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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing React 63 69 75
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.59% 3.59% 3.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.28% 13.37% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 50 52
10th Percentile £410 £425 £463
25th Percentile £506 £450 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +20.93%
75th Percentile £919 £625 £804
90th Percentile £938 £750 £874
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £37.20
25th Percentile £65.00 - £37.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - £41.38
90th Percentile - - £41.60
London median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +37.50% -46.67%

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 613 516 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.24% 26.86% 25.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 357 390
10th Percentile £418 £391 £415
25th Percentile £484 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £711
90th Percentile £763 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £26.54 £52.83 £27.67
25th Percentile £37.44 £55.99 £31.07
Median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -25.24%
75th Percentile £72.19 £76.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £83.75 £41.45
London median hourly rate £45.00 £51.44 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.52% +21.04% -32.00%

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 28 September 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
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 28 September 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 -26 57 £600 +2.56% 89
City of Westminster -6 5 £630 +31.39% 15
West End of London -9 2 £431 -38.39% 5
Camden - 1 £875 -
Southwark - 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 1 (1.59%) CMS
1 1 (1.59%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.59%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.59%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) AWS
2 7 (11.11%) Azure
2 7 (11.11%) GitHub
3 5 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.94%) Serverless
4 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.76%) Figma
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.17%) GCP
6 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.59%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.59%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.59%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.17%) Power BI
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) Cypress.io
2 4 (6.35%) GitLab
3 3 (4.76%) JUnit
3 3 (4.76%) Mockito
3 3 (4.76%) webpack
4 2 (3.17%) Claude Code
4 2 (3.17%) Gradle
4 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.17%) Liquibase
4 2 (3.17%) Vite
5 1 (1.59%) Bundler
5 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.59%) Gatling
5 1 (1.59%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.59%) JIRA
5 1 (1.59%) JMeter
5 1 (1.59%) rollup.js
5 1 (1.59%) Storybook
5 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (47.62%) Banking
2 26 (41.27%) Finance
3 19 (30.16%) Investment Banking
4 15 (23.81%) Front Office
5 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
6 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (7.94%) Financial Institution
7 5 (7.94%) Retail
8 3 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.76%) Retail Banking
9 2 (3.17%) Back Office
9 2 (3.17%) Legal
9 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.59%) Law
10 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (47.62%) Developer
2 21 (33.33%) Senior
3 14 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 14 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 12 (19.05%) React Developer
5 11 (17.46%) Java Developer
5 11 (17.46%) UI Developer
6 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (14.29%) Senior React Developer
6 9 (14.29%) Senior UI Developer
7 7 (11.11%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (4.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.76%) UI Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Sales Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.63%) Node.js
1 13 (20.63%) REST
2 12 (19.05%) Redux
3 10 (15.87%) Next.js
4 9 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 9 (14.29%) Kafka
5 8 (12.70%) CSS
6 7 (11.11%) GraphQL
6 7 (11.11%) HTML
6 7 (11.11%) RESTful
7 6 (9.52%) .NET
7 6 (9.52%) Spring
7 6 (9.52%) Spring Boot
8 5 (7.94%) Jest
9 4 (6.35%) Terraform
9 4 (6.35%) Vue
10 3 (4.76%) JSON
11 2 (3.17%) CSS3
11 2 (3.17%) DOM
11 2 (3.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (19.05%) Fixed Income
2 12 (19.05%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 7 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (11.11%) Equities
5 6 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (6.35%) Derivative
6 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
7 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.17%) Life Science
8 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Genomics
8 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Android
1 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 25 (39.68%) Agile
2 25 (39.68%) CI/CD
3 16 (25.40%) Microservices
4 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.81%) Software Engineering
5 13 (20.63%) Test Automation
6 12 (19.05%) DevOps
6 12 (19.05%) Front End Development
7 11 (17.46%) AI
7 11 (17.46%) Low Latency
7 11 (17.46%) Observability
8 9 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
8 9 (14.29%) TDD
9 8 (12.70%) Machine Learning
10 7 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (11.11%) Micro Frontends
10 7 (11.11%) Migration
10 7 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (74.60%) TypeScript
2 35 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 27 (42.86%) Java
4 18 (28.57%) C#
5 11 (17.46%) Python
6 5 (7.94%) SQL
7 2 (3.17%) C++
7 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.17%) Korn
7 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.59%) Go
8 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.17%) Degree
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (4.76%) Google
2 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.59%) Databricks
3 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.59%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.59%) New Relic
3 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.59%) SAP
3 1 (1.59%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.59%) WooCommerce
3 1 (1.59%) Zoho