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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 76 69
Rank change year-on-year -60 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing React 1,126 1,060 1,178
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.05% 3.21% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.46% 12.36% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 736 888
10th Percentile £363 £352 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £839 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 5
10th Percentile £55.00 £54.57 £37.45
25th Percentile £68.00 £60.06 £38.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £66.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% +60.24% -43.92%
75th Percentile £76.50 £67.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £77.00 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +11.94% -3.60% +2.21%

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 11,904 8,573 9,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 25.97% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,819 5,684 6,029
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
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% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 187 186
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.05 £26.05
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.00 £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 £70.00 £74.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.49 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.70% -15.38% +10.53%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -59 945 £538 +2.38% 1,893
London -51 548 £575 -4.17% 1,158
UK excluding London -55 447 £475 +5.56% 900
Work from Home -65 335 £525 - 937
North of England -25 166 £500 +20.12% 247
Yorkshire +4 86 £494 +23.44% 63
Scotland -24 73 £377 -18.49% 104
North West -29 70 £510 +20.00% 169
South East -78 68 £475 +14.80% 183
Midlands -23 64 £475 -5.94% 113
South West -38 60 £594 +10.47% 100
West Midlands -15 57 £475 -10.59% 79
East of England -35 14 £600 +41.18% 75
North East -30 10 £500 +150.00% 15
East Midlands -28 7 £433 +3.03% 34
Northern Ireland +7 3 £190 - 61
Wales -13 3 £425 -18.07% 24
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 37 (3.29%) Confluence
2 24 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.42%) Camunda
4 15 (1.33%) CMS
4 15 (1.33%) nginx
5 9 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.62%) WordPress
7 6 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.53%) Apache
7 6 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.53%) 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 (0.089%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.089%) Kentico
Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.27%) Sketch
3 1 (0.089%) Blender
3 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.089%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.89%) SAP CRM
2 6 (0.53%) Shopify
3 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.089%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.089%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 418 (37.12%) AWS
2 317 (28.15%) Azure
3 138 (12.26%) GitHub
4 130 (11.55%) GCP
5 117 (10.39%) Serverless
6 83 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (4.71%) OpenShift
10 52 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 50 (4.44%) Figma
12 44 (3.91%) Power Platform
13 37 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (2.93%) GitHub Copilot
15 32 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (2.84%) Entra ID
16 28 (2.49%) SaaS
17 24 (2.13%) Azure AKS
17 24 (2.13%) Kong
17 24 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.89%) Firewall
2 9 (0.80%) VPN
3 8 (0.71%) DNS
4 7 (0.62%) HTTP
4 7 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.44%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.36%) Intranet
7 2 (0.18%) DSL
7 2 (0.18%) Internet
8 1 (0.089%) CTI
8 1 (0.089%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.089%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.089%) MQTT
8 1 (0.089%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (13.94%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (7.73%) SQL Server
3 82 (7.28%) Relational Database
4 78 (6.93%) MongoDB
5 76 (6.75%) NoSQL
6 56 (4.97%) MySQL
7 39 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
8 36 (3.20%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.75%) Power BI
10 29 (2.58%) Redis
11 19 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.07%) Metadata
14 11 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.80%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (0.53%) BigQuery
18 5 (0.44%) Couchbase
18 5 (0.44%) Neo4j
18 5 (0.44%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 252 (22.38%) Git
2 143 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 82 (7.28%) GitLab
4 61 (5.42%) JIRA
5 60 (5.33%) Gradle
6 55 (4.88%) JUnit
7 48 (4.26%) Cypress.io
7 48 (4.26%) Maven
8 32 (2.84%) Mockito
9 31 (2.75%) Claude Code
9 31 (2.75%) Vite
10 27 (2.40%) SonarQube
10 27 (2.40%) Storybook
11 26 (2.31%) Cucumber
12 23 (2.04%) webpack
13 21 (1.87%) REST Assured
14 19 (1.69%) Bitbucket
15 18 (1.60%) Selenium
16 11 (0.98%) Liquibase
16 11 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 247 (21.94%) Finance
2 243 (21.58%) Social Skills
3 154 (13.68%) Banking
4 122 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 64 (5.68%) Front Office
6 58 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 56 (4.97%) Investment Banking
8 41 (3.64%) Retail
9 31 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.24%) Law
11 13 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.07%) Back Office
13 10 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.89%) Marketing
13 10 (0.89%) Military
13 10 (0.89%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.80%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.80%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 605 (53.73%) Developer
2 229 (20.34%) Senior
3 196 (17.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 166 (14.74%) React Developer
5 131 (11.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 128 (11.37%) Senior Developer
7 124 (11.01%) Java Developer
8 122 (10.83%) Software Engineer
9 103 (9.15%) Lead
10 101 (8.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 67 (5.95%) Python Developer
12 52 (4.62%) Senior React Developer
12 52 (4.62%) UI Developer
13 49 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
14 39 (3.46%) Software Developer
15 38 (3.37%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 38 (3.37%) Technical Leader
16 36 (3.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 34 (3.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 33 (2.93%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (26.64%) REST
2 293 (26.02%) Node.js
3 237 (21.05%) CSS
4 227 (20.16%) HTML
5 183 (16.25%) RESTful
6 182 (16.16%) .NET
7 162 (14.39%) AngularJS
8 161 (14.30%) Spring
9 150 (13.32%) Spring Boot
10 148 (13.14%) Redux
11 135 (11.99%) Next.js
12 133 (11.81%) Kafka
13 123 (10.92%) Terraform
14 112 (9.95%) HTML5
15 98 (8.70%) GraphQL
15 98 (8.70%) Vue
16 93 (8.26%) CSS3
17 89 (7.90%) Playwright
18 85 (7.55%) OAuth
19 80 (7.10%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 172 (15.28%) Cloud Native
2 85 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 66 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (4.97%) Greenfield Project
5 55 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (4.53%) Fixed Income
7 47 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (3.46%) AI Agents
9 34 (3.02%) Equities
10 32 (2.84%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.95%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.60%) Derivative
15 16 (1.42%) Onboarding
16 14 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
17 12 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (1.07%) Mobile App
18 11 (0.98%) Autonomous Agent
19 8 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.91%) Linux
2 18 (1.60%) Windows
3 12 (1.07%) Unix
4 6 (0.53%) Android
5 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (50.53%) CI/CD
2 493 (43.78%) Agile
3 474 (42.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 304 (27.00%) Microservices
5 297 (26.38%) DevOps
6 289 (25.67%) Software Engineering
7 247 (21.94%) Front End Development
8 235 (20.87%) Test Automation
9 223 (19.80%) AI
10 169 (15.01%) Containerisation
11 168 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
12 165 (14.65%) User Experience
13 149 (13.23%) Event-Driven
14 140 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 140 (12.43%) Mentoring
15 134 (11.90%) Scrum
16 128 (11.37%) Observability
17 126 (11.19%) TDD
18 124 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 119 (10.57%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 637 (56.57%) TypeScript
2 568 (50.44%) JavaScript
3 371 (32.95%) Java
4 315 (27.98%) Python
5 239 (21.23%) SQL
6 191 (16.96%) C#
7 46 (4.09%) Go
8 31 (2.75%) PL/SQL
9 27 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.31%) Bash
11 13 (1.15%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.07%) Rust
12 12 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.89%) PHP
15 9 (0.80%) Bicep
15 9 (0.80%) C++
15 9 (0.80%) Ruby
16 8 (0.71%) Groovy
17 7 (0.62%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 201 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 164 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.75%) Degree
4 57 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.089%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.089%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (14.12%) Accessibility
2 99 (8.79%) QA
3 86 (7.64%) WCAG
4 7 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.44%) HL7
6 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.27%) GDPR
8 2 (0.18%) PSD2
9 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.089%) GRC
9 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.089%) SLA
9 1 (0.089%) WAI
9 1 (0.089%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 253 (22.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.089%) Varnish
4 1 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 250 (22.20%) Kubernetes
2 41 (3.64%) Grafana
3 33 (2.93%) Ansible
4 18 (1.60%) Argo
5 17 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.42%) Control-M
7 15 (1.33%) Kibana
8 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.62%) Istio
9 7 (0.62%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.27%) Podman
11 2 (0.18%) systemd
12 1 (0.089%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.089%) QRadar
Vendors
1 94 (8.35%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.10%) Oracle
3 55 (4.88%) Google
4 22 (1.95%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.87%) Splunk
6 20 (1.78%) MuleSoft
7 19 (1.69%) Databricks
7 19 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.42%) SAP
9 13 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 11 (0.98%) Adobe
11 10 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.80%) IBM
12 9 (0.80%) Veracode
13 8 (0.71%) Conga
13 8 (0.71%) GoCardless
13 8 (0.71%) Okta
14 7 (0.62%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.53%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.44%) Solace