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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 72 78
Rank change year-on-year -47 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing React 40 21 32
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.39% 1.56% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.21% 9.13% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 30
10th Percentile £388 £428 £275
25th Percentile £455 £434 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £470 £411
Median % change year-on-year +14.36% +14.29% -11.75%
75th Percentile £625 £589 £500
90th Percentile £703 £674 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - -51.11% -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £33.25 £64.00
% change year-on-year +128.57% -48.05% -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 555 230 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.29% 17.07% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 152 192
10th Percentile £366 £376 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £611
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile £19.02 - £27.02
25th Percentile - £26.25 £39.92
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £39.96
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -31.18% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £52.19
90th Percentile £77.30 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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

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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 March 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 22 March 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 -26 18 £542 +11.08%
Warwickshire -11 7 £500 -13.04% 6
Birmingham -21 5 £533 +22.41% 21
Coventry -24 5 £460 -2.13% 2
Worcestershire -12 2 £650 -7.14%
Herefordshire -15 2 £650 -7.14% 1
Staffordshire - 2 - - 1
Solihull - 1 - - 2
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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 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Adobe XD
1 5 (12.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Figma
4 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) 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 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (65.00%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (25.00%) Lead
3 10 (25.00%) Senior
4 8 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Lead Java Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) React Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead Designer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead UX Designer
8 2 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) UI/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 8 (20.00%) Node.js
5 8 (20.00%) Playwright
6 7 (17.50%) .NET
6 7 (17.50%) CSS3
6 7 (17.50%) HTML5
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
9 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Agile
2 14 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.00%) DevOps
5 11 (27.50%) Front End Development
6 10 (25.00%) User Experience
7 9 (22.50%) Microservices
8 7 (17.50%) Scrum
8 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
8 7 (17.50%) UX Design
9 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (12.50%) Coaching
10 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 5 (12.50%) OO
10 5 (12.50%) OOD
10 5 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (12.50%) User Research
11 4 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) JavaScript
2 10 (25.00%) Java
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.50%) C#
5 4 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (5.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) WCAG
2 7 (17.50%) QA
3 6 (15.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) 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