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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 87 94
Rank change year-on-year -52 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing React 30 22 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.87% 1.36% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.80% 8.59% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 14
10th Percentile £329 £421 £306
25th Percentile £450 £428 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £368
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +39.46% -21.89%
75th Percentile £625 £549 £500
90th Percentile £703 £648 -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £55.25
25th Percentile - - £55.63
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year +13.43% -2.19% -8.67%

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 517 256 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.02% 15.84% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 163 194
10th Percentile £350 £368 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £485 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £637
90th Percentile £645 £688 £734
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 9
10th Percentile - - £14.23
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £39.92
Median hourly rate £60.67 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.25
90th Percentile £76.00 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -46 12 £635 +19.81% 4
Coventry -15 9 £450 - 2
Birmingham -27 4 £420 -3.45% 14
Warwickshire -23 3 £450 -21.74%
Staffordshire - 1 £313 - 1
Solihull - 1 - - 1
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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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.33%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 2 (6.67%) Sketch
2 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (13.33%) Serverless
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) Figma
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.33%) LangSmith
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.33%) GIS
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.67%) Gatling
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) JUnit
2 2 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.33%) MLflow
General
1 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Front Office
3 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (66.67%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (16.67%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Java Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Lead Java Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) React Developer
5 3 (10.00%) UI Developer
6 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Designer
6 2 (6.67%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) UI Designer
6 2 (6.67%) UI/UX Designer
6 2 (6.67%) UI/UX Developer
6 2 (6.67%) UX Designer
6 2 (6.67%) UX Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) CSS
1 8 (26.67%) HTML
2 7 (23.33%) .NET
2 7 (23.33%) REST
3 6 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (20.00%) Node.js
3 6 (20.00%) Spring
4 5 (16.67%) Playwright
5 3 (10.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (10.00%) CSS3
5 3 (10.00%) Django
5 3 (10.00%) HTML5
5 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.67%) Flask
6 2 (6.67%) JSON
6 2 (6.67%) Kafka
6 2 (6.67%) Mustache
6 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.67%) React Native
6 2 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.33%) Equities
3 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Front End Development
3 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 8 (26.67%) User Experience
5 6 (20.00%) DevOps
5 6 (20.00%) TDD
5 6 (20.00%) UX Design
6 5 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (16.67%) Scrum
6 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (13.33%) Wireframes
8 3 (10.00%) AI
8 3 (10.00%) Architectural Design
8 3 (10.00%) BDD
8 3 (10.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 3 (10.00%) Microservices
8 3 (10.00%) Pair Programming
8 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 12 (40.00%) Java
3 8 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.33%) C#
4 4 (13.33%) Python
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 5 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Dataiku
2 1 (3.33%) DataRobot
2 1 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) NEC
2 1 (3.33%) Splunk