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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 71 67
Rank change year-on-year -58 -4 0
Contract jobs citing React 1,143 1,132 1,217
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 3.45% 3.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.74% 13.61% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 808 943
10th Percentile £363 £358 £325
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.47%
75th Percentile £654 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £53.23 £59.05 £37.25
25th Percentile £69.50 £63.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% +19.11% -24.50%
75th Percentile £79.50 - £71.87
90th Percentile £91.50 - £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £67.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year +10.45% +8.72% -0.60%

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 11,739 8,318 9,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.94% 25.33% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,720 5,624 6,459
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £651
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 181 231
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £45.94 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +4.35%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -59 951 £545 +4.81% 912
London -46 572 £575 -2.13% 508
UK excluding London -57 434 £500 +11.11% 522
Work from Home -70 344 £527 +0.38% 505
North of England -23 162 £500 +13.64% 160
Yorkshire 0 87 £500 +25.00% 40
Scotland -11 80 £377 -19.36% 40
South East -68 68 £525 +23.53% 119
South West -10 66 £525 +23.53% 80
North West -39 61 £500 +9.41% 96
Midlands -52 42 £460 -0.27% 65
West Midlands -44 36 £475 -7.32% 38
East of England -21 15 £625 +40.45% 35
North East -29 14 £500 +7.53% 26
East Midlands -25 5 £443 +20.24% 27
Northern Ireland +7 3 £190 -47.77% 15
Wales -21 2 £469 +2.18% 12
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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 40 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.89%) Confluence
3 16 (1.40%) SharePoint Server
4 14 (1.22%) CMS
5 9 (0.79%) Camunda
5 9 (0.79%) nginx
6 6 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.44%) WordPress
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.35%) IIS
8 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.087%) Apache
11 1 (0.087%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.087%) Moodle
11 1 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.087%) Blender
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.087%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Shopify
2 10 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (0.87%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.26%) Magento
3 3 (0.26%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.087%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.087%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 448 (39.20%) AWS
2 319 (27.91%) Azure
3 135 (11.81%) GitHub
4 132 (11.55%) Serverless
5 129 (11.29%) GCP
6 83 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 57 (4.99%) Power Platform
11 45 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (3.85%) Figma
13 39 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
13 39 (3.41%) Power Automate
13 39 (3.41%) PowerApps
14 37 (3.24%) OpenShift
15 35 (3.06%) Entra ID
16 31 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
18 27 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.87%) Firewall
2 7 (0.61%) DNS
3 6 (0.52%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) Intranet
4 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.17%) DSL
7 1 (0.087%) CTI
7 1 (0.087%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.087%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.087%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.087%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.17%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (7.09%) Relational Database
3 79 (6.91%) SQL Server
4 73 (6.39%) NoSQL
5 68 (5.95%) MongoDB
6 43 (3.76%) MySQL
7 41 (3.59%) DynamoDB
8 39 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
9 38 (3.32%) Power BI
10 32 (2.80%) Redis
11 15 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (0.87%) Metadata
14 10 (0.87%) Neo4j
14 10 (0.87%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (0.52%) BigQuery
17 5 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 221 (19.34%) Git
2 132 (11.55%) Jenkins
3 66 (5.77%) JIRA
4 62 (5.42%) GitLab
5 53 (4.64%) Cypress.io
6 51 (4.46%) Gradle
7 47 (4.11%) JUnit
8 33 (2.89%) Vite
9 29 (2.54%) Maven
10 27 (2.36%) Mockito
11 21 (1.84%) Claude Code
12 18 (1.57%) webpack
13 17 (1.49%) Cucumber
13 17 (1.49%) Liquibase
14 16 (1.40%) Bitbucket
15 15 (1.31%) Storybook
16 14 (1.22%) REST Assured
17 13 (1.14%) SonarQube
18 12 (1.05%) Postman
19 11 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 234 (20.47%) Finance
2 221 (19.34%) Social Skills
3 142 (12.42%) Banking
4 134 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 97 (8.49%) Front Office
6 62 (5.42%) Investment Banking
7 50 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (3.59%) Retail
9 29 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.22%) Law
12 13 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.87%) Military
14 10 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.79%) Marketing
15 9 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 621 (54.33%) Developer
2 240 (21.00%) Senior
3 196 (17.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 157 (13.74%) React Developer
5 148 (12.95%) Software Engineer
6 134 (11.72%) Senior Developer
7 132 (11.55%) Java Developer
8 126 (11.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 116 (10.15%) Lead
10 86 (7.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 63 (5.51%) Python Developer
12 52 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
12 52 (4.55%) Senior React Developer
13 49 (4.29%) UI Developer
14 44 (3.85%) Lead Developer
15 43 (3.76%) Software Developer
16 42 (3.67%) Architect
17 38 (3.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 36 (3.15%) Technical Leader
19 33 (2.89%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (25.55%) Node.js
2 275 (24.06%) REST
3 222 (19.42%) CSS
4 203 (17.76%) HTML
5 174 (15.22%) Redux
6 173 (15.14%) .NET
7 167 (14.61%) RESTful
8 160 (14.00%) AngularJS
8 160 (14.00%) Spring
9 151 (13.21%) Spring Boot
10 143 (12.51%) Kafka
11 137 (11.99%) Next.js
12 129 (11.29%) Terraform
13 98 (8.57%) GraphQL
13 98 (8.57%) HTML5
14 93 (8.14%) Vue
15 83 (7.26%) Jest
16 81 (7.09%) CSS3
17 75 (6.56%) Playwright
18 58 (5.07%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 171 (14.96%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.56%) Fixed Income
3 74 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 63 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
5 58 (5.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 57 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
7 45 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.50%) AI Agents
8 40 (3.50%) Equities
9 30 (2.62%) Data Structures
9 30 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (2.54%) Derivative
11 24 (2.10%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (0.96%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.87%) Autonomous Agent
15 10 (0.87%) Mobile App
15 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.10%) Linux
2 12 (1.05%) Windows
3 7 (0.61%) Unix
4 4 (0.35%) Android
4 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.087%) AIX
6 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (47.86%) CI/CD
2 490 (42.87%) Agile
3 473 (41.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 301 (26.33%) Software Engineering
5 296 (25.90%) Microservices
6 287 (25.11%) DevOps
7 215 (18.81%) Front End Development
8 210 (18.37%) AI
9 209 (18.29%) Test Automation
10 174 (15.22%) Containerisation
11 152 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
12 144 (12.60%) User Experience
13 128 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 125 (10.94%) Event-Driven
14 125 (10.94%) TDD
15 119 (10.41%) Code Quality
16 118 (10.32%) Mentoring
17 116 (10.15%) Scrum
18 112 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
19 102 (8.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 643 (56.26%) TypeScript
2 552 (48.29%) JavaScript
3 367 (32.11%) Java
4 325 (28.43%) Python
5 235 (20.56%) SQL
6 192 (16.80%) C#
7 46 (4.02%) Go
8 33 (2.89%) PL/SQL
9 23 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.57%) Bash
11 14 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.87%) Rust
14 9 (0.79%) C++
14 9 (0.79%) PHP
15 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.61%) Ruby
17 6 (0.52%) Bicep
18 4 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 200 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 171 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 61 (5.34%) Degree
4 47 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.087%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.087%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 79 (6.91%) QA
3 73 (6.39%) WCAG
4 8 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.35%) GDPR
6 3 (0.26%) HL7
7 2 (0.17%) PSD2
8 1 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.087%) GRC
8 1 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 245 (21.43%) Docker
2 6 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 216 (18.90%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.06%) Grafana
3 29 (2.54%) Ansible
4 17 (1.49%) Argo
5 16 (1.40%) Control-M
6 15 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.61%) Istio
9 6 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.44%) Kibana
11 3 (0.26%) Podman
12 1 (0.087%) Nagios
12 1 (0.087%) QRadar
12 1 (0.087%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.12%) Oracle
3 46 (4.02%) Google
4 27 (2.36%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.84%) Databricks
6 21 (1.84%) MuleSoft
7 18 (1.57%) Splunk
8 15 (1.31%) SAP
9 12 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.70%) Conga
10 8 (0.70%) GoCardless
10 8 (0.70%) Solace
11 7 (0.61%) Adobe
12 6 (0.52%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.44%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.44%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.44%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.35%) Apple
14 4 (0.35%) Red Hat