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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 63 74
Rank change year-on-year -46 +11 +49
Contract jobs citing React 29 49 41
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.35% 2.59% 2.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.86% 13.96% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 34 39
10th Percentile £478 £452 £295
25th Percentile £511 £481 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £537 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +19.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £500
90th Percentile £690 £764 £560
England median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £38.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year +70.32% -40.84% +40.44%

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 423 351 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.72% 18.57% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 197 195
10th Percentile £373 £398 £318
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -7.77%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £575
90th Percentile £700 £730 £688
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.55% - -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 - £17.20
25th Percentile £32.24 £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% -52.24%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £30.63
90th Percentile - - £38.50
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -11.54% +20.93% -17.31%

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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 27 November 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 27 November 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 -21 16 £530 +1.15% 14
Warwickshire -4 5 - - 3
Birmingham -37 4 £525 -8.70% 17
Herefordshire - 4 £600 - 1
Worcestershire - 4 £600 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Cucumber
1 6 (20.69%) Git
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
1 6 (20.69%) JUnit
1 6 (20.69%) Selenium
2 5 (17.24%) Maven
2 5 (17.24%) Mockito
3 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.45%) Gatling
General
1 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (72.41%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) React Developer
2 8 (27.59%) Senior
3 7 (24.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Senior Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Java Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Lead
5 4 (13.79%) Node.js Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior React Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Software Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead Java Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.45%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.45%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (3.45%) PHP Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (44.83%) Playwright
2 9 (31.03%) Spring
3 7 (24.14%) Material-UI
3 7 (24.14%) Node.js
4 6 (20.69%) JSON
4 6 (20.69%) OAuth
4 6 (20.69%) OAuth2
5 5 (17.24%) Gherkin
5 5 (17.24%) GraalVM
5 5 (17.24%) HTML
5 5 (17.24%) JDBC
5 5 (17.24%) JPA
5 5 (17.24%) OpenID
5 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
6 4 (13.79%) .NET
7 3 (10.34%) Jest
7 3 (10.34%) RESTful
8 2 (6.90%) Enzyme
8 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
8 2 (6.90%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Clean Code
1 10 (34.48%) Front End Development
2 8 (27.59%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) User Experience
3 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) End-to-End Testing
3 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (24.14%) Progressive Enhancement
4 6 (20.69%) Coaching
4 6 (20.69%) DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Microservices
4 6 (20.69%) OO
4 6 (20.69%) Scrum
4 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (20.69%) UX Design
5 5 (17.24%) OOD
5 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (10.34%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) TypeScript
2 15 (51.72%) Java
3 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) PHP
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) WCAG
2 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Grafana
2 5 (17.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle