React Developer Contract Job Trends in London

React.js Developer
England > London

The median React.js Developer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 221 165
Rank change year-on-year -74 -56 -6
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 132 154 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 1.14% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.22% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 132 228
10th Percentile £408 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
75th Percentile £850 £763 £788
90th Percentile £938 £838 £838
England median daily rate £580 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +5.45% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £67.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.67%

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 18,447 12,616 16,468
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 93.29% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,135 8,524 11,753
10th Percentile £358 £332 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 194 294
10th Percentile £17.98 £18.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.33 £23.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.75 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +14.11% -28.65%
75th Percentile £62.13 £50.50 £46.77
90th Percentile £80.25 £63.75 £68.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -9.09%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -17 15 £875 +84.21% 1
East London - 4 £875 -
South London - 2 - - 1
React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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.

1 115 (87.12%) React
2 85 (64.39%) TypeScript
3 74 (56.06%) JavaScript
4 62 (46.97%) Redux
5 46 (34.85%) Agile
6 45 (34.09%) Java
7 40 (30.30%) Full-Stack Development
8 38 (28.79%) Node.js
9 35 (26.52%) AWS
10 33 (25.00%) C#
11 28 (21.21%) Azure
12 27 (20.45%) Software Engineering
13 26 (19.70%) Python
13 26 (19.70%) REST
14 25 (18.94%) CI/CD
15 24 (18.18%) CSS
15 24 (18.18%) HTML
15 24 (18.18%) Test Automation
16 22 (16.67%) Accessibility
17 20 (15.15%) .NET
17 20 (15.15%) HTML5
18 19 (14.39%) Front End Development
18 19 (14.39%) GraphQL
18 19 (14.39%) Mentoring
18 19 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
18 19 (14.39%) RESTful
19 18 (13.64%) Electronic Trading
19 18 (13.64%) Low Latency
20 17 (12.88%) Investment Management
21 16 (12.12%) Portfolio Management

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 (1.52%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) Camunda
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.52%) AWS
2 28 (21.21%) Azure
3 11 (8.33%) GitHub
4 9 (6.82%) GCP
5 7 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.79%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.27%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.52%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.52%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.52%) npm
10 2 (1.52%) OCI
10 2 (1.52%) Serverless
10 2 (1.52%) Yarn
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.79%) Power BI
5 3 (2.27%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.52%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.76%) GIS
7 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (9.09%) Git
2 8 (6.06%) Vite
2 8 (6.06%) webpack
3 7 (5.30%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.03%) GitLab
4 4 (3.03%) Storybook
5 3 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.27%) JIRA
5 3 (2.27%) Mocha
5 3 (2.27%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.52%) Ant
6 2 (1.52%) Appium
6 2 (1.52%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.52%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.52%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.52%) JProfiler
6 2 (1.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.76%) ESLint
7 1 (0.76%) Serilog
General
1 58 (43.94%) Finance
2 46 (34.85%) Front Office
3 28 (21.21%) Banking
4 23 (17.42%) Investment Banking
5 17 (12.88%) Social Skills
6 10 (7.58%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.03%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.52%) Advertising
10 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (87.12%) React
2 62 (46.97%) Redux
3 38 (28.79%) Node.js
4 26 (19.70%) REST
5 24 (18.18%) CSS
5 24 (18.18%) HTML
6 20 (15.15%) .NET
6 20 (15.15%) HTML5
7 19 (14.39%) GraphQL
7 19 (14.39%) RESTful
8 16 (12.12%) React Native
9 14 (10.61%) Next.js
10 13 (9.85%) CSS3
10 13 (9.85%) Jest
11 12 (9.09%) Kafka
12 5 (3.79%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.79%) Spring
12 5 (3.79%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (3.79%) TanStack
13 4 (3.03%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.27%) Fixed Income
2 22 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (15.15%) Equities
4 19 (14.39%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (6.82%) Derivative
6 7 (5.30%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.03%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Android
2 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.85%) Agile
2 40 (30.30%) Full-Stack Development
3 27 (20.45%) Software Engineering
4 25 (18.94%) CI/CD
5 24 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 19 (14.39%) Front End Development
6 19 (14.39%) Mentoring
7 18 (13.64%) Electronic Trading
7 18 (13.64%) Low Latency
8 17 (12.88%) Investment Management
9 16 (12.12%) Portfolio Management
10 15 (11.36%) Performance Optimisation
11 13 (9.85%) Microservices
12 11 (8.33%) Fintech
13 10 (7.58%) DevOps
13 10 (7.58%) Integration Patterns
13 10 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (7.58%) TDD
14 9 (6.82%) Order Management
14 9 (6.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 85 (64.39%) TypeScript
2 74 (56.06%) JavaScript
3 45 (34.09%) Java
4 33 (25.00%) C#
5 26 (19.70%) Python
6 8 (6.06%) Go
6 8 (6.06%) SQL
7 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.76%) Bicep
8 1 (0.76%) JSX
8 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.85%) WCAG
3 3 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.52%) Google
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle
3 1 (0.76%) Braze
3 1 (0.76%) New Relic
3 1 (0.76%) Optimizely
3 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.76%) Veracode
3 1 (0.76%) Workday