React Contract Job Trends

React.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 82 69
Rank change year-on-year -52 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing React 1,135 1,039 1,149
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.06% 3.09% 3.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.34% 11.85% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 711 858
10th Percentile £363 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -4.17% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £650
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 6
10th Percentile £56.25 £45.65 £37.63
25th Percentile £71.00 £53.91 £39.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £64.75 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% +49.71% -39.93%
75th Percentile £77.00 £67.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £77.80 - £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £67.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +11.94% -3.60% +2.21%

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

6 months to
24 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12,156 8,771 9,129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 22.07% 26.08% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 5,836 5,885
10th Percentile £376 £356 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.20% -3.10% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 184 147
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.08 £25.52
25th Percentile £51.00 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.29% -18.89% +12.07%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.40 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +16.01%

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 24 October 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 for jobs citing React over the 6 months to 24 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for React in the UK

React Top 18 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 24 October 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -62 951 £537 +2.29% 1,491
London -55 536 £575 -4.17% 864
UK excluding London -57 456 £475 +5.56% 740
Work from Home -52 346 £525 -1.59% 797
North of England -17 175 £500 +20.12% 218
Yorkshire -6 89 £480 +20.00% 56
Midlands 0 78 £475 -9.52% 94
North West -30 76 £531 +24.94% 145
West Midlands 0 72 £475 -10.80% 70
Scotland -29 69 £377 -18.49% 89
South East -75 66 £450 +9.42% 124
South West -35 54 £550 +2.09% 72
North East -29 10 £500 +150.00% 17
East of England -42 8 £625 +47.06% 63
East Midlands -22 6 £424 -5.36% 24
Wales -9 5 £413 -20.29% 20
Northern Ireland +5 4 £370 - 62
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

React Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1REST27.2%309
2Node.js25.8%293
3CSS21.1%239
4HTML20.4%232
5RESTful17.6%200
6.NET16.6%188
7Spring15.7%178
8AngularJS15.4%175
9Spring Boot14.4%163
10Redux12.9%146
11Next.js12.4%141
12Kafka12.0%136
13Terraform11.2%127
14HTML510.8%123
15Playwright9.7%110
16CSS39.3%105
17Vue9.0%102
18GraphQL8.5%97
19Jest8.0%91
20OAuth7.8%89