Senior React Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior React.js Developer
England > London

The median Senior React.js Developer daily rate in London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 372 417
Rank change year-on-year 0 +45 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Senior React Developer 10 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.070% 0.057% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.061% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 6
10th Percentile £438 £473 £375
25th Percentile £594 £513 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £813 £688 £544
90th Percentile £850 £815 £613
England median daily rate £650 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +23.81% +5.00% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,245 14,709 18,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 93.59% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,809 9,551 13,123
10th Percentile £338 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.86 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £54.06 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +36.36%

Senior React Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior React Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior React Developer job vacancy trend in London

Senior React Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior React Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior React Developer job vacancies in London

Senior React Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior React Developer in London over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior React Developer in London

Senior React Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior React Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior React Developer job vacancies in London

Senior 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 Senior React Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. 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 - 1 £475 -
Senior React Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior React Developer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) React
2 7 (70.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) CSS
3 5 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Redux
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) REST
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) CSS3
6 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Electron
6 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (20.00%) Fintech

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) npm
2 2 (20.00%) Yarn
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) webpack
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Front Office
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) React
2 5 (50.00%) CSS
2 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 4 (40.00%) Redux
4 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (30.00%) REST
5 2 (20.00%) CSS3
5 2 (20.00%) Electron
5 2 (20.00%) HTML5
5 2 (20.00%) RxJS
5 2 (20.00%) Spring
5 2 (20.00%) Svelte
5 2 (20.00%) Zustand
6 1 (10.00%) Jest
6 1 (10.00%) Next.js
6 1 (10.00%) Playwright
6 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (10.00%) Swagger
6 1 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (10.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Derivative
1 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) Fintech
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) UX Design
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
1 7 (70.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility