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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 58 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing React 71 69 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.66% 3.02% 3.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.50% 12.57% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 52 77
10th Percentile £425 £463 £343
25th Percentile £430 £500 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £804 £750
90th Percentile £688 £861 £850
London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £38.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -48.67% +29.31%

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 458 549 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.60% 24.01% 25.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 361 562
10th Percentile £377 £425 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £725
90th Percentile £756 £838 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £52.83 £26.53 -
25th Percentile £55.99 £28.23 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.15 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.43% -39.35% +11.58%
75th Percentile £76.25 £36.73 -
90th Percentile £83.75 £38.84 -
London median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +22.28% -33.59% +10.34%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing React as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for React 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +4 63 £545 -16.15% 83
West End of London +3 3 £700 +47.37% 1
City of Westminster +1 2 £480 +0.95%
React
London

React
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) Camunda
2 1 (1.41%) CMS
2 1 (1.41%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.07%) AWS
2 13 (18.31%) Serverless
3 12 (16.90%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (11.27%) Amazon S3
4 8 (11.27%) GitHub
5 6 (8.45%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (8.45%) Azure
6 4 (5.63%) GCP
6 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.82%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.82%) Figma
8 2 (2.82%) Firebase
8 2 (2.82%) Google Gemini
8 2 (2.82%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.82%) Vertex AI
9 1 (1.41%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.04%) DocumentDB
4 5 (7.04%) Redis
5 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.23%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.23%) MySQL
7 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.41%) Big Data
8 1 (1.41%) DB2
8 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Git
2 5 (7.04%) SonarQube
3 4 (5.63%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.63%) JIRA
4 3 (4.23%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.23%) Storybook
5 2 (2.82%) GitLab
5 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.82%) Snyk
5 2 (2.82%) webpack
6 1 (1.41%) Ant
6 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.41%) Babel
6 1 (1.41%) JUnit
6 1 (1.41%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.41%) Vite
General
1 18 (25.35%) Finance
1 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Banking
3 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.27%) Front Office
4 8 (11.27%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.63%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (5.63%) Retail
5 4 (5.63%) Retail Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.41%) Advertising
8 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 42 (59.15%) Developer
2 16 (22.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 16 (22.54%) Java Developer
3 14 (19.72%) React Developer
4 8 (11.27%) Angular Developer
4 8 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (8.45%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
5 6 (8.45%) JavaScript Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (5.63%) Lead
6 4 (5.63%) Python Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Gen AI Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) SQL Developer
7 3 (4.23%) UI Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (29.58%) AngularJS
2 20 (28.17%) HTML
3 18 (25.35%) CSS
3 18 (25.35%) REST
4 14 (19.72%) Spring Boot
5 12 (16.90%) Kafka
5 12 (16.90%) Node.js
5 12 (16.90%) Spring
6 11 (15.49%) HTML5
7 10 (14.08%) Next.js
8 8 (11.27%) GraphQL
9 7 (9.86%) RESTful
10 6 (8.45%) Redux
11 5 (7.04%) CSS3
11 5 (7.04%) Jest
11 5 (7.04%) Svelte
12 4 (5.63%) .NET
12 4 (5.63%) OAuth
12 4 (5.63%) Vue
13 3 (4.23%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.82%) Fixed Income
2 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Unix
2 1 (1.41%) Android
2 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.70%) Agile
2 27 (38.03%) Full-Stack Development
3 24 (33.80%) Microservices
4 16 (22.54%) DevOps
5 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
5 15 (21.13%) Front End Development
6 14 (19.72%) Clean Code
7 13 (18.31%) Software Engineering
8 11 (15.49%) API Development
9 10 (14.08%) User Experience
10 7 (9.86%) Code Quality
11 6 (8.45%) SOLID
11 6 (8.45%) Wealth Management
12 5 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (7.04%) Generative AI
12 5 (7.04%) SDLC
12 5 (7.04%) Test Automation
13 4 (5.63%) Event-Driven
13 4 (5.63%) Fintech
13 4 (5.63%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.70%) JavaScript
2 29 (40.85%) TypeScript
3 24 (33.80%) Java
4 16 (22.54%) Python
5 14 (19.72%) SQL
6 4 (5.63%) C#
7 1 (1.41%) Elm
7 1 (1.41%) Go
7 1 (1.41%) Perl
7 1 (1.41%) Ruby
7 1 (1.41%) Rust
7 1 (1.41%) Scala
7 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) SC Cleared
1 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.41%) Degree
3 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
2 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.45%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (8.45%) Oracle
2 4 (5.63%) Google
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.41%) Adobe
4 1 (1.41%) Kony
4 1 (1.41%) Sybase