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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 70 63
Rank change year-on-year -31 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing React 1,147 989 1,344
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.36% 3.46% 3.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.06% 15.22% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 753 1,078
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% +2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £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 9,510 6,500 8,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.73% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,248 4,454 6,211
10th Percentile £363 £361 £345
25th Percentile £420 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 105 250
10th Percentile £30.77 £27.44 £21.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £74.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -36 944 £525 - 541
London -40 552 £550 -5.98% 264
UK excluding London -19 432 £500 +11.11% 342
Work from Home -41 380 £540 +3.60% 299
North of England -8 161 £500 +11.11% 103
North West -5 89 £475 +5.56% 65
South East -51 71 £525 +10.53% 103
Scotland -4 67 £410 -8.89% 13
Yorkshire -13 60 £523 +16.11% 24
South West +3 58 £525 +19.05% 36
Midlands -51 40 £475 +9.20% 35
East of England -16 33 £600 +27.66% 33
West Midlands -48 32 £481 +4.62% 15
North East -17 14 £475 +3.26% 14
Northern Ireland 0 7 £190 -41.54% 11
East Midlands -33 6 £446 +13.26% 20
Wales -16 1 - - 12

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 50 (4.36%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.44%) Confluence
3 22 (1.92%) CMS
4 14 (1.22%) 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
9 4 (0.35%) nginx
10 3 (0.26%) Apache
10 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.17%) SAS
12 1 (0.087%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.52%) 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
1 468 (40.80%) AWS
2 338 (29.47%) Azure
3 141 (12.29%) Serverless
4 130 (11.33%) GCP
5 120 (10.46%) GitHub
6 86 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (5.14%) Power Platform
10 57 (4.97%) Amazon S3
11 54 (4.71%) Figma
12 43 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
13 42 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
13 42 (3.66%) Power Automate
13 42 (3.66%) PowerApps
14 33 (2.88%) Azure Functions
15 32 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (2.44%) Entra ID
17 27 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (2.35%) 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 85 (7.41%) Relational Database
3 83 (7.24%) SQL Server
4 79 (6.89%) NoSQL
5 60 (5.23%) MongoDB
6 58 (5.06%) MySQL
7 39 (3.40%) Power BI
8 38 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 33 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (2.18%) Redis
11 16 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.39%) Oracle Database
12 14 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.05%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.96%) Metadata
15 9 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
16 8 (0.70%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.70%) Tableau
17 7 (0.61%) DB2
Development Applications
1 169 (14.73%) Git
2 76 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 70 (6.10%) 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 18 (1.57%) 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
14 11 (0.96%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.96%) Storybook
15 9 (0.78%) Mocha
15 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
16 7 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 211 (18.40%) Finance
2 190 (16.56%) Social Skills
3 120 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 94 (8.20%) Banking
5 88 (7.67%) Front Office
6 41 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (2.88%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.18%) Retail
9 22 (1.92%) Financial Institution
10 20 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.31%) 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
1 653 (56.93%) Developer
2 212 (18.48%) Full-Stack Developer
3 189 (16.48%) Senior
4 165 (14.39%) Software Engineer
5 149 (12.99%) React Developer
6 132 (11.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 120 (10.46%) Lead
8 103 (8.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 100 (8.72%) Senior Developer
10 81 (7.06%) Java Developer
11 76 (6.63%) Python Developer
12 59 (5.14%) Lead Developer
13 54 (4.71%) Architect
14 53 (4.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 51 (4.45%) Software Developer
16 44 (3.84%) Java Engineer
17 40 (3.49%) Lead Software Engineer
18 39 (3.40%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
19 38 (3.31%) Lead Software Developer
20 33 (2.88%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (26.94%) Node.js
2 239 (20.84%) CSS
3 236 (20.58%) AngularJS
4 218 (19.01%) HTML
5 188 (16.39%) REST
6 183 (15.95%) .NET
7 165 (14.39%) RESTful
8 162 (14.12%) Redux
9 159 (13.86%) Spring
10 143 (12.47%) Spring Boot
11 119 (10.37%) Next.js
12 118 (10.29%) GraphQL
13 113 (9.85%) Kafka
14 106 (9.24%) Vue
15 82 (7.15%) HTML5
15 82 (7.15%) Jest
16 64 (5.58%) CSS3
17 59 (5.14%) Playwright
18 50 (4.36%) FastAPI
19 45 (3.92%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 139 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.06%) Fixed Income
4 44 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.31%) Derivative
6 34 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (2.88%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.62%) 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 11 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (0.96%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.96%) NHS
16 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
1 481 (41.94%) CI/CD
2 464 (40.45%) Agile
3 462 (40.28%) Full-Stack Development
4 307 (26.77%) DevOps
5 270 (23.54%) Software Engineering
6 266 (23.19%) Microservices
7 245 (21.36%) Front End Development
8 192 (16.74%) AI
9 180 (15.69%) Test Automation
10 167 (14.56%) Containerisation
11 162 (14.12%) User Experience
12 133 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
13 106 (9.24%) Code Quality
14 102 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 96 (8.37%) Infrastructure as Code
16 95 (8.28%) TDD
17 93 (8.11%) Scrum
18 88 (7.67%) Mentoring
19 85 (7.41%) Event-Driven
20 84 (7.32%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 577 (50.31%) TypeScript
2 540 (47.08%) JavaScript
3 371 (32.35%) Python
4 336 (29.29%) Java
5 221 (19.27%) SQL
6 169 (14.73%) C#
7 58 (5.06%) Go
8 19 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.87%) Formula Language
11 10 (0.87%) LotusScript
12 9 (0.78%) Bicep
12 9 (0.78%) Rust
13 8 (0.70%) Bash
13 8 (0.70%) Scala
13 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.61%) C++
14 7 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 196 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 172 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 65 (5.67%) Degree
4 52 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (3.05%) 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
1 142 (12.38%) Accessibility
2 74 (6.45%) WCAG
3 63 (5.49%) 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
1 185 (16.13%) 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 57 (4.97%) Oracle
3 43 (3.75%) Google
4 33 (2.88%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.01%) Adobe
6 18 (1.57%) Databricks
7 17 (1.48%) Sitecore
8 16 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.05%) Splunk
10 11 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.87%) Kofax
11 10 (0.87%) Lotus
12 9 (0.78%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.70%) Conga
13 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
14 7 (0.61%) SAP
15 6 (0.52%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.52%) Solace
16 5 (0.44%) Pega
17 4 (0.35%) ServiceNow