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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 214 168
Rank change year-on-year -96 -46 -9
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 107 138 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 1.13% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.21% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 117 227
10th Percentile £405 £388 £402
25th Percentile £511 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
75th Percentile £800 £763 £788
90th Percentile £894 £838 £838
England median daily rate £544 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +0.69% -6.09% -
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 17,158 11,372 16,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.47% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,358 7,721 11,830
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 153 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.20 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +15.71% -23.18%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.75 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.64 £61.85 £65.03
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%

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 30 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 30 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 -28 8 £625 +25.00% 1
South London - 2 - -
East London - 1 £875 - 1
React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 93 (86.92%) React
2 62 (57.94%) TypeScript
3 56 (52.34%) JavaScript
4 48 (44.86%) Redux
5 36 (33.64%) Agile
5 36 (33.64%) Node.js
6 34 (31.78%) AWS
7 30 (28.04%) Java
8 28 (26.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (22.43%) HTML
9 24 (22.43%) Software Engineering
10 23 (21.50%) CSS
11 21 (19.63%) Azure
11 21 (19.63%) Python
12 19 (17.76%) Front End Development
13 18 (16.82%) HTML5
13 18 (16.82%) REST
13 18 (16.82%) Test Automation
14 17 (15.89%) GraphQL
15 16 (14.95%) C#
15 16 (14.95%) CI/CD
15 16 (14.95%) Investment Management
15 16 (14.95%) Mentoring
15 16 (14.95%) Portfolio Management
15 16 (14.95%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (14.02%) Accessibility
16 15 (14.02%) React Native
16 15 (14.02%) RESTful
17 14 (13.08%) .NET
18 12 (11.21%) CSS3

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 (1.87%) Confluence
1 2 (1.87%) IIS
2 1 (0.93%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 34 (31.78%) AWS
2 21 (19.63%) Azure
3 8 (7.48%) GCP
3 8 (7.48%) GitHub
4 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.74%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (3.74%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (2.80%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.80%) npm
6 3 (2.80%) Serverless
6 3 (2.80%) Yarn
7 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.87%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.87%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.87%) OCI
7 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.93%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.95%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.87%) ClickHouse
5 2 (1.87%) Power BI
6 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.93%) GIS
6 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (7.48%) webpack
2 7 (6.54%) Cypress.io
2 7 (6.54%) Git
3 6 (5.61%) Vite
4 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.74%) Storybook
5 3 (2.80%) GitLab
5 3 (2.80%) JIRA
5 3 (2.80%) Mocha
5 3 (2.80%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.87%) Ant
6 2 (1.87%) Appium
6 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.87%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.93%) Moq
7 1 (0.93%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.93%) NUnit
7 1 (0.93%) Serilog
7 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (38.32%) Finance
2 33 (30.84%) Front Office
3 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
4 15 (14.02%) Banking
5 11 (10.28%) Investment Banking
6 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.87%) Advertising
9 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (86.92%) React
2 48 (44.86%) Redux
3 36 (33.64%) Node.js
4 24 (22.43%) HTML
5 23 (21.50%) CSS
6 18 (16.82%) HTML5
6 18 (16.82%) REST
7 17 (15.89%) GraphQL
8 15 (14.02%) React Native
8 15 (14.02%) RESTful
9 14 (13.08%) .NET
10 12 (11.21%) CSS3
10 12 (11.21%) Jest
11 10 (9.35%) Kafka
12 8 (7.48%) Next.js
13 4 (3.74%) ASP.NET
13 4 (3.74%) Svelte
13 4 (3.74%) Tailwind CSS
13 4 (3.74%) TanStack
14 3 (2.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.43%) Fixed Income
2 10 (9.35%) Equities
2 10 (9.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (8.41%) Derivative
4 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
5 7 (6.54%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.67%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.64%) Agile
2 28 (26.17%) Full-Stack Development
3 24 (22.43%) Software Engineering
4 19 (17.76%) Front End Development
5 18 (16.82%) Test Automation
6 16 (14.95%) CI/CD
6 16 (14.95%) Investment Management
6 16 (14.95%) Mentoring
6 16 (14.95%) Portfolio Management
7 12 (11.21%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (9.35%) Integration Patterns
8 10 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (7.48%) Asset Management
9 8 (7.48%) DevOps
9 8 (7.48%) Electronic Trading
9 8 (7.48%) Event-Driven
9 8 (7.48%) Fintech
9 8 (7.48%) Line Management
9 8 (7.48%) Order Management
10 7 (6.54%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 62 (57.94%) TypeScript
2 56 (52.34%) JavaScript
3 30 (28.04%) Java
4 21 (19.63%) Python
5 16 (14.95%) C#
6 8 (7.48%) Go
7 6 (5.61%) SQL
8 2 (1.87%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.93%) Bicep
9 1 (0.93%) JSX
Qualifications
1 8 (7.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.02%) Accessibility
2 12 (11.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.80%) Terraform
3 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.87%) Google
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle
3 1 (0.93%) Braze
3 1 (0.93%) New Relic
3 1 (0.93%) Okta
3 1 (0.93%) Optimizely
3 1 (0.93%) Ping Identity
3 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.93%) Veracode
3 1 (0.93%) Workday