React Developer Contract Job Trends in London

React.js Developer
England > London

The median React.js Developer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 208 201
Rank change year-on-year -104 -7 -28
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 76 148 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 1.10% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.17% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 118 169
10th Percentile £416 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £756 £788
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £72.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.29%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 13,893 12,599 17,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.62% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,248 8,064 12,487
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £776
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 138 334
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.65 £24.68 £19.01
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.81 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% +32.65% -15.73%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.88 £48.70
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.35 £65.53
England median hourly rate £31.18 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.93% - -6.67%

React Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'React Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

React Developer job vacancy trend in London

React Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in London

React Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React Developer in London over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React Developer in London

React Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in London

React Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing React Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Central London -13 4 £634 +15.23% 5
South London -8 2 £775 -6.06%
React Developer
England

React Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 10 February 2026, React Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring React Developer in the job title.

1 63 (82.89%) React
2 33 (43.42%) Full-Stack Development
3 32 (42.11%) TypeScript
4 30 (39.47%) JavaScript
5 28 (36.84%) Agile
5 28 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 25 (32.89%) AWS
7 22 (28.95%) Java
8 21 (27.63%) CSS
9 20 (26.32%) Python
10 19 (25.00%) HTML
11 18 (23.68%) Node.js
12 17 (22.37%) Azure
12 17 (22.37%) Front End Development
12 17 (22.37%) Redux
13 14 (18.42%) Jest
13 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (18.42%) RESTful
14 13 (17.11%) Design Patterns
14 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
15 12 (15.79%) Git
16 11 (14.47%) Docker
16 11 (14.47%) Microservices
16 11 (14.47%) SC Cleared
16 11 (14.47%) Security Cleared
16 11 (14.47%) TDD
17 10 (13.16%) Next.js
17 10 (13.16%) Test Automation
18 9 (11.84%) React Native
18 9 (11.84%) SQL

React Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Camunda
2 1 (1.32%) CMS
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.32%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.89%) AWS
2 17 (22.37%) Azure
3 5 (6.58%) GitHub
4 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.26%) GCP
4 4 (5.26%) npm
4 4 (5.26%) Yarn
5 3 (3.95%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.63%) Serverless
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.32%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.32%) SaaS
7 1 (1.32%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.89%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.32%) MySQL
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Git
2 5 (6.58%) webpack
3 4 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 4 (5.26%) JIRA
4 3 (3.95%) GitLab
5 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.63%) Mocha
6 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.32%) fastlane
6 1 (1.32%) JMeter
6 1 (1.32%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.32%) Vite
General
1 23 (30.26%) Finance
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.68%) Front Office
3 10 (13.16%) Banking
4 5 (6.58%) Investment Banking
4 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (82.89%) React
2 21 (27.63%) CSS
3 19 (25.00%) HTML
4 18 (23.68%) Node.js
5 17 (22.37%) Redux
6 14 (18.42%) Jest
6 14 (18.42%) RESTful
7 10 (13.16%) Next.js
8 9 (11.84%) React Native
9 7 (9.21%) FastAPI
9 7 (9.21%) REST
10 6 (7.89%) HTML5
10 6 (7.89%) Spring
11 5 (6.58%) GraphQL
11 5 (6.58%) Spring Boot
11 5 (6.58%) Zustand
12 4 (5.26%) Express.js
12 4 (5.26%) Playwright
12 4 (5.26%) pytest
12 4 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Fixed Income
2 7 (9.21%) Derivative
3 5 (6.58%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.58%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.26%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Equities
6 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Android
1 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (36.84%) Agile
2 28 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 17 (22.37%) Front End Development
4 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.11%) Design Patterns
5 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
6 11 (14.47%) Microservices
6 11 (14.47%) TDD
7 10 (13.16%) Test Automation
8 8 (10.53%) Computer Science
8 8 (10.53%) Containerisation
8 8 (10.53%) DevOps
9 7 (9.21%) Event-Driven
9 7 (9.21%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (7.89%) BDD
10 6 (7.89%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (7.89%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (7.89%) Mentoring
10 6 (7.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) TypeScript
2 30 (39.47%) JavaScript
3 22 (28.95%) Java
4 20 (26.32%) Python
5 9 (11.84%) SQL
6 3 (3.95%) C#
6 3 (3.95%) JSX
7 2 (2.63%) Go
8 1 (1.32%) Korn
8 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.47%) SC Cleared
1 11 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (6.58%) Degree
3 1 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (14.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) Kibana
3 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.63%) Okta
3 1 (1.32%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.32%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.32%) Telerik
3 1 (1.32%) Veracode