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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 62 64
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing React 54 74 92
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.85% 3.17% 3.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.08% 13.26% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 47 66
10th Percentile £425 £424 £338
25th Percentile £453 £519 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +15.86% -7.52%
75th Percentile £688 £788 £675
90th Percentile £819 £855 £850
London median daily rate £575 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
London median hourly rate £51.00 £40.25 £72.00
% change year-on-year +26.71% -44.10% +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 447 558 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.58% 23.91% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 335 491
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £501 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £713
90th Percentile £748 £838 £825
London median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £44.97 £27.67 £46.93
25th Percentile £48.67 £31.07 £47.94
Median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £41.45 £52.58
London median hourly rate £51.44 £49.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.92% -17.50% +0.84%

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 52 £600 -7.69% 432
West End of London +5 2 £700 +33.33% 8
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 3 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.85%) Camunda
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) AWS
2 12 (22.22%) GitHub
3 9 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 7 (12.96%) Azure
5 6 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (11.11%) Serverless
6 5 (9.26%) GCP
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.56%) Cloud Run
8 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.70%) Figma
9 2 (3.70%) Firebase
9 2 (3.70%) Google Gemini
9 2 (3.70%) npm
9 2 (3.70%) Vertex AI
10 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.85%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.56%) MySQL
2 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Git
2 8 (14.81%) Bitbucket
3 5 (9.26%) Cypress.io
4 4 (7.41%) GitLab
5 3 (5.56%) JIRA
6 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.70%) Snyk
6 2 (3.70%) Storybook
6 2 (3.70%) webpack
7 1 (1.85%) Ant
7 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.85%) Babel
7 1 (1.85%) gulp
7 1 (1.85%) JUnit
7 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (35.19%) Finance
2 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 14 (25.93%) Banking
4 10 (18.52%) Front Office
5 7 (12.96%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (5.56%) Retail
7 3 (5.56%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Legal
8 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.85%) Advertising
9 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (55.56%) Developer
2 11 (20.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (16.67%) Angular Developer
4 8 (14.81%) React Developer
5 7 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (12.96%) Java Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Lead
8 4 (7.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Java Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Python Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior
10 2 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Gen AI Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) SQL Developer
10 2 (3.70%) UI Engineer
11 1 (1.85%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (48.15%) AngularJS
2 20 (37.04%) HTML
2 20 (37.04%) REST
3 19 (35.19%) CSS
4 13 (24.07%) HTML5
5 12 (22.22%) Spring Boot
6 7 (12.96%) GraphQL
6 7 (12.96%) Kafka
7 6 (11.11%) .NET
7 6 (11.11%) Node.js
8 5 (9.26%) CSS3
8 5 (9.26%) Jest
8 5 (9.26%) Next.js
8 5 (9.26%) RESTful
8 5 (9.26%) Spring
8 5 (9.26%) Svelte
8 5 (9.26%) Vue
9 4 (7.41%) Redux
10 3 (5.56%) Playwright
10 3 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.85%) Derivative
3 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.85%) Genomics
3 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Life Science
3 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Android
1 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.85%) Unix
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) Agile
2 29 (53.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (31.48%) CI/CD
3 17 (31.48%) Front End Development
4 16 (29.63%) Microservices
5 14 (25.93%) Software Engineering
6 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
7 10 (18.52%) DevOps
7 10 (18.52%) User Experience
8 9 (16.67%) Scrum
9 8 (14.81%) Kanban
10 7 (12.96%) BDD
10 7 (12.96%) TDD
11 6 (11.11%) Code Quality
11 6 (11.11%) Visualisation
11 6 (11.11%) Wealth Management
12 5 (9.26%) AI
12 5 (9.26%) Asset Management
12 5 (9.26%) Data Pipeline
12 5 (9.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 28 (51.85%) TypeScript
2 26 (48.15%) JavaScript
3 17 (31.48%) Java
4 15 (27.78%) Python
5 8 (14.81%) SQL
6 3 (5.56%) C#
7 1 (1.85%) Elm
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) QA
2 5 (9.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.56%) WCAG
4 2 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.85%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 2 (3.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.85%) Adobe
5 1 (1.85%) Kony