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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 60 66
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 -14
Contract jobs citing React 50 77 83
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.53% 3.22% 2.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.24% 13.44% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 43 58
10th Percentile £425 £421 £343
25th Percentile £474 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £781 £675
90th Percentile £839 £848 £850
London median daily rate £550 £600 £614
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.24% +2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
London median hourly rate £47.00 £40.25 £72.00
% change year-on-year +16.77% -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 445 573 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.53% 23.93% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 348 465
10th Percentile £361 £413 £408
25th Percentile £436 £501 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £44.97 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £48.67 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.97% -18.95% -6.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -7.63%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 -14 48 £588 +0.43% 47
West End of London +9 2 £700 +33.33% 1
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 1 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.00%) Camunda
1 1 (2.00%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) AWS
2 13 (26.00%) GitHub
3 9 (18.00%) Azure
4 7 (14.00%) GCP
5 6 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (12.00%) Serverless
6 4 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Run
7 3 (6.00%) Figma
7 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.00%) Firebase
8 2 (4.00%) Google Gemini
8 2 (4.00%) npm
8 2 (4.00%) Vertex AI
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.00%) MySQL
4 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) Git
2 9 (18.00%) Bitbucket
3 6 (12.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.00%) GitLab
4 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.00%) JIRA
5 2 (4.00%) JUnit
5 2 (4.00%) Snyk
5 2 (4.00%) Storybook
5 2 (4.00%) webpack
6 1 (2.00%) Ant
6 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.00%) Babel
6 1 (2.00%) gulp
6 1 (2.00%) Mockito
6 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.00%) Vite
General
1 18 (36.00%) Finance
2 13 (26.00%) Banking
3 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Front Office
5 5 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Advertising
8 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (52.00%) Developer
2 8 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Angular Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (12.00%) React Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (10.00%) Lead
6 4 (8.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior
8 2 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) UI Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Dashboard Developer
9 1 (2.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 1 (2.00%) Electronic Trading Specialist
9 1 (2.00%) Python Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 1 (2.00%) Senior React Developer
9 1 (2.00%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (46.00%) AngularJS
2 20 (40.00%) CSS
3 19 (38.00%) HTML
4 16 (32.00%) REST
5 11 (22.00%) HTML5
5 11 (22.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (16.00%) Node.js
7 6 (12.00%) .NET
7 6 (12.00%) CSS3
7 6 (12.00%) RESTful
7 6 (12.00%) Vue
8 5 (10.00%) Jest
9 4 (8.00%) GraphQL
9 4 (8.00%) Kafka
9 4 (8.00%) Playwright
9 4 (8.00%) Redux
9 4 (8.00%) Sass
9 4 (8.00%) Spring
10 3 (6.00%) Next.js
10 3 (6.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Derivative
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) Genomics
4 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Android
1 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.00%) Unix
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Agile
2 24 (48.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (28.00%) Microservices
5 13 (26.00%) DevOps
6 12 (24.00%) Test Automation
7 11 (22.00%) User Experience
8 10 (20.00%) Front End Development
8 10 (20.00%) Scrum
8 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (18.00%) Kanban
10 8 (16.00%) TDD
11 7 (14.00%) BDD
12 6 (12.00%) SDLC
12 6 (12.00%) Visualisation
13 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
13 5 (10.00%) Design Patterns
13 5 (10.00%) Event-Driven
13 5 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) JavaScript
2 24 (48.00%) TypeScript
3 19 (38.00%) Java
4 11 (22.00%) Python
5 6 (12.00%) SQL
6 3 (6.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) Elm
7 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 3 (6.00%) WCAG
4 2 (4.00%) GDPR
4 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Google
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe
4 1 (2.00%) Kony
4 1 (2.00%) Planview