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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 56 70
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing React 75 80 64
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.90% 3.87% 2.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.71% 15.81% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 58 50
10th Percentile £469 £409 £461
25th Percentile £513 £425 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £513 £626
Median % change year-on-year +19.51% -18.16% +3.09%
75th Percentile £879 £600 £763
90th Percentile £938 £638 £839
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 547 506 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.15% 24.48% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 336 366
10th Percentile £413 £394 £416
25th Percentile £483 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £558 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -5.11% -6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £761 £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 £42.25 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -6.11% +20.00% -44.03%

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 27 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing React in Central London over the 6 months to 27 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 27 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 £600 +14.29% 31
City of Westminster -8 6 £630 +54.03% 3
West End of London -7 2 £600 -14.29%
Camden - 1 £875 -
Southwark - 1 £875 -
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 (2.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) CMS
2 1 (1.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.33%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.00%) AWS
2 14 (18.67%) Azure
3 13 (17.33%) GitHub
4 7 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.67%) Figma
5 5 (6.67%) GCP
5 5 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (6.67%) Serverless
6 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.33%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.33%) Cloud Run
9 1 (1.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.00%) Db2
5 3 (4.00%) Redis
6 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.67%) Power BI
6 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.33%) MySQL
7 1 (1.33%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Git
2 8 (10.67%) Cypress.io
3 5 (6.67%) GitLab
4 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.33%) JUnit
4 4 (5.33%) Mockito
4 4 (5.33%) webpack
5 3 (4.00%) Claude Code
5 3 (4.00%) JIRA
5 3 (4.00%) Vite
6 2 (2.67%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.67%) Gradle
6 2 (2.67%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.67%) Mocha
7 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.33%) Gatling
7 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (33.33%) Banking
1 25 (33.33%) Finance
2 16 (21.33%) Front Office
2 16 (21.33%) Investment Banking
3 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.33%) Retail
7 3 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (4.00%) Legal
7 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.00%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.67%) Advertising
8 2 (2.67%) Law
8 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Police
9 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (44.00%) Developer
2 23 (30.67%) Senior
3 16 (21.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 15 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 14 (18.67%) React Developer
6 12 (16.00%) Java Developer
7 11 (14.67%) UI Developer
8 10 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (12.00%) Senior React Developer
9 9 (12.00%) Senior UI Developer
9 9 (12.00%) Software Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Python Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Data Scientist
11 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.00%) Node.js
1 15 (20.00%) REST
2 14 (18.67%) AngularJS
3 12 (16.00%) Redux
4 11 (14.67%) Kafka
5 9 (12.00%) Spring
6 8 (10.67%) GraphQL
6 8 (10.67%) Jest
6 8 (10.67%) Next.js
6 8 (10.67%) Spring Boot
7 7 (9.33%) .NET
7 7 (9.33%) RESTful
8 6 (8.00%) CSS
9 5 (6.67%) HTML
10 4 (5.33%) JSON
10 4 (5.33%) Playwright
10 4 (5.33%) PySpark
10 4 (5.33%) Vue
11 3 (4.00%) Keras
11 3 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 11 (14.67%) Fixed Income
4 10 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (10.67%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (9.33%) Equities
7 4 (5.33%) Derivative
8 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.67%) NHS
10 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.33%) Genomics
10 1 (1.33%) Life Science
10 1 (1.33%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Android
1 7 (9.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.00%) Agile
1 30 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (37.33%) CI/CD
3 19 (25.33%) Microservices
4 18 (24.00%) Software Engineering
5 16 (21.33%) Test Automation
6 15 (20.00%) AI
7 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (17.33%) DevOps
9 12 (16.00%) Low Latency
9 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning
9 12 (16.00%) Observability
10 11 (14.67%) Electronic Trading
11 10 (13.33%) Analytics
11 10 (13.33%) TDD
11 10 (13.33%) User Experience
12 9 (12.00%) Containerisation
12 9 (12.00%) Front End Development
13 8 (10.67%) LLM
13 8 (10.67%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 53 (70.67%) TypeScript
2 36 (48.00%) JavaScript
3 31 (41.33%) Java
4 21 (28.00%) Python
5 20 (26.67%) C#
6 8 (10.67%) SQL
7 2 (2.67%) C++
7 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.33%) Go
8 1 (1.33%) Korn
8 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.67%) WCAG
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (21.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) Terraform
3 2 (2.67%) Grafana
4 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.33%) Databricks
2 3 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.33%) Google
3 1 (1.33%) IBM
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.33%) SAP
3 1 (1.33%) Splunk