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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 69 63
Rank change year-on-year -31 -6 0
Contract jobs citing React 1,147 986 1,329
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.36% 3.45% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.03% 15.13% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 754 1,064
10th Percentile £365 £357 £363
25th Percentile £415 £409 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.71%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £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 18 1 22
10th Percentile £49.57 - £41.50
25th Percentile £60.31 £67.98 £55.31
Median hourly rate £76.00 £73.23 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +13.09% -7.50%
75th Percentile £93.75 £78.47 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £73.23 £68.50
% change year-on-year +3.79% +6.90% +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 9,534 6,517 8,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.62% 22.78% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,271 4,467 6,194
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 104 249
10th Percentile £30.71 £27.43 £21.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £38.89 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £81.35 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -32 941 £525 - 467
London -39 552 £550 -4.35% 210
UK excluding London -18 431 £500 +11.11% 329
Work from Home -37 382 £545 +4.81% 279
North of England -11 160 £500 +11.11% 97
North West -9 88 £475 +5.56% 55
South East -58 71 £525 +10.53% 100
Scotland -5 67 £410 -8.89% 10
Yorkshire -19 59 £523 +16.11% 28
South West +1 57 £513 +16.21% 36
Midlands -60 39 £475 +9.20% 33
East of England -11 33 £600 +27.66% 32
West Midlands -50 31 £488 +5.98% 14
North East -20 15 £475 +3.26% 14
Northern Ireland 0 8 £190 -41.54% 15
East Midlands -34 6 £446 +13.26% 19
Wales -15 2 - - 11

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 49 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.44%) Confluence
3 23 (2.01%) CMS
4 13 (1.13%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (0.87%) Camunda
5 10 (0.87%) HCL Notes
5 10 (0.87%) Mendix
6 9 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.70%) IIS
8 6 (0.52%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.26%) Apache
10 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.26%) nginx
11 2 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.17%) SAS
12 1 (0.087%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (0.78%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.44%) Sketch
3 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.087%) Blender
4 1 (0.087%) Maya
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.087%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Shopify
2 9 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.44%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.087%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.087%) Endur
6 1 (0.087%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.087%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 467 (40.71%) AWS
2 337 (29.38%) Azure
3 142 (12.38%) Serverless
4 129 (11.25%) GCP
5 121 (10.55%) GitHub
6 88 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
8 82 (7.15%) GitHub Actions
9 58 (5.06%) Power Platform
10 57 (4.97%) Amazon S3
11 51 (4.45%) Figma
12 42 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (3.57%) Power Automate
13 41 (3.57%) PowerApps
14 33 (2.88%) Azure Functions
15 32 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (2.35%) Entra ID
18 26 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.35%) Firewall
1 4 (0.35%) HTTP
2 3 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (0.26%) VPN
3 2 (0.17%) Intranet
3 2 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.087%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.087%) LAN
4 1 (0.087%) RTMP
4 1 (0.087%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 83 (7.24%) SQL Server
4 80 (6.97%) NoSQL
5 60 (5.23%) MongoDB
6 58 (5.06%) MySQL
7 38 (3.31%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.31%) Power BI
8 33 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (2.18%) Redis
10 16 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 14 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.96%) Metadata
14 9 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (0.70%) Tableau
16 7 (0.61%) DB2
16 7 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 169 (14.73%) Git
2 75 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 71 (6.19%) JIRA
4 64 (5.58%) GitLab
5 49 (4.27%) Cypress.io
6 33 (2.88%) JUnit
7 23 (2.01%) Mockito
7 23 (2.01%) Vite
8 22 (1.92%) Gradle
9 19 (1.66%) webpack
10 15 (1.31%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.31%) Postman
11 14 (1.22%) Liquibase
12 13 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 12 (1.05%) Bitbucket
13 12 (1.05%) Storybook
14 11 (0.96%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.78%) Mocha
15 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
16 7 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 210 (18.31%) Finance
2 189 (16.48%) Social Skills
3 122 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 93 (8.11%) Banking
5 88 (7.67%) Front Office
6 40 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (2.88%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.18%) Retail
9 21 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 20 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (0.87%) Legal
13 9 (0.78%) Law
14 6 (0.52%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.52%) Marketing
15 5 (0.44%) Games
15 5 (0.44%) Military
16 4 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 655 (57.11%) Developer
2 210 (18.31%) Full-Stack Developer
3 192 (16.74%) Senior
4 164 (14.30%) Software Engineer
5 150 (13.08%) React Developer
6 131 (11.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 120 (10.46%) Lead
8 104 (9.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 102 (8.89%) Senior Developer
10 80 (6.97%) Java Developer
11 75 (6.54%) Python Developer
12 60 (5.23%) Lead Developer
13 54 (4.71%) Architect
14 53 (4.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 52 (4.53%) Software Developer
16 44 (3.84%) Java Engineer
17 39 (3.40%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 39 (3.40%) Lead Software Engineer
18 38 (3.31%) Lead Software Developer
19 35 (3.05%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (27.03%) Node.js
2 238 (20.75%) CSS
3 236 (20.58%) AngularJS
4 217 (18.92%) HTML
5 191 (16.65%) REST
6 185 (16.13%) .NET
7 166 (14.47%) RESTful
8 161 (14.04%) Redux
9 160 (13.95%) Spring
10 144 (12.55%) Spring Boot
11 121 (10.55%) Next.js
12 119 (10.37%) GraphQL
13 113 (9.85%) Kafka
14 106 (9.24%) Vue
15 81 (7.06%) Jest
16 80 (6.97%) HTML5
17 63 (5.49%) CSS3
18 59 (5.14%) Playwright
19 50 (4.36%) FastAPI
20 46 (4.01%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 139 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.06%) Fixed Income
4 43 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.23%) Derivative
6 34 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (2.88%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.83%) Equities
12 17 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.31%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.22%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (0.96%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.96%) NHS
17 9 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.09%) Linux
2 19 (1.66%) Windows
3 16 (1.39%) Android
4 13 (1.13%) Unix
5 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 464 (40.45%) Agile
3 460 (40.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 312 (27.20%) DevOps
5 268 (23.37%) Microservices
5 268 (23.37%) Software Engineering
6 245 (21.36%) Front End Development
7 189 (16.48%) AI
8 181 (15.78%) Test Automation
9 169 (14.73%) Containerisation
10 161 (14.04%) User Experience
11 134 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (9.33%) Code Quality
13 102 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 97 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
15 96 (8.37%) TDD
16 93 (8.11%) Scrum
17 87 (7.59%) Mentoring
18 85 (7.41%) Event-Driven
19 84 (7.32%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 578 (50.39%) TypeScript
2 539 (46.99%) JavaScript
3 371 (32.35%) Python
4 337 (29.38%) Java
5 220 (19.18%) SQL
6 169 (14.73%) C#
7 57 (4.97%) Go
8 19 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.13%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.87%) Formula Language
10 10 (0.87%) LotusScript
10 10 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.78%) Bicep
11 9 (0.78%) Rust
12 8 (0.70%) Bash
12 8 (0.70%) Scala
12 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.61%) C++
13 7 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 196 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 173 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 64 (5.58%) Degree
4 51 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.52%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.26%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.087%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.087%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.087%) CISSP
14 1 (0.087%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.087%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (12.29%) Accessibility
2 73 (6.36%) WCAG
3 65 (5.67%) QA
4 7 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.61%) GDPR
4 7 (0.61%) HL7
5 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.17%) NCSC
5 2 (0.17%) PSD2
6 1 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.087%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.087%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 229 (19.97%) Docker
2 7 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 187 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 127 (11.07%) Terraform
3 24 (2.09%) Grafana
4 17 (1.48%) Argo
4 17 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.78%) Ansible
7 8 (0.70%) Istio
8 4 (0.35%) Podman
9 3 (0.26%) Nagios
10 2 (0.17%) Rancher
11 1 (0.087%) Kibana
11 1 (0.087%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 81 (7.06%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.88%) Oracle
3 41 (3.57%) Google
4 32 (2.79%) OpenAI
5 22 (1.92%) Adobe
6 18 (1.57%) Databricks
7 17 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.48%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.05%) Splunk
9 11 (0.96%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.87%) Kofax
10 10 (0.87%) Lotus
11 9 (0.78%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.70%) Conga
12 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
13 7 (0.61%) SAP
14 6 (0.52%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.52%) Solace
15 5 (0.44%) Pega
16 4 (0.35%) ServiceNow