React Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

React.js
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring React skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 70 75
Rank change year-on-year -39 +5 +45
Contract jobs citing React 26 44 43
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.32% 2.34% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.68% 12.94% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 41
10th Percentile £458 £425 £325
25th Percentile £509 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £500
90th Percentile £705 £765 £600
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 389 340 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.78% 18.06% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 185 216
10th Percentile £373 £363 £325
25th Percentile £448 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £605 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £30.63
90th Percentile - £68.98 £38.50
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.78
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.53% -14.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

React job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for React in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing React.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing React

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Shropshire -20 14 £525 +0.19%
Birmingham -35 5 £525 -6.67% 20
Herefordshire - 4 £600 - 1
Worcestershire - 4 £600 - 6
Warwickshire -2 2 - - 8
Coventry -11 1 - - 9
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 4 (15.38%) JUnit
2 4 (15.38%) Selenium
3 3 (11.54%) Maven
3 3 (11.54%) Mockito
4 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.85%) Android Studio
5 1 (3.85%) Gatling
5 1 (3.85%) Gradle
5 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.85%) Xcode
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) React Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (23.08%) Senior
4 6 (23.08%) Senior Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Lead
6 4 (15.38%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Software Developer
7 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (11.54%) Java Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Lead Java Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
9 1 (3.85%) JavaScript Developer
9 1 (3.85%) PHP Developer
9 1 (3.85%) Quality Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Playwright
2 8 (30.77%) Node.js
2 8 (30.77%) Spring
3 7 (26.92%) Material-UI
4 5 (19.23%) .NET
5 4 (15.38%) Jest
5 4 (15.38%) JSON
5 4 (15.38%) OAuth
5 4 (15.38%) OAuth2
5 4 (15.38%) REST
5 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
6 3 (11.54%) Gherkin
6 3 (11.54%) GraalVM
6 3 (11.54%) HTML
6 3 (11.54%) JDBC
6 3 (11.54%) JPA
6 3 (11.54%) OpenID
6 3 (11.54%) RESTful
7 2 (7.69%) Next.js
7 2 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Clean Code
2 10 (38.46%) Front End Development
3 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 9 (34.62%) User Experience
4 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 7 (26.92%) End-to-End Testing
4 7 (26.92%) Progressive Enhancement
4 7 (26.92%) UX Design
5 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Microservices
6 5 (19.23%) Scrum
7 4 (15.38%) Coaching
7 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (15.38%) OO
7 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (11.54%) Architectural Design
8 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
8 3 (11.54%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) TypeScript
2 14 (53.85%) Java
3 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) JSX
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
5 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) WCAG
2 4 (15.38%) Accessibility
3 3 (11.54%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle