React Contract Job Trends in Central London

React.js
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 51 63
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing React 75 79 75
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.99% 4.14% 3.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.12% 16.12% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 56 63
10th Percentile £449 £409 £425
25th Percentile £511 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £585 £725
90th Percentile £919 £659 £835
London median daily rate £550 £585 £609
% change year-on-year -5.98% -3.90% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56.73 - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - -
Median hourly rate £63.88 - -
75th Percentile £71.18 - -
90th Percentile £73.47 - -
London median hourly rate £63.88 £55.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +16.15% -17.91% -10.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 496 490 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.80% 25.69% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 329 394
10th Percentile £407 £404 £402
25th Percentile £497 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £670 £688
90th Percentile £766 £751 £800
London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £20.53 - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.07 - -
75th Percentile £49.24 - -
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -36.57%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing React relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

React job vacancy trend in Central London

React
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing React.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing React

React
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React in Central London

React
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing React.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing React

React
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing React in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for React in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing React within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 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
City of London -17 70 £600 +14.29% 28
City of Westminster -4 4 £613 +49.76% 3
West End of London -1 2 £600 +20.00%
Camden - 1 £875 -
React
London

React
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (2.67%) CMS
1 2 (2.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.33%) Kentico
2 1 (1.33%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.33%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Orchestrade
1 1 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.67%) AWS
2 15 (20.00%) Azure
2 15 (20.00%) GitHub
3 9 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (10.67%) Serverless
5 7 (9.33%) GCP
6 6 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.00%) Figma
7 5 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (4.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.67%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.00%) DB2
5 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.00%) MySQL
5 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.67%) Pinecone
6 2 (2.67%) Power BI
6 2 (2.67%) Redis
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.33%) Big Data
7 1 (1.33%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Git
2 6 (8.00%) Cypress.io
2 6 (8.00%) GitLab
3 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.00%) JIRA
4 3 (4.00%) JUnit
4 3 (4.00%) Mockito
4 3 (4.00%) webpack
5 2 (2.67%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.67%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.67%) Gradle
5 2 (2.67%) Liquibase
5 2 (2.67%) Mocha
5 2 (2.67%) Vite
6 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.33%) Maven
6 1 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (22.67%) Finance
2 14 (18.67%) Banking
3 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.00%) Front Office
5 8 (10.67%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.67%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.00%) Retail
9 2 (2.67%) Advertising
9 2 (2.67%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.67%) Law
9 2 (2.67%) Legal
9 2 (2.67%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.33%) Police
10 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (45.33%) Developer
2 24 (32.00%) Senior
3 16 (21.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 16 (21.33%) Senior Developer
4 9 (12.00%) React Developer
5 8 (10.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Backend Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Java Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Software Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) UI Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Java Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Python Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior React Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior UI Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (28.00%) AngularJS
2 15 (20.00%) CSS
3 14 (18.67%) HTML
4 13 (17.33%) Node.js
5 12 (16.00%) REST
5 12 (16.00%) Spring
6 10 (13.33%) Kafka
7 9 (12.00%) Redux
7 9 (12.00%) Spring Boot
8 8 (10.67%) .NET
8 8 (10.67%) GraphQL
8 8 (10.67%) Next.js
8 8 (10.67%) RESTful
9 6 (8.00%) Django
9 6 (8.00%) OSGi
10 5 (6.67%) Jest
10 5 (6.67%) JSON
11 4 (5.33%) FastAPI
11 4 (5.33%) Playwright
11 4 (5.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (6.67%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.00%) Derivative
5 3 (4.00%) Equities
6 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.67%) NHS
6 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Genomics
7 1 (1.33%) Life Science
7 1 (1.33%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Android
1 7 (9.33%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (34.67%) Agile
2 26 (34.67%) CI/CD
3 18 (24.00%) DevOps
4 17 (22.67%) AI
4 17 (22.67%) Microservices
5 16 (21.33%) Software Engineering
6 15 (20.00%) User Experience
7 14 (18.67%) Test Automation
8 13 (17.33%) Front End Development
9 11 (14.67%) Containerisation
9 11 (14.67%) LLM
10 10 (13.33%) Analytics
10 10 (13.33%) Observability
10 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (12.00%) Machine Learning
12 7 (9.33%) Low Latency
12 7 (9.33%) Prototyping
12 7 (9.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 44 (58.67%) TypeScript
2 39 (52.00%) JavaScript
3 34 (45.33%) Java
4 26 (34.67%) Python
5 16 (21.33%) C#
6 14 (18.67%) SQL
7 2 (2.67%) Bicep
7 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.33%) C++
8 1 (1.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.67%) WCAG
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (25.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (21.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (2.67%) Grafana
3 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.33%) Argo
4 1 (1.33%) Istio
4 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (5.33%) Databricks
2 3 (4.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (4.00%) Google
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.33%) Adobe
4 1 (1.33%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.33%) IBM
4 1 (1.33%) Splunk