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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 67 65
Rank change year-on-year -35 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing React 1,196 1,043 1,330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.35% 3.46% 3.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.05% 15.12% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 780 1,057
10th Percentile £375 £358 £363
25th Percentile £422 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.51%
75th Percentile £675 £652 £688
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 22
10th Percentile £51.65 - £41.50
25th Percentile £61.88 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -15.06% -7.50%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - £68.50
% change year-on-year - - +9.60%

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 9,927 6,897 9,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.90% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,526 4,700 6,384
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 135 279
10th Percentile £30.05 £29.14 £22.40
25th Percentile £51.25 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -10.08%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -36 985 £550 +5.77% 344
London -38 592 £575 - 127
UK excluding London -27 440 £500 +11.11% 287
Work from Home -46 398 £550 +4.76% 231
North of England -25 159 £500 +10.56% 85
North West -29 80 £500 +11.11% 46
Scotland +3 75 £405 -13.37% 13
South East -60 73 £525 +14.13% 93
Yorkshire -7 67 £523 +16.11% 29
South West -10 62 £525 +23.53% 27
Midlands -56 37 £481 +10.63% 37
East of England -7 31 £613 +50.31% 25
West Midlands -48 30 £500 +2.56% 20
North East -31 12 £525 +13.51% 11
Northern Ireland +4 6 £190 -41.54% 1
East Midlands -25 5 £443 +20.24% 17
Wales -15 1 £525 +32.91% 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 47 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.42%) Confluence
3 23 (1.92%) CMS
4 15 (1.25%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (0.92%) Camunda
6 9 (0.75%) nginx
6 9 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.50%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.42%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.42%) IIS
8 5 (0.42%) Mendix
9 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache
11 2 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Adobe XD
1 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.084%) Blender
2 1 (0.084%) Maya
2 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.084%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.17%) Shopify
2 11 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.42%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.084%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.084%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 469 (39.21%) AWS
2 350 (29.26%) Azure
3 137 (11.45%) Serverless
4 134 (11.20%) GCP
5 114 (9.53%) GitHub
6 86 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
9 62 (5.18%) Amazon S3
9 62 (5.18%) Power Platform
10 48 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (3.85%) Figma
12 41 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
12 41 (3.43%) Power Automate
12 41 (3.43%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (2.42%) Entra ID
15 26 (2.17%) OpenShift
15 26 (2.17%) SaaS
16 25 (2.09%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.50%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.084%) DSL
5 1 (0.084%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.084%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.084%) MQTT
5 1 (0.084%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (7.53%) Relational Database
3 87 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 77 (6.44%) NoSQL
5 60 (5.02%) MongoDB
6 58 (4.85%) MySQL
7 43 (3.60%) DynamoDB
8 40 (3.34%) Power BI
9 36 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (2.68%) Redis
11 14 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.17%) Metadata
12 13 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.00%) Oracle Database
14 9 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (0.75%) Big Data
15 8 (0.67%) Neo4j
15 8 (0.67%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.59%) Db2
Development Applications
1 174 (14.55%) Git
2 97 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 68 (5.69%) JIRA
4 58 (4.85%) GitLab
5 47 (3.93%) Cypress.io
6 39 (3.26%) JUnit
7 37 (3.09%) Gradle
8 33 (2.76%) Vite
9 25 (2.09%) Mockito
10 20 (1.67%) webpack
11 17 (1.42%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.34%) Liquibase
12 16 (1.34%) Maven
13 15 (1.25%) Postman
13 15 (1.25%) REST Assured
14 14 (1.17%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.92%) Claude Code
16 10 (0.84%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.75%) Storybook
18 8 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 264 (22.07%) Finance
2 213 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 147 (12.29%) Banking
4 125 (10.45%) Front Office
5 119 (9.95%) Public Sector
6 66 (5.52%) Investment Banking
7 46 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (2.42%) Retail
9 20 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 17 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.00%) Legal
13 11 (0.92%) Law
14 8 (0.67%) Military
15 6 (0.50%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.50%) Marketing
15 6 (0.50%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 677 (56.61%) Developer
2 226 (18.90%) Senior
3 211 (17.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 178 (14.88%) React Developer
5 173 (14.46%) Software Engineer
6 141 (11.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 128 (10.70%) Senior Developer
8 126 (10.54%) Lead
9 124 (10.37%) Java Developer
10 89 (7.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 75 (6.27%) Python Developer
12 58 (4.85%) Architect
12 58 (4.85%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 51 (4.26%) UI Developer
15 50 (4.18%) Senior React Developer
16 48 (4.01%) Senior Java Developer
17 47 (3.93%) Java Engineer
18 46 (3.85%) Software Developer
19 43 (3.60%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (26.17%) Node.js
2 222 (18.56%) CSS
3 212 (17.73%) REST
4 207 (17.31%) Redux
5 203 (16.97%) HTML
6 200 (16.72%) AngularJS
7 198 (16.56%) .NET
8 169 (14.13%) RESTful
9 157 (13.13%) Spring
10 146 (12.21%) Spring Boot
11 129 (10.79%) Kafka
12 118 (9.87%) GraphQL
13 115 (9.62%) Next.js
14 102 (8.53%) Vue
15 84 (7.02%) HTML5
15 84 (7.02%) Jest
16 64 (5.35%) CSS3
17 61 (5.10%) Playwright
18 57 (4.77%) FastAPI
19 52 (4.35%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 154 (12.88%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.86%) Fixed Income
3 76 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.35%) Greenfield Project
5 59 (4.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (4.10%) Equities
8 45 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (3.51%) Derivative
10 36 (3.01%) AI Agents
11 30 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.67%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.25%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.00%) Onboarding
16 11 (0.92%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.92%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
18 9 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.17%) Linux
2 12 (1.00%) Android
3 11 (0.92%) Windows
4 9 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.75%) Unix
5 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (42.22%) CI/CD
2 487 (40.72%) Agile
2 487 (40.72%) Full-Stack Development
3 311 (26.00%) DevOps
4 301 (25.17%) Software Engineering
5 273 (22.83%) Microservices
6 242 (20.23%) Front End Development
7 205 (17.14%) AI
8 201 (16.81%) Test Automation
9 164 (13.71%) Containerisation
10 148 (12.37%) User Experience
11 138 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (9.28%) Code Quality
13 106 (8.86%) Scrum
14 105 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (8.36%) TDD
16 99 (8.28%) Event-Driven
17 98 (8.19%) Mentoring
18 97 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
19 83 (6.94%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 646 (54.01%) TypeScript
2 566 (47.32%) JavaScript
3 377 (31.52%) Python
4 371 (31.02%) Java
5 234 (19.57%) SQL
6 213 (17.81%) C#
7 65 (5.43%) Go
8 27 (2.26%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.00%) Rust
10 12 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.84%) Bash
12 8 (0.67%) C++
13 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.50%) Bicep
14 6 (0.50%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.50%) Scala
15 5 (0.42%) Formula Language
15 5 (0.42%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 204 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 178 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 68 (5.69%) Degree
4 49 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.33%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.084%) CISSP
13 1 (0.084%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.084%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.084%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (11.96%) Accessibility
2 76 (6.35%) QA
3 72 (6.02%) WCAG
4 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.50%) GDPR
5 4 (0.33%) HL7
6 3 (0.25%) PSD2
7 2 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.084%) GRC
8 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.084%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 233 (19.48%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 189 (15.80%) Kubernetes
2 122 (10.20%) Terraform
3 23 (1.92%) Grafana
4 20 (1.67%) Ansible
5 15 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.00%) Argo
7 10 (0.84%) Control-M
8 9 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.42%) Istio
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Rancher
12 1 (0.084%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 78 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.52%) Oracle
3 48 (4.01%) Google
4 35 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.51%) Databricks
6 16 (1.34%) Sitecore
7 15 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 10 (0.84%) Dynatrace
8 10 (0.84%) MuleSoft
8 10 (0.84%) Splunk
9 9 (0.75%) SAP
10 8 (0.67%) Adobe
10 8 (0.67%) Conga
10 8 (0.67%) GoCardless
11 7 (0.59%) Solace
12 6 (0.50%) Apple
12 6 (0.50%) Pega
12 6 (0.50%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.42%) Kofax
13 5 (0.42%) Lotus