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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 83 84
Rank change year-on-year -48 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing React 30 21 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.90% 1.43% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.96% 8.82% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 22
10th Percentile £334 £419 £307
25th Percentile £450 £428 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £368
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +32.65% -22.63%
75th Percentile £625 £565 £500
90th Percentile £703 £656 £575
England median daily rate £550 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +5.77% -9.57% +4.55%
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 £55.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +38.18% -17.91% -6.94%

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 503 238 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.13% 16.25% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 154 198
10th Percentile £350 £377 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £574 £584 £643
90th Percentile £645 £688 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 9
10th Percentile - - £14.23
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £39.92
Median hourly rate £59.33 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.67% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £65.12 - £56.25
90th Percentile £72.55 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -49 11 £670 +28.23% 3
Coventry -13 8 £460 -
Birmingham -31 5 £475 +9.20% 6
Warwickshire -22 4 £475 -17.39% 2
Solihull - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £313 - 6
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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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (10.00%) Serverless
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.33%) Figma
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.33%) LangSmith
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
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%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.33%) Gatling
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) JUnit
3 1 (3.33%) MLflow
3 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Banking
2 1 (3.33%) Finance
2 1 (3.33%) Front Office
2 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (73.33%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Java Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Lead Java Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) React Developer
6 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.67%) UI Developer
7 1 (3.33%) GIS Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior UI Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) CSS
1 10 (33.33%) HTML
2 8 (26.67%) .NET
3 7 (23.33%) REST
4 6 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 6 (20.00%) Node.js
5 5 (16.67%) Playwright
5 5 (16.67%) Spring
6 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET
6 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (13.33%) Django
7 3 (10.00%) .NET Core
7 3 (10.00%) CSS3
7 3 (10.00%) Flask
7 3 (10.00%) HTML5
7 3 (10.00%) Jest
8 2 (6.67%) Entity Framework
8 2 (6.67%) React Native
8 2 (6.67%) Redux
8 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
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 Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Front End Development
3 10 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (26.67%) User Experience
6 5 (16.67%) TDD
6 5 (16.67%) UX Design
7 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (13.33%) Data Integration
7 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 4 (13.33%) Workflow
8 3 (10.00%) AI
8 3 (10.00%) API Integration
8 3 (10.00%) Architectural Design
8 3 (10.00%) Kanban
8 3 (10.00%) Scrum
9 2 (6.67%) BDD
9 2 (6.67%) Pair Programming
9 2 (6.67%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 8 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 7 (23.33%) SQL
5 6 (20.00%) C#
6 4 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe
1 1 (3.33%) Dataiku
1 1 (3.33%) DataRobot
1 1 (3.33%) Google
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.33%) NEC
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle
1 1 (3.33%) Splunk