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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 61 62
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing React 54 77 94
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.80% 3.26% 3.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.82% 13.73% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 47 66
10th Percentile £425 £424 £338
25th Percentile £453 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +15.86% -4.30%
75th Percentile £688 £788 £675
90th Percentile £819 £855 £850
London median daily rate £565 £600 £614
% change year-on-year -5.83% -2.24% +2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
London median hourly rate £51.00 £40.25 £72.00
% change year-on-year +26.71% -44.10% +2.86%

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 457 561 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.65% 23.73% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 344 491
10th Percentile £363 £414 £400
25th Percentile £425 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £675 £708 £711
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
London median daily rate £530 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £44.97 £27.67 £46.93
25th Percentile £48.67 £31.07 £47.94
Median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £41.45 £52.58
London median hourly rate £54.50 £45.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +21.11% -22.41% -

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 15 November 2025.

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
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 15 November 2025. 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 -11 52 £588 -9.62% 334
West End of London +7 2 £700 +33.33% 9
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 3 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.85%) Camunda
2 1 (1.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) AWS
2 13 (24.07%) GitHub
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon S3
3 8 (14.81%) Azure
4 6 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (11.11%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Serverless
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Run
6 3 (5.56%) Figma
6 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.70%) Firebase
7 2 (3.70%) Google Gemini
7 2 (3.70%) npm
7 2 (3.70%) Vertex AI
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.85%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.41%) MySQL
4 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Git
2 9 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 6 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 4 (7.41%) GitLab
5 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.56%) JIRA
6 2 (3.70%) JUnit
6 2 (3.70%) Snyk
6 2 (3.70%) Storybook
6 2 (3.70%) webpack
7 1 (1.85%) Ant
7 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.85%) Babel
7 1 (1.85%) gulp
7 1 (1.85%) Mockito
7 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.85%) Vite
General
1 20 (37.04%) Finance
2 13 (24.07%) Banking
3 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Front Office
5 5 (9.26%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Legal
7 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.85%) Advertising
8 1 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (53.70%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Angular Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (11.11%) React Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (7.41%) Lead
7 3 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior
8 2 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) UI Engineer
9 1 (1.85%) Dashboard Developer
9 1 (1.85%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 1 (1.85%) Electronic Trading Specialist
9 1 (1.85%) Python Engineer
9 1 (1.85%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (48.15%) AngularJS
2 20 (37.04%) CSS
2 20 (37.04%) REST
3 19 (35.19%) HTML
4 13 (24.07%) Spring Boot
5 12 (22.22%) HTML5
6 7 (12.96%) Node.js
7 6 (11.11%) .NET
7 6 (11.11%) GraphQL
7 6 (11.11%) Kafka
7 6 (11.11%) RESTful
7 6 (11.11%) Spring
7 6 (11.11%) Vue
8 5 (9.26%) CSS3
8 5 (9.26%) Jest
8 5 (9.26%) Next.js
9 4 (7.41%) Playwright
9 4 (7.41%) Redux
9 4 (7.41%) Sass
9 4 (7.41%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.85%) Derivative
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.85%) Genomics
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Life Science
4 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Android
1 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.85%) Unix
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Agile
2 28 (51.85%) Full-Stack Development
3 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 18 (33.33%) Microservices
5 16 (29.63%) Front End Development
6 14 (25.93%) Software Engineering
7 12 (22.22%) DevOps
8 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
8 11 (20.37%) User Experience
9 10 (18.52%) Scrum
10 9 (16.67%) Kanban
11 7 (12.96%) BDD
11 7 (12.96%) TDD
12 6 (11.11%) Code Quality
12 6 (11.11%) SDLC
12 6 (11.11%) Visualisation
13 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (9.26%) Data Pipeline
13 5 (9.26%) Event-Driven
13 5 (9.26%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) TypeScript
2 25 (46.30%) JavaScript
3 21 (38.89%) Java
4 12 (22.22%) Python
5 6 (11.11%) SQL
6 3 (5.56%) C#
7 1 (1.85%) Elm
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) QA
2 5 (9.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.56%) WCAG
4 2 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.85%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 2 (3.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.85%) Adobe
5 1 (1.85%) Kony