React Developer Contract Job Trends in London

React.js Developer
England > London

The median React.js Developer daily rate in London is £603, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 224 181
Rank change year-on-year -99 -43 -14
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 120 150 233
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 1.10% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.19% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 130 201
10th Percentile £409 £399 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £850 £763 £788
90th Percentile £938 £838 £838
England median daily rate £600 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.12% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
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 18,882 12,622 15,268
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 92.97% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,313 8,534 10,791
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -15.21%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.10 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +65.78% -42.22% +5.88%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -27 15 £875 +84.21%
East London - 4 £875 -
South London - 2 - - 2
React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 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.

1 108 (90.00%) React
2 81 (67.50%) TypeScript
3 70 (58.33%) JavaScript
4 56 (46.67%) Redux
5 42 (35.00%) Agile
6 39 (32.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (32.50%) Java
7 35 (29.17%) C#
8 34 (28.33%) Node.js
9 32 (26.67%) AWS
10 28 (23.33%) Azure
11 27 (22.50%) CI/CD
11 27 (22.50%) REST
12 24 (20.00%) Python
12 24 (20.00%) Test Automation
13 23 (19.17%) CSS
13 23 (19.17%) HTML
14 22 (18.33%) .NET
14 22 (18.33%) RESTful
14 22 (18.33%) Software Engineering
15 21 (17.50%) Accessibility
16 20 (16.67%) HTML5
17 19 (15.83%) Electronic Trading
17 19 (15.83%) Low Latency
18 18 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
19 17 (14.17%) GraphQL
19 17 (14.17%) Mentoring
20 16 (13.33%) Front End Development
21 14 (11.67%) CSS3
21 14 (11.67%) Microservices

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 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.67%) AWS
2 28 (23.33%) Azure
3 12 (10.00%) GitHub
4 8 (6.67%) GCP
4 8 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.50%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.67%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.67%) OCI
9 2 (1.67%) Serverless
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.17%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.50%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.00%) Power BI
5 3 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.67%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.83%) GIS
7 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Git
2 8 (6.67%) Vite
3 7 (5.83%) webpack
4 6 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.33%) GitLab
5 4 (3.33%) Storybook
6 3 (2.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.50%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.67%) Ant
7 2 (1.67%) Appium
7 2 (1.67%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.67%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.67%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.67%) JIRA
7 2 (1.67%) JProfiler
7 2 (1.67%) Maven
7 2 (1.67%) Mocha
8 1 (0.83%) ESLint
8 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
General
1 51 (42.50%) Finance
2 40 (33.33%) Front Office
3 26 (21.67%) Banking
4 23 (19.17%) Investment Banking
5 14 (11.67%) Social Skills
6 9 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.67%) Advertising
9 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Law
10 1 (0.83%) Police
10 1 (0.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (90.00%) React
2 56 (46.67%) Redux
3 34 (28.33%) Node.js
4 27 (22.50%) REST
5 23 (19.17%) CSS
5 23 (19.17%) HTML
6 22 (18.33%) .NET
6 22 (18.33%) RESTful
7 20 (16.67%) HTML5
8 17 (14.17%) GraphQL
9 14 (11.67%) CSS3
10 13 (10.83%) Next.js
10 13 (10.83%) React Native
11 11 (9.17%) Kafka
12 10 (8.33%) Jest
13 8 (6.67%) .NET Core
14 6 (5.00%) ASP.NET
15 5 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
15 5 (4.17%) TanStack
16 4 (3.33%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.50%) Fixed Income
2 21 (17.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (15.00%) Equities
5 7 (5.83%) Derivative
5 7 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Android
2 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.00%) Agile
2 39 (32.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 27 (22.50%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 22 (18.33%) Software Engineering
6 19 (15.83%) Electronic Trading
6 19 (15.83%) Low Latency
7 17 (14.17%) Mentoring
8 16 (13.33%) Front End Development
9 14 (11.67%) Microservices
9 14 (11.67%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (10.83%) Investment Management
11 12 (10.00%) DevOps
11 12 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
12 10 (8.33%) Code Quality
12 10 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
13 9 (7.50%) Fintech
13 9 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (7.50%) Scrum
14 8 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 81 (67.50%) TypeScript
2 70 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 39 (32.50%) Java
4 35 (29.17%) C#
5 24 (20.00%) Python
6 9 (7.50%) SQL
7 6 (5.00%) Go
8 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.83%) Bicep
9 1 (0.83%) JSX
9 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.50%) Accessibility
2 13 (10.83%) WCAG
3 3 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.67%) Google
2 2 (1.67%) Optimizely
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe
3 1 (0.83%) Braze
3 1 (0.83%) New Relic
3 1 (0.83%) Workday