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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 52 65
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing React 78 79 72
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.99% 4.12% 3.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.91% 16.46% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 58 60
10th Percentile £471 £409 £425
25th Percentile £513 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.29% -6.86% -8.29%
75th Percentile £841 £587 £694
90th Percentile £938 £625 £818
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
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 523 480 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.05% 25.03% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 318 398
10th Percentile £410 £403 £413
25th Percentile £475 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £761 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £22.38 £54.27 -
25th Percentile £28.01 £59.60 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £69.47 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.78% - -
75th Percentile £62.74 £79.60 -
90th Percentile £76.38 £85.09 -
London median hourly rate £42.00 £44.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +5.29% -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

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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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -13 71 £600 +14.29% 34
City of Westminster -4 6 £630 +54.03%
West End of London -4 2 £600 +20.00%
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 2 (2.56%) CMS
1 2 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.28%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.28%) Kentico
2 1 (1.28%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.28%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.64%) AWS
2 16 (20.51%) Azure
3 15 (19.23%) GitHub
4 9 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (10.26%) Serverless
6 6 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (7.69%) Figma
6 6 (7.69%) GCP
7 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.85%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.56%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.97%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.97%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.13%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.85%) Db2
4 3 (3.85%) Redis
4 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.56%) MySQL
5 2 (2.56%) Pinecone
5 2 (2.56%) Power BI
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.28%) Big Data
6 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.28%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Git
2 7 (8.97%) Cypress.io
3 6 (7.69%) GitLab
4 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.13%) JUnit
4 4 (5.13%) Mockito
4 4 (5.13%) webpack
5 3 (3.85%) JIRA
5 3 (3.85%) Vite
6 2 (2.56%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.56%) Claude Code
6 2 (2.56%) Gradle
6 2 (2.56%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.56%) Mocha
7 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.28%) Gatling
7 1 (1.28%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (29.49%) Finance
2 22 (28.21%) Banking
3 15 (19.23%) Investment Banking
4 14 (17.95%) Front Office
5 12 (15.38%) Social Skills
6 5 (6.41%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.85%) Legal
8 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.85%) Retail
8 3 (3.85%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Advertising
9 2 (2.56%) Law
10 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.28%) Police
10 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (43.59%) Developer
2 27 (34.62%) Senior
3 18 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 17 (21.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 13 (16.67%) React Developer
6 12 (15.38%) Java Developer
7 11 (14.10%) UI Developer
8 9 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (11.54%) Senior React Developer
8 9 (11.54%) Senior UI Developer
9 8 (10.26%) Software Engineer
10 7 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (7.69%) Java Engineer
12 4 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (5.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 4 (5.13%) Python Developer
12 4 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (3.85%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 3 (3.85%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.79%) AngularJS
2 15 (19.23%) REST
3 13 (16.67%) Node.js
3 13 (16.67%) Redux
4 11 (14.10%) CSS
5 10 (12.82%) HTML
5 10 (12.82%) Kafka
5 10 (12.82%) Spring
6 9 (11.54%) Next.js
7 8 (10.26%) .NET
7 8 (10.26%) GraphQL
7 8 (10.26%) RESTful
7 8 (10.26%) Spring Boot
8 7 (8.97%) Jest
9 5 (6.41%) Django
9 5 (6.41%) Playwright
10 4 (5.13%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.13%) JSON
10 4 (5.13%) PySpark
10 4 (5.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (14.10%) Cloud Native
3 10 (12.82%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (11.54%) Fixed Income
5 7 (8.97%) Equities
6 6 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (5.13%) Derivative
8 3 (3.85%) AI Agents
8 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.56%) NHS
10 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.28%) Genomics
10 1 (1.28%) Life Science
10 1 (1.28%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Android
1 7 (8.97%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.13%) Linux
3 3 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (35.90%) Agile
2 28 (35.90%) CI/CD
3 18 (23.08%) Microservices
4 17 (21.79%) Software Engineering
4 17 (21.79%) Test Automation
5 16 (20.51%) AI
5 16 (20.51%) DevOps
6 14 (17.95%) User Experience
7 12 (15.38%) Low Latency
7 12 (15.38%) Observability
8 11 (14.10%) Analytics
8 11 (14.10%) Electronic Trading
8 11 (14.10%) Front End Development
8 11 (14.10%) LLM
9 10 (12.82%) Containerisation
9 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (12.82%) Machine Learning
9 10 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (11.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 52 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 39 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 35 (44.87%) Java
4 25 (32.05%) Python
5 21 (26.92%) C#
6 12 (15.38%) SQL
7 2 (2.56%) Bicep
7 2 (2.56%) C++
7 2 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.28%) Go
8 1 (1.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) SC Cleared
1 8 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.41%) Degree
3 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.13%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.56%) WCAG
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.41%) Terraform
3 2 (2.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (5.13%) Databricks
2 3 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.56%) Google
3 2 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.28%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.28%) IBM
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.28%) Splunk