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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 59 68
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing React 76 83 66
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.90% 4.02% 2.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.97% 16.18% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 60 52
10th Percentile £475 £409 £451
25th Percentile £513 £425 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -9.68% -5.49%
75th Percentile £871 £604 £750
90th Percentile £938 £695 £836
London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
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 544 513 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.74% 24.84% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 340 372
10th Percentile £416 £399 £413
25th Percentile £478 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -3.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £711
90th Percentile £768 £760 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £22.38 £52.83 -
25th Percentile £28.01 £55.99 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% - -
75th Percentile £62.74 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £76.38 £83.75 -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -38.46%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in Central London over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React in Central London

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing React in Central London over the 6 months to 20 July 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 20 July 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 -17 69 £613 +16.67% 16
City of Westminster -8 6 £630 +54.03%
West End of London -7 2 £600 -14.29%
Camden - 1 £875 -
Southwark - 1 £875 -
React
London

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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 (2.63%) CMS
1 2 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.32%) Kentico
2 1 (1.32%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.32%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.63%) AWS
2 14 (18.42%) Azure
3 13 (17.11%) GitHub
4 7 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.58%) Figma
5 5 (6.58%) GCP
5 5 (6.58%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (6.58%) Serverless
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.32%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.32%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (1.32%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.21%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.95%) Db2
5 3 (3.95%) Redis
6 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.63%) Power BI
6 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.32%) MySQL
7 1 (1.32%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Git
2 8 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 5 (6.58%) GitLab
4 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.26%) JUnit
4 4 (5.26%) Mockito
4 4 (5.26%) webpack
5 3 (3.95%) JIRA
5 3 (3.95%) Vite
6 2 (2.63%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.63%) Claude Code
6 2 (2.63%) Gradle
6 2 (2.63%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.63%) Mocha
7 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.32%) Gatling
7 1 (1.32%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (32.89%) Banking
1 25 (32.89%) Finance
2 16 (21.05%) Front Office
2 16 (21.05%) Investment Banking
3 12 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.89%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.26%) Retail
7 3 (3.95%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (3.95%) Legal
7 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.95%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.63%) Advertising
8 2 (2.63%) Law
8 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Police
9 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (44.74%) Developer
2 23 (30.26%) Senior
3 15 (19.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 15 (19.74%) Senior Developer
4 14 (18.42%) React Developer
5 12 (15.79%) Java Developer
6 11 (14.47%) UI Developer
7 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (11.84%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (11.84%) Senior React Developer
8 9 (11.84%) Senior UI Developer
8 9 (11.84%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Java Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Data Scientist
10 3 (3.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.95%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) REST
2 15 (19.74%) AngularJS
2 15 (19.74%) Node.js
3 12 (15.79%) Redux
4 11 (14.47%) Kafka
5 9 (11.84%) Spring
6 8 (10.53%) .NET
6 8 (10.53%) CSS
6 8 (10.53%) GraphQL
6 8 (10.53%) Jest
6 8 (10.53%) Next.js
6 8 (10.53%) Spring Boot
7 7 (9.21%) HTML
7 7 (9.21%) RESTful
8 4 (5.26%) JSON
8 4 (5.26%) Playwright
8 4 (5.26%) PySpark
8 4 (5.26%) Vue
9 3 (3.95%) Keras
9 3 (3.95%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 11 (14.47%) Fixed Income
4 10 (13.16%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (9.21%) Equities
7 4 (5.26%) Derivative
8 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.63%) NHS
10 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.32%) Genomics
10 1 (1.32%) Life Science
10 1 (1.32%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Android
1 7 (9.21%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.95%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (39.47%) Agile
1 30 (39.47%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 19 (25.00%) Microservices
4 18 (23.68%) Software Engineering
5 16 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 15 (19.74%) AI
7 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (17.11%) DevOps
9 12 (15.79%) Low Latency
9 12 (15.79%) Machine Learning
9 12 (15.79%) Observability
10 11 (14.47%) Electronic Trading
11 10 (13.16%) Analytics
11 10 (13.16%) TDD
11 10 (13.16%) User Experience
12 9 (11.84%) Containerisation
12 9 (11.84%) Front End Development
13 8 (10.53%) LLM
13 8 (10.53%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 54 (71.05%) TypeScript
2 38 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 31 (40.79%) Java
4 21 (27.63%) C#
4 21 (27.63%) Python
5 8 (10.53%) SQL
6 2 (2.63%) C++
6 2 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.32%) Go
7 1 (1.32%) Korn
7 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) SC Cleared
1 9 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) Degree
3 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.95%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) WCAG
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.26%) Databricks
2 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.32%) Google
3 1 (1.32%) IBM
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.32%) SAP
3 1 (1.32%) Splunk