React Job Trends in the West Midlands

React.js
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring React skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 96 71
Rank change year-on-year -21 -25 +24
Permanent jobs citing React 61 121 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.15% 2.92% 3.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.84% 17.39% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 56 45 104
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £78,421 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,500 £80,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 411 696 647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.75% 16.77% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 358 374 583
10th Percentile £29,925 £37,725 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,563 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -5.28%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -3.70%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing React relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

React job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing React.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing React

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing React in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for React in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing React within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -22 33 £62,500 - 12
Shropshire -14 10 £47,500 -36.67% 9
Warwickshire +15 4 £80,000 +33.33%
Coventry +4 4 £63,750 - 1
Staffordshire -4 3 £57,500 -28.13% 4
Wolverhampton -6 3 £85,000 - 6
Worcestershire -13 3 £36,500 - 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 2 (3.28%) NServiceBus
1 2 (3.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.70%) Azure
2 21 (34.43%) AWS
3 12 (19.67%) SaaS
4 4 (6.56%) Serverless
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.92%) Firebase
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.28%) GCP
6 2 (3.28%) GitHub
6 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) Relational Database
2 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.20%) MySQL
4 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.28%) Power BI
5 2 (3.28%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.64%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) JUnit
2 4 (6.56%) Maven
2 4 (6.56%) Mockito
3 3 (4.92%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.28%) GitLab
5 1 (1.64%) Babel
5 1 (1.64%) Postman
5 1 (1.64%) Vite
5 1 (1.64%) webpack
General
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Finance
3 10 (16.39%) Retail
4 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Advertising
6 1 (1.64%) Automotive
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (55.74%) Developer
2 11 (18.03%) Software Engineer
3 10 (16.39%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (16.39%) Senior
4 8 (13.11%) Java Developer
5 7 (11.48%) Architect
5 7 (11.48%) Lead
6 6 (9.84%) Technical Architect
7 5 (8.20%) C# Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Junior
8 4 (6.56%) Lead C# Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (4.92%) JavaScript Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Junior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.79%) Node.js
2 19 (31.15%) AngularJS
3 14 (22.95%) REST
4 11 (18.03%) .NET
4 11 (18.03%) CSS
4 11 (18.03%) HTML
4 11 (18.03%) Spring
5 10 (16.39%) JSON
5 10 (16.39%) Razor View Engine
6 7 (11.48%) Vue
7 6 (9.84%) Django
7 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
8 5 (8.20%) Next.js
9 4 (6.56%) Hibernate
10 3 (4.92%) JPA
10 3 (4.92%) Laravel
10 3 (4.92%) React Native
10 3 (4.92%) RESTful
11 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
11 2 (3.28%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Onboarding
1 10 (16.39%) Operational Technology
2 5 (8.20%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.64%) Derivative
5 1 (1.64%) PKI
5 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (52.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (34.43%) Agile
2 21 (34.43%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (32.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (31.15%) Software Engineering
5 14 (22.95%) Microservices
6 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
7 12 (19.67%) DevOps
8 11 (18.03%) API Integration
9 10 (16.39%) Client Onboarding
9 10 (16.39%) Customer Experience
9 10 (16.39%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (16.39%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (14.75%) Mentoring
11 7 (11.48%) Front End Development
11 7 (11.48%) Scrum
11 7 (11.48%) TDD
12 6 (9.84%) Coaching
12 6 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (9.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (44.26%) JavaScript
2 25 (40.98%) C#
3 15 (24.59%) Java
3 15 (24.59%) SQL
4 14 (22.95%) TypeScript
5 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
6 9 (14.75%) Python
7 4 (6.56%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.92%) PHP
9 2 (3.28%) Bash
10 1 (1.64%) C
10 1 (1.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.64%) QA
1 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Nagios
2 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle
2 3 (4.92%) Guidewire
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.28%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.64%) Foundry
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) Palantir