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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 72 68
Rank change year-on-year -37 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing React 1,202 1,131 1,211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 3.45% 3.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.80% 15.28% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 820 952
10th Percentile £366 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +2.33%
75th Percentile £675 £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 14 7 14
10th Percentile £41.24 £59.05 £44.50
25th Percentile £60.31 £63.63 £56.25
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% -2.19% -7.43%
75th Percentile £86.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £76.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% -4.29% +40.00%

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 10,187 7,404 8,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.23% 22.56% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,652 5,003 5,902
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 160 247
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.23 £23.38
25th Percentile £43.13 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.94 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.81 £80.10 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.37% -0.42%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -45 991 £550 +4.76% 629
London -40 602 £600 - 327
UK excluding London -41 440 £500 +11.11% 392
Work from Home -53 390 £550 +3.09% 293
North of England -21 165 £500 +11.11% 131
Yorkshire -5 79 £523 +30.63% 37
Scotland -9 78 £389 -18.21% 33
South East -74 74 £525 +15.51% 95
North West -36 73 £500 +9.41% 82
South West -9 63 £525 +23.53% 43
Midlands -51 41 £475 +6.15% 44
West Midlands -51 34 £481 -6.10% 26
East of England -16 18 £625 +47.06% 29
North East -39 13 £475 +2.15% 14
Northern Ireland +1 5 £190 -41.54% 9
East Midlands -19 5 £443 +20.24% 18
Wales -22 1 £525 +14.44% 17

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 38 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.58%) Confluence
3 17 (1.41%) CMS
4 16 (1.33%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.75%) nginx
6 7 (0.58%) Camunda
7 6 (0.50%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.33%) WordPress
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.083%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.083%) Blender
4 1 (0.083%) Maya
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.083%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.16%) Shopify
2 10 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.67%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.083%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.083%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 484 (40.27%) AWS
2 340 (28.29%) Azure
3 142 (11.81%) GCP
4 129 (10.73%) GitHub
4 129 (10.73%) Serverless
5 82 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
7 69 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 57 (4.74%) Power Platform
10 48 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (3.99%) Figma
11 38 (3.16%) Entra ID
12 37 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
12 37 (3.08%) Power Automate
12 37 (3.08%) PowerApps
13 34 (2.83%) OpenShift
14 29 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.83%) Firewall
2 5 (0.42%) HTTP
3 4 (0.33%) DNS
3 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 4 (0.33%) VPN
4 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.17%) DSL
6 1 (0.083%) CTI
6 1 (0.083%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.083%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.083%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.99%) SQL Server
3 83 (6.91%) Relational Database
4 82 (6.82%) NoSQL
5 72 (5.99%) MongoDB
6 49 (4.08%) MySQL
7 44 (3.66%) DynamoDB
8 37 (3.08%) Power BI
9 35 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (2.50%) Redis
11 14 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (0.75%) Metadata
14 9 (0.75%) Neo4j
14 9 (0.75%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.67%) Db2
Development Applications
1 197 (16.39%) Git
2 126 (10.48%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.32%) JIRA
4 62 (5.16%) GitLab
5 50 (4.16%) Cypress.io
6 45 (3.74%) Gradle
7 44 (3.66%) JUnit
8 34 (2.83%) Vite
9 26 (2.16%) Mockito
10 22 (1.83%) Maven
11 21 (1.75%) webpack
12 20 (1.66%) Claude Code
13 17 (1.41%) Bitbucket
13 17 (1.41%) Cucumber
14 16 (1.33%) Liquibase
15 15 (1.25%) REST Assured
15 15 (1.25%) Storybook
16 13 (1.08%) SonarQube
17 11 (0.92%) Postman
18 10 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 276 (22.96%) Finance
2 226 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 149 (12.40%) Banking
4 125 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 120 (9.98%) Front Office
6 64 (5.32%) Investment Banking
7 55 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (3.41%) Retail
9 25 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.33%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.92%) Law
13 10 (0.83%) Military
14 9 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.67%) Legal
15 8 (0.67%) Marketing
15 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 663 (55.16%) Developer
2 244 (20.30%) Senior
3 210 (17.47%) Full-Stack Developer
4 177 (14.73%) React Developer
5 175 (14.56%) Software Engineer
6 146 (12.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 139 (11.56%) Senior Developer
8 137 (11.40%) Java Developer
9 133 (11.06%) Lead
10 91 (7.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 66 (5.49%) Python Developer
12 59 (4.91%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 54 (4.49%) Senior React Developer
15 53 (4.41%) UI Developer
16 52 (4.33%) Architect
16 52 (4.33%) Senior Java Developer
17 46 (3.83%) Software Developer
18 43 (3.58%) Lead Software Engineer
19 40 (3.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (27.12%) Node.js
2 259 (21.55%) REST
3 220 (18.30%) CSS
4 204 (16.97%) Redux
5 201 (16.72%) HTML
6 181 (15.06%) AngularJS
7 179 (14.89%) .NET
8 164 (13.64%) RESTful
9 154 (12.81%) Spring
10 149 (12.40%) Kafka
11 142 (11.81%) Spring Boot
12 124 (10.32%) Next.js
13 118 (9.82%) GraphQL
14 104 (8.65%) Vue
15 97 (8.07%) HTML5
16 84 (6.99%) Jest
17 80 (6.66%) CSS3
18 69 (5.74%) Playwright
19 58 (4.83%) FastAPI
20 54 (4.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 170 (14.14%) Cloud Native
2 97 (8.07%) Fixed Income
3 75 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 66 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 60 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.83%) Equities
8 43 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.00%) Derivative
10 35 (2.91%) AI Agents
11 33 (2.75%) Data Structures
11 33 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
12 26 (2.16%) Algorithms
12 26 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.00%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.92%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.92%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
17 9 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.08%) Linux
2 13 (1.08%) Windows
3 10 (0.83%) Android
4 7 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.58%) Unix
5 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (44.93%) CI/CD
2 515 (42.85%) Agile
3 507 (42.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 325 (27.04%) Software Engineering
5 295 (24.54%) Microservices
6 294 (24.46%) DevOps
7 239 (19.88%) Front End Development
8 212 (17.64%) AI
9 203 (16.89%) Test Automation
10 173 (14.39%) Containerisation
11 151 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
12 148 (12.31%) User Experience
13 123 (10.23%) Code Quality
14 121 (10.07%) Event-Driven
15 120 (9.98%) TDD
16 117 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 117 (9.73%) Mentoring
17 108 (8.99%) Scrum
18 107 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
19 93 (7.74%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 670 (55.74%) TypeScript
2 582 (48.42%) JavaScript
3 386 (32.11%) Java
4 366 (30.45%) Python
5 226 (18.80%) SQL
6 194 (16.14%) C#
7 64 (5.32%) Go
8 32 (2.66%) PL/SQL
9 19 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.00%) Bash
10 12 (1.00%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.83%) Rust
12 9 (0.75%) C++
12 9 (0.75%) PHP
13 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.58%) Bicep
13 7 (0.58%) Scala
14 5 (0.42%) Ruby
14 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 206 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 180 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 68 (5.66%) Degree
4 54 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.33%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.083%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.083%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.083%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (13.31%) Accessibility
2 81 (6.74%) WCAG
3 75 (6.24%) QA
4 7 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) GDPR
6 4 (0.33%) HL7
7 3 (0.25%) PSD2
8 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.083%) GRC
9 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 246 (20.47%) Docker
2 7 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 219 (18.22%) Kubernetes
2 127 (10.57%) Terraform
3 30 (2.50%) Grafana
4 26 (2.16%) Ansible
5 17 (1.41%) Argo
6 16 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 15 (1.25%) Control-M
8 7 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.33%) Istio
9 4 (0.33%) Kibana
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.17%) Nagios
11 2 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 80 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.74%) Oracle
3 45 (3.74%) Google
4 28 (2.33%) OpenAI
5 20 (1.66%) Databricks
6 19 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 14 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.16%) Splunk
9 13 (1.08%) SAP
10 9 (0.75%) Adobe
10 9 (0.75%) Solace
11 8 (0.67%) Conga
11 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
12 7 (0.58%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.42%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.33%) Hitachi
14 4 (0.33%) New Relic
14 4 (0.33%) Pega