React Developer Contract Job Trends in London

React.js Developer
England > London

The median React.js Developer daily rate in London is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 210 205
Rank change year-on-year -102 -5 -29
Contract jobs requiring a React Developer 86 149 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 1.12% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.20% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 123 174
10th Percentile £421 £401 £415
25th Percentile £467 £481 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £800 £736 £788
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.50
25th Percentile - - £68.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £69.50
75th Percentile - - £70.75
90th Percentile - - £71.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.59%

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 14,505 12,417 17,065
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 93.59% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,704 8,097 12,321
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 142 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.21 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.14 £25.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +30.70% -17.99%
75th Percentile £60.19 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.72 £65.30
England median hourly rate £33.34 £36.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.04% +3.57% -12.50%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -11 5 £625 +8.70% 2
South London - 2 £775 -
React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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 73 (84.88%) React
2 42 (48.84%) TypeScript
3 39 (45.35%) JavaScript
4 36 (41.86%) Agile
5 35 (40.70%) AWS
6 34 (39.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (30.23%) CI/CD
7 26 (30.23%) Java
7 26 (30.23%) Redux
8 25 (29.07%) Node.js
8 25 (29.07%) Python
9 22 (25.58%) Azure
9 22 (25.58%) CSS
10 20 (23.26%) HTML
10 20 (23.26%) Software Engineering
11 17 (19.77%) Front End Development
12 15 (17.44%) Jest
13 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (15.12%) Design Patterns
14 13 (15.12%) Investment Management
14 13 (15.12%) RESTful
15 12 (13.95%) Portfolio Management
15 12 (13.95%) TDD
16 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
16 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
17 10 (11.63%) Docker
17 10 (11.63%) Git
17 10 (11.63%) Mentoring
17 10 (11.63%) Next.js
17 10 (11.63%) SQL

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 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Camunda
2 1 (1.16%) CMS
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.16%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 35 (40.70%) AWS
2 22 (25.58%) Azure
3 8 (9.30%) GCP
4 6 (6.98%) GitHub
5 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.65%) npm
6 4 (4.65%) Yarn
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.33%) Serverless
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.16%) Figma
8 1 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.16%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.81%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.16%) MySQL
5 1 (1.16%) Redis
5 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.63%) Git
2 6 (6.98%) webpack
3 5 (5.81%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.65%) JIRA
5 3 (3.49%) GitLab
5 3 (3.49%) Mocha
6 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.16%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.16%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.16%) JMeter
7 1 (1.16%) Moq
7 1 (1.16%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.16%) NUnit
7 1 (1.16%) Serilog
7 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.16%) Storybook
7 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.16%) Vite
General
1 31 (36.05%) Finance
2 26 (30.23%) Front Office
3 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.63%) Banking
5 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.81%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Advertising
8 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (84.88%) React
2 26 (30.23%) Redux
3 25 (29.07%) Node.js
4 22 (25.58%) CSS
5 20 (23.26%) HTML
6 15 (17.44%) Jest
7 13 (15.12%) RESTful
8 10 (11.63%) Next.js
9 9 (10.47%) GraphQL
10 8 (9.30%) FastAPI
10 8 (9.30%) React Native
11 7 (8.14%) HTML5
11 7 (8.14%) REST
12 6 (6.98%) Kafka
12 6 (6.98%) Spring
13 5 (5.81%) Spring Boot
14 4 (4.65%) .NET
14 4 (4.65%) CSS3
14 4 (4.65%) Swagger
14 4 (4.65%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Fixed Income
2 11 (12.79%) Derivative
3 6 (6.98%) Equities
4 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.81%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.65%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.16%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.86%) Agile
2 34 (39.53%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (30.23%) CI/CD
4 20 (23.26%) Software Engineering
5 17 (19.77%) Front End Development
6 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.12%) Design Patterns
7 13 (15.12%) Investment Management
8 12 (13.95%) Portfolio Management
8 12 (13.95%) TDD
9 10 (11.63%) Mentoring
10 9 (10.47%) Microservices
10 9 (10.47%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.30%) Computer Science
11 8 (9.30%) DevOps
11 8 (9.30%) Fintech
12 7 (8.14%) Containerisation
12 7 (8.14%) Event-Driven
12 7 (8.14%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (6.98%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.84%) TypeScript
2 39 (45.35%) JavaScript
3 26 (30.23%) Java
4 25 (29.07%) Python
5 10 (11.63%) SQL
6 6 (6.98%) Go
7 4 (4.65%) C#
8 3 (3.49%) JSX
9 1 (1.16%) Bicep
9 1 (1.16%) Korn
9 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
1 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.81%) Degree
3 1 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.98%) Terraform
3 1 (1.16%) Kibana
3 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.33%) Okta
3 1 (1.16%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.16%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.16%) Telerik
3 1 (1.16%) Veracode