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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 51 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing React 72 78 76
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.88% 4.11% 3.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.91% 16.18% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 56 64
10th Percentile £442 £409 £425
25th Percentile £511 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.59% -8.29%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £738
90th Percentile £866 £659 £834
London median daily rate £550 £575 £614
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.31% +2.29%
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 - - -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 483 482 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.33% 25.38% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 317 396
10th Percentile £409 £404 £413
25th Percentile £500 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £758 £751 £788
London median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £20.53 - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.07 - -
75th Percentile £49.24 - -
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -39.29%

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 24 May 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

React
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing React in Central London over the 6 months to 24 May 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 24 May 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 -11 68 £600 +14.29% 68
City of Westminster -4 3 £606 +48.23%
West End of London -1 2 £600 +20.00% 6
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 (2.78%) CMS
1 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.39%) Kentico
2 1 (1.39%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.39%) Maya
1 1 (1.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Orchestrade
1 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) AWS
2 15 (20.83%) Azure
2 15 (20.83%) GitHub
3 9 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (11.11%) GCP
5 7 (9.72%) Serverless
6 6 (8.33%) Figma
7 5 (6.94%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.94%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.78%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.72%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.17%) DB2
5 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.17%) MySQL
5 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.78%) Pinecone
6 2 (2.78%) Power BI
6 2 (2.78%) Redis
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.39%) Big Data
7 1 (1.39%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Git
2 6 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 6 (8.33%) GitLab
3 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.56%) JIRA
5 3 (4.17%) JUnit
5 3 (4.17%) Mockito
5 3 (4.17%) webpack
6 2 (2.78%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.78%) Claude Code
6 2 (2.78%) Gradle
6 2 (2.78%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.78%) Mocha
6 2 (2.78%) Vite
7 1 (1.39%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.39%) Maven
7 1 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (18.06%) Finance
2 11 (15.28%) Banking
2 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Front Office
4 5 (6.94%) Financial Institution
4 5 (6.94%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Retail
7 2 (2.78%) Advertising
7 2 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.78%) Law
7 2 (2.78%) Legal
7 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.39%) Police
8 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (43.06%) Developer
2 21 (29.17%) Senior
3 15 (20.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 13 (18.06%) Senior Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (9.72%) Backend Developer
6 7 (9.72%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.33%) Java Engineer
7 6 (8.33%) React Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) UI Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Data Scientist
10 3 (4.17%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (29.17%) AngularJS
2 16 (22.22%) CSS
3 15 (20.83%) HTML
4 13 (18.06%) Node.js
5 12 (16.67%) REST
5 12 (16.67%) Spring
6 10 (13.89%) Kafka
7 9 (12.50%) Spring Boot
8 8 (11.11%) GraphQL
8 8 (11.11%) Next.js
8 8 (11.11%) RESTful
9 7 (9.72%) .NET
10 6 (8.33%) Django
10 6 (8.33%) OSGi
10 6 (8.33%) Redux
11 5 (6.94%) Jest
11 5 (6.94%) JSON
12 4 (5.56%) Playwright
12 4 (5.56%) PySpark
12 4 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.17%) Derivative
4 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.78%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.78%) NHS
5 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.39%) Genomics
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Life Science
6 1 (1.39%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Android
1 7 (9.72%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.94%) Linux
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (36.11%) Agile
3 25 (34.72%) CI/CD
4 18 (25.00%) DevOps
5 17 (23.61%) AI
5 17 (23.61%) Microservices
6 16 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 15 (20.83%) User Experience
8 13 (18.06%) Test Automation
9 12 (16.67%) Front End Development
10 11 (15.28%) Containerisation
10 11 (15.28%) LLM
11 10 (13.89%) Observability
12 9 (12.50%) Analytics
12 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 9 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (9.72%) Prototyping
13 7 (9.72%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 7 (9.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.94%) TypeScript
2 37 (51.39%) JavaScript
3 31 (43.06%) Java
4 26 (36.11%) Python
5 14 (19.44%) SQL
6 12 (16.67%) C#
7 2 (2.78%) Bicep
7 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.94%) Degree
3 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.78%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) WCAG
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (26.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.94%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Grafana
3 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) Argo
4 1 (1.39%) Istio
4 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (5.56%) Google
2 3 (4.17%) Databricks
2 3 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.78%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.39%) Adobe
4 1 (1.39%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.39%) IBM
4 1 (1.39%) Planview
4 1 (1.39%) Splunk