (10.41%) Front Office
5 115 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 67 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 48 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (2.43%) Retail
9 21 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 17 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (0.92%) Law
13 10 (0.84%) Legal
14 7 (0.59%) Marketing
14 7 (0.59%) Military
15 6 (0.50%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.42%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 674 (56.59%) Developer
2 224 (18.81%) Senior
3 210 (17.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 182 (15.28%) React Developer
5 172 (14.44%) Software Engineer
6 142 (11.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 127 (10.66%) Lead
7 127 (10.66%) Senior Developer
8 126 (10.58%) Java Developer
9 90 (7.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 74 (6.21%) Python Developer
11 59 (4.95%) Lead Developer
12 56 (4.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 54 (4.53%) Architect
14 53 (4.45%) UI Developer
15 51 (4.28%) Senior React Developer
16 48 (4.03%) Senior Java Developer
17 46 (3.86%) Java Engineer
18 43 (3.61%) Lead Software Engineer
19 42 (3.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (26.70%) Node.js
2 218 (18.30%) REST
3 215 (18.05%) CSS
4 208 (17.46%) Redux
5 195 (16.37%) .NET
5 195 (16.37%) HTML
6 189 (15.87%) AngularJS
7 171 (14.36%) RESTful
8 155 (13.01%) Spring
9 143 (12.01%) Spring Boot
10 131 (11.00%) Kafka
11 128 (10.75%) GraphQL
12 116 (9.74%) Next.js
13 97 (8.14%) Vue
14 89 (7.47%) Jest
15 85 (7.14%) HTML5
16 67 (5.63%) Playwright
17 65 (5.46%) CSS3
18 58 (4.87%) FastAPI
19 54 (4.53%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 155 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.89%) Fixed Income
3 79 (6.63%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
5 59 (4.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 52 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (4.11%) Equities
8 46 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (3.44%) Derivative
10 36 (3.02%) AI Agents
11 34 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.85%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.43%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.01%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.01%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.92%) Mobile App
18 10 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
19 9 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.18%) Linux
2 12 (1.01%) Android
3 11 (0.92%) Windows
4 9 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.76%) Unix
5 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (42.57%) CI/CD
2 486 (40.81%) Full-Stack Development
3 483 (40.55%) Agile
4 305 (25.61%) Software Engineering
5 301 (25.27%) DevOps
6 278 (23.34%) Microservices
7 239 (20.07%) Front End Development
8 203 (17.04%) AI
9 200 (16.79%) Test Automation
10 162 (13.60%) Containerisation
11 146 (12.26%) User Experience
12 138 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
13 113 (9.49%) Code Quality
14 106 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 105 (8.82%) Scrum
16 103 (8.65%) TDD
17 100 (8.40%) Mentoring
18 99 (8.31%) Event-Driven
19 90 (7.56%) Infrastructure as Code
20 83 (6.97%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 662 (55.58%) TypeScript
2 561 (47.10%) JavaScript
3 374 (31.40%) Java
4 367 (30.81%) Python
5 228 (19.14%) SQL
6 208 (17.46%) C#
7 65 (5.46%) Go
8 28 (2.35%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.34%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.92%) Bash
11 11 (0.92%) Rust
12 8 (0.67%) C++
12 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.50%) Bicep
14 6 (0.50%) Scala
15 4 (0.34%) Perl
15 4 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 197 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 171 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 69 (5.79%) Degree
4 51 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.76%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.34%) 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
1 148 (12.43%) Accessibility
2 75 (6.30%) QA
3 74 (6.21%) WCAG
4 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.50%) GDPR
5 4 (0.34%) HL7
6 3 (0.25%) PSD2
7 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.084%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.084%) GRC
7 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.084%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 234 (19.65%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 194 (16.29%) Kubernetes
2 116 (9.74%) Terraform
3 24 (2.02%) Grafana
4 19 (1.60%) Ansible
5 15 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.09%) Argo
7 10 (0.84%) Control-M
8 8 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.42%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Rancher
12 1 (0.084%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 80 (6.72%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.37%) Oracle
3 47 (3.95%) Google
4 31 (2.60%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.51%) Databricks
6 15 (1.26%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.26%) Sitecore
7 10 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 10 (0.84%) MuleSoft
7 10 (0.84%) SAP
7 10 (0.84%) Splunk
8 8 (0.67%) Adobe
8 8 (0.67%) Conga
8 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
8 8 (0.67%) Solace
9 6 (0.50%) Pega
10 5 (0.42%) Apple
10 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.34%) Netlify
11 4 (0.34%) Red Hat