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

6 months to
20 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 74 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 0
Contract jobs citing React 60 53 75
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.53% 2.84% 3.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.54% 10.75% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 49
10th Percentile £405 £425 £456
25th Percentile £494 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +15.80%
75th Percentile £811 £688 £788
90th Percentile £938 £813 £853
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £37.20
25th Percentile - - £37.88
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £41.38
90th Percentile - - £41.60
London median hourly rate - £51.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year - +30.77% -45.83%

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.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 629 493 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.51% 26.42% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 343 388
10th Percentile £413 £386 £413
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -3.16% -1.04%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £705
90th Percentile £751 £773 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £37.68 £52.83 £27.67
25th Percentile £39.81 £55.99 £31.07
Median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -23.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £83.75 £41.45
London median hourly rate £52.00 £51.97 £42.50
% change year-on-year +0.06% +22.28% -30.61%

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 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 20 October 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 -12 53 £588 -2.08% 84
City of Westminster - 5 £630 - 4
West End of London -12 2 £431 -38.39%
Camden - 1 £875 - 2
Southwark - 1 £875 - 1
Lambeth - 1 - -
React
London

React Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Node.js23.3%14
2Redux18.3%11
2REST18.3%11
4AngularJS16.7%10
5CSS15.0%9
5Next.js15.0%9
7HTML13.3%8
7Kafka13.3%8
9GraphQL11.7%7
9RESTful11.7%7
11.NET10.0%6
12Jest8.3%5
13Terraform6.7%4
14Spring5.0%3
14Spring Boot5.0%3
14Vue5.0%3
17.NET Core3.3%2
17Apollo GraphQL3.3%2
17CSS33.3%2
17DOM3.3%2