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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 91 64
Rank change year-on-year -27 -27 +23
Contract jobs citing React 49 27 44
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.43% 1.54% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.57% 7.92% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 20 33
10th Percentile £402 £400 £332
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £510 £524
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -2.77% +14.41%
75th Percentile £600 £546 £675
90th Percentile £630 £613 £765
England median daily rate £535 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +2.88% -9.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate £72.00 £66.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +8.27% -0.75% -10.67%

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 572 341 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.65% 19.44% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 222 219
10th Percentile £363 £368 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £750
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 3
10th Percentile - £33.91 £22.40
25th Percentile £58.43 £35.48 £34.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £71.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -0.79%

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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 3 September 2026.

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 3 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
Shropshire -32 29 £545 +3.81% 11
Coventry -16 11 £444 - 2
Birmingham -17 4 £420 -3.45% 35
Warwickshire -12 3 £450 -21.74% 4
Staffordshire - 1 £313 - 4
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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 2 (4.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (4.08%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Adobe XD
1 2 (4.08%) Sketch
2 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 7 (14.29%) Azure
3 5 (10.20%) Figma
3 5 (10.20%) GitHub
3 5 (10.20%) Serverless
4 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (6.12%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.08%) ChatGPT
6 2 (4.08%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.08%) Vercel
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.08%) Redis
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.08%) ZAP BI
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.04%) GIS
Development Applications
1 22 (44.90%) Git
2 9 (18.37%) GitLab
2 9 (18.37%) JUnit
2 9 (18.37%) Selenium
3 8 (16.33%) Cucumber
4 6 (12.24%) Gatling
5 3 (6.12%) Maven
5 3 (6.12%) Mockito
5 3 (6.12%) Storybook
6 2 (4.08%) JIRA
7 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.04%) MLflow
General
1 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
1 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Banking
3 1 (2.04%) Finance
3 1 (2.04%) Front Office
3 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (63.27%) Developer
2 20 (40.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (12.24%) Quality Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) React Developer
3 6 (12.24%) Senior
4 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Java Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Lead
4 4 (8.16%) Lead Java Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.12%) UI Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Designer
6 2 (4.08%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 2 (4.08%) UI Designer
6 2 (4.08%) UI/UX Designer
6 2 (4.08%) UI/UX Developer
6 2 (4.08%) UX Designer
6 2 (4.08%) UX Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.69%) Playwright
2 16 (32.65%) CSS
2 16 (32.65%) HTML
3 11 (22.45%) Spring
4 10 (20.41%) REST
5 9 (18.37%) .NET
5 9 (18.37%) Node.js
5 9 (18.37%) OAuth
6 8 (16.33%) OpenID
7 7 (14.29%) JSON
7 7 (14.29%) Material-UI
7 7 (14.29%) OAuth2
7 7 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (10.20%) CSS3
8 5 (10.20%) HTML5
8 5 (10.20%) OpenAPI
8 5 (10.20%) Spring Boot
8 5 (10.20%) Swagger
9 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
9 4 (8.16%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Equities
4 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) Agile
2 27 (55.10%) Front End Development
3 22 (44.90%) User Experience
4 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
5 15 (30.61%) UX Design
6 13 (26.53%) Test Automation
7 11 (22.45%) Scrum
8 10 (20.41%) End-to-End Testing
8 10 (20.41%) OWASP
9 9 (18.37%) Coaching
9 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (18.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
10 8 (16.33%) TDD
11 7 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 7 (14.29%) Pair Programming
11 7 (14.29%) Progressive Enhancement
12 6 (12.24%) Software Testing
12 6 (12.24%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (73.47%) JavaScript
2 18 (36.73%) Java
3 16 (32.65%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.20%) Python
5 2 (4.08%) C#
5 2 (4.08%) R
5 2 (4.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (34.69%) Accessibility
2 16 (32.65%) WCAG
3 7 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Grafana
2 3 (6.12%) Kibana
3 2 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (8.16%) Adobe
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.04%) Dataiku
4 1 (2.04%) DataRobot
4 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) NEC
4 1 (2.04%) New Relic
4 1 (2.04%) Splunk