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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 70 70
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 -4
Contract jobs citing React 1,217 1,111 1,265
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.31% 3.42% 3.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.87% 15.13% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 808 998
10th Percentile £375 £358 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £684
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 21
10th Percentile £51.65 £59.05 £40.00
25th Percentile £61.88 £63.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% - -4.29%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% -4.29% +21.21%

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 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 10,254 7,343 9,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.47% 22.58% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,712 4,961 6,179
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 153 269
10th Percentile £29.54 £30.05 £22.50
25th Percentile £47.60 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.00% +7.48% -1.49%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -38 1,001 £550 +4.76% 610
London -39 595 £598 -0.33% 158
UK excluding London -31 456 £500 +11.11% 602
Work from Home -43 412 £550 +4.76% 503
North of England -17 168 £523 +14.96% 164
North West -27 82 £500 +10.56% 87
Yorkshire +8 77 £523 +16.11% 58
Scotland -3 77 £405 -14.16% 54
South East -67 75 £525 +12.90% 140
South West -12 65 £525 +23.53% 47
Midlands -51 41 £475 +6.15% 82
West Midlands -47 34 £481 -6.10% 36
East of England -12 28 £600 +34.83% 58
North East -36 9 £450 -2.70% 21
Northern Ireland +4 6 £190 -41.54% 33
East Midlands -22 5 £443 +20.24% 46
Wales -16 1 £525 +32.91% 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 38 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.71%) Confluence
3 25 (2.05%) CMS
4 16 (1.31%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (0.82%) Camunda
6 9 (0.74%) nginx
6 9 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.49%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.41%) IIS
9 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.25%) WordPress
11 2 (0.16%) Apache
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.16%) Kentico
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.082%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 11 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.082%) Blender
4 1 (0.082%) Maya
4 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.082%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.082%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.15%) Shopify
2 9 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.58%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.25%) Magento
4 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.082%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.082%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 488 (40.10%) AWS
2 347 (28.51%) Azure
3 145 (11.91%) GCP
4 130 (10.68%) GitHub
4 130 (10.68%) Serverless
5 86 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
7 75 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (5.34%) Amazon S3
9 57 (4.68%) Power Platform
10 52 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (3.94%) Figma
12 37 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
13 36 (2.96%) Entra ID
13 36 (2.96%) Power Automate
13 36 (2.96%) PowerApps
14 34 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
15 29 (2.38%) OpenShift
16 28 (2.30%) SaaS
17 25 (2.05%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.49%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) Intranet
3 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.16%) DSL
4 2 (0.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.082%) CTI
5 1 (0.082%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.082%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.082%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 91 (7.48%) Relational Database
4 80 (6.57%) NoSQL
5 66 (5.42%) MongoDB
6 54 (4.44%) MySQL
7 46 (3.78%) DynamoDB
8 38 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (2.96%) Power BI
10 31 (2.55%) Redis
11 14 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (0.82%) Metadata
14 9 (0.74%) Neo4j
14 9 (0.74%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.66%) Big Data
15 8 (0.66%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.66%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 192 (15.78%) Git
2 117 (9.61%) Jenkins
3 69 (5.67%) JIRA
4 60 (4.93%) GitLab
5 50 (4.11%) Cypress.io
6 43 (3.53%) Gradle
7 42 (3.45%) JUnit
8 37 (3.04%) Vite
9 25 (2.05%) Mockito
10 22 (1.81%) webpack
11 21 (1.73%) Maven
12 17 (1.40%) Claude Code
13 16 (1.31%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.31%) Postman
13 16 (1.31%) REST Assured
13 16 (1.31%) Storybook
14 15 (1.23%) Cucumber
15 14 (1.15%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.82%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 270 (22.19%) Finance
2 224 (18.41%) Social Skills
3 145 (11.91%) Banking
4 121 (9.94%) Front Office
4 121 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 65 (5.34%) Investment Banking
6 53 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (3.04%) Retail
8 23 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 11 (0.90%) Law
12 10 (0.82%) Military
13 9 (0.74%) Legal
14 7 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.49%) Marketing
15 6 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.49%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.41%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 679 (55.79%) Developer
2 244 (20.05%) Senior
3 215 (17.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 183 (15.04%) React Developer
5 177 (14.54%) Software Engineer
6 148 (12.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 139 (11.42%) Senior Developer
8 136 (11.18%) Java Developer
9 132 (10.85%) Lead
10 90 (7.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 67 (5.51%) Python Developer
12 59 (4.85%) Lead Developer
13 57 (4.68%) Architect
14 56 (4.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 54 (4.44%) Senior React Developer
15 54 (4.44%) UI Developer
16 52 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
17 44 (3.62%) Java Engineer
17 44 (3.62%) Software Developer
18 43 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (27.36%) Node.js
2 251 (20.62%) REST
3 224 (18.41%) CSS
4 210 (17.26%) Redux
5 205 (16.84%) HTML
6 196 (16.11%) .NET
7 194 (15.94%) AngularJS
8 170 (13.97%) RESTful
9 161 (13.23%) Spring
10 152 (12.49%) Spring Boot
11 143 (11.75%) Kafka
12 125 (10.27%) GraphQL
13 120 (9.86%) Next.js
14 103 (8.46%) Vue
15 95 (7.81%) HTML5
16 87 (7.15%) Jest
17 75 (6.16%) CSS3
18 64 (5.26%) Playwright
19 61 (5.01%) FastAPI
20 56 (4.60%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 168 (13.80%) Cloud Native
2 95 (7.81%) Fixed Income
3 81 (6.66%) Product Ownership
4 65 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
5 58 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
5 58 (4.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 48 (3.94%) Equities
7 46 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (3.20%) Derivative
9 36 (2.96%) AI Agents
10 33 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
12 25 (2.05%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.56%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (0.90%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.82%) Mobile App
17 9 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.89%) Linux
2 13 (1.07%) Windows
3 11 (0.90%) Android
4 8 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.66%) Unix
5 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (44.37%) CI/CD
2 508 (41.74%) Agile
3 505 (41.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 319 (26.21%) Software Engineering
5 314 (25.80%) DevOps
6 304 (24.98%) Microservices
7 241 (19.80%) Front End Development
8 211 (17.34%) Test Automation
9 210 (17.26%) AI
10 167 (13.72%) Containerisation
11 156 (12.82%) User Experience
12 143 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
13 125 (10.27%) Code Quality
14 117 (9.61%) Event-Driven
15 114 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (9.37%) TDD
16 113 (9.29%) Scrum
17 110 (9.04%) Mentoring
18 101 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
19 91 (7.48%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 677 (55.63%) TypeScript
2 576 (47.33%) JavaScript
3 391 (32.13%) Java
4 368 (30.24%) Python
5 231 (18.98%) SQL
6 208 (17.09%) C#
7 66 (5.42%) Go
8 31 (2.55%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.99%) Bash
12 9 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 9 (0.74%) Rust
13 8 (0.66%) C++
14 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.58%) PHP
14 7 (0.58%) Scala
14 7 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.49%) Bicep
16 4 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 207 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 178 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 70 (5.75%) Degree
4 57 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.49%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.33%) PhD
13 2 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.082%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.082%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.082%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.082%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.082%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (12.82%) Accessibility
2 81 (6.66%) QA
3 76 (6.24%) WCAG
4 6 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.49%) GDPR
5 4 (0.33%) HL7
6 3 (0.25%) PSD2
7 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.082%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.082%) GRC
7 1 (0.082%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.082%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 248 (20.38%) Docker
2 6 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 214 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 125 (10.27%) Terraform
3 27 (2.22%) Grafana
4 22 (1.81%) Ansible
5 17 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.07%) Argo
6 13 (1.07%) Control-M
7 8 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.41%) Istio
9 3 (0.25%) Nagios
9 3 (0.25%) Podman
10 2 (0.16%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 81 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.59%) Oracle
3 47 (3.86%) Google
4 29 (2.38%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.48%) Databricks
6 17 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.23%) MuleSoft
8 14 (1.15%) Sitecore
9 12 (0.99%) SAP
10 10 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.82%) Splunk
11 9 (0.74%) Adobe
11 9 (0.74%) Solace
12 8 (0.66%) Conga
12 8 (0.66%) GoCardless
13 6 (0.49%) Pega
14 5 (0.41%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.33%) IBM
15 4 (0.33%) Netlify
15 4 (0.33%) Red Hat