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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 59 70
Rank change year-on-year -17 +11 -15
Contract jobs citing React 54 73 71
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.64% 3.45% 2.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.95% 13.62% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 41 54
10th Percentile £420 £428 £404
25th Percentile £460 £525 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £585 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +12.77% -12.82%
75th Percentile £663 £706 £629
90th Percentile £813 £838 £768
London median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
London median hourly rate £47.00 £40.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +16.77% -35.60% -10.71%

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 452 536 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.08% 25.29% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 328 428
10th Percentile £363 £411 £410
25th Percentile £436 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +0.43% -5.93%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.67 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile - £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +1.85% +10.77% -25.00%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -10 53 £575 -1.67% 108
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 (3.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Kentico
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) AWS
2 15 (27.78%) GitHub
3 10 (18.52%) Serverless
4 9 (16.67%) Azure
5 8 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (14.81%) GCP
6 7 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.41%) Cloud Run
8 4 (7.41%) Figma
9 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.56%) Google Gemini
9 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.70%) Azure App Service
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Storage
10 2 (3.70%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
1 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.41%) MySQL
2 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.85%) Big Data
4 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.85%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.85%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Git
2 7 (12.96%) Bitbucket
3 5 (9.26%) Cypress.io
3 5 (9.26%) GitLab
4 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.70%) JUnit
5 2 (3.70%) Snyk
5 2 (3.70%) Storybook
6 1 (1.85%) Ant
6 1 (1.85%) gulp
6 1 (1.85%) JIRA
6 1 (1.85%) Maven
6 1 (1.85%) Mockito
6 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.85%) Vite
6 1 (1.85%) webpack
General
1 14 (25.93%) Finance
2 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.52%) Banking
4 5 (9.26%) Front Office
5 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (55.56%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Senior
3 7 (12.96%) Backend Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Java Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Lead
3 7 (12.96%) Senior Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Angular Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (7.41%) React Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (51.85%) AngularJS
2 26 (48.15%) HTML
3 25 (46.30%) CSS
4 12 (22.22%) REST
5 10 (18.52%) HTML5
5 10 (18.52%) Spring Boot
6 9 (16.67%) Node.js
7 7 (12.96%) OSGi
8 6 (11.11%) CSS3
8 6 (11.11%) RESTful
8 6 (11.11%) Spring
9 5 (9.26%) .NET
9 5 (9.26%) Playwright
10 4 (7.41%) Django
10 4 (7.41%) GraphQL
10 4 (7.41%) Next.js
10 4 (7.41%) Vue
10 4 (7.41%) Zustand
11 3 (5.56%) Redux
11 3 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.70%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.85%) Derivative
4 1 (1.85%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.85%) Genomics
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Life Science
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (38.89%) Agile
2 21 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 16 (29.63%) DevOps
4 14 (25.93%) User Experience
5 13 (24.07%) Front End Development
6 12 (22.22%) Microservices
6 12 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
8 9 (16.67%) Scrum
9 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
9 8 (14.81%) Kanban
9 8 (14.81%) TDD
10 7 (12.96%) AI
10 7 (12.96%) BDD
10 7 (12.96%) Observability
11 6 (11.11%) Clean Code
11 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (9.26%) Design Patterns
12 5 (9.26%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 34 (62.96%) JavaScript
2 27 (50.00%) Java
3 25 (46.30%) TypeScript
4 13 (24.07%) Python
5 10 (18.52%) SQL
6 2 (3.70%) Bicep
6 2 (3.70%) C#
7 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) MCP
3 1 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.56%) WCAG
3 2 (3.70%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (1.85%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Terraform
2 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (1.85%) Argo
4 1 (1.85%) Istio
4 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) Adobe
6 1 (1.85%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.85%) Planview