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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 68 62
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing React 1,194 1,024 1,332
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.39% 3.49% 3.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.21% 15.24% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 767 1,061
10th Percentile £375 £356 £363
25th Percentile £421 £409 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £660 £653 £688
90th Percentile £800 £828 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £441 £475
% change year-on-year +13.38% -7.16% -
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 - - +7.03%

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 9,780 6,720 9,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.60% 22.88% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,419 4,600 6,346
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 122 263
10th Percentile £30.93 £29.35 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.14 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.23 £68.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.32 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -33 989 £538 +3.37% 364
London -39 592 £565 -1.74% 138
UK excluding London -17 440 £500 +13.38% 295
Work from Home -46 390 £537 +2.78% 243
North of England -14 163 £500 +11.11% 83
North West -19 86 £500 +11.11% 47
South East -47 75 £525 +15.64% 103
Scotland -4 70 £410 -8.94% 17
South West +8 61 £525 +23.53% 35
Yorkshire -7 61 £523 +16.11% 25
Midlands -63 36 £500 +14.94% 27
East of England -4 32 £613 +31.72% 23
West Midlands -52 29 £535 +15.68% 12
North East -21 16 £475 +3.26% 11
Northern Ireland +3 6 £190 -41.54% 5
East Midlands -34 5 £443 +19.11% 15
Wales -17 1 £525 +34.62% 7

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 50 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.60%) Confluence
3 24 (2.01%) CMS
4 15 (1.26%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (0.92%) Camunda
6 9 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.67%) IIS
8 6 (0.50%) HCL Notes
8 6 (0.50%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.50%) Mendix
8 6 (0.50%) nginx
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache
11 2 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.084%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Adobe XD
1 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.084%) Blender
2 1 (0.084%) Maya
2 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.084%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.09%) Shopify
2 11 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.42%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.084%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.084%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 468 (39.20%) AWS
2 339 (28.39%) Azure
3 140 (11.73%) Serverless
4 134 (11.22%) GCP
5 124 (10.39%) GitHub
6 85 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
7 84 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
8 82 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (5.19%) Power Platform
10 60 (5.03%) Amazon S3
11 49 (4.10%) Figma
12 46 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
13 43 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
14 42 (3.52%) Power Automate
14 42 (3.52%) PowerApps
15 31 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (2.43%) Azure Functions
16 29 (2.43%) Entra ID
17 25 (2.09%) SaaS
18 22 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.34%) Firewall
1 4 (0.34%) Intranet
2 3 (0.25%) HTTP
2 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.17%) VPN
4 1 (0.084%) DNS
4 1 (0.084%) DSL
4 1 (0.084%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.084%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.084%) MQTT
4 1 (0.084%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (13.65%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (7.37%) SQL Server
3 85 (7.12%) Relational Database
4 75 (6.28%) NoSQL
5 56 (4.69%) MongoDB
6 54 (4.52%) MySQL
7 40 (3.35%) DynamoDB
7 40 (3.35%) Power BI
8 35 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.18%) Redis
10 15 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.17%) Metadata
12 12 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.01%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
14 8 (0.67%) Big Data
14 8 (0.67%) Neo4j
14 8 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 173 (14.49%) Git
2 84 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 71 (5.95%) JIRA
4 62 (5.19%) GitLab
5 50 (4.19%) Cypress.io
6 34 (2.85%) JUnit
7 28 (2.35%) Gradle
8 26 (2.18%) Vite
9 23 (1.93%) Mockito
10 20 (1.68%) webpack
11 16 (1.34%) Liquibase
12 15 (1.26%) Postman
13 14 (1.17%) REST Assured
14 13 (1.09%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.09%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.01%) Maven
16 10 (0.84%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.75%) CircleCI
17 9 (0.75%) Mocha
18 8 (0.67%) Storybook
General
1 243 (20.35%) Finance
2 203 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 130 (10.89%) Banking
4 116 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 114 (9.55%) Front Office
6 61 (5.11%) Investment Banking
7 43 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (2.43%) Retail
9 21 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 16 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.01%) Legal
13 11 (0.92%) Law
14 7 (0.59%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.50%) Marketing
15 6 (0.50%) Military
16 5 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.34%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 684 (57.29%) Developer
2 220 (18.43%) Full-Stack Developer
2 220 (18.43%) Senior
3 175 (14.66%) React Developer
4 169 (14.15%) Software Engineer
5 138 (11.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 129 (10.80%) Senior Developer
7 121 (10.13%) Lead
8 111 (9.30%) Java Developer
9 103 (8.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 75 (6.28%) Python Developer
11 59 (4.94%) Architect
12 58 (4.86%) Lead Developer
13 54 (4.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 52 (4.36%) Software Developer
15 47 (3.94%) Senior React Developer
15 47 (3.94%) UI Developer
16 46 (3.85%) Java Engineer
17 42 (3.52%) Senior Java Developer
18 41 (3.43%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (26.30%) Node.js
2 238 (19.93%) CSS
3 229 (19.18%) AngularJS
4 218 (18.26%) HTML
5 203 (17.00%) REST
6 189 (15.83%) Redux
7 188 (15.75%) .NET
8 162 (13.57%) RESTful
9 158 (13.23%) Spring
10 145 (12.14%) Spring Boot
11 122 (10.22%) Next.js
12 121 (10.13%) Kafka
13 114 (9.55%) GraphQL
14 106 (8.88%) Vue
15 82 (6.87%) HTML5
15 82 (6.87%) Jest
16 62 (5.19%) CSS3
17 61 (5.11%) Playwright
18 55 (4.61%) FastAPI
19 48 (4.02%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 146 (12.23%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.04%) Fixed Income
3 68 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 60 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
5 54 (4.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 48 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (3.85%) Equities
8 41 (3.43%) Derivative
9 34 (2.85%) AI Agents
9 34 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.51%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.34%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
17 9 (0.75%) NHS
17 9 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.68%) Linux
2 15 (1.26%) Windows
3 13 (1.09%) Android
4 11 (0.92%) Unix
5 9 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (41.62%) CI/CD
2 477 (39.95%) Full-Stack Development
3 476 (39.87%) Agile
4 307 (25.71%) DevOps
5 287 (24.04%) Software Engineering
6 266 (22.28%) Microservices
7 251 (21.02%) Front End Development
8 205 (17.17%) AI
9 189 (15.83%) Test Automation
10 170 (14.24%) Containerisation
11 157 (13.15%) User Experience
12 136 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
13 109 (9.13%) Code Quality
14 102 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 101 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
16 96 (8.04%) Scrum
17 94 (7.87%) TDD
18 90 (7.54%) Mentoring
19 88 (7.37%) Event-Driven
20 83 (6.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 635 (53.18%) TypeScript
2 571 (47.82%) JavaScript
3 381 (31.91%) Python
4 364 (30.49%) Java
5 223 (18.68%) SQL
6 206 (17.25%) C#
7 59 (4.94%) Go
8 21 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.42%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.84%) Bash
11 10 (0.84%) Rust
12 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.59%) Bicep
13 7 (0.59%) C++
13 7 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.50%) Formula Language
14 6 (0.50%) LotusScript
14 6 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 202 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 178 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 65 (5.44%) Degree
4 52 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.25%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.084%) CISSP
14 1 (0.084%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.084%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (11.73%) Accessibility
2 70 (5.86%) QA
2 70 (5.86%) WCAG
3 7 (0.59%) GDPR
4 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.34%) HL7
6 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.17%) NCSC
6 2 (0.17%) PSD2
7 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.084%) GRC
7 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 239 (20.02%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 192 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 126 (10.55%) Terraform
3 25 (2.09%) Grafana
4 17 (1.42%) Argo
4 17 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.92%) Ansible
5 11 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.75%) Istio
7 4 (0.34%) Podman
8 3 (0.25%) Control-M
8 3 (0.25%) Nagios
9 2 (0.17%) Rancher
10 1 (0.084%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 78 (6.53%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.69%) Oracle
3 48 (4.02%) Google
4 31 (2.60%) OpenAI
5 17 (1.42%) Databricks
5 17 (1.42%) Sitecore
6 16 (1.34%) Adobe
7 15 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 10 (0.84%) Dynatrace
8 10 (0.84%) Splunk
9 8 (0.67%) Conga
9 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
10 7 (0.59%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.59%) SAP
10 7 (0.59%) Solace
11 6 (0.50%) Apple
11 6 (0.50%) Kofax
11 6 (0.50%) Lotus
11 6 (0.50%) Pega
11 6 (0.50%) Red Hat