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 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 216 202
Rank change year-on-year -94 -14 -28
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 70 164 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 1.11% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.19% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 132 173
10th Percentile £409 £407 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £729 £803 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £810
England median daily rate £518 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.75% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £72.00
England median hourly rate - - £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 13,243 13,839 17,255
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 93.46% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,772 8,936 12,466
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £793 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 152 218
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.82 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £55.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.15
England median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 -12 7 £515 -31.33% 25
South London -6 2 £775 -6.06% 3
React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, 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 60 (85.71%) React
2 33 (47.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 33 (47.14%) TypeScript
3 28 (40.00%) Agile
3 28 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 26 (37.14%) AWS
5 25 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 19 (27.14%) Java
7 18 (25.71%) CSS
7 18 (25.71%) Front End Development
7 18 (25.71%) Node.js
7 18 (25.71%) Python
8 17 (24.29%) HTML
9 14 (20.00%) Azure
9 14 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (18.57%) RESTful
11 12 (17.14%) Redux
12 11 (15.71%) Git
12 11 (15.71%) Jest
12 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
13 10 (14.29%) Design Patterns
13 10 (14.29%) Next.js
13 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
14 9 (12.86%) Microservices
14 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
14 9 (12.86%) SQL
14 9 (12.86%) Test Automation
15 8 (11.43%) Computer Science
15 8 (11.43%) Docker
15 8 (11.43%) GraphQL

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 1 (1.43%) CMS
1 1 (1.43%) Confluence
1 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.43%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) AWS
2 14 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (8.57%) GitHub
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.29%) Serverless
6 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.86%) GCP
6 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.86%) npm
6 2 (2.86%) Yarn
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.43%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) NoSQL
1 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.86%) MySQL
3 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) webpack
3 3 (4.29%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.86%) GitLab
4 2 (2.86%) JIRA
5 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.43%) Babel
5 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.43%) ESLint
5 1 (1.43%) fastlane
5 1 (1.43%) Gradle
5 1 (1.43%) JMeter
5 1 (1.43%) Mocha
5 1 (1.43%) Storybook
5 1 (1.43%) Vite
5 1 (1.43%) Xcode
General
1 22 (31.43%) Finance
1 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Front Office
3 9 (12.86%) Banking
4 5 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Automotive
7 1 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (85.71%) React
2 18 (25.71%) CSS
2 18 (25.71%) Node.js
3 17 (24.29%) HTML
4 13 (18.57%) RESTful
5 12 (17.14%) Redux
6 11 (15.71%) Jest
7 10 (14.29%) Next.js
8 8 (11.43%) GraphQL
8 8 (11.43%) REST
9 7 (10.00%) FastAPI
10 6 (8.57%) React Native
11 5 (7.14%) HTML5
11 5 (7.14%) Sass
12 4 (5.71%) Express.js
12 4 (5.71%) Kafka
12 4 (5.71%) pytest
12 4 (5.71%) Spring Boot
12 4 (5.71%) Swagger
12 4 (5.71%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.14%) Derivative
2 5 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 4 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Android
1 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (40.00%) Agile
3 25 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 18 (25.71%) Front End Development
5 14 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 9 (12.86%) Microservices
7 9 (12.86%) Test Automation
8 8 (11.43%) Computer Science
8 8 (11.43%) TDD
9 7 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.00%) DevOps
10 6 (8.57%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (8.57%) Scrum
10 6 (8.57%) User Experience
11 5 (7.14%) API Development
11 5 (7.14%) Code Quality
11 5 (7.14%) Web Development
12 4 (5.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.14%) TypeScript
2 28 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (27.14%) Java
4 18 (25.71%) Python
5 9 (12.86%) SQL
6 2 (2.86%) C#
6 2 (2.86%) Go
6 2 (2.86%) JSX
7 1 (1.43%) Korn
7 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.57%) Degree
4 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Kibana
3 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.86%) Okta
3 1 (1.43%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.43%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.43%) Telerik