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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -15
Contract jobs citing React 53 75 98
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.84% 3.21% 3.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.18% 13.35% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 49 71
10th Percentile £425 £456 £350
25th Percentile £456 £513 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +15.80% -7.48%
75th Percentile £688 £788 £675
90th Percentile £813 £853 £850
London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
London median hourly rate £51.00 £39.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.77% -45.83% +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 435 562 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.31% 24.05% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 348 506
10th Percentile £375 £413 £409
25th Percentile £446 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +4.20%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £713
90th Percentile £763 £838 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £52.83 £27.67 £46.93
25th Percentile £55.99 £31.07 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -15.90%
75th Percentile £76.25 £41.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 £41.45 £52.58
London median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +22.28% -29.17% -7.69%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 -13 48 £600 -7.69% 57
West End of London +5 3 £700 +33.33%
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 4 (7.55%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.89%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) AWS
2 9 (16.98%) Amazon S3
2 9 (16.98%) GitHub
3 8 (15.09%) Azure
4 7 (13.21%) Serverless
5 6 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (9.43%) GCP
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.66%) Cloud Run
8 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.77%) Figma
9 2 (3.77%) Firebase
9 2 (3.77%) Google Gemini
9 2 (3.77%) npm
9 2 (3.77%) Vertex AI
10 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.66%) MySQL
2 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket
2 5 (9.43%) Cypress.io
3 4 (7.55%) JIRA
4 2 (3.77%) GitLab
4 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.77%) Snyk
4 2 (3.77%) Storybook
4 2 (3.77%) webpack
5 1 (1.89%) Ant
5 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.89%) Babel
5 1 (1.89%) gulp
5 1 (1.89%) JUnit
5 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (37.74%) Finance
2 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
3 14 (26.42%) Banking
4 10 (18.87%) Front Office
5 7 (13.21%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Retail
6 3 (5.66%) Retail Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.77%) Legal
8 1 (1.89%) Advertising
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (52.83%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (13.21%) Angular Developer
3 7 (13.21%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (13.21%) React Developer
4 5 (9.43%) Lead
4 5 (9.43%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Java Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
7 2 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.77%) SQL Developer
7 2 (3.77%) UI Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Dashboard Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (43.40%) AngularJS
2 22 (41.51%) HTML
3 21 (39.62%) CSS
4 18 (33.96%) REST
5 14 (26.42%) HTML5
6 9 (16.98%) Spring Boot
7 7 (13.21%) GraphQL
7 7 (13.21%) Kafka
7 7 (13.21%) Next.js
7 7 (13.21%) Node.js
8 6 (11.32%) .NET
9 5 (9.43%) CSS3
9 5 (9.43%) Jest
9 5 (9.43%) RESTful
9 5 (9.43%) Spring
9 5 (9.43%) Svelte
10 4 (7.55%) Redux
10 4 (7.55%) Vue
11 3 (5.66%) OAuth
11 3 (5.66%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.89%) Derivative
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.89%) Genomics
4 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Life Science
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Android
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.89%) Unix
1 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) Agile
2 27 (50.94%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (32.08%) Front End Development
4 15 (28.30%) CI/CD
5 14 (26.42%) Microservices
5 14 (26.42%) Software Engineering
6 11 (20.75%) DevOps
7 10 (18.87%) User Experience
8 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
9 7 (13.21%) Code Quality
10 6 (11.32%) Scrum
10 6 (11.32%) Wealth Management
11 5 (9.43%) AI
11 5 (9.43%) Asset Management
11 5 (9.43%) Event-Driven
11 5 (9.43%) Kanban
11 5 (9.43%) Visualisation
11 5 (9.43%) Web Development
12 4 (7.55%) Generative AI
12 4 (7.55%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) TypeScript
2 26 (49.06%) JavaScript
3 14 (26.42%) Java
3 14 (26.42%) Python
4 8 (15.09%) SQL
5 4 (7.55%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Elm
6 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
1 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) WCAG
4 1 (1.89%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) Google
3 4 (7.55%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.89%) Adobe
5 1 (1.89%) Kony