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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 63 90
Rank change year-on-year -30 +27 +26
Contract jobs citing React 24 43 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.31% 2.26% 1.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.62% 12.91% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 31
10th Percentile £400 £425 £325
25th Percentile £428 £475 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £537 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +19.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £548 £675 £500
90th Percentile £623 £765 £600
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £61.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +9.02% -18.67% +29.00%

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 315 333 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.21% 17.53% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 198 216
10th Percentile £368 £360 £325
25th Percentile £413 £461 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.53% -5.28%
75th Percentile £600 £670 £600
90th Percentile £680 £750 £694
England median daily rate £510 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -7.27% -0.45% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.40 £17.20
25th Percentile £41.96 £34.63 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £30.63
90th Percentile - £71.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £54.85 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.84% +2.74% -2.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing React as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for React 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -9 11 £525 +0.19% 6
Birmingham -29 8 £435 -20.91% 14
Warwickshire - 2 - - 4
Coventry -9 1 - - 4
Herefordshire - 1 £600 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £600 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.17%) Android Studio
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Gradle
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (4.17%) Xcode
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Advertising
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (25.00%) React Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Lead
5 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (4.17%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (4.17%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior
7 1 (4.17%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Material-UI
1 6 (25.00%) Node.js
1 6 (25.00%) Playwright
1 6 (25.00%) Spring
2 5 (20.83%) Jest
2 5 (20.83%) REST
3 4 (16.67%) Next.js
4 3 (12.50%) .NET
4 3 (12.50%) CSS
4 3 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 3 (12.50%) RESTful
5 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.33%) Enzyme
5 2 (8.33%) Redux
5 2 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.17%) Express.js
6 1 (4.17%) Kafka
6 1 (4.17%) Mustache
6 1 (4.17%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Front End Development
2 9 (37.50%) User Experience
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) Clean Code
3 7 (29.17%) UX Design
4 6 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Progressive Enhancement
5 4 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (16.67%) Microservices
6 3 (12.50%) API Development
6 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) TDD
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 12 (50.00%) Java
2 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) PHP
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) JSX
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Google