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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 71 66
Rank change year-on-year -60 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing React 1,118 1,126 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.08% 3.42% 3.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.56% 13.44% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 799 933
10th Percentile £363 £358 £326
25th Percentile £422 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £850 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +12.36% -6.32% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 4
10th Percentile £49.30 £54.57 £44.50
25th Percentile £68.00 £60.06 £51.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 £66.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +9.02% -18.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £72.25
90th Percentile £81.60 - £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +7.46% - +8.06%

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 11,693 8,375 9,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.76% 25.41% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 5,653 6,417
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 197
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.45 £26.44
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.59 £79.48 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -60 934 £537 +3.27% 980
London -51 551 £565 -5.83% 604
UK excluding London -56 435 £500 +12.36% 527
Work from Home -72 324 £525 +0.96% 482
North of England -39 162 £500 +17.65% 133
Yorkshire -7 85 £500 +25.00% 31
Scotland -16 77 £400 -13.98% 46
South West -14 66 £525 +23.53% 100
North West -53 63 £500 +11.11% 95
South East -84 63 £500 +17.65% 115
Midlands -38 52 £475 +6.15% 83
West Midlands -28 44 £545 +9.00% 41
East of England -21 15 £625 +34.41% 25
North East -27 14 £500 +7.53% 10
East Midlands -19 7 £433 +17.73% 42
Northern Ireland +3 2 £190 -53.37% 12
Wales -20 2 £469 +2.18% 18
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 38 (3.40%) Confluence
2 37 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.25%) Camunda
3 14 (1.25%) SharePoint Server
4 13 (1.16%) CMS
5 9 (0.81%) nginx
6 6 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.45%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.45%) WordPress
8 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.089%) Apache
10 1 (0.089%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Sketch
4 1 (0.089%) Blender
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.089%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
1 10 (0.89%) SAP CRM
2 9 (0.81%) Shopify
3 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.089%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 421 (37.66%) AWS
2 302 (27.01%) Azure
3 136 (12.16%) GitHub
4 135 (12.08%) Serverless
5 112 (10.02%) GCP
6 84 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
7 82 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
8 70 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (5.55%) Amazon S3
10 56 (5.01%) Power Platform
11 46 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (4.11%) OpenShift
12 45 (4.03%) Figma
13 37 (3.31%) PowerApps
14 36 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
14 36 (3.22%) Power Automate
15 32 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (2.68%) Entra ID
16 30 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
17 27 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.89%) Firewall
2 8 (0.72%) DNS
3 7 (0.63%) HTTP
4 4 (0.36%) Intranet
4 4 (0.36%) VPN
5 3 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.18%) DSL
7 1 (0.089%) CTI
7 1 (0.089%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.089%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.089%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (7.51%) SQL Server
3 82 (7.33%) Relational Database
4 69 (6.17%) NoSQL
5 65 (5.81%) MongoDB
6 46 (4.11%) MySQL
7 43 (3.85%) DynamoDB
8 40 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
9 37 (3.31%) Power BI
10 31 (2.77%) Redis
11 16 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.98%) Metadata
15 11 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.89%) Neo4j
17 6 (0.54%) BigQuery
18 5 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
18 5 (0.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 227 (20.30%) Git
2 142 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 68 (6.08%) GitLab
3 68 (6.08%) JIRA
4 59 (5.28%) Gradle
5 54 (4.83%) Cypress.io
6 52 (4.65%) JUnit
7 38 (3.40%) Maven
8 35 (3.13%) Vite
9 31 (2.77%) Mockito
10 21 (1.88%) Claude Code
10 21 (1.88%) SonarQube
11 20 (1.79%) webpack
12 19 (1.70%) REST Assured
13 18 (1.61%) Cucumber
14 17 (1.52%) Bitbucket
14 17 (1.52%) Liquibase
15 16 (1.43%) Storybook
16 14 (1.25%) Selenium
17 12 (1.07%) Postman
General
1 223 (19.95%) Finance
2 220 (19.68%) Social Skills
3 149 (13.33%) Banking
4 133 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 72 (6.44%) Front Office
6 61 (5.46%) Investment Banking
7 51 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (3.67%) Retail
9 29 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.25%) Law
12 13 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.89%) Marketing
13 10 (0.89%) Military
13 10 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.89%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.72%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 601 (53.76%) Developer
2 234 (20.93%) Senior
3 190 (16.99%) Full-Stack Developer
4 151 (13.51%) React Developer
5 132 (11.81%) Java Developer
6 131 (11.72%) Senior Developer
7 124 (11.09%) Software Engineer
8 121 (10.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 102 (9.12%) Lead
10 96 (8.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 56 (5.01%) Python Developer
12 52 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
12 52 (4.65%) Senior React Developer
13 47 (4.20%) UI Developer
14 42 (3.76%) Software Developer
15 39 (3.49%) Architect
16 38 (3.40%) Technical Leader
17 37 (3.31%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 34 (3.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 33 (2.95%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (24.60%) Node.js
2 270 (24.15%) REST
3 235 (21.02%) CSS
4 218 (19.50%) HTML
5 171 (15.30%) Spring
6 168 (15.03%) .NET
7 164 (14.67%) RESTful
8 162 (14.49%) Spring Boot
9 155 (13.86%) Redux
10 149 (13.33%) AngularJS
11 133 (11.90%) Kafka
11 133 (11.90%) Next.js
12 126 (11.27%) Terraform
13 106 (9.48%) HTML5
14 90 (8.05%) CSS3
15 85 (7.60%) Jest
15 85 (7.60%) Vue
16 83 (7.42%) GraphQL
17 77 (6.89%) Playwright
18 65 (5.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 169 (15.12%) Cloud Native
2 79 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (5.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 56 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
6 50 (4.47%) Fixed Income
7 45 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.58%) AI Agents
9 33 (2.95%) Data Structures
10 32 (2.86%) Equities
11 30 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
12 26 (2.33%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.61%) Derivative
15 12 (1.07%) Onboarding
16 11 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
17 10 (0.89%) Autonomous Agent
17 10 (0.89%) NHS
18 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.24%) Linux
2 13 (1.16%) Windows
3 7 (0.63%) Unix
4 4 (0.36%) Android
4 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.089%) AIX
6 1 (0.089%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (49.28%) CI/CD
2 477 (42.67%) Agile
3 457 (40.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 297 (26.57%) Microservices
5 292 (26.12%) DevOps
6 276 (24.69%) Software Engineering
7 233 (20.84%) Front End Development
8 212 (18.96%) Test Automation
9 205 (18.34%) AI
10 178 (15.92%) Containerisation
11 153 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
12 152 (13.60%) User Experience
13 135 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 129 (11.54%) Event-Driven
15 125 (11.18%) TDD
16 121 (10.82%) Scrum
17 117 (10.47%) Code Quality
18 114 (10.20%) Mentoring
19 111 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
20 105 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 613 (54.83%) TypeScript
2 543 (48.57%) JavaScript
3 367 (32.83%) Java
4 304 (27.19%) Python
5 247 (22.09%) SQL
6 183 (16.37%) C#
7 33 (2.95%) PL/SQL
8 32 (2.86%) Go
9 24 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.70%) Bash
11 14 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.81%) C++
13 9 (0.81%) Rust
14 8 (0.72%) PHP
15 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.63%) Ruby
15 7 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.54%) Bicep
16 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 208 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 175 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 66 (5.90%) Degree
4 52 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.089%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.089%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (13.86%) Accessibility
2 82 (7.33%) QA
3 79 (7.07%) WCAG
4 10 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.27%) GDPR
6 3 (0.27%) HL7
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.089%) GRC
8 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 242 (21.65%) Docker
2 4 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.089%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 220 (19.68%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.13%) Grafana
3 32 (2.86%) Ansible
4 19 (1.70%) Argo
5 16 (1.43%) Control-M
6 15 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.63%) Istio
9 6 (0.54%) Kibana
9 6 (0.54%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.27%) Podman
11 1 (0.089%) Nagios
11 1 (0.089%) QRadar
Vendors
1 85 (7.60%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.44%) Oracle
3 46 (4.11%) Google
4 26 (2.33%) Databricks
5 24 (2.15%) OpenAI
6 23 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.79%) MuleSoft
8 19 (1.70%) Splunk
9 15 (1.34%) SAP
10 14 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.81%) Adobe
12 8 (0.72%) Conga
12 8 (0.72%) GoCardless
12 8 (0.72%) IBM
12 8 (0.72%) Solace
13 7 (0.63%) Veracode
14 6 (0.54%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.45%) Hitachi
15 5 (0.45%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.45%) Sitecore