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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 76 81
Rank change year-on-year -40 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing React 40 24 28
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.34% 1.79% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.21% 10.26% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 25
10th Percentile £378 £408 £275
25th Percentile £451 £428 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £466 £350
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% +33.21% -24.89%
75th Percentile £619 £534 £450
90th Percentile £699 £639 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £55.25
25th Percentile - £26.25 £55.63
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - -51.11% -
75th Percentile - £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £27.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +176.36% -57.03% -8.57%

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 555 234 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.59% 17.41% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 159 190
10th Percentile £360 £381 £312
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £611
90th Percentile £658 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £21.97 - £29.60
25th Percentile £41.86 £26.25 £39.92
Median hourly rate £58.00 £27.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.91% -31.25% -
75th Percentile £77.38 £28.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.50 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

React
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

React
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

React
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing React in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for React in the West Midlands

React
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

React
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 5 April 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 -35 17 £542 +11.08% 1
Warwickshire -12 7 £500 -13.04% 4
Coventry -24 6 £474 +0.80% 2
Birmingham -25 5 £533 +22.41% 17
Staffordshire - 3 £313 - 1
Worcestershire -12 1 £700 -
Herefordshire -16 1 £700 - 1
Solihull - 1 - - 1
React
England

React
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 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Adobe XD
1 5 (12.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Figma
3 5 (12.50%) GitHub
4 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (7.50%) Serverless
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.50%) GIS
4 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 5 (12.50%) GitLab
2 5 (12.50%) JUnit
2 5 (12.50%) Maven
2 5 (12.50%) Mockito
2 5 (12.50%) Selenium
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (65.00%) Developer
2 13 (32.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (25.00%) Lead
3 10 (25.00%) Senior
4 8 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Lead Java Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.50%) React Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Designer
8 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead Designer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead UX Designer
8 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) UI Designer
8 2 (5.00%) UI/UX Designer
8 2 (5.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (47.50%) HTML
2 16 (40.00%) CSS
3 11 (27.50%) AngularJS
4 10 (25.00%) Spring
5 9 (22.50%) Node.js
6 7 (17.50%) .NET
6 7 (17.50%) CSS3
6 7 (17.50%) HTML5
6 7 (17.50%) Playwright
6 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
7 6 (15.00%) RESTful
8 5 (12.50%) Gherkin
8 5 (12.50%) GraalVM
8 5 (12.50%) JDBC
8 5 (12.50%) JPA
8 5 (12.50%) JSON
8 5 (12.50%) OAuth
8 5 (12.50%) OAuth2
8 5 (12.50%) OpenID
8 5 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Agile
2 15 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.00%) DevOps
5 10 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 10 (25.00%) User Experience
6 9 (22.50%) Microservices
7 7 (17.50%) Scrum
7 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
7 7 (17.50%) UX Design
8 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.50%) Coaching
9 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 5 (12.50%) OO
9 5 (12.50%) OOD
9 5 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
9 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (12.50%) User Research
10 4 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (25.00%) Java
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
4 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.50%) C#
6 4 (10.00%) Python
7 2 (5.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 4 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) QA
1 8 (20.00%) WCAG
2 5 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Grafana
2 5 (12.50%) Kibana
3 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Adobe
1 5 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) NEC
3 1 (2.50%) Splunk