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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 70 63
Rank change year-on-year -27 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing React 1,138 993 1,328
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.36% 3.45% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.03% 15.20% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 765 1,063
10th Percentile £366 £358 £363
25th Percentile £415 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.61%
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 9,460 6,532 8,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.58% 22.67% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,225 4,475 6,189
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £729 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 107 248
10th Percentile £31.33 £29.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.80 £82.44 £74.46
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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -29 935 £525 - 594
London -35 548 £550 -4.35% 274
UK excluding London -17 427 £500 +11.11% 384
Work from Home -41 381 £545 +4.81% 359
North of England -14 158 £500 +11.11% 112
North West -14 88 £475 +5.56% 66
South East -46 71 £525 +10.53% 115
Scotland -4 66 £410 -8.89% 11
South West +7 57 £513 +16.21% 49
Yorkshire -14 57 £523 +7.73% 33
Midlands -56 39 £475 +9.20% 38
East of England -8 33 £600 +27.66% 36
West Midlands -42 31 £488 +5.98% 14
North East -22 15 £475 +3.26% 13
Northern Ireland -2 7 - - 17
East Midlands -28 6 £446 +13.26% 24
Wales -18 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 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.46%) Confluence
3 23 (2.02%) CMS
4 13 (1.14%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (0.88%) Camunda
5 10 (0.88%) HCL Notes
5 10 (0.88%) Mendix
6 9 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.70%) IIS
8 6 (0.53%) 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 (0.18%) Kentico
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) SAS
12 1 (0.088%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (0.79%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.44%) Sketch
3 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.088%) Blender
4 1 (0.088%) Maya
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.088%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.88%) Shopify
2 9 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.44%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Magento
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.088%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.088%) Endur
6 1 (0.088%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.088%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 465 (40.86%) AWS
2 335 (29.44%) Azure
3 140 (12.30%) Serverless
4 129 (11.34%) GCP
5 120 (10.54%) GitHub
6 88 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (7.12%) GitHub Actions
9 58 (5.10%) Power Platform
10 57 (5.01%) Amazon S3
11 50 (4.39%) Figma
12 42 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (3.60%) Power Automate
13 41 (3.60%) PowerApps
14 33 (2.90%) Azure Functions
15 32 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (2.37%) Entra ID
18 25 (2.20%) 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 (0.18%) Intranet
3 2 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.088%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.088%) LAN
4 1 (0.088%) RTMP
4 1 (0.088%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (13.80%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (7.56%) Relational Database
3 83 (7.29%) SQL Server
4 79 (6.94%) NoSQL
5 59 (5.18%) MongoDB
6 58 (5.10%) MySQL
7 38 (3.34%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.34%) Power BI
8 33 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (2.20%) Redis
10 16 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (1.41%) Oracle Database
11 14 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.97%) Metadata
14 9 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (0.70%) Tableau
16 7 (0.62%) DB2
16 7 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 166 (14.59%) Git
2 74 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 71 (6.24%) JIRA
4 64 (5.62%) GitLab
5 49 (4.31%) Cypress.io
6 33 (2.90%) JUnit
7 23 (2.02%) Mockito
8 22 (1.93%) Gradle
8 22 (1.93%) Vite
9 15 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.32%) Postman
9 15 (1.32%) webpack
10 14 (1.23%) Liquibase
11 13 (1.14%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.05%) Bitbucket
12 12 (1.05%) Storybook
13 11 (0.97%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.79%) Mocha
14 9 (0.79%) TeamCity
15 7 (0.62%) Maven
General
1 207 (18.19%) Finance
2 188 (16.52%) Social Skills
3 122 (10.72%) Public Sector
4 92 (8.08%) Banking
5 88 (7.73%) Front Office
6 40 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (2.90%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.20%) Retail
9 21 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (0.88%) Legal
13 8 (0.70%) Law
14 6 (0.53%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.53%) 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
1 651 (57.21%) Developer
2 208 (18.28%) Full-Stack Developer
3 191 (16.78%) Senior
4 163 (14.32%) Software Engineer
5 147 (12.92%) React Developer
6 129 (11.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 118 (10.37%) Lead
8 103 (9.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 102 (8.96%) Senior Developer
10 80 (7.03%) Java Developer
11 75 (6.59%) Python Developer
12 60 (5.27%) Lead Developer
13 54 (4.75%) Architect
14 53 (4.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 52 (4.57%) Software Developer
16 44 (3.87%) Java Engineer
17 39 (3.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 39 (3.43%) Lead Software Engineer
18 38 (3.34%) Lead Software Developer
19 35 (3.08%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (26.71%) Node.js
2 236 (20.74%) AngularJS
2 236 (20.74%) CSS
3 215 (18.89%) HTML
4 186 (16.34%) REST
5 181 (15.91%) .NET
6 165 (14.50%) RESTful
7 160 (14.06%) Spring
8 159 (13.97%) Redux
9 144 (12.65%) Spring Boot
10 120 (10.54%) Next.js
11 118 (10.37%) GraphQL
12 113 (9.93%) Kafka
13 106 (9.31%) Vue
14 80 (7.03%) Jest
15 79 (6.94%) HTML5
16 62 (5.45%) CSS3
17 58 (5.10%) Playwright
18 50 (4.39%) FastAPI
19 46 (4.04%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 139 (12.21%) Cloud Native
2 67 (5.89%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.10%) Fixed Income
4 43 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.25%) Derivative
6 34 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (2.81%) AI Agents
9 29 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.85%) Equities
13 17 (1.49%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.49%) Mobile App
14 15 (1.32%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.23%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
17 11 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 11 (0.97%) NHS
18 9 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.11%) Linux
2 19 (1.67%) Windows
3 16 (1.41%) Android
4 13 (1.14%) Unix
5 10 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (42.18%) CI/CD
2 461 (40.51%) Agile
3 454 (39.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 311 (27.33%) DevOps
5 267 (23.46%) Microservices
6 266 (23.37%) Software Engineering
7 244 (21.44%) Front End Development
8 188 (16.52%) AI
9 180 (15.82%) Test Automation
10 169 (14.85%) Containerisation
11 159 (13.97%) User Experience
12 133 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
13 106 (9.31%) Code Quality
14 102 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 97 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
16 96 (8.44%) TDD
17 93 (8.17%) Scrum
18 85 (7.47%) Event-Driven
18 85 (7.47%) Mentoring
19 81 (7.12%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 572 (50.26%) TypeScript
2 536 (47.10%) JavaScript
3 369 (32.43%) Python
4 334 (29.35%) Java
5 220 (19.33%) SQL
6 168 (14.76%) C#
7 57 (5.01%) Go
8 19 (1.67%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.14%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.88%) Formula Language
10 10 (0.88%) LotusScript
10 10 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.79%) Bicep
11 9 (0.79%) Rust
12 8 (0.70%) Bash
12 8 (0.70%) Scala
13 7 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.62%) C++
13 7 (0.62%) Perl
13 7 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 195 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 172 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 64 (5.62%) Degree
4 51 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.53%) 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 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.088%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.088%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.088%) CISSP
14 1 (0.088%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.088%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (12.30%) Accessibility
2 72 (6.33%) WCAG
3 64 (5.62%) QA
4 7 (0.62%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.62%) GDPR
4 7 (0.62%) HL7
5 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.18%) NCSC
5 2 (0.18%) PSD2
6 1 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.088%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 229 (20.12%) Docker
2 7 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 187 (16.43%) Kubernetes
2 126 (11.07%) Terraform
3 24 (2.11%) Grafana
4 17 (1.49%) Argo
4 17 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.79%) Ansible
7 8 (0.70%) Istio
8 4 (0.35%) Podman
9 3 (0.26%) Nagios
10 2 (0.18%) Rancher
11 1 (0.088%) Kibana
11 1 (0.088%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 81 (7.12%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.92%) Oracle
3 39 (3.43%) Google
4 32 (2.81%) OpenAI
5 22 (1.93%) Adobe
6 18 (1.58%) Databricks
7 17 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.41%) Sitecore
9 12 (1.05%) Splunk
10 11 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.88%) Kofax
11 10 (0.88%) Lotus
12 9 (0.79%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.70%) Conga
13 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
14 7 (0.62%) SAP
15 6 (0.53%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.53%) Solace
16 5 (0.44%) Pega
17 4 (0.35%) ServiceNow