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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 82 49
Rank change year-on-year -38 -33 -6
Permanent jobs citing React 1,558 1,546 2,860
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.56% 3.56% 4.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.63% 20.12% 19.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,204 1,035 1,815
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -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 10,648 7,683 14,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.64% 17.71% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,852 5,073 9,802
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £114,979
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -59 569 £85,000 -15.00% 763
North of England -10 340 £60,000 -11.11% 161
South East +44 275 £60,000 - 130
North West -21 180 £60,000 -11.11% 104
Midlands -16 154 £55,000 - 71
South West -32 132 £55,000 -8.33% 86
Yorkshire -4 108 £63,750 -5.56% 40
East Midlands -14 78 £55,000 +22.22% 29
West Midlands -41 76 £55,000 -4.35% 42
East of England -16 70 £60,000 -4.00% 43
North East -24 52 £65,000 +33.33% 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 25 (1.60%) CMS
1 25 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.54%) Apache
3 17 (1.09%) Confluence
4 15 (0.96%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.58%) IIS
5 9 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.51%) nginx
7 7 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.32%) JBoss
9 4 (0.26%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.19%) DNN
10 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Kentico
10 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 16 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.064%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (0.64%) Magento
2 8 (0.51%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 672 (43.13%) AWS
2 566 (36.33%) Azure
3 165 (10.59%) GitHub
4 144 (9.24%) GCP
5 133 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
6 131 (8.41%) Serverless
7 107 (6.87%) SaaS
8 78 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
9 75 (4.81%) Azure AI
10 58 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (3.02%) Anthropic Claude
12 41 (2.63%) Amazon S3
12 41 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
13 36 (2.31%) Power Platform
14 34 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 33 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (1.73%) Figma
18 26 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.48%) Internet
2 21 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 18 (1.16%) Broadband
4 10 (0.64%) VoIP
5 9 (0.58%) DNS
5 9 (0.58%) HTTP
6 7 (0.45%) AMQP
7 6 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.39%) Wireshark
8 5 (0.32%) Firewall
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
9 4 (0.26%) Intranet
9 4 (0.26%) LAN
9 4 (0.26%) WAN
10 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.13%) LTE
10 2 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.064%) Network Security
11 1 (0.064%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.064%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (12.84%) MongoDB
2 152 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
3 144 (9.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 107 (6.87%) SQL Server
5 105 (6.74%) NoSQL
6 95 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
7 91 (5.84%) MySQL
8 77 (4.94%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.63%) DynamoDB
10 35 (2.25%) Redis
11 15 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.96%) Power BI
12 11 (0.71%) Metadata
13 10 (0.64%) Big Data
13 10 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.64%) Neo4j
14 8 (0.51%) Chroma
14 8 (0.51%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 243 (15.60%) Git
2 76 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 60 (3.85%) GitLab
4 56 (3.59%) Cypress.io
5 47 (3.02%) JIRA
6 40 (2.57%) JUnit
7 38 (2.44%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.86%) Subversion
9 25 (1.60%) Eclipse
10 23 (1.48%) Maven
10 23 (1.48%) Selenium
11 22 (1.41%) Bitbucket
12 20 (1.28%) Vite
13 17 (1.09%) Mockito
14 11 (0.71%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.71%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.64%) Postman
15 10 (0.64%) Storybook
16 9 (0.58%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 332 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 257 (16.50%) Finance
3 77 (4.94%) Retail
4 64 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 61 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (3.34%) Law
8 51 (3.27%) Marketing
9 43 (2.76%) Banking
10 37 (2.37%) Legal
11 26 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.16%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.09%) Front Office
14 16 (1.03%) Legal Technology
15 15 (0.96%) Advertising
16 13 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.71%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.71%) Tech for Good
18 10 (0.64%) Publishing
19 9 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 787 (50.51%) Developer
2 340 (21.82%) Senior
3 319 (20.47%) Software Engineer
4 258 (16.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 212 (13.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 195 (12.52%) .NET Developer
7 162 (10.40%) Lead
8 145 (9.31%) Senior Developer
9 124 (7.96%) React Developer
10 115 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 79 (5.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 74 (4.75%) Software Developer
13 64 (4.11%) Java Developer
13 64 (4.11%) Lead Developer
14 60 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 59 (3.79%) Python Engineer
16 57 (3.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 43 (2.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 40 (2.57%) Engineering Manager
19 39 (2.50%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (29.20%) Node.js
2 445 (28.56%) .NET
3 234 (15.02%) AngularJS
4 229 (14.70%) REST
5 228 (14.63%) RESTful
6 227 (14.57%) ASP.NET
7 205 (13.16%) ASP.NET Core
8 201 (12.90%) .NET Core
9 196 (12.58%) CSS
10 178 (11.42%) Terraform
11 177 (11.36%) HTML
12 170 (10.91%) Vue
13 167 (10.72%) Next.js
14 163 (10.46%) Blazor
15 120 (7.70%) Spring
16 98 (6.29%) Spring Boot
17 91 (5.84%) React Native
18 86 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web API
19 84 (5.39%) .NET Framework
20 68 (4.36%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 230 (14.76%) Cloud Native
2 99 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 65 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 63 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (3.40%) AI Agents
8 39 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.93%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.73%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.41%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.22%) Social Media
14 17 (1.09%) iPhone
15 15 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.96%) Onboarding
16 14 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.90%) Virtual Reality
17 13 (0.83%) IoT
18 12 (0.77%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.56%) Linux
2 30 (1.93%) Android
3 16 (1.03%) Windows
4 15 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.96%) Debian
4 15 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.45%) Unix
6 6 (0.39%) CentOS
7 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 887 (56.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 689 (44.22%) Agile
3 561 (36.01%) Software Engineering
4 552 (35.43%) CI/CD
5 457 (29.33%) AI
6 382 (24.52%) Microservices
7 362 (23.23%) DevOps
8 307 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
9 297 (19.06%) Mentoring
10 232 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 201 (12.90%) Test Automation
12 184 (11.81%) Scrum
13 181 (11.62%) Code Quality
14 170 (10.91%) Front End Development
15 168 (10.78%) Containerisation
16 164 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
17 155 (9.95%) Clean Code
18 143 (9.18%) SDLC
19 139 (8.92%) Computer Science
20 134 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 811 (52.05%) TypeScript
2 747 (47.95%) JavaScript
3 465 (29.85%) C#
4 416 (26.70%) SQL
5 388 (24.90%) Python
6 264 (16.94%) Java
7 61 (3.92%) C++
7 61 (3.92%) Go
7 61 (3.92%) PHP
8 48 (3.08%) Ruby
9 27 (1.73%) Rust
10 26 (1.67%) Bash
10 26 (1.67%) Perl
11 22 (1.41%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.83%) PowerShell
14 9 (0.58%) Swift
15 8 (0.51%) Scala
15 8 (0.51%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 187 (12.00%) Degree
2 149 (9.56%) Security Cleared
3 117 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 105 (6.74%) SC Cleared
5 29 (1.86%) Master's Degree
6 28 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.64%) MBA
9 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.19%) OCP
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.13%) PhD
14 1 (0.064%) HNC
14 1 (0.064%) HND
14 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.55%) QA
2 81 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.54%) WCAG
4 12 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.71%) GDPR
6 9 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.45%) GRC
8 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.19%) NIST
10 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.064%) SLA
System Software
1 272 (17.46%) Docker
2 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.26%) Firmware
5 1 (0.064%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 200 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.73%) Ansible
3 17 (1.09%) Grafana
4 14 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.71%) Podman
7 7 (0.45%) Puppet
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
9 4 (0.26%) Kibana
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
10 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.064%) Consul
Vendors
1 240 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.81%) Google
3 44 (2.82%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.93%) Oracle
5 24 (1.54%) Facebook
6 23 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 15 (0.96%) Databricks
7 15 (0.96%) Splunk
8 14 (0.90%) Red Hat
9 13 (0.83%) Palantir
9 13 (0.83%) Sony
10 12 (0.77%) Mistral
11 11 (0.71%) Apple
11 11 (0.71%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.64%) New Relic
13 9 (0.58%) Foundry
14 7 (0.45%) IBM
15 6 (0.39%) AppDynamics
15 6 (0.39%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.39%) SaltStack