React Developer Contract Job Trends in London

React.js Developer
England > London

The median React.js Developer daily rate in London is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 215 164
Rank change year-on-year -76 -51 0
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 126 142 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.16% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.24% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 121 235
10th Percentile £405 £390 £400
25th Percentile £473 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - -
75th Percentile £850 £763 £788
90th Percentile £938 £838 £838
England median daily rate £575 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +6.48% -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 - - -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 17,520 11,482 16,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.52% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,559 7,780 11,924
10th Percentile £358 £342 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £677
90th Percentile £760 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 163 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.23 £24.66 £20.17
Median hourly rate £40.98 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% +22.26% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.63 £46.59
90th Percentile £78.69 £64.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
% change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -25 14 £875 +84.21% 2
East London - 4 £875 -
South London - 2 - -
React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 109 (86.51%) React
2 76 (60.32%) TypeScript
3 72 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 62 (49.21%) Redux
5 45 (35.71%) Java
6 40 (31.75%) Agile
7 39 (30.95%) Node.js
8 38 (30.16%) AWS
9 35 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (23.81%) C#
11 25 (19.84%) CSS
11 25 (19.84%) HTML
12 24 (19.05%) Python
12 24 (19.05%) Software Engineering
13 22 (17.46%) Azure
13 22 (17.46%) Test Automation
14 21 (16.67%) CI/CD
14 21 (16.67%) REST
15 20 (15.87%) HTML5
16 18 (14.29%) .NET
16 18 (14.29%) Accessibility
16 18 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
16 18 (14.29%) Front End Development
16 18 (14.29%) GraphQL
16 18 (14.29%) Low Latency
16 18 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
17 17 (13.49%) Mentoring
17 17 (13.49%) React Native
17 17 (13.49%) RESTful
18 16 (12.70%) Investment Management

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 (1.59%) IIS
2 1 (0.79%) Camunda
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.16%) AWS
2 22 (17.46%) Azure
3 10 (7.94%) GitHub
4 8 (6.35%) GCP
5 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.97%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.59%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.59%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.59%) npm
8 2 (1.59%) OCI
8 2 (1.59%) Serverless
8 2 (1.59%) Yarn
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 7 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.97%) Power BI
4 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.59%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.79%) GIS
6 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) Git
2 8 (6.35%) Cypress.io
2 8 (6.35%) webpack
3 7 (5.56%) Vite
4 4 (3.17%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.17%) GitLab
4 4 (3.17%) Storybook
5 3 (2.38%) Mocha
5 3 (2.38%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.59%) Ant
6 2 (1.59%) Appium
6 2 (1.59%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.59%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.59%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.59%) JIRA
6 2 (1.59%) JProfiler
6 2 (1.59%) Maven
7 1 (0.79%) NUnit
7 1 (0.79%) Serilog
General
1 55 (43.65%) Finance
2 44 (34.92%) Front Office
3 27 (21.43%) Banking
4 23 (18.25%) Investment Banking
5 16 (12.70%) Social Skills
6 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.59%) Advertising
10 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Law
11 1 (0.79%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (86.51%) React
2 62 (49.21%) Redux
3 39 (30.95%) Node.js
4 25 (19.84%) CSS
4 25 (19.84%) HTML
5 21 (16.67%) REST
6 20 (15.87%) HTML5
7 18 (14.29%) .NET
7 18 (14.29%) GraphQL
8 17 (13.49%) React Native
8 17 (13.49%) RESTful
9 13 (10.32%) Jest
10 12 (9.52%) CSS3
11 11 (8.73%) Kafka
12 9 (7.14%) Next.js
13 6 (4.76%) Spring Boot
14 5 (3.97%) .NET Core
14 5 (3.97%) Spring
14 5 (3.97%) Tailwind CSS
14 5 (3.97%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 35 (27.78%) Fixed Income
2 21 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (15.87%) Equities
4 19 (15.08%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
6 8 (6.35%) Derivative
7 5 (3.97%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.75%) Agile
2 35 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 24 (19.05%) Software Engineering
4 22 (17.46%) Test Automation
5 21 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 18 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
6 18 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 18 (14.29%) Low Latency
7 17 (13.49%) Mentoring
8 16 (12.70%) Investment Management
8 16 (12.70%) Portfolio Management
9 13 (10.32%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (8.73%) Microservices
11 10 (7.94%) Fintech
11 10 (7.94%) Integration Patterns
11 10 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (7.14%) Scrum
13 8 (6.35%) Asset Management
13 8 (6.35%) Order Management
13 8 (6.35%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (60.32%) TypeScript
2 72 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 45 (35.71%) Java
4 30 (23.81%) C#
5 24 (19.05%) Python
6 8 (6.35%) Go
7 6 (4.76%) SQL
8 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.79%) Bicep
9 1 (0.79%) JSX
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 13 (10.32%) WCAG
3 2 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.59%) Google
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle
3 1 (0.79%) Braze
3 1 (0.79%) New Relic
3 1 (0.79%) Optimizely
3 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.79%) Veracode
3 1 (0.79%) Workday