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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 69 65
Rank change year-on-year -33 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing React 1,112 1,025 1,344
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.34% 3.49% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.83% 15.35% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 793 1,074
10th Percentile £364 £363 £357
25th Percentile £415 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 22
10th Percentile £57.57 - £41.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £26.25 £55.31
Median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +176.36% -57.53% -7.50%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.61 £72.50
90th Percentile - £68.52 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +176.36% -59.85% +1.11%

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 9,396 6,676 8,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.73% 22.70% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 4,581 6,181
10th Percentile £360 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 114 244
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £82.70 £74.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -40 912 £525 - 621
London -38 543 £550 -4.35% 276
UK excluding London -22 407 £500 +11.11% 407
Work from Home -41 370 £548 +5.29% 390
North of England -16 151 £500 +11.11% 135
North West -12 88 £475 +5.56% 71
South East -48 70 £525 +9.09% 110
Scotland +6 66 £411 -8.61% 18
Yorkshire -24 50 £511 +4.87% 49
South West -10 46 £500 +13.38% 54
Midlands -57 38 £475 +6.15% 49
East of England -10 33 £600 +27.66% 33
West Midlands -48 31 £488 +5.98% 22
North East -11 15 £475 +3.26% 15
Northern Ireland -1 6 - - 3
East Midlands -39 5 £450 +7.14% 27
Wales -16 2 - - 10

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 47 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.52%) Confluence
3 24 (2.16%) CMS
4 12 (1.08%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (0.90%) Camunda
5 10 (0.90%) HCL Notes
5 10 (0.90%) Mendix
5 10 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.63%) Headless CMS
6 7 (0.63%) IIS
7 4 (0.36%) Apache
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.27%) nginx
9 2 (0.18%) Kentico
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.090%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 9 (0.81%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.45%) Sketch
3 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.090%) Maya
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.99%) Shopify
2 4 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.36%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Magento
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.090%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.090%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.090%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 463 (41.64%) AWS
2 324 (29.14%) Azure
3 136 (12.23%) Serverless
4 125 (11.24%) GCP
5 119 (10.70%) GitHub
6 87 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
8 79 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (4.95%) Power Platform
10 50 (4.50%) Amazon S3
11 48 (4.32%) Figma
12 39 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
13 38 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (3.42%) Power Automate
13 38 (3.42%) PowerApps
14 33 (2.97%) Azure Functions
15 32 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
17 25 (2.25%) Entra ID
17 25 (2.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.36%) HTTP
2 3 (0.27%) Firewall
2 3 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.18%) Intranet
3 2 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.090%) DHCP
4 1 (0.090%) DNS
4 1 (0.090%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.090%) LAN
4 1 (0.090%) RTMP
4 1 (0.090%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.090%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (8.36%) Relational Database
3 83 (7.46%) SQL Server
4 80 (7.19%) NoSQL
5 65 (5.85%) MongoDB
5 65 (5.85%) MySQL
6 36 (3.24%) Power BI
7 35 (3.15%) DynamoDB
8 28 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (2.52%) Redis
9 16 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (1.44%) Oracle Database
10 14 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.17%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.08%) Metadata
13 8 (0.72%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.72%) Tableau
14 7 (0.63%) DB2
Development Applications
1 165 (14.84%) Git
2 74 (6.65%) Jenkins
3 73 (6.56%) JIRA
4 66 (5.94%) GitLab
5 51 (4.59%) Cypress.io
6 36 (3.24%) JUnit
7 26 (2.34%) Mockito
8 22 (1.98%) Vite
9 20 (1.80%) Gradle
10 16 (1.44%) webpack
11 13 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.17%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.17%) Liquibase
12 12 (1.08%) Storybook
13 10 (0.90%) Mocha
14 8 (0.72%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.72%) Postman
14 8 (0.72%) TeamCity
15 7 (0.63%) Maven
15 7 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 203 (18.26%) Finance
2 183 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 120 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 93 (8.36%) Front Office
5 91 (8.18%) Banking
6 41 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (2.88%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.07%) Retail
9 20 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 18 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (0.90%) Legal
13 7 (0.63%) Marketing
14 6 (0.54%) Games
14 6 (0.54%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.54%) Law
15 5 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.36%) Advertising
16 4 (0.36%) Military
16 4 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 649 (58.36%) Developer
2 215 (19.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 189 (17.00%) Senior
4 159 (14.30%) Software Engineer
5 150 (13.49%) React Developer
6 122 (10.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 113 (10.16%) Lead
8 102 (9.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 100 (8.99%) Senior Developer
10 85 (7.64%) Java Developer
11 70 (6.29%) Python Developer
12 60 (5.40%) Lead Developer
13 52 (4.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 51 (4.59%) Architect
15 50 (4.50%) Software Developer
16 40 (3.60%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 40 (3.60%) Java Engineer
17 39 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
18 38 (3.42%) Lead Software Developer
19 35 (3.15%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (27.16%) Node.js
2 238 (21.40%) AngularJS
3 237 (21.31%) CSS
4 216 (19.42%) HTML
5 183 (16.46%) REST
6 178 (16.01%) .NET
7 168 (15.11%) RESTful
8 164 (14.75%) Redux
9 160 (14.39%) Spring
10 142 (12.77%) Spring Boot
11 123 (11.06%) Next.js
12 122 (10.97%) GraphQL
13 110 (9.89%) Kafka
14 108 (9.71%) Vue
15 83 (7.46%) Jest
16 80 (7.19%) HTML5
17 63 (5.67%) CSS3
18 52 (4.68%) Playwright
19 49 (4.41%) .NET Core
20 43 (3.87%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 135 (12.14%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 59 (5.31%) Fixed Income
4 43 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.33%) Derivative
6 35 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (2.97%) AI Agents
8 31 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
9 26 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.80%) Equities
12 17 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 16 (1.44%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.35%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.17%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.08%) NHS
17 11 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
17 11 (0.99%) Low-Code
18 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.07%) Linux
2 19 (1.71%) Windows
3 16 (1.44%) Android
4 13 (1.17%) Unix
5 11 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (41.55%) CI/CD
2 449 (40.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 448 (40.29%) Agile
4 295 (26.53%) DevOps
5 269 (24.19%) Microservices
6 260 (23.38%) Software Engineering
7 236 (21.22%) Front End Development
8 187 (16.82%) AI
9 176 (15.83%) Test Automation
10 158 (14.21%) Containerisation
11 156 (14.03%) User Experience
12 130 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
13 106 (9.53%) Code Quality
14 98 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 87 (7.82%) TDD
17 86 (7.73%) Scrum
17 86 (7.73%) SDLC
18 82 (7.37%) API Integration
19 80 (7.19%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 566 (50.90%) TypeScript
2 525 (47.21%) JavaScript
3 359 (32.28%) Python
4 323 (29.05%) Java
5 213 (19.15%) SQL
6 163 (14.66%) C#
7 52 (4.68%) Go
8 17 (1.53%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.90%) Bicep
10 10 (0.90%) Formula Language
10 10 (0.90%) LotusScript
11 9 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.72%) C++
13 7 (0.63%) Perl
13 7 (0.63%) Rust
13 7 (0.63%) Scala
14 6 (0.54%) Bash
14 6 (0.54%) Ruby
14 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 186 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 165 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.31%) Degree
4 50 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.27%) PhD
12 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.090%) CISSP
13 1 (0.090%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.090%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.090%) OCP
13 1 (0.090%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (12.68%) Accessibility
2 70 (6.29%) WCAG
3 65 (5.85%) QA
4 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.63%) GDPR
4 7 (0.63%) HL7
5 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.18%) NCSC
5 2 (0.18%) PSD2
6 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 221 (19.87%) Docker
2 7 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 176 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 121 (10.88%) Terraform
3 21 (1.89%) Grafana
4 16 (1.44%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.26%) Argo
6 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.63%) Ansible
7 7 (0.63%) Istio
8 4 (0.36%) Podman
9 3 (0.27%) Nagios
10 2 (0.18%) Rancher
11 1 (0.090%) Kibana
11 1 (0.090%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 79 (7.10%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.95%) Oracle
3 40 (3.60%) Google
4 32 (2.88%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.16%) Adobe
6 19 (1.71%) Databricks
7 16 (1.44%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.08%) Splunk
9 10 (0.90%) Kofax
9 10 (0.90%) Lotus
9 10 (0.90%) MuleSoft
10 9 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.72%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.63%) SAP
13 6 (0.54%) Solace
14 5 (0.45%) Pega
15 4 (0.36%) Netlify
15 4 (0.36%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.36%) ServiceNow
16 3 (0.27%) Foundry