React Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

React.js
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 45 42
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing React 11 11 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.17% 1.96% 3.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.14% 12.79% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 23
10th Percentile £450 £458 £288
25th Percentile £483 £466 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +29.03% -13.89%
75th Percentile £625 £531 £438
90th Percentile - £543 £475
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.64% - -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 154 86 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.31% 15.30% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 68 84
10th Percentile £360 £319 £288
25th Percentile £394 £354 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +4.59% -4.49%
75th Percentile £550 £526 £532
90th Percentile £638 £552 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £25.05 - -
25th Percentile £25.07 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.11 - £22.28
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.27%
75th Percentile £25.14 - £44.63
90th Percentile £25.15 - £59.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

React job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing React.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing React

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing React within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 January 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
Leicestershire - 7 £600 - 15
Nottinghamshire -18 2 £436 -12.90% 10
Derbyshire -4 1 £475 - 16
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 8
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 7 (63.64%) CMS
2 5 (45.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (45.45%) Headless CMS
2 5 (45.45%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (45.45%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Kontent
2 5 (45.45%) Contentful
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 1 (9.09%) Agriculture
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) CMS Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (45.45%) C# Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 5 (45.45%) React Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) .NET
1 7 (63.64%) .NET Framework
1 7 (63.64%) AngularJS
1 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET
1 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET MVC
1 7 (63.64%) CSS
1 7 (63.64%) HTML
1 7 (63.64%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
3 2 (18.18%) Express.js
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) MERN Stack
4 1 (9.09%) Enzyme
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) React Native
4 1 (9.09%) Redux
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) Sass
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (63.64%) MVC
3 6 (54.55%) User Experience
4 5 (45.45%) AI
5 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) Analytics
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
7 2 (18.18%) Agile
7 2 (18.18%) API Development
7 2 (18.18%) API Integration
7 2 (18.18%) Mobile First
7 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
8 1 (9.09%) A/B Testing
8 1 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
8 1 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (9.09%) Micro Frontends
8 1 (9.09%) Monorepo
8 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 7 (63.64%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Adobe
2 5 (45.45%) Sitecore
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Databricks
4 1 (9.09%) Google