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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 76 75
Rank change year-on-year -25 -1 -19
Contract jobs citing React 1,005 968 1,230
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.60% 3.08% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.66% 13.72% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 722 1,002
10th Percentile £345 £356 £335
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £699 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £454
% change year-on-year +5.56% -0.83% -9.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 16
10th Percentile £44.95 £26.25 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.66 £31.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.28% -37.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £81.88 £44.13 £72.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £59.29 £78.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 £27.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +174.55% -57.03% -5.54%

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 8,621 7,054 9,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.30% 22.43% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,738 4,472 6,586
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 90 192
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.78 £25.78
25th Percentile £49.06 £38.31 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.44 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.32 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 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 30 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 30 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 -28 845 £508 -7.64% 978
London -27 486 £525 -12.50% 304
UK excluding London -16 385 £475 +5.56% 803
Work from Home -41 288 £513 +2.50% 587
North of England -12 138 £475 +5.56% 187
North West -2 78 £425 -5.56% 102
South East -38 65 £388 -29.55% 258
Scotland +1 54 £438 -0.79% 29
Midlands -56 52 £525 +5.00% 90
Yorkshire -26 51 £500 +1.27% 65
South West -12 41 £545 +21.11% 111
West Midlands -41 41 £525 -4.55% 36
East of England -11 33 £588 +56.67% 95
North East -8 12 £475 +26.67% 20
East Midlands -27 11 £550 +10.00% 54
Northern Ireland -5 6 - - 13
Wales -1 5 £331 -22.06% 32

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 41 (4.08%) CMS
2 24 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 18 (1.79%) Confluence
5 13 (1.29%) Headless CMS
5 13 (1.29%) Sitecore CMS
6 11 (1.09%) SAS
7 10 (1.00%) Apache
7 10 (1.00%) Camunda
8 9 (0.90%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.90%) Mendix
9 8 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.40%) IIS
12 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.30%) WordPress
13 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.20%) Magnolia
14 1 (0.100%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 18 (1.79%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.90%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.70%) Sketch
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.20%) Trello
5 1 (0.100%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.100%) Blender
5 1 (0.100%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.100%) InVision
5 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.30%) Shopify
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.100%) Endur
4 1 (0.100%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 436 (43.38%) AWS
2 284 (28.26%) Azure
3 151 (15.02%) Serverless
4 136 (13.53%) GitHub
5 122 (12.14%) GCP
6 99 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
7 90 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (8.36%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 41 (4.08%) Figma
11 32 (3.18%) SaaS
12 30 (2.99%) Azure Functions
13 29 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (2.69%) Azure AKS
15 26 (2.59%) npm
15 26 (2.59%) Power Platform
16 25 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 25 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (2.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.29%) Wireless
2 9 (0.90%) HTTP
3 5 (0.50%) DNS
3 5 (0.50%) Network Security
4 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.20%) VPN
7 1 (0.100%) Internet
7 1 (0.100%) LAN
7 1 (0.100%) Multicast
7 1 (0.100%) RTMP
7 1 (0.100%) WAN
7 1 (0.100%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (8.96%) Relational Database
3 86 (8.56%) NoSQL
4 62 (6.17%) MySQL
5 55 (5.47%) SQL Server
6 54 (5.37%) MongoDB
7 27 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (2.19%) Redis
9 21 (2.09%) DynamoDB
9 21 (2.09%) Power BI
10 20 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.69%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.39%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.00%) Metadata
15 9 (0.90%) Big Data
16 8 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 210 (20.90%) Git
2 74 (7.36%) Cypress.io
3 61 (6.07%) GitLab
3 61 (6.07%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.77%) JIRA
5 48 (4.78%) JUnit
6 25 (2.49%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.39%) webpack
8 23 (2.29%) Mockito
9 22 (2.19%) Maven
9 22 (2.19%) Selenium
10 18 (1.79%) Browser DevTools
11 17 (1.69%) Android Studio
11 17 (1.69%) Storybook
11 17 (1.69%) Xcode
12 16 (1.59%) Eclipse
13 15 (1.49%) Vite
14 14 (1.39%) Mocha
14 14 (1.39%) Postman
14 14 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 222 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 166 (16.52%) Finance
3 131 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.76%) Banking
5 44 (4.38%) Front Office
6 43 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.38%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.09%) Retail
9 17 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.09%) Marketing
12 10 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.90%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.70%) Publishing
14 7 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.50%) Games
15 5 (0.50%) Law
15 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.50%) Military
16 4 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 602 (59.90%) Developer
2 212 (21.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 170 (16.92%) Senior
4 128 (12.74%) React Developer
5 113 (11.24%) Software Engineer
6 105 (10.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 96 (9.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 88 (8.76%) Senior Developer
9 83 (8.26%) Java Developer
10 81 (8.06%) Python Developer
11 69 (6.87%) Lead
12 46 (4.58%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 34 (3.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 34 (3.38%) Software Developer
14 32 (3.18%) AWS Developer
15 31 (3.08%) Architect
16 27 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
17 26 (2.59%) .NET Developer
17 26 (2.59%) JavaScript Developer
17 26 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (29.75%) Node.js
2 295 (29.35%) AngularJS
3 252 (25.07%) CSS
4 228 (22.69%) HTML
5 196 (19.50%) RESTful
6 158 (15.72%) Spring
7 151 (15.02%) .NET
8 141 (14.03%) Spring Boot
9 134 (13.33%) REST
10 131 (13.03%) Next.js
11 109 (10.85%) Jest
12 97 (9.65%) Vue
13 95 (9.45%) GraphQL
14 90 (8.96%) Redux
15 74 (7.36%) HTML5
16 73 (7.26%) Kafka
17 62 (6.17%) Playwright
18 61 (6.07%) FastAPI
19 56 (5.57%) CSS3
20 46 (4.58%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 100 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.78%) Mobile App
4 33 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (2.89%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 20 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.49%) Derivative
11 14 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.29%) Hedge funds
13 12 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.19%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.09%) Low-Code
15 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.00%) NHS
16 9 (0.90%) Equities
17 7 (0.70%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.17%) Linux
2 38 (3.78%) Unix
3 35 (3.48%) Windows
4 27 (2.69%) Android
5 13 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.40%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.100%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.100%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (45.87%) CI/CD
2 430 (42.79%) Full-Stack Development
3 411 (40.90%) Agile
4 300 (29.85%) DevOps
5 266 (26.47%) Microservices
6 219 (21.79%) Front End Development
7 209 (20.80%) Software Engineering
8 179 (17.81%) User Experience
9 165 (16.42%) Containerisation
9 165 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
10 159 (15.82%) AI
11 157 (15.62%) Test Automation
12 111 (11.04%) Clean Code
13 104 (10.35%) Scrum
14 95 (9.45%) Code Quality
15 88 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 87 (8.66%) TDD
17 75 (7.46%) Analytics
18 73 (7.26%) UX Design
19 72 (7.16%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 488 (48.56%) JavaScript
2 466 (46.37%) TypeScript
3 311 (30.95%) Python
4 301 (29.95%) Java
5 199 (19.80%) SQL
6 136 (13.53%) C#
7 26 (2.59%) Go
8 20 (1.99%) Bicep
8 20 (1.99%) Perl
9 19 (1.89%) C++
10 18 (1.79%) Ruby
11 15 (1.49%) Rust
12 14 (1.39%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.90%) Formula Language
13 9 (0.90%) LotusScript
13 9 (0.90%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.80%) JSX
14 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 191 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 161 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.98%) Degree
4 34 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.70%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.20%) OCP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.100%) CCIP
12 1 (0.100%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.100%) CISSP
12 1 (0.100%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 69 (6.87%) WCAG
3 65 (6.47%) QA
4 7 (0.70%) GDPR
5 6 (0.60%) HL7
6 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.20%) NCSC
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.100%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.100%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.100%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.100%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.100%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.100%) MiFID
8 1 (0.100%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.100%) PSD2
8 1 (0.100%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.100%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 248 (24.68%) Docker
2 21 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.100%) Varnish
4 1 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.100%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.100%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 200 (19.90%) Kubernetes
2 116 (11.54%) Terraform
3 26 (2.59%) Grafana
4 22 (2.19%) Argo
5 12 (1.19%) Ansible
5 12 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.09%) Kibana
7 9 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.70%) Istio
9 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 1 (0.100%) Consul
10 1 (0.100%) Nagios
10 1 (0.100%) Rancher
10 1 (0.100%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.100%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 112 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.47%) Oracle
3 48 (4.78%) Google
4 35 (3.48%) Adobe
5 33 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.09%) Splunk
7 20 (1.99%) Sitecore
8 19 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 19 (1.89%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.19%) Databricks
10 9 (0.90%) Kofax
10 9 (0.90%) Lotus
10 9 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.70%) SAP
12 5 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.50%) Marketo
12 5 (0.50%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.50%) VMware
13 4 (0.40%) Blue Prism
13 4 (0.40%) Dynatrace