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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 104 69
Rank change year-on-year -5 -35 +7
Contract jobs citing React 66 26 45
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.85% 1.37% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.19% 6.42% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 17 34
10th Percentile £421 £458 £425
25th Percentile £451 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £537
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -0.84% +19.33%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £672
90th Percentile £630 £705 £764
England median daily rate £537 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.29% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.50 £66.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +14.39% +59.04% -43.15%

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 648 405 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.13% 21.34% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 261 213
10th Percentile £365 £380 £363
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% -5.64% +13.99%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £662 £700 £748
England median daily rate £535 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +3.28% -5.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 2
10th Percentile £53.91 £27.21 £19.33
25th Percentile £58.43 £33.91 £26.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +18.34% +141.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £59.94
90th Percentile £75.60 - £68.98
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%

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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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -22 46 £545 +3.81% 1
Coventry -15 10 £438 -
Birmingham +1 5 £475 -9.52% 14
Warwickshire -8 2 £438 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £725 - 5
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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 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.03%) Sketch
2 1 (1.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.82%) AWS
2 7 (10.61%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) Figma
3 4 (6.06%) GitHub
3 4 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (4.55%) Serverless
5 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.03%) ChatGPT
5 2 (3.03%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.03%) Vercel
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.52%) GCP
6 1 (1.52%) LangSmith
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (28.79%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.03%) Redis
3 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.03%) ZAP BI
4 1 (1.52%) MySQL
4 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (46.97%) Git
2 17 (25.76%) GitLab
3 14 (21.21%) JUnit
3 14 (21.21%) Selenium
4 13 (19.70%) Cucumber
5 11 (16.67%) Gatling
6 5 (7.58%) Storybook
7 3 (4.55%) Maven
7 3 (4.55%) Mockito
8 2 (3.03%) JIRA
8 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
9 1 (1.52%) MLflow
General
1 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Banking
4 1 (1.52%) Finance
4 1 (1.52%) Front Office
4 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (53.03%) Developer
2 23 (34.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 11 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Java Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) React Developer
6 8 (12.12%) Lead
6 8 (12.12%) Senior
7 7 (10.61%) Lead Java Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) UI Developer
11 2 (3.03%) .NET Developer
11 2 (3.03%) C# Developer
11 2 (3.03%) Designer
11 2 (3.03%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
11 2 (3.03%) UI Designer
11 2 (3.03%) UX Designer
11 2 (3.03%) UX Developer
11 2 (3.03%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.36%) Playwright
2 18 (27.27%) CSS
2 18 (27.27%) HTML
3 17 (25.76%) Spring
4 15 (22.73%) .NET
4 15 (22.73%) JSON
4 15 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (16.67%) OAuth
5 11 (16.67%) REST
6 10 (15.15%) Material-UI
6 10 (15.15%) Node.js
6 10 (15.15%) OpenID
7 9 (13.64%) OAuth2
8 8 (12.12%) Spring Boot
9 7 (10.61%) OpenAPI
9 7 (10.61%) Swagger
10 6 (9.09%) AngularJS
10 6 (9.09%) CSS3
10 6 (9.09%) HTML5
11 5 (7.58%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.52%) Equities
4 1 (1.52%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.52%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (57.58%) Agile
1 38 (57.58%) Front End Development
2 25 (37.88%) CI/CD
3 24 (36.36%) User Experience
4 19 (28.79%) Test Automation
5 18 (27.27%) UX Design
6 16 (24.24%) End-to-End Testing
6 16 (24.24%) Scrum
6 16 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (22.73%) OWASP
8 14 (21.21%) Coaching
9 13 (19.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (18.18%) Software Testing
10 12 (18.18%) TDD
11 11 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (16.67%) Pair Programming
12 10 (15.15%) Microservices
12 10 (15.15%) Progressive Enhancement
13 9 (13.64%) Containerisation
13 9 (13.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (71.21%) JavaScript
2 33 (50.00%) Java
3 18 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 10 (15.15%) Python
5 4 (6.06%) SQL
6 3 (4.55%) C#
7 2 (3.03%) R
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) C++
8 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (36.36%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (37.88%) Accessibility
2 23 (34.85%) WCAG
3 15 (22.73%) QA
System Software
1 16 (24.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (43.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.55%) Grafana
2 3 (4.55%) Kibana
3 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (6.06%) Adobe
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.03%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.52%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.52%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.52%) NEC
5 1 (1.52%) New Relic