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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 70 66
Rank change year-on-year -59 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing React 1,146 1,141 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 3.47% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.31% 15.52% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 815 943
10th Percentile £363 £358 £331
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £658 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £53.23 £59.05 £37.25
25th Percentile £69.50 £63.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% +19.11% -24.50%
75th Percentile £79.50 - £71.87
90th Percentile £91.50 - £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year +10.45% +8.72% -0.60%

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 10,132 7,350 8,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 22.36% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,588 4,921 5,784
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £745 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 177 232
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.70 £22.53
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -0.23% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £81.15 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -8.69% +5.14%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -60 953 £545 +4.81% 404
London -48 575 £575 -2.13% 131
UK excluding London -51 433 £500 +11.11% 350
Work from Home -62 346 £533 +1.43% 272
North of England -40 165 £500 +11.11% 97
Yorkshire -7 88 £500 +25.00% 26
Scotland -8 80 £377 -19.36% 14
South East -83 69 £525 +23.53% 92
North West -47 63 £513 +10.87% 60
South West -18 62 £525 +23.53% 59
Midlands -49 41 £460 -0.27% 49
West Midlands -36 35 £475 -7.32% 27
East of England -25 15 £625 +40.45% 24
North East -31 14 £500 +7.53% 13
East Midlands -26 5 £443 +20.24% 22
Northern Ireland +6 3 £190 -47.77% 9
Wales -24 2 £469 +2.18% 10
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 40 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.53%) Confluence
3 16 (1.40%) CMS
3 16 (1.40%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (0.79%) nginx
5 8 (0.70%) Camunda
6 7 (0.61%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.44%) WordPress
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.087%) Apache
12 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.087%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.087%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.087%) Blender
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.087%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Shopify
2 10 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (0.87%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.26%) Magento
3 3 (0.26%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.087%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.087%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 445 (38.83%) AWS
2 319 (27.84%) Azure
3 135 (11.78%) GitHub
4 131 (11.43%) Serverless
5 127 (11.08%) GCP
6 83 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.97%) Power Platform
11 45 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (3.66%) Figma
13 39 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
13 39 (3.40%) Power Automate
13 39 (3.40%) PowerApps
14 38 (3.32%) OpenShift
15 35 (3.05%) Entra ID
16 30 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
18 27 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.87%) Firewall
2 7 (0.61%) DNS
3 6 (0.52%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) Intranet
4 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.17%) DSL
7 1 (0.087%) CTI
7 1 (0.087%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.087%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.087%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (7.16%) Relational Database
3 80 (6.98%) SQL Server
4 73 (6.37%) NoSQL
5 67 (5.85%) MongoDB
6 43 (3.75%) MySQL
7 40 (3.49%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (3.32%) Power BI
9 29 (2.53%) Redis
10 16 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.87%) Metadata
13 10 (0.87%) Neo4j
13 10 (0.87%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.52%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 216 (18.85%) Git
2 132 (11.52%) Jenkins
3 63 (5.50%) GitLab
4 62 (5.41%) JIRA
5 53 (4.62%) Cypress.io
6 51 (4.45%) Gradle
7 48 (4.19%) JUnit
8 33 (2.88%) Vite
9 29 (2.53%) Maven
10 28 (2.44%) Mockito
11 21 (1.83%) Claude Code
12 20 (1.75%) webpack
13 17 (1.48%) Cucumber
13 17 (1.48%) Liquibase
14 15 (1.31%) Bitbucket
14 15 (1.31%) Storybook
15 14 (1.22%) REST Assured
16 13 (1.13%) SonarQube
17 12 (1.05%) Postman
18 11 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 238 (20.77%) Finance
2 220 (19.20%) Social Skills
3 144 (12.57%) Banking
4 134 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 97 (8.46%) Front Office
6 63 (5.50%) Investment Banking
7 51 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (3.58%) Retail
9 29 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.22%) Law
12 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.87%) Military
13 10 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.79%) Marketing
14 9 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.70%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 621 (54.19%) Developer
2 245 (21.38%) Senior
3 197 (17.19%) Full-Stack Developer
4 156 (13.61%) React Developer
5 149 (13.00%) Software Engineer
6 138 (12.04%) Senior Developer
7 133 (11.61%) Java Developer
8 127 (11.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 118 (10.30%) Lead
10 85 (7.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 62 (5.41%) Python Developer
12 53 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
13 52 (4.54%) Senior React Developer
14 49 (4.28%) UI Developer
15 45 (3.93%) Lead Developer
16 44 (3.84%) Architect
17 43 (3.75%) Software Developer
18 38 (3.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 36 (3.14%) Technical Leader
20 35 (3.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (25.65%) Node.js
2 272 (23.73%) REST
3 219 (19.11%) CSS
4 199 (17.36%) HTML
5 175 (15.27%) .NET
5 175 (15.27%) Redux
6 165 (14.40%) RESTful
7 163 (14.22%) AngularJS
8 161 (14.05%) Spring
9 151 (13.18%) Spring Boot
10 144 (12.57%) Kafka
11 132 (11.52%) Next.js
12 98 (8.55%) GraphQL
13 97 (8.46%) HTML5
14 94 (8.20%) Vue
15 84 (7.33%) Jest
16 80 (6.98%) CSS3
17 74 (6.46%) Playwright
18 57 (4.97%) OAuth
19 54 (4.71%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 172 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.54%) Fixed Income
3 74 (6.46%) Product Ownership
4 63 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
5 60 (5.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
7 45 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.49%) Equities
9 39 (3.40%) AI Agents
10 32 (2.79%) Data Structures
10 32 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (2.62%) Derivative
12 26 (2.27%) Algorithms
13 23 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (0.96%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.87%) Autonomous Agent
16 10 (0.87%) Mobile App
16 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.01%) Linux
2 12 (1.05%) Windows
3 6 (0.52%) Unix
4 4 (0.35%) Android
4 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.087%) AIX
6 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (47.47%) CI/CD
2 491 (42.84%) Agile
3 474 (41.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 299 (26.09%) Software Engineering
5 295 (25.74%) Microservices
6 289 (25.22%) DevOps
7 215 (18.76%) Front End Development
8 211 (18.41%) AI
9 206 (17.98%) Test Automation
10 172 (15.01%) Containerisation
11 152 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
12 138 (12.04%) User Experience
13 127 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 125 (10.91%) Event-Driven
14 125 (10.91%) TDD
15 120 (10.47%) Code Quality
16 117 (10.21%) Mentoring
17 114 (9.95%) Scrum
18 112 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
19 103 (8.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 643 (56.11%) TypeScript
2 554 (48.34%) JavaScript
3 369 (32.20%) Java
4 327 (28.53%) Python
5 233 (20.33%) SQL
6 194 (16.93%) C#
7 45 (3.93%) Go
8 33 (2.88%) PL/SQL
9 23 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.48%) Bash
11 14 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.87%) Rust
14 9 (0.79%) C++
14 9 (0.79%) PHP
15 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.61%) Ruby
15 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.52%) Bicep
17 4 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 197 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 171 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.15%) Degree
4 47 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.087%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.087%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (13.09%) Accessibility
2 78 (6.81%) QA
3 74 (6.46%) WCAG
4 8 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.35%) GDPR
6 3 (0.26%) HL7
7 2 (0.17%) PSD2
8 1 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.087%) GRC
8 1 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 243 (21.20%) Docker
2 6 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 213 (18.59%) Kubernetes
2 129 (11.26%) Terraform
3 33 (2.88%) Grafana
4 29 (2.53%) Ansible
5 17 (1.48%) Argo
6 16 (1.40%) Control-M
7 15 (1.31%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.52%) Istio
9 6 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.44%) Kibana
11 3 (0.26%) Podman
12 1 (0.087%) Nagios
12 1 (0.087%) Rancher
Vendors
1 81 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.20%) Oracle
3 46 (4.01%) Google
4 26 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.83%) Databricks
6 21 (1.83%) MuleSoft
7 16 (1.40%) Splunk
8 14 (1.22%) SAP
9 12 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.70%) Conga
10 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
10 8 (0.70%) Solace
11 7 (0.61%) Adobe
12 6 (0.52%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.44%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.44%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.44%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.35%) Foundry
14 4 (0.35%) New Relic