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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 186 176
Rank change year-on-year -46 -10 -28
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 131 225 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.98% 1.39% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.48% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 190 266
10th Percentile £408 £400 £405
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £619 £606
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +2.06% +1.04%
75th Percentile £794 £788 £750
90th Percentile £838 £838 £788
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £72.88
25th Percentile - - £74.19
Median hourly rate - - £76.75
75th Percentile - - £79.69
90th Percentile - - £81.23
England median hourly rate - - £76.75
% change year-on-year - - +68.68%

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 12,450 15,190 20,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.06% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 10,172 15,099
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 181 231
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £50.75 £56.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £66.73 £71.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +1 16 £475 -36.67% 10
South London -13 1 £800 -3.03% 3
West London - 1 - - 2
React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 117 (89.31%) React
2 84 (64.12%) TypeScript
3 67 (51.15%) JavaScript
3 67 (51.15%) Finance
4 63 (48.09%) AWS
5 59 (45.04%) Agile
6 55 (41.98%) Node.js
7 53 (40.46%) Redux
8 52 (39.69%) Front Office
9 50 (38.17%) Python
10 49 (37.40%) Software Engineering
11 48 (36.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 44 (33.59%) PostgreSQL
13 43 (32.82%) Banking
13 43 (32.82%) User Experience
14 36 (27.48%) CI/CD
15 33 (25.19%) Fixed Income
15 33 (25.19%) Investment Management
16 31 (23.66%) GCP
17 29 (22.14%) Java
18 27 (20.61%) Fintech
19 26 (19.85%) Asset Management
20 23 (17.56%) Front End Development
21 22 (16.79%) Social Skills
22 20 (15.27%) GraphQL
23 19 (14.50%) CSS
24 18 (13.74%) HTML
24 18 (13.74%) SQL
24 18 (13.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
25 16 (12.21%) Microservices

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:

Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 63 (48.09%) AWS
2 31 (23.66%) GCP
3 11 (8.40%) Azure
4 9 (6.87%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.34%) Figma
5 7 (5.34%) Serverless
6 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.82%) GitHub
7 3 (2.29%) npm
8 2 (1.53%) Yarn
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.76%) Contentstack
9 1 (0.76%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (33.59%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.16%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.34%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.05%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.53%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.53%) MySQL
7 1 (0.76%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Git
2 10 (7.63%) Cypress.io
3 9 (6.87%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.58%) GitLab
4 6 (4.58%) Gradle
5 5 (3.82%) JUnit
5 5 (3.82%) Liquibase
5 5 (3.82%) Mockito
6 3 (2.29%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.29%) webpack
7 2 (1.53%) Babel
7 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.76%) fastlane
8 1 (0.76%) JIRA
8 1 (0.76%) JMeter
8 1 (0.76%) Mocha
8 1 (0.76%) Storybook
8 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.76%) Xcode
General
1 67 (51.15%) Finance
2 52 (39.69%) Front Office
3 43 (32.82%) Banking
4 22 (16.79%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.87%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.58%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.82%) Electronics
8 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.82%) Marketing
9 4 (3.05%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (3.05%) Retail
9 4 (3.05%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Advertising
11 1 (0.76%) Automotive
11 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (89.31%) React
2 55 (41.98%) Node.js
3 53 (40.46%) Redux
4 20 (15.27%) GraphQL
5 19 (14.50%) CSS
6 18 (13.74%) HTML
7 15 (11.45%) Next.js
8 14 (10.69%) REST
9 12 (9.16%) Kafka
10 9 (6.87%) Jest
10 9 (6.87%) RESTful
10 9 (6.87%) Swagger
11 8 (6.11%) FastAPI
11 8 (6.11%) Material-UI
11 8 (6.11%) OpenAPI
11 8 (6.11%) React Native
12 7 (5.34%) Spring
12 7 (5.34%) Spring Boot
13 6 (4.58%) HTML5
13 6 (4.58%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.19%) Fixed Income
2 18 (13.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (9.16%) Equities
4 8 (6.11%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.82%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.82%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.82%) Derivative
5 5 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) Android
1 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.04%) Agile
2 49 (37.40%) Software Engineering
3 48 (36.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 43 (32.82%) User Experience
5 36 (27.48%) CI/CD
6 33 (25.19%) Investment Management
7 27 (20.61%) Fintech
8 26 (19.85%) Asset Management
9 23 (17.56%) Front End Development
10 16 (12.21%) Microservices
11 14 (10.69%) Clean Code
12 12 (9.16%) DevOps
12 12 (9.16%) Mentoring
13 11 (8.40%) Continuous Delivery
14 10 (7.63%) TDD
15 9 (6.87%) Containerisation
16 8 (6.11%) API Development
16 8 (6.11%) Architectural Patterns
16 8 (6.11%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (6.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (64.12%) TypeScript
2 67 (51.15%) JavaScript
3 50 (38.17%) Python
4 29 (22.14%) Java
5 18 (13.74%) SQL
6 8 (6.11%) C#
7 4 (3.05%) Go
8 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.76%) PHP
8 1 (0.76%) Ruby
8 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.92%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.58%) Degree
4 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 16 (12.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.53%) Terraform
3 1 (0.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (3.82%) SAP
2 4 (3.05%) Oracle
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe
3 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.76%) Google
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.76%) Okta