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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 57 68
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing React 67 70 65
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.93% 3.55% 2.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.65% 13.57% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 43 49
10th Percentile £425 £409 £425
25th Percentile £500 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £631 £585 £675
90th Percentile £770 £678 £828
London median daily rate £536 £575 £648
% change year-on-year -6.74% -11.20% +7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 - -
Median hourly rate £57.77 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £52.38 £42.00 £48.36
% change year-on-year +24.72% -13.15% -30.91%

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 491 516 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.47% 26.17% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 343 379
10th Percentile £363 £409 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £551
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.18% -11.84%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
London median daily rate £544 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £24.60 - -
25th Percentile £27.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £32.07 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £54.83 - -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £55.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -19.82% +31.55% -35.09%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -13 64 £560 +4.19% 118
City of Westminster -1 2 £613 +49.76%
West End of London +7 1 - -
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 (2.99%) CMS
1 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.49%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.49%) Kentico
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.49%) Maya
1 1 (1.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.34%) AWS
2 17 (25.37%) GitHub
3 15 (22.39%) Azure
4 9 (13.43%) GCP
5 7 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.96%) Figma
6 6 (8.96%) Serverless
7 5 (7.46%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.48%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.99%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.99%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.43%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.45%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.97%) MySQL
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.48%) DB2
5 3 (4.48%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.99%) Pinecone
6 2 (2.99%) Redis
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.49%) Big Data
7 1 (1.49%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) Git
2 7 (10.45%) Cypress.io
3 6 (8.96%) GitLab
4 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.48%) JIRA
6 3 (4.48%) webpack
7 2 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.99%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.99%) JUnit
7 2 (2.99%) Mocha
7 2 (2.99%) Mockito
7 2 (2.99%) Vite
8 1 (1.49%) gulp
8 1 (1.49%) Maven
8 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Finance
3 5 (7.46%) Banking
4 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Front Office
5 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Advertising
7 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Law
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.49%) Police
7 1 (1.49%) Publishing
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (53.73%) Developer
2 13 (19.40%) Senior
3 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Senior Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Backend Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) React Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (8.96%) Python Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Senior Backend Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Angular Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.48%) Design Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Lead
8 3 (4.48%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.79%) AngularJS
2 21 (31.34%) CSS
2 21 (31.34%) HTML
3 13 (19.40%) Node.js
4 10 (14.93%) REST
5 8 (11.94%) Spring
5 8 (11.94%) Spring Boot
6 7 (10.45%) HTML5
6 7 (10.45%) Playwright
7 6 (8.96%) Django
7 6 (8.96%) Next.js
7 6 (8.96%) OSGi
7 6 (8.96%) Vue
8 5 (7.46%) Jest
8 5 (7.46%) Kafka
8 5 (7.46%) RESTful
9 4 (5.97%) Bootstrap
9 4 (5.97%) CSS3
9 4 (5.97%) FastAPI
9 4 (5.97%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.48%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.99%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.49%) Derivative
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.49%) Genomics
5 1 (1.49%) Life Science
5 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Android
1 6 (8.96%) Apple iOS
2 5 (7.46%) Linux
3 3 (4.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 24 (35.82%) Agile
3 23 (34.33%) CI/CD
4 16 (23.88%) DevOps
4 16 (23.88%) Microservices
5 15 (22.39%) User Experience
6 14 (20.90%) AI
6 14 (20.90%) Software Engineering
6 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
7 12 (17.91%) Front End Development
8 11 (16.42%) LLM
9 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
10 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (11.94%) Analytics
11 8 (11.94%) TDD
12 7 (10.45%) Observability
12 7 (10.45%) Prototyping
12 7 (10.45%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 7 (10.45%) UX Design
13 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) JavaScript
2 33 (49.25%) TypeScript
3 27 (40.30%) Java
4 25 (37.31%) Python
5 12 (17.91%) SQL
6 5 (7.46%) C#
7 2 (2.99%) Bicep
8 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.46%) Degree
3 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.97%) WCAG
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.45%) Terraform
3 3 (4.48%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.49%) Argo
5 1 (1.49%) Istio
5 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (7.46%) Google
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.48%) Databricks
2 3 (4.48%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.99%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle
4 1 (1.49%) Adobe
4 1 (1.49%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.49%) IBM
4 1 (1.49%) Planview
4 1 (1.49%) Splunk