React Contract Job Trends in London

React.js
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 55 57
Rank change year-on-year -56 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing React 558 586 666
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.76% 4.36% 4.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.51% 14.86% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 434 533
10th Percentile £403 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - -
75th Percentile £722 £788 £745
90th Percentile £908 £875 £850
England median daily rate £537 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.29% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £36.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +42.86% -48.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £66.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +11.28% +9.02% -18.12%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

React falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,309 3,943 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.24% 29.31% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,541 2,726 3,483
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £450 £430 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £711
90th Percentile £763 £820 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 21
10th Percentile £26.60 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.13 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -33.59%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.81 £61.43
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing React relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

React job vacancy trend in London

React
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing React.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing React

React
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React in London

React
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing React.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing React

React
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 13 September 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 -30 66 £600 +11.63% 65
West London -11 19 £725 -3.33% 40
East London +4 6 £875 +62.04% 7
South London -16 3 £850 +43.17% 9
React
England

React
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 21 (3.76%) Confluence
2 15 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.97%) Camunda
4 7 (1.25%) CMS
5 6 (1.08%) Apache Solr
5 6 (1.08%) nginx
6 4 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.54%) WordPress
8 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Apache
9 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) Kentico
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (1.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) Sketch
2 1 (0.18%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.08%) Shopify
2 3 (0.54%) Orchestrade
2 3 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.36%) Endur
3 2 (0.36%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 202 (36.20%) AWS
2 154 (27.60%) Azure
3 80 (14.34%) GitHub
4 74 (13.26%) Serverless
5 48 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (8.42%) GCP
7 42 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (6.99%) Amazon S3
10 34 (6.09%) Power Platform
11 32 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (3.94%) Figma
13 20 (3.58%) GitHub Copilot
14 18 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (3.23%) OpenShift
15 17 (3.05%) PowerApps
16 16 (2.87%) Power Automate
17 15 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
19 12 (2.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.72%) Intranet
2 2 (0.36%) DSL
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
3 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (10.04%) SQL Server
3 42 (7.53%) NoSQL
4 40 (7.17%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.38%) DynamoDB
6 29 (5.20%) MongoDB
7 27 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.94%) MySQL
9 16 (2.87%) Power BI
10 11 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.79%) Redis
12 8 (1.43%) Metadata
13 7 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.90%) ObjectStore
14 5 (0.90%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.72%) EDRMS
15 4 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 92 (16.49%) Git
2 71 (12.72%) Jenkins
3 39 (6.99%) GitLab
4 34 (6.09%) Cypress.io
5 31 (5.56%) Gradle
6 27 (4.84%) JIRA
7 24 (4.30%) JUnit
8 23 (4.12%) Vite
9 22 (3.94%) Mockito
10 15 (2.69%) Liquibase
10 15 (2.69%) Storybook
11 14 (2.51%) Maven
12 13 (2.33%) SonarQube
12 13 (2.33%) webpack
13 7 (1.25%) REST Assured
14 6 (1.08%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.08%) TeamCity
14 6 (1.08%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.90%) JSUnit
15 5 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 165 (29.57%) Finance
2 124 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 111 (19.89%) Banking
4 55 (9.86%) Front Office
5 50 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 44 (7.89%) Investment Banking
7 34 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.05%) Retail
10 11 (1.97%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.43%) Back Office
11 8 (1.43%) Law
11 8 (1.43%) Marketing
12 7 (1.25%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.25%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 279 (50.00%) Developer
2 131 (23.48%) Senior
3 100 (17.92%) Full-Stack Developer
4 92 (16.49%) React Developer
5 77 (13.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 73 (13.08%) Senior Developer
7 68 (12.19%) Software Engineer
8 60 (10.75%) Java Developer
9 54 (9.68%) Lead
10 39 (6.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 35 (6.27%) Senior React Developer
12 34 (6.09%) Python Developer
13 29 (5.20%) UI Developer
14 27 (4.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 25 (4.48%) Architect
15 25 (4.48%) Senior Java Developer
16 19 (3.41%) Java Engineer
17 17 (3.05%) C# Developer
17 17 (3.05%) Python Engineer
17 17 (3.05%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (23.12%) REST
2 120 (21.51%) Node.js
3 105 (18.82%) .NET
4 100 (17.92%) CSS
5 92 (16.49%) Redux
6 91 (16.31%) HTML
7 86 (15.41%) Kafka
8 82 (14.70%) Next.js
9 81 (14.52%) AngularJS
10 80 (14.34%) RESTful
11 77 (13.80%) Spring
12 69 (12.37%) Spring Boot
13 62 (11.11%) HTML5
14 56 (10.04%) GraphQL
15 53 (9.50%) CSS3
16 52 (9.32%) Terraform
17 48 (8.60%) Vue
18 40 (7.17%) FastAPI
19 35 (6.27%) Jest
20 30 (5.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 85 (15.23%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 38 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.81%) Fixed Income
4 37 (6.63%) Greenfield Project
5 33 (5.91%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (3.05%) Equities
8 16 (2.87%) Derivative
9 14 (2.51%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.15%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.25%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.90%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (0.90%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.90%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.23%) Linux
2 9 (1.61%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) Unix
4 3 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (47.49%) CI/CD
1 265 (47.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 248 (44.44%) Agile
3 157 (28.14%) Microservices
4 136 (24.37%) DevOps
4 136 (24.37%) Software Engineering
5 126 (22.58%) AI
6 104 (18.64%) Containerisation
6 104 (18.64%) Front End Development
7 94 (16.85%) Test Automation
8 77 (13.80%) Event-Driven
8 77 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (13.80%) User Experience
9 63 (11.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 63 (11.29%) TDD
10 61 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
11 58 (10.39%) Scrum
12 57 (10.22%) Performance Optimisation
13 56 (10.04%) Code Quality
14 54 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 361 (64.70%) TypeScript
2 258 (46.24%) JavaScript
3 185 (33.15%) Java
3 185 (33.15%) Python
4 144 (25.81%) SQL
5 112 (20.07%) C#
6 21 (3.76%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.33%) Kotlin
9 10 (1.79%) Go
10 8 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.08%) Bash
11 6 (1.08%) C++
11 6 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.72%) Korn
12 4 (0.72%) PHP
13 3 (0.54%) Scala
14 2 (0.36%) Cypher
14 2 (0.36%) R
14 2 (0.36%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 103 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 90 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.91%) Degree
4 22 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.72%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.32%) Accessibility
2 35 (6.27%) QA
3 28 (5.02%) WCAG
4 8 (1.43%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 126 (22.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) Varnish
2 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 89 (15.95%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.05%) Ansible
3 15 (2.69%) Grafana
4 8 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.25%) Control-M
6 5 (0.90%) Argo
7 3 (0.54%) Istio
8 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 46 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.73%) Oracle
3 19 (3.41%) Google
4 17 (3.05%) Databricks
5 12 (2.15%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.25%) Splunk
7 6 (1.08%) IBM
8 5 (0.90%) Hitachi
8 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.90%) Veracode
9 4 (0.72%) Adobe
9 4 (0.72%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.72%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.72%) Solace
10 3 (0.54%) FactSet
10 3 (0.54%) New Relic
10 3 (0.54%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.54%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.36%) MuleSoft