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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 53 66
Rank change year-on-year -30 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing React 53 83 76
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.63% 3.63% 2.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.47% 14.72% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 46 52
10th Percentile £425 £423 £400
25th Percentile £460 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.84% -8.12%
75th Percentile £663 £784 £644
90th Percentile £838 £844 £849
London median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
London median hourly rate £47.00 £40.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +16.77% -35.60% -10.71%

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 462 564 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.88% 24.66% 22.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 344 430
10th Percentile £361 £413 £405
25th Percentile £434 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £693
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
London median daily rate £530 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £44.38 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%

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 1 January 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
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 1 January 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 -25 53 £600 +2.56% 87
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 (3.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) AWS
2 16 (30.19%) GitHub
3 10 (18.87%) Serverless
4 9 (16.98%) Azure
4 9 (16.98%) GCP
5 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.55%) Cloud Run
8 4 (7.55%) Figma
9 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.66%) Google Gemini
9 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.77%) Azure App Service
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Storage
10 2 (3.77%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
1 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.66%) MySQL
2 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.89%) Big Data
4 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.89%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.89%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) Git
2 8 (15.09%) Bitbucket
3 5 (9.43%) Cypress.io
4 4 (7.55%) GitLab
4 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.77%) JUnit
5 2 (3.77%) Snyk
5 2 (3.77%) Storybook
6 1 (1.89%) Ant
6 1 (1.89%) gulp
6 1 (1.89%) JIRA
6 1 (1.89%) Mockito
6 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.89%) Vite
6 1 (1.89%) webpack
General
1 14 (26.42%) Finance
2 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.75%) Banking
4 5 (9.43%) Front Office
4 5 (9.43%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (54.72%) Developer
2 8 (15.09%) Java Developer
3 7 (13.21%) Angular Developer
4 6 (11.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (11.32%) Lead
4 6 (11.32%) Senior
5 5 (9.43%) Backend Developer
5 5 (9.43%) React Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Python Developer
9 1 (1.89%) Python Software Engineer
9 1 (1.89%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (49.06%) AngularJS
2 23 (43.40%) HTML
3 22 (41.51%) CSS
4 12 (22.64%) REST
5 11 (20.75%) HTML5
5 11 (20.75%) Spring Boot
6 9 (16.98%) Node.js
7 6 (11.32%) CSS3
7 6 (11.32%) RESTful
8 5 (9.43%) Next.js
8 5 (9.43%) OSGi
8 5 (9.43%) Spring
9 4 (7.55%) .NET
9 4 (7.55%) Playwright
9 4 (7.55%) Redux
9 4 (7.55%) Vue
9 4 (7.55%) Zustand
10 3 (5.66%) Django
10 3 (5.66%) FastAPI
10 3 (5.66%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.89%) Derivative
4 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.89%) Genomics
4 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Life Science
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
1 1 (1.89%) Unix
1 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) Agile
2 23 (43.40%) Full-Stack Development
3 21 (39.62%) CI/CD
4 17 (32.08%) DevOps
5 15 (28.30%) User Experience
6 13 (24.53%) Front End Development
6 13 (24.53%) Test Automation
7 12 (22.64%) Microservices
8 10 (18.87%) Scrum
8 10 (18.87%) Software Engineering
9 9 (16.98%) Kanban
9 9 (16.98%) TDD
10 8 (15.09%) BDD
11 7 (13.21%) AI
11 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
11 7 (13.21%) Observability
12 6 (11.32%) Clean Code
12 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (11.32%) SDLC
12 6 (11.32%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) JavaScript
2 26 (49.06%) Java
2 26 (49.06%) TypeScript
3 12 (22.64%) Python
4 9 (16.98%) SQL
5 2 (3.77%) Bicep
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) MCP
3 1 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.66%) WCAG
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Terraform
2 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.77%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) Argo
4 1 (1.89%) Istio
4 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Google
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.55%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.66%) Oracle
5 2 (3.77%) Adobe
6 1 (1.89%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.89%) Kony
6 1 (1.89%) Planview