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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 75 69
Rank change year-on-year -63 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing React 1,113 1,092 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 3.30% 3.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.35% 12.64% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 759 918
10th Percentile £363 £358 £344
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
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 10 8 4
10th Percentile £52.08 £54.57 £38.10
25th Percentile £66.50 £60.06 £40.13
Median hourly rate £74.00 £66.50 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% +22.58% -27.67%
75th Percentile £76.75 £67.00 £72.25
90th Percentile £78.30 - £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +10.45% -3.60% -8.25%

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 11,905 8,636 9,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 26.08% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,825 5,740 6,160
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -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% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +11.03%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -62 936 £545 +3.81% 2,005
London -55 547 £575 -4.17% 1,203
UK excluding London -56 442 £475 +5.56% 1,035
Work from Home -76 321 £525 - 979
North of England -34 162 £500 +19.76% 271
Yorkshire +3 83 £500 +25.00% 68
Scotland -29 72 £377 -18.92% 118
North West -46 69 £500 +17.65% 184
South East -79 65 £475 +11.76% 201
Midlands -31 63 £472 -5.70% 135
South West -28 62 £569 +7.06% 133
West Midlands -8 56 £507 -3.84% 90
East of England -33 16 £625 +47.06% 82
North East -33 10 £500 +150.00% 20
East Midlands -24 7 £433 +3.15% 45
Northern Ireland +8 3 £190 - 60
Wales -14 3 £425 -18.07% 41
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 36 (3.23%) Confluence
2 25 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.35%) Camunda
3 15 (1.35%) CMS
4 12 (1.08%) 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%) Traefik
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%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.090%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 412 (37.02%) AWS
2 312 (28.03%) Azure
3 134 (12.04%) GitHub
4 126 (11.32%) GCP
5 119 (10.69%) Serverless
6 78 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
7 71 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (4.85%) Amazon S3
10 51 (4.58%) OpenShift
11 50 (4.49%) Figma
12 45 (4.04%) Power Platform
13 38 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (3.05%) GitHub Copilot
15 32 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (2.88%) Entra ID
16 27 (2.43%) SaaS
17 25 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
17 25 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
18 24 (2.16%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.90%) Firewall
2 8 (0.72%) DNS
2 8 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
3 7 (0.63%) HTTP
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
1 153 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (7.82%) SQL Server
3 80 (7.19%) Relational Database
4 77 (6.92%) MongoDB
5 76 (6.83%) NoSQL
6 52 (4.67%) MySQL
7 38 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
8 35 (3.14%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.79%) Power BI
10 27 (2.43%) Redis
11 19 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (0.99%) Metadata
14 9 (0.81%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.63%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.54%) Neo4j
18 5 (0.45%) Couchbase
18 5 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 242 (21.74%) Git
2 143 (12.85%) Jenkins
3 79 (7.10%) GitLab
4 63 (5.66%) JIRA
5 60 (5.39%) Gradle
6 54 (4.85%) JUnit
7 48 (4.31%) Cypress.io
8 47 (4.22%) Maven
9 31 (2.79%) Mockito
9 31 (2.79%) Vite
10 28 (2.52%) Claude Code
11 26 (2.34%) SonarQube
11 26 (2.34%) Storybook
12 25 (2.25%) Cucumber
13 22 (1.98%) webpack
14 20 (1.80%) Bitbucket
14 20 (1.80%) REST Assured
15 19 (1.71%) Selenium
16 12 (1.08%) Liquibase
17 11 (0.99%) Gatling
General
1 249 (22.37%) Finance
2 235 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 155 (13.93%) Banking
4 119 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 67 (6.02%) Front Office
6 58 (5.21%) Investment Banking
7 55 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (3.86%) 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
1 592 (53.19%) Developer
2 233 (20.93%) Senior
3 188 (16.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 160 (14.38%) React Developer
5 130 (11.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 130 (11.68%) Senior Developer
6 125 (11.23%) Java Developer
7 122 (10.96%) Software Engineer
8 99 (8.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 99 (8.89%) Lead
9 59 (5.30%) Python Developer
10 54 (4.85%) Senior React Developer
11 51 (4.58%) UI Developer
12 50 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
13 41 (3.68%) Software Developer
14 37 (3.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 37 (3.32%) Technical Leader
15 36 (3.23%) Architect
15 36 (3.23%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 34 (3.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (25.97%) Node.js
2 288 (25.88%) REST
3 228 (20.49%) CSS
4 218 (19.59%) HTML
5 178 (15.99%) .NET
6 177 (15.90%) RESTful
7 159 (14.29%) Spring
8 157 (14.11%) AngularJS
9 150 (13.48%) Redux
10 149 (13.39%) Spring Boot
11 132 (11.86%) Kafka
11 132 (11.86%) Next.js
12 122 (10.96%) Terraform
13 105 (9.43%) HTML5
14 94 (8.45%) GraphQL
15 92 (8.27%) Vue
16 87 (7.82%) CSS3
17 83 (7.46%) OAuth
18 82 (7.37%) Playwright
19 73 (6.56%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 177 (15.90%) Cloud Native
2 87 (7.82%) Product Ownership
3 64 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (5.12%) Greenfield Project
5 56 (5.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 54 (4.85%) Fixed Income
7 47 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (3.50%) AI Agents
9 34 (3.05%) Equities
10 32 (2.88%) Data Structures
11 31 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.98%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.53%) Derivative
15 15 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.35%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 11 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
19 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.59%) Linux
2 15 (1.35%) Windows
3 11 (0.99%) 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
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
8 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (50.49%) CI/CD
2 486 (43.67%) Agile
3 465 (41.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 299 (26.86%) Microservices
5 296 (26.59%) DevOps
6 291 (26.15%) Software Engineering
7 240 (21.56%) Front End Development
8 227 (20.40%) Test Automation
9 220 (19.77%) AI
10 171 (15.36%) Containerisation
11 163 (14.65%) User Experience
12 161 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
13 152 (13.66%) Event-Driven
14 135 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 133 (11.95%) Scrum
16 132 (11.86%) Mentoring
17 127 (11.41%) TDD
18 122 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
19 119 (10.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 119 (10.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 634 (56.96%) TypeScript
2 559 (50.22%) JavaScript
3 373 (33.51%) Java
4 308 (27.67%) Python
5 240 (21.56%) SQL
6 184 (16.53%) C#
7 45 (4.04%) Go
8 32 (2.88%) PL/SQL
9 27 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.34%) Bash
11 14 (1.26%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.90%) PHP
13 10 (0.90%) Rust
14 9 (0.81%) Bicep
14 9 (0.81%) C++
15 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.63%) Ruby
16 6 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 190 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 154 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.83%) Degree
4 55 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.79%) 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
1 157 (14.11%) Accessibility
2 98 (8.81%) QA
3 87 (7.82%) 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
System Software
1 248 (22.28%) 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
1 245 (22.01%) Kubernetes
2 41 (3.68%) Grafana
3 33 (2.96%) Ansible
4 19 (1.71%) Argo
5 18 (1.62%) 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%) Nagios
12 1 (0.090%) QRadar
Vendors
1 95 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.19%) Oracle
3 54 (4.85%) 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