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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 59 49
Rank change year-on-year -48 -10 -9
Permanent jobs citing React 1,468 1,684 3,759
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 4.44% 4.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.56% 22.65% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,185 1,233 3,077
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,250 £117,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8,359 7,435 17,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.08% 19.58% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6,361 5,069 14,220
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,698 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -27 612 £85,000 -5.56% 265
North of England -28 296 £65,000 - 103
South East +2 236 £65,000 +8.33% 103
Midlands -32 157 £62,500 +4.17% 35
North West -47 138 £60,000 -7.69% 65
Yorkshire -4 121 £70,000 +3.70% 24
South West -63 96 £60,000 -4.00% 36
East Midlands -29 84 £65,000 +18.18% 20
West Midlands -47 73 £60,000 - 15
East of England -16 60 £60,000 -4.00% 33
North East -26 37 £55,000 +4.76% 14
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 23 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.29%) Confluence
3 16 (1.09%) Apache
4 14 (0.95%) CMS
5 12 (0.82%) IIS
6 10 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.20%) CICS
9 3 (0.20%) Liferay
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.20%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.068%) Appian
11 1 (0.068%) Camunda
11 1 (0.068%) Strapi
Applications
1 13 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Shopify
2 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.068%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 663 (45.16%) AWS
2 446 (30.38%) Azure
3 174 (11.85%) Serverless
4 155 (10.56%) GCP
5 125 (8.51%) GitHub
6 112 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (7.63%) SaaS
7 102 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
8 78 (5.31%) Amazon S3
9 48 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
12 42 (2.86%) Figma
13 34 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 33 (2.25%) Azure AI
15 28 (1.91%) Power Platform
16 22 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (1.43%) Amazon EventBridge
17 21 (1.43%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.16%) Broadband
2 15 (1.02%) Internet
3 9 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.54%) AMQP
5 5 (0.34%) HTTP
5 5 (0.34%) VoIP
6 4 (0.27%) DNS
6 4 (0.27%) Intranet
6 4 (0.27%) LTE
7 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
7 3 (0.20%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.14%) LAN
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) WAN
9 1 (0.068%) MQTT
9 1 (0.068%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (6.95%) NoSQL
3 99 (6.74%) MongoDB
4 78 (5.31%) SQL Server
5 69 (4.70%) MySQL
6 51 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 51 (3.47%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.34%) Relational Database
8 42 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (1.29%) Redis
10 16 (1.09%) Neo4j
11 12 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.75%) Power BI
13 9 (0.61%) Big Data
13 9 (0.61%) DB2
13 9 (0.61%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.48%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 205 (13.96%) Git
2 75 (5.11%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.41%) JIRA
4 35 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 33 (2.25%) GitLab
6 28 (1.91%) Vite
7 20 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 20 (1.36%) Claude Code
7 20 (1.36%) Maven
8 17 (1.16%) JUnit
9 16 (1.09%) Selenium
10 15 (1.02%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.02%) TeamCity
11 14 (0.95%) Storybook
12 13 (0.89%) webpack
13 11 (0.75%) Mockito
14 10 (0.68%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.68%) Gradle
15 7 (0.48%) Eclipse
15 7 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 268 (18.26%) Social Skills
2 256 (17.44%) Finance
3 84 (5.72%) Front Office
4 79 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (3.20%) Retail
6 43 (2.93%) Banking
6 43 (2.93%) Law
7 37 (2.52%) Public Sector
8 31 (2.11%) Legal
9 27 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.36%) Marketing
11 17 (1.16%) Investment Banking
11 17 (1.16%) Tech for Good
12 10 (0.68%) Advertising
12 10 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.61%) Automotive
13 9 (0.61%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.48%) Games
15 6 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 818 (55.72%) Developer
2 341 (23.23%) Senior
3 305 (20.78%) Software Engineer
4 287 (19.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 223 (15.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 212 (14.44%) React Developer
7 191 (13.01%) Lead
8 164 (11.17%) Senior Developer
9 106 (7.22%) Lead Developer
10 101 (6.88%) .NET Developer
11 96 (6.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 90 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 82 (5.59%) Java Developer
14 69 (4.70%) Software Developer
15 65 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
16 62 (4.22%) Python Developer
17 61 (4.16%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 55 (3.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 54 (3.68%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
20 47 (3.20%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (33.24%) Node.js
2 312 (21.25%) .NET
3 235 (16.01%) CSS
4 225 (15.33%) HTML
5 212 (14.44%) AngularJS
6 189 (12.87%) REST
7 171 (11.65%) RESTful
8 156 (10.63%) Vue
9 132 (8.99%) Spring
10 129 (8.79%) Next.js
11 121 (8.24%) .NET Core
12 107 (7.29%) Spring Boot
13 94 (6.40%) ASP.NET
13 94 (6.40%) Redux
14 89 (6.06%) GraphQL
15 84 (5.72%) React Native
16 80 (5.45%) ASP.NET Core
17 71 (4.84%) Blazor
18 69 (4.70%) Kafka
19 50 (3.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 67 (4.56%) Mobile App
3 64 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (4.29%) Fixed Income
5 55 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 51 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
8 44 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.43%) Derivative
13 17 (1.16%) IoT
13 17 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.09%) Equities
15 14 (0.95%) e-Learning
16 13 (0.89%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.89%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.82%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.20%) Linux
2 15 (1.02%) Android
2 15 (1.02%) Windows
3 9 (0.61%) Debian
4 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.34%) CentOS
5 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (53.95%) Full-Stack Development
2 581 (39.58%) Agile
3 513 (34.95%) Software Engineering
4 439 (29.90%) CI/CD
5 329 (22.41%) DevOps
6 297 (20.23%) AI
7 283 (19.28%) Microservices
8 281 (19.14%) Mentoring
9 246 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
10 210 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 193 (13.15%) Front End Development
12 165 (11.24%) Scrum
13 163 (11.10%) Containerisation
14 162 (11.04%) Test Automation
15 156 (10.63%) User Experience
16 148 (10.08%) Clean Code
17 133 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
18 122 (8.31%) Computer Science
19 115 (7.83%) TDD
20 102 (6.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 768 (52.32%) TypeScript
2 682 (46.46%) JavaScript
3 368 (25.07%) Python
4 302 (20.57%) Java
5 285 (19.41%) C#
6 279 (19.01%) SQL
7 69 (4.70%) Go
8 62 (4.22%) PHP
9 22 (1.50%) Bash
10 21 (1.43%) C++
11 20 (1.36%) PL/SQL
11 20 (1.36%) PowerShell
12 19 (1.29%) Ruby
13 14 (0.95%) C
13 14 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.61%) Bicep
14 9 (0.61%) Rust
15 7 (0.48%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.34%) Perl
16 5 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 135 (9.20%) Degree
2 119 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 95 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (4.70%) SC Cleared
5 39 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 13 (0.89%) DBS Check
7 13 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (0.41%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.14%) PhD
12 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.068%) HNC
12 1 (0.068%) HND
12 1 (0.068%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.068%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.25%) QA
2 45 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.41%) GDPR
4 5 (0.34%) WCAG
5 1 (0.068%) NCSC
5 1 (0.068%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.068%) SLA
5 1 (0.068%) SOC 2
System Software
1 249 (16.96%) Docker
2 9 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 195 (13.28%) Kubernetes
2 155 (10.56%) Terraform
3 20 (1.36%) Ansible
3 20 (1.36%) Grafana
4 13 (0.89%) Podman
4 13 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.54%) Argo
6 6 (0.41%) Kibana
6 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.34%) Nagios
7 5 (0.34%) Puppet
8 3 (0.20%) Plesk
9 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.14%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.14%) Packer
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 120 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 42 (2.86%) Google
3 28 (1.91%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.77%) Oracle
5 16 (1.09%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.54%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.54%) Solace
8 7 (0.48%) Apple
8 7 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.48%) IBM
9 6 (0.41%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.41%) Databricks
9 6 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.34%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.27%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.27%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.27%) Sony
11 4 (0.27%) Yahoo!