React Developer Contracts 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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 178 168
Rank change year-on-year -38 -10 -43
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 138 238 425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.10% 1.33% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.43% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 208 332
10th Percentile £404 £400 £425
25th Percentile £491 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% - +2.08%
75th Percentile £756 £788 £750
90th Percentile £838 £825 £836
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £75.58
25th Percentile - - £76.44
Median hourly rate - £67.00 £78.25
Median % change year-on-year - -14.38% +123.57%
75th Percentile - - £80.44
90th Percentile - - £81.53
England median hourly rate - £67.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -13.55% +121.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

React Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured React Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for React Developer in London

React Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing React Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for React Developer in London

React Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for React Developer in London

React Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing React Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for React Developer 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 1 May 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 +6 21 £500 -31.03% 3
West London +12 5 - -
React Developer
England

React Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, React Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring React Developer in the job title.

1 128 (92.75%) React
2 85 (61.59%) TypeScript
3 64 (46.38%) JavaScript
4 63 (45.65%) Finance
5 60 (43.48%) AWS
6 58 (42.03%) Agile
7 55 (39.86%) Node.js
8 54 (39.13%) User Experience
8 54 (39.13%) Redux
9 46 (33.33%) Software Engineering
10 44 (31.88%) Front Office
11 43 (31.16%) Banking
12 41 (29.71%) GCP
13 38 (27.54%) Investment Management
13 38 (27.54%) PostgreSQL
14 37 (26.81%) CI/CD
15 35 (25.36%) Fixed Income
15 35 (25.36%) Python
16 34 (24.64%) Fintech
16 34 (24.64%) Front End Development
17 32 (23.19%) Full-Stack Development
18 30 (21.74%) Asset Management
19 22 (15.94%) SQL
20 20 (14.49%) Java
21 19 (13.77%) Next.js
22 18 (13.04%) TDD
23 17 (12.32%) Docker
24 16 (11.59%) Jenkins
24 16 (11.59%) Microservices
24 16 (11.59%) .NET

React Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.90%) CMS
2 3 (2.17%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 60 (43.48%) AWS
2 41 (29.71%) GCP
3 10 (7.25%) Azure
4 8 (5.80%) Figma
4 8 (5.80%) Serverless
5 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.62%) npm
6 5 (3.62%) Yarn
7 4 (2.90%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.17%) GitHub
9 2 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.45%) Datadog
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.72%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.72%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) HTTP
2 1 (0.72%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.54%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.80%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.07%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.17%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.17%) MySQL
6 2 (1.45%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (11.59%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.70%) Cypress.io
2 12 (8.70%) Git
3 7 (5.07%) webpack
4 6 (4.35%) Babel
4 6 (4.35%) GitLab
4 6 (4.35%) Gradle
4 6 (4.35%) JUnit
4 6 (4.35%) Liquibase
4 6 (4.35%) Mockito
4 6 (4.35%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.90%) Ant
6 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.72%) JIRA
7 1 (0.72%) Mocha
7 1 (0.72%) Postman
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (45.65%) Finance
2 44 (31.88%) Front Office
3 43 (31.16%) Banking
4 11 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.25%) Social Skills
6 8 (5.80%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.07%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.35%) Electronics
8 6 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.35%) Marketing
9 4 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.17%) Retail
11 2 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.45%) Law
11 2 (1.45%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (92.75%) React
2 55 (39.86%) Node.js
3 54 (39.13%) Redux
4 19 (13.77%) Next.js
5 16 (11.59%) .NET
6 15 (10.87%) CSS
7 13 (9.42%) HTML
8 11 (7.97%) GraphQL
9 10 (7.25%) React Native
10 9 (6.52%) RESTful
11 8 (5.80%) .NET Core
11 8 (5.80%) HTML5
11 8 (5.80%) Kafka
11 8 (5.80%) Material-UI
11 8 (5.80%) Spring
11 8 (5.80%) Spring Boot
12 7 (5.07%) Jest
12 7 (5.07%) OpenAPI
12 7 (5.07%) REST
12 7 (5.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (25.36%) Fixed Income
2 10 (7.25%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.90%) Derivative
6 4 (2.90%) Equities
7 2 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) IoT
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.72%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) Android
1 3 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.45%) Windows
3 1 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.03%) Agile
2 54 (39.13%) User Experience
3 46 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 38 (27.54%) Investment Management
5 37 (26.81%) CI/CD
6 34 (24.64%) Fintech
6 34 (24.64%) Front End Development
7 32 (23.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 30 (21.74%) Asset Management
9 18 (13.04%) TDD
10 16 (11.59%) Clean Code
10 16 (11.59%) Microservices
11 15 (10.87%) DevOps
11 15 (10.87%) Visualisation
12 12 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (7.97%) UX Design
14 10 (7.25%) Continuous Delivery
15 9 (6.52%) Mentoring
15 9 (6.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (61.59%) TypeScript
2 64 (46.38%) JavaScript
3 35 (25.36%) Python
4 22 (15.94%) SQL
5 20 (14.49%) Java
6 13 (9.42%) C#
7 2 (1.45%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.45%) Swift
8 1 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (10.87%) SC Cleared
1 15 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.90%) Degree
3 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (12.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (0.72%) Grafana
3 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (5.07%) SAP
2 6 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.90%) Oracle
4 2 (1.45%) Google
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe
5 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.72%) Solace
5 1 (0.72%) TIBCO