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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 52 71
Rank change year-on-year -25 +19 -20
Contract jobs citing React 72 82 65
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.79% 3.96% 2.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.14% 16.30% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 59 52
10th Percentile £442 £409 £463
25th Percentile £507 £425 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £887 £621 £791
90th Percentile £938 £648 £849
London median daily rate £575 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -3.16% -1.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -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 548 503 547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.21% 24.30% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 334 377
10th Percentile £417 £386 £425
25th Percentile £484 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £773 £757 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £23.95 £52.83 -
25th Percentile £30.02 £55.99 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% - -
75th Percentile £66.56 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £79.13 £83.75 -
London median hourly rate £42.41 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -19.23% +31.25% -40.30%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -21 65 £600 +14.29% 49
City of Westminster -6 7 £621 +51.89% 10
West End of London -7 3 £431 -38.39% 3
Southwark - 1 £875 -
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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) CMS
2 1 (1.39%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.39%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.39%) AWS
2 11 (15.28%) GitHub
3 10 (13.89%) Azure
4 7 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (8.33%) Serverless
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.78%) Figma
7 2 (2.78%) GCP
7 2 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.39%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.17%) Redis
4 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.78%) Power BI
4 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (15.28%) Git
2 8 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 5 (6.94%) GitLab
4 4 (5.56%) JUnit
4 4 (5.56%) Mockito
4 4 (5.56%) webpack
5 3 (4.17%) Claude Code
5 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.17%) JIRA
5 3 (4.17%) Vite
6 2 (2.78%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.78%) Gradle
6 2 (2.78%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.78%) Mocha
7 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.39%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.39%) JMeter
7 1 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (34.72%) Banking
2 24 (33.33%) Finance
3 16 (22.22%) Front Office
3 16 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.94%) Financial Institution
6 5 (6.94%) Retail
7 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (4.17%) Legal
8 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.17%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.78%) Advertising
9 2 (2.78%) Law
9 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.39%) Marketing
10 1 (1.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (48.61%) Developer
2 23 (31.94%) Senior
3 17 (23.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 15 (20.83%) Senior Developer
5 14 (19.44%) React Developer
6 11 (15.28%) Java Developer
6 11 (15.28%) UI Developer
7 10 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (12.50%) Senior React Developer
8 9 (12.50%) Senior UI Developer
9 8 (11.11%) Software Engineer
10 6 (8.33%) Python Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Java Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 3 (4.17%) JavaScript Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 2 (2.78%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.22%) REST
2 15 (20.83%) Node.js
3 12 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 12 (16.67%) Redux
4 11 (15.28%) Kafka
5 9 (12.50%) Next.js
5 9 (12.50%) Spring
6 8 (11.11%) GraphQL
6 8 (11.11%) Jest
6 8 (11.11%) RESTful
6 8 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 7 (9.72%) .NET
8 5 (6.94%) CSS
9 4 (5.56%) HTML
9 4 (5.56%) JSON
9 4 (5.56%) PySpark
9 4 (5.56%) Vue
10 3 (4.17%) Django
10 3 (4.17%) Playwright
10 3 (4.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Cloud Native
1 14 (19.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (15.28%) Fixed Income
3 10 (13.89%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (9.72%) Equities
6 4 (5.56%) Derivative
7 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.78%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.78%) Life Science
8 2 (2.78%) NHS
9 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.39%) Genomics
9 1 (1.39%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Android
1 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (43.06%) Agile
3 28 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 20 (27.78%) Software Engineering
5 19 (26.39%) Microservices
6 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (23.61%) Test Automation
7 14 (19.44%) DevOps
8 13 (18.06%) Observability
9 12 (16.67%) Low Latency
10 11 (15.28%) AI
10 11 (15.28%) Electronic Trading
11 10 (13.89%) Containerisation
11 10 (13.89%) Front End Development
12 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 9 (12.50%) TDD
13 8 (11.11%) Pair Programming
14 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (9.72%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 52 (72.22%) TypeScript
2 37 (51.39%) JavaScript
3 31 (43.06%) Java
4 20 (27.78%) C#
5 17 (23.61%) Python
6 5 (6.94%) SQL
7 2 (2.78%) C++
7 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.78%) Korn
8 1 (1.39%) Go
8 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.78%) WCAG
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.94%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.56%) Databricks
2 3 (4.17%) Dynatrace
2 3 (4.17%) Google
3 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.39%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.39%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.39%) New Relic
4 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.39%) SAP
4 1 (1.39%) SendGrid
4 1 (1.39%) Splunk
4 1 (1.39%) WooCommerce
4 1 (1.39%) Zoho