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 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 222 183
Rank change year-on-year -88 -39 -16
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 96 140 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 1.11% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.19% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 120 207
10th Percentile £405 £405 £400
25th Percentile £506 £497 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £800 £763 £788
90th Percentile £850 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £67.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.55%

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 16,509 11,741 16,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 93.40% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,969 8,053 11,937
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 145 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -21.99%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.90 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.09% -15.34% -17.05%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -31 7 £625 +25.00% 5
React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 83 (86.46%) React
2 56 (58.33%) TypeScript
3 52 (54.17%) JavaScript
4 43 (44.79%) Redux
5 36 (37.50%) AWS
5 36 (37.50%) Node.js
6 34 (35.42%) Agile
7 26 (27.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (27.08%) Java
8 23 (23.96%) Azure
8 23 (23.96%) HTML
8 23 (23.96%) Software Engineering
9 21 (21.88%) CSS
10 20 (20.83%) Python
11 18 (18.75%) CI/CD
12 17 (17.71%) Front End Development
12 17 (17.71%) HTML5
12 17 (17.71%) Test Automation
13 16 (16.67%) GraphQL
13 16 (16.67%) Investment Management
13 16 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
14 15 (15.63%) Accessibility
14 15 (15.63%) Mentoring
14 15 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (14.58%) REST
16 13 (13.54%) RESTful
17 12 (12.50%) Jest
18 11 (11.46%) C#
18 11 (11.46%) CSS3
18 11 (11.46%) Performance Optimisation

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 (2.08%) Confluence
1 2 (2.08%) IIS
2 1 (1.04%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.50%) AWS
2 23 (23.96%) Azure
3 9 (9.38%) GCP
4 7 (7.29%) GitHub
5 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (4.17%) npm
6 4 (4.17%) Yarn
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.13%) Serverless
8 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.08%) Azure AI
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.08%) OCI
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.21%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.08%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.04%) GIS
6 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.04%) Power BI
6 1 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Cypress.io
1 7 (7.29%) Git
2 6 (6.25%) webpack
3 4 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.17%) Vite
4 3 (3.13%) GitLab
4 3 (3.13%) JIRA
4 3 (3.13%) Mocha
4 3 (3.13%) Storybook
4 3 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.08%) Appium
5 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.08%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.04%) Ant
6 1 (1.04%) Moq
6 1 (1.04%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.04%) NUnit
6 1 (1.04%) Serilog
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (36.46%) Finance
2 32 (33.33%) Front Office
3 16 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.54%) Banking
5 10 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 9 (9.38%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.08%) Advertising
9 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Law
10 1 (1.04%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (86.46%) React
2 43 (44.79%) Redux
3 36 (37.50%) Node.js
4 23 (23.96%) HTML
5 21 (21.88%) CSS
6 17 (17.71%) HTML5
7 16 (16.67%) GraphQL
8 14 (14.58%) REST
9 13 (13.54%) RESTful
10 12 (12.50%) Jest
11 11 (11.46%) CSS3
11 11 (11.46%) React Native
12 9 (9.38%) Kafka
13 8 (8.33%) .NET
14 7 (7.29%) Next.js
15 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET
15 4 (4.17%) Spring
15 4 (4.17%) Spring Boot
15 4 (4.17%) Svelte
15 4 (4.17%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Fixed Income
2 10 (10.42%) Derivative
3 8 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.33%) Equities
4 7 (7.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.42%) Agile
2 26 (27.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (23.96%) Software Engineering
4 18 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 17 (17.71%) Front End Development
5 17 (17.71%) Test Automation
6 16 (16.67%) Investment Management
6 16 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
7 15 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 11 (11.46%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (9.38%) DevOps
9 9 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
9 9 (9.38%) Microservices
9 9 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (8.33%) Asset Management
10 8 (8.33%) Event-Driven
10 8 (8.33%) Fintech
10 8 (8.33%) Line Management
10 8 (8.33%) Order Management
11 7 (7.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 56 (58.33%) TypeScript
2 52 (54.17%) JavaScript
3 26 (27.08%) Java
4 20 (20.83%) Python
5 11 (11.46%) C#
6 8 (8.33%) Go
7 6 (6.25%) SQL
8 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.04%) Bicep
9 1 (1.04%) JSX
Qualifications
1 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 10 (10.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle
3 1 (1.04%) Braze
3 1 (1.04%) New Relic
3 1 (1.04%) Okta
3 1 (1.04%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.04%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.04%) Veracode
3 1 (1.04%) Workday