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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 49 67
Rank change year-on-year -24 +18 -15
Contract jobs citing React 69 82 69
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.84% 4.07% 2.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.20% 15.56% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 56 54
10th Percentile £421 £409 £425
25th Percentile £503 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £731
90th Percentile £819 £659 £834
London median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
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 - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.59%

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 486 527 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.99% 26.15% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 351 387
10th Percentile £363 £409 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -11.92%
75th Percentile £655 £686 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £780
London median daily rate £545 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £19.92 - -
25th Percentile £24.00 - -
Median hourly rate £29.53 - -
75th Percentile £53.07 - -
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £35.54
% change year-on-year -19.05% +47.74% -44.48%

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 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React in Central London

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing React in Central London over the 6 months to 26 April 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 26 April 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 -22 66 £575 +4.55% 82
City of Westminster -3 2 £613 +49.76%
West End of London - 1 - -
React
London

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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 (2.90%) CMS
1 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.45%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.45%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.45%) Kentico
2 1 (1.45%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.45%) Maya
1 1 (1.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Shopify
2 1 (1.45%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.88%) AWS
2 15 (21.74%) GitHub
3 13 (18.84%) Azure
4 9 (13.04%) GCP
5 7 (10.14%) Serverless
6 6 (8.70%) Figma
6 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.25%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.90%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.90%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.90%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.29%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.14%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.80%) MySQL
6 3 (4.35%) DB2
6 3 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.90%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.90%) Pinecone
7 2 (2.90%) Redis
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.45%) Big Data
8 1 (1.45%) CockroachDB
8 1 (1.45%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Git
2 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.70%) Cypress.io
4 5 (7.25%) GitLab
5 4 (5.80%) JIRA
5 4 (5.80%) JUnit
5 4 (5.80%) Mockito
6 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.90%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.90%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.90%) Gradle
7 2 (2.90%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.90%) Mocha
7 2 (2.90%) Vite
7 2 (2.90%) webpack
8 1 (1.45%) Maven
8 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.45%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Finance
3 5 (7.25%) Banking
4 4 (5.80%) Front Office
5 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.90%) Advertising
6 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Law
7 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.45%) Police
7 1 (1.45%) Publishing
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (49.28%) Developer
2 15 (21.74%) Senior
3 12 (17.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) Senior Developer
5 8 (11.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Backend Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Java Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Senior Backend Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Python Developer
8 5 (7.25%) React Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (4.35%) Angular Developer
10 3 (4.35%) Data Scientist
10 3 (4.35%) Design Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Python Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.35%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.23%) AngularJS
2 17 (24.64%) CSS
2 17 (24.64%) HTML
3 13 (18.84%) Node.js
4 12 (17.39%) Spring
5 11 (15.94%) Spring Boot
6 10 (14.49%) REST
7 7 (10.14%) Next.js
8 6 (8.70%) Django
8 6 (8.70%) Kafka
8 6 (8.70%) OSGi
8 6 (8.70%) RESTful
8 6 (8.70%) Vue
9 5 (7.25%) GraphQL
9 5 (7.25%) Playwright
10 4 (5.80%) Bootstrap
10 4 (5.80%) CSS3
10 4 (5.80%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.80%) HTML5
10 4 (5.80%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.35%) Derivative
5 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.90%) NHS
6 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.45%) Genomics
6 1 (1.45%) Life Science
6 1 (1.45%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Android
1 6 (8.70%) Apple iOS
2 5 (7.25%) Linux
3 3 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (37.68%) Agile
3 25 (36.23%) CI/CD
4 18 (26.09%) Microservices
5 17 (24.64%) DevOps
5 17 (24.64%) Software Engineering
6 16 (23.19%) AI
7 14 (20.29%) User Experience
8 13 (18.84%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.94%) Containerisation
9 11 (15.94%) LLM
10 10 (14.49%) Front End Development
11 9 (13.04%) Analytics
11 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (13.04%) TDD
12 8 (11.59%) Machine Learning
12 8 (11.59%) Observability
12 8 (11.59%) SDLC
13 7 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (10.14%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.17%) TypeScript
2 33 (47.83%) Java
3 32 (46.38%) JavaScript
4 24 (34.78%) Python
5 14 (20.29%) SQL
6 7 (10.14%) C#
7 2 (2.90%) Bicep
8 1 (1.45%) C++
8 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) SC Cleared
1 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.25%) Degree
3 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.90%) WCAG
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (24.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.70%) Terraform
3 3 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.45%) Argo
5 1 (1.45%) Istio
5 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (7.25%) Google
2 3 (4.35%) Databricks
2 3 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.90%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle
4 1 (1.45%) Adobe
4 1 (1.45%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.45%) IBM
4 1 (1.45%) Planview
4 1 (1.45%) Splunk