React Developer Contract Job Trends in London

React.js Developer
England > London

The median React.js Developer daily rate in London is £607, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 212 173
Rank change year-on-year -89 -39 -14
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 130 149 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 1.17% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.25% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 129 229
10th Percentile £406 £398 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% - -
75th Percentile £850 £763 £788
90th Percentile £938 £838 £838
England median daily rate £588 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% -
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 17,802 11,909 16,485
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.51% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,738 8,058 11,829
10th Percentile £359 £336 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 182 314
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.53 £20.22
Median hourly rate £40.48 £32.70 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +18.89% -25.68%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%

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 27 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 27 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 -26 15 £875 +84.21%
East London - 4 £875 -
South London - 2 - - 1
React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 112 (86.15%) React
2 82 (63.08%) TypeScript
3 74 (56.92%) JavaScript
4 63 (48.46%) Redux
5 44 (33.85%) Agile
5 44 (33.85%) Java
6 39 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (30.00%) Node.js
7 37 (28.46%) AWS
8 33 (25.38%) C#
9 25 (19.23%) Python
9 25 (19.23%) Software Engineering
10 24 (18.46%) Azure
10 24 (18.46%) CSS
10 24 (18.46%) HTML
11 23 (17.69%) Test Automation
12 22 (16.92%) CI/CD
12 22 (16.92%) REST
13 20 (15.38%) .NET
14 19 (14.62%) GraphQL
14 19 (14.62%) HTML5
14 19 (14.62%) Mentoring
14 19 (14.62%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (13.85%) Accessibility
15 18 (13.85%) Electronic Trading
15 18 (13.85%) Low Latency
16 17 (13.08%) Front End Development
16 17 (13.08%) Investment Management
16 17 (13.08%) React Native
16 17 (13.08%) RESTful

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 (1.54%) IIS
2 1 (0.77%) Camunda
2 1 (0.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (28.46%) AWS
2 24 (18.46%) Azure
3 9 (6.92%) GitHub
4 8 (6.15%) GCP
5 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.08%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.31%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.54%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.54%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.54%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.54%) npm
9 2 (1.54%) OCI
9 2 (1.54%) Serverless
9 2 (1.54%) Yarn
10 1 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.77%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.62%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.92%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.15%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.85%) Power BI
5 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.54%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.77%) GIS
7 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Git
2 8 (6.15%) Cypress.io
2 8 (6.15%) Vite
2 8 (6.15%) webpack
3 4 (3.08%) GitLab
3 4 (3.08%) Storybook
4 3 (2.31%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.31%) JIRA
4 3 (2.31%) Mocha
4 3 (2.31%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.54%) Ant
5 2 (1.54%) Appium
5 2 (1.54%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.54%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.54%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.54%) JProfiler
5 2 (1.54%) Maven
6 1 (0.77%) ESLint
6 1 (0.77%) Serilog
General
1 57 (43.85%) Finance
2 46 (35.38%) Front Office
3 27 (20.77%) Banking
4 23 (17.69%) Investment Banking
5 18 (13.85%) Social Skills
6 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.54%) Advertising
10 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Law
11 1 (0.77%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (86.15%) React
2 63 (48.46%) Redux
3 39 (30.00%) Node.js
4 24 (18.46%) CSS
4 24 (18.46%) HTML
5 22 (16.92%) REST
6 20 (15.38%) .NET
7 19 (14.62%) GraphQL
7 19 (14.62%) HTML5
8 17 (13.08%) React Native
8 17 (13.08%) RESTful
9 14 (10.77%) Jest
10 12 (9.23%) CSS3
10 12 (9.23%) Kafka
11 10 (7.69%) Next.js
12 5 (3.85%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.85%) Spring
12 5 (3.85%) Spring Boot
12 5 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (3.85%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.69%) Fixed Income
2 22 (16.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (15.38%) Equities
4 19 (14.62%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (6.92%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.92%) Derivative
6 6 (4.62%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.77%) Android
2 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.85%) Agile
2 39 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (19.23%) Software Engineering
4 23 (17.69%) Test Automation
5 22 (16.92%) CI/CD
6 19 (14.62%) Mentoring
7 18 (13.85%) Electronic Trading
7 18 (13.85%) Low Latency
8 17 (13.08%) Front End Development
8 17 (13.08%) Investment Management
9 16 (12.31%) Portfolio Management
10 13 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 12 (9.23%) Microservices
12 10 (7.69%) Fintech
12 10 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
12 10 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (6.92%) DevOps
13 9 (6.92%) Order Management
13 9 (6.92%) TDD
14 8 (6.15%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (63.08%) TypeScript
2 74 (56.92%) JavaScript
3 44 (33.85%) Java
4 33 (25.38%) C#
5 25 (19.23%) Python
6 8 (6.15%) Go
7 7 (5.38%) SQL
8 2 (1.54%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.77%) Bicep
9 1 (0.77%) JSX
Qualifications
1 10 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.85%) Accessibility
2 13 (10.00%) WCAG
3 3 (2.31%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.54%) Google
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle
3 1 (0.77%) Braze
3 1 (0.77%) New Relic
3 1 (0.77%) Optimizely
3 1 (0.77%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.77%) Veracode
3 1 (0.77%) Workday