React Job Trends in England

React.js
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring React skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 38 42
Rank change year-on-year -53 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,329 2,490 3,284
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.18% 5.72% 4.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.84% 25.60% 21.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 1,562 2,932
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% +7.69% -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,697 9,726 15,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.01% 22.33% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,139 6,006 12,937
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -8.89%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

React job vacancy trend in England

React
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing React.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing React

React
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing React in England over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Salary histogram for React in England

React
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing React within the England region over the 6 months to 22 February 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
London -26 583 £90,000 +2.86% 285
North of England -50 250 £65,000 +8.33% 144
South East -79 191 £63,750 +1.19% 126
Midlands -16 132 £62,500 +4.17% 64
Yorkshire -15 117 £70,000 +3.70% 47
North West -46 117 £65,000 +4.00% 78
South West -53 103 £62,500 -3.85% 63
East Midlands -4 71 £65,000 +8.33% 29
West Midlands -14 61 £60,000 - 35
East of England -77 43 £57,500 -14.81% 30
North East -45 16 £56,750 +13.50% 19
React
UK

React
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 19 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
1 19 (1.43%) CMS
1 19 (1.43%) Confluence
2 13 (0.98%) Apache
3 9 (0.68%) nginx
3 9 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
5 7 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.53%) IIS
6 6 (0.45%) WordPress
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.30%) Appian
9 3 (0.23%) Liferay
10 2 (0.15%) JBoss
10 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.075%) SAS
11 1 (0.075%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Shopify
2 7 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.075%) Magento
4 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 609 (45.82%) AWS
2 410 (30.85%) Azure
3 176 (13.24%) Serverless
4 156 (11.74%) GCP
5 146 (10.99%) GitHub
6 126 (9.48%) SaaS
7 105 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (7.37%) Amazon S3
9 71 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (3.61%) Figma
12 42 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (1.66%) Power Platform
15 21 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (1.50%) Amazon EventBridge
16 20 (1.50%) npm
17 17 (1.28%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.90%) Internet
2 10 (0.75%) AMQP
3 5 (0.38%) Broadband
4 4 (0.30%) HTTP
5 3 (0.23%) SSL
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
6 2 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.075%) Firewall
7 1 (0.075%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.075%) MQTT
7 1 (0.075%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.77%) NoSQL
3 84 (6.32%) SQL Server
4 69 (5.19%) MySQL
5 66 (4.97%) Relational Database
6 52 (3.91%) DynamoDB
7 46 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 36 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (1.35%) Neo4j
10 18 (1.35%) Redis
11 14 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.05%) DB2
12 13 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.90%) Apache Arrow
13 12 (0.90%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.83%) Apache Iceberg
14 11 (0.83%) Dremio
14 11 (0.83%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 174 (13.09%) Git
2 64 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.01%) JIRA
4 35 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.96%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.73%) Vite
7 22 (1.66%) GitLab
7 22 (1.66%) Selenium
7 22 (1.66%) webpack
8 20 (1.50%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.43%) Storybook
10 10 (0.75%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.75%) JUnit
10 10 (0.75%) Maven
11 7 (0.53%) Gradle
11 7 (0.53%) gulp
12 6 (0.45%) git-flow
13 5 (0.38%) Babel
13 5 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 304 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 198 (14.90%) Finance
3 79 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (5.72%) Front Office
5 56 (4.21%) Banking
6 48 (3.61%) Retail
7 41 (3.09%) Law
7 41 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 35 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (1.73%) Investment Banking
10 22 (1.66%) Marketing
11 21 (1.58%) Games
12 19 (1.43%) Legal
13 13 (0.98%) Tech for Good
14 9 (0.68%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.53%) Back Office
16 6 (0.45%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.45%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 727 (54.70%) Developer
2 311 (23.40%) Senior
3 273 (20.54%) Software Engineer
4 268 (20.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 200 (15.05%) React Developer
6 170 (12.79%) Lead
7 156 (11.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 148 (11.14%) Senior Developer
9 98 (7.37%) Python Developer
10 86 (6.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 78 (5.87%) Java Developer
12 73 (5.49%) Lead Developer
13 70 (5.27%) .NET Developer
13 70 (5.27%) Senior Software Engineer
14 55 (4.14%) Software Developer
15 54 (4.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 48 (3.61%) Full-Stack Python Developer
17 46 (3.46%) C# Developer
18 45 (3.39%) AWS Developer
19 43 (3.24%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (29.04%) Node.js
2 292 (21.97%) .NET
3 286 (21.52%) CSS
4 278 (20.92%) HTML
5 240 (18.06%) AngularJS
6 183 (13.77%) REST
7 174 (13.09%) Vue
8 131 (9.86%) RESTful
9 107 (8.05%) Next.js
10 102 (7.67%) Spring
11 101 (7.60%) .NET Core
12 98 (7.37%) GraphQL
13 91 (6.85%) Spring Boot
14 67 (5.04%) Django
15 66 (4.97%) ASP.NET
16 65 (4.89%) React Native
17 62 (4.67%) Redux
18 60 (4.51%) Kafka
19 59 (4.44%) WebSockets
20 58 (4.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 147 (11.06%) Cloud Native
2 70 (5.27%) Mobile App
3 68 (5.12%) Fixed Income
4 52 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
4 52 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 48 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 32 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.66%) Equities
10 20 (1.50%) IoT
11 18 (1.35%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.05%) Derivative
14 13 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.75%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.68%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.68%) Cybercrime
16 9 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.41%) Linux
2 18 (1.35%) Android
3 15 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.83%) Windows
5 5 (0.38%) CentOS
5 5 (0.38%) Debian
5 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.30%) Unix
7 1 (0.075%) VMS
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (48.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 521 (39.20%) Agile
3 466 (35.06%) Software Engineering
4 416 (31.30%) CI/CD
5 266 (20.02%) DevOps
6 261 (19.64%) Microservices
7 259 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
8 214 (16.10%) Mentoring
9 208 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (15.43%) User Experience
11 202 (15.20%) AI
12 193 (14.52%) Front End Development
13 143 (10.76%) Clean Code
14 140 (10.53%) Containerisation
15 122 (9.18%) Scrum
15 122 (9.18%) Test Automation
16 119 (8.95%) Computer Science
17 111 (8.35%) Infrastructure as Code
18 101 (7.60%) TDD
19 88 (6.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 662 (49.81%) JavaScript
2 651 (48.98%) TypeScript
3 352 (26.49%) Python
4 315 (23.70%) Java
5 246 (18.51%) SQL
6 237 (17.83%) C#
7 73 (5.49%) PHP
8 55 (4.14%) Go
9 22 (1.66%) Kotlin
9 22 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 21 (1.58%) C
11 15 (1.13%) Rust
12 12 (0.90%) Bash
12 12 (0.90%) C++
12 12 (0.90%) Ruby
13 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.53%) Scala
14 6 (0.45%) Bicep
14 6 (0.45%) R
15 5 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 140 (10.53%) Degree
2 121 (9.10%) Security Cleared
3 74 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (5.42%) SC Cleared
5 43 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 16 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.53%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.23%) ISEB
12 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.97%) Accessibility
2 62 (4.67%) QA
3 14 (1.05%) WCAG
4 7 (0.53%) SLA
5 5 (0.38%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) NCSC
7 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.23%) NIST
7 3 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.075%) Data Quality
System Software
1 218 (16.40%) Docker
2 13 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.075%) HDFS
5 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 209 (15.73%) Kubernetes
2 143 (10.76%) Terraform
3 19 (1.43%) Grafana
4 14 (1.05%) Ansible
4 14 (1.05%) Argo
5 10 (0.75%) Kibana
6 7 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.38%) Puppet
8 4 (0.30%) Nagios
9 3 (0.23%) cPanel
9 3 (0.23%) Plesk
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.075%) Istio
11 1 (0.075%) Podman
Vendors
1 74 (5.57%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.26%) Google
3 27 (2.03%) Atlassian
4 26 (1.96%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.35%) Oracle
6 13 (0.98%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.90%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.53%) Adobe
9 7 (0.53%) Foundry
9 7 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.45%) Databricks
11 5 (0.38%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.38%) IBM
11 5 (0.38%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.38%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.38%) SAP
12 4 (0.30%) Apple
12 4 (0.30%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.30%) Informatica