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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 73 78
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 -22
Contract jobs citing React 980 995 1,171
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.66% 3.08% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.87% 14.04% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 740 962
10th Percentile £350 £348 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -2.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £675
90th Percentile £713 £776 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £454
% change year-on-year +3.26% +1.38% -9.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £45.30 £26.25 £43.92
25th Percentile £53.55 £31.50 £58.44
Median hourly rate £66.00 £39.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -39.06% -8.57%
75th Percentile £67.00 £44.13 £74.31
90th Percentile - £59.29 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £27.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +143.64% -58.02% -6.43%

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 8,253 7,085 9,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.36% 21.96% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,471 4,499 6,469
10th Percentile £356 £351 £361
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 82 165
10th Percentile £32.86 £21.33 £30.33
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -22 825 £513 -6.82% 1,132
London -22 479 £540 -10.00% 267
UK excluding London -33 368 £475 +3.26% 996
Work from Home -47 276 £518 +3.50% 697
North of England -7 128 £425 -5.56% 209
South East -37 63 £338 -35.71% 313
North West -10 61 £400 -11.11% 99
Yorkshire -15 59 £440 -12.00% 80
Scotland -8 54 £447 +0.90% 38
Midlands -49 48 £538 +7.50% 119
South West -12 38 £550 +22.22% 123
West Midlands -45 37 £528 -4.09% 44
East of England -8 32 £490 +30.67% 141
North East -6 11 £475 +13.77% 30
East Midlands -28 11 £550 +12.24% 73
Wales +3 9 £518 -1.43% 52
Northern Ireland -11 5 - - 22

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 34 (3.47%) CMS
2 20 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 20 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.53%) Confluence
4 13 (1.33%) Headless CMS
5 12 (1.22%) Apache
6 11 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.12%) SAS
7 8 (0.82%) Camunda
8 7 (0.71%) HCL Notes
8 7 (0.71%) Mendix
9 6 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.51%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.31%) IIS
12 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.20%) Moodle
12 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.84%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.71%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.71%) Sketch
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.20%) Trello
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.10%) Blender
5 1 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.10%) InVision
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.31%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 429 (43.78%) AWS
2 256 (26.12%) Azure
3 154 (15.71%) Serverless
4 138 (14.08%) GitHub
5 111 (11.33%) GCP
6 98 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 83 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (5.20%) Amazon S3
10 37 (3.78%) npm
11 35 (3.57%) Figma
12 32 (3.27%) Azure AKS
13 30 (3.06%) Azure Functions
13 30 (3.06%) SaaS
14 27 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 27 (2.76%) Entra ID
15 25 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.63%) Wireless
2 8 (0.82%) HTTP
3 5 (0.51%) DNS
3 5 (0.51%) Network Security
4 4 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.31%) DHCP
6 2 (0.20%) VPN
7 1 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.10%) LAN
7 1 (0.10%) Multicast
7 1 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.10%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (14.59%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (8.67%) Relational Database
3 81 (8.27%) NoSQL
4 54 (5.51%) MongoDB
5 53 (5.41%) MySQL
6 46 (4.69%) SQL Server
7 30 (3.06%) Redis
8 23 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (1.94%) DynamoDB
11 16 (1.63%) BigQuery
11 16 (1.63%) Power BI
12 13 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.02%) Big Data
15 9 (0.92%) Metadata
15 9 (0.92%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (0.82%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 207 (21.12%) Git
2 75 (7.65%) Cypress.io
3 66 (6.73%) Jenkins
4 63 (6.43%) JIRA
5 59 (6.02%) GitLab
6 45 (4.59%) JUnit
7 39 (3.98%) webpack
8 26 (2.65%) Cucumber
9 23 (2.35%) Mockito
10 21 (2.14%) Browser DevTools
11 20 (2.04%) Android Studio
11 20 (2.04%) Selenium
11 20 (2.04%) Xcode
12 19 (1.94%) Eclipse
12 19 (1.94%) SonarQube
13 18 (1.84%) Maven
14 17 (1.73%) Bitbucket
15 16 (1.63%) Storybook
16 15 (1.53%) Vite
17 13 (1.33%) Artifactory
General
1 227 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 171 (17.45%) Finance
3 127 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 74 (7.55%) Banking
5 43 (4.39%) Front Office
6 36 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.35%) Retail
9 16 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.22%) Marketing
13 11 (1.12%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.61%) Law
17 5 (0.51%) Games
17 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 559 (57.04%) Developer
2 203 (20.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 170 (17.35%) Senior
4 123 (12.55%) React Developer
5 121 (12.35%) Software Engineer
6 100 (10.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 95 (9.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 84 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 84 (8.57%) Senior Developer
9 76 (7.76%) Python Developer
10 70 (7.14%) Lead
11 45 (4.59%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 38 (3.88%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 36 (3.67%) AWS Developer
14 34 (3.47%) Architect
14 34 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
14 34 (3.47%) Software Developer
15 30 (3.06%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 29 (2.96%) Python Engineer
17 27 (2.76%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (31.63%) Node.js
2 295 (30.10%) AngularJS
3 251 (25.61%) CSS
4 222 (22.65%) HTML
5 175 (17.86%) RESTful
6 138 (14.08%) .NET
7 137 (13.98%) Spring
8 128 (13.06%) Next.js
9 123 (12.55%) REST
10 121 (12.35%) Spring Boot
11 106 (10.82%) Jest
12 104 (10.61%) Vue
13 88 (8.98%) GraphQL
14 81 (8.27%) Redux
15 80 (8.16%) Kafka
16 74 (7.55%) HTML5
17 63 (6.43%) FastAPI
18 55 (5.61%) CSS3
19 46 (4.69%) Playwright
20 40 (4.08%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.98%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 40 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 30 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (2.96%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 28 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.45%) Data Structures
8 20 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.63%) Fixed Income
11 15 (1.53%) Hedge funds
11 15 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.33%) Derivative
13 10 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.02%) Low-Code
13 10 (1.02%) NHS
14 9 (0.92%) Equities
14 9 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.92%) Linux
2 39 (3.98%) Unix
3 36 (3.67%) Windows
4 28 (2.86%) Android
5 12 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.41%) CentOS
8 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (44.49%) CI/CD
2 426 (43.47%) Full-Stack Development
3 413 (42.14%) Agile
4 275 (28.06%) DevOps
5 272 (27.76%) Microservices
6 226 (23.06%) Software Engineering
7 211 (21.53%) Front End Development
8 175 (17.86%) User Experience
9 167 (17.04%) Containerisation
10 152 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
11 145 (14.80%) AI
12 140 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 110 (11.22%) Clean Code
14 104 (10.61%) TDD
15 96 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
16 91 (9.29%) Scrum
17 83 (8.47%) Code Quality
18 81 (8.27%) Design Patterns
19 73 (7.45%) SDLC
20 69 (7.04%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 472 (48.16%) JavaScript
2 463 (47.24%) TypeScript
3 300 (30.61%) Python
4 295 (30.10%) Java
5 188 (19.18%) SQL
6 125 (12.76%) C#
7 31 (3.16%) C++
8 23 (2.35%) Bicep
8 23 (2.35%) Perl
9 22 (2.24%) Go
10 19 (1.94%) Ruby
11 16 (1.63%) Rust
12 14 (1.43%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.82%) Bash
14 8 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.71%) Formula Language
15 7 (0.71%) JSX
15 7 (0.71%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 191 (19.49%) Security Cleared
2 164 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.90%) Degree
4 32 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.43%) MCP
8 9 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.20%) OCP
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.10%) CCIP
13 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (13.16%) Accessibility
2 67 (6.84%) WCAG
3 65 (6.63%) QA
4 6 (0.61%) GDPR
4 6 (0.61%) HL7
5 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.20%) MiFID
6 2 (0.20%) NCSC
6 2 (0.20%) PMO
7 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.10%) EMIR
7 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.10%) PSD2
7 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 250 (25.51%) Docker
2 21 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.10%) Varnish
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 209 (21.33%) Kubernetes
2 130 (13.27%) Terraform
3 23 (2.35%) Grafana
4 20 (2.04%) Argo
5 14 (1.43%) Kibana
6 13 (1.33%) Ansible
7 11 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (0.92%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.61%) Istio
10 2 (0.20%) Podman
11 1 (0.10%) Consul
11 1 (0.10%) Rancher
11 1 (0.10%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 107 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.63%) Oracle
3 42 (4.29%) Google
4 34 (3.47%) Adobe
5 30 (3.06%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.55%) Splunk
7 22 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.14%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.22%) Databricks
9 12 (1.22%) Sitecore
10 9 (0.92%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.82%) SAP
12 7 (0.71%) Kofax
12 7 (0.71%) Lotus
13 6 (0.61%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.51%) Marketo
14 5 (0.51%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.51%) VMware
15 4 (0.41%) Brio