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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 40 43
Rank change year-on-year -49 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,315 2,549 3,239
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.28% 5.58% 4.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.08% 25.44% 21.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,098 1,547 2,924
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 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 6,549 10,021 15,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.37% 21.93% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,018 5,954 12,968
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 £110,000 £111,250 £101,625
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £61,551
% change year-on-year -1.52% +7.23% -8.81%

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 8 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 8 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 -24 583 £90,000 +2.86% 334
North of England -40 237 £65,000 +8.33% 172
South East -75 195 £65,000 +3.17% 145
Midlands -10 132 £62,500 +4.17% 66
North West -37 115 £65,000 +6.12% 103
Yorkshire -20 108 £65,000 -3.70% 53
South West -49 97 £62,500 -3.85% 86
East Midlands -3 67 £65,000 +8.33% 38
West Midlands -21 65 £60,000 -2.04% 28
East of England -75 46 £60,000 -11.11% 41
North East -43 14 £58,750 +11.90% 16
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 22 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (1.52%) CMS
2 20 (1.52%) Confluence
3 14 (1.06%) Apache
4 9 (0.68%) nginx
4 9 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.61%) Headless CMS
6 7 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.53%) IIS
7 6 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.30%) Appian
8 4 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.30%) WordPress
9 3 (0.23%) Liferay
10 2 (0.15%) JBoss
10 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.076%) SAS
11 1 (0.076%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.076%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Shopify
2 7 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.076%) Magento
4 1 (0.076%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.076%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 604 (45.93%) AWS
2 416 (31.63%) Azure
3 170 (12.93%) Serverless
4 149 (11.33%) GitHub
5 143 (10.87%) GCP
6 134 (10.19%) SaaS
7 106 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
8 95 (7.22%) Amazon S3
9 78 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (3.42%) Figma
13 40 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.60%) Power Platform
17 19 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 18 (1.37%) Amazon EventBridge
18 18 (1.37%) Azure Functions
19 17 (1.29%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.91%) Internet
2 10 (0.76%) AMQP
3 7 (0.53%) Broadband
4 4 (0.30%) HTTP
5 3 (0.23%) SSL
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
7 1 (0.076%) Firewall
7 1 (0.076%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.076%) LTE
7 1 (0.076%) MQTT
7 1 (0.076%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (7.22%) NoSQL
3 93 (7.07%) SQL Server
4 73 (5.55%) Relational Database
5 68 (5.17%) MySQL
6 56 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 53 (4.03%) MongoDB
8 49 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (1.44%) Redis
11 18 (1.37%) Neo4j
12 15 (1.14%) Apache Arrow
13 14 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
13 14 (1.06%) DB2
13 14 (1.06%) Dremio
14 12 (0.91%) BigQuery
14 12 (0.91%) Pinecone
15 11 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 170 (12.93%) Git
2 62 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 38 (2.89%) JIRA
4 35 (2.66%) Cypress.io
5 24 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 22 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 22 (1.67%) GitLab
6 22 (1.67%) Selenium
6 22 (1.67%) Vite
7 21 (1.60%) Storybook
8 20 (1.52%) webpack
9 19 (1.44%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.91%) JUnit
11 9 (0.68%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.68%) Maven
12 8 (0.61%) gulp
13 6 (0.46%) git-flow
13 6 (0.46%) Gradle
13 6 (0.46%) Mockito
14 5 (0.38%) Mocha
General
1 311 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 198 (15.06%) Finance
3 81 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (5.02%) Front Office
5 56 (4.26%) Banking
6 45 (3.42%) Retail
7 44 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 38 (2.89%) Law
9 34 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.67%) Marketing
12 20 (1.52%) Games
13 15 (1.14%) Tech for Good
14 14 (1.06%) Legal
15 12 (0.91%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.68%) Back Office
16 9 (0.68%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.46%) Advertising
17 6 (0.46%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.46%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 720 (54.75%) Developer
2 318 (24.18%) Senior
3 264 (20.08%) Software Engineer
4 263 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 184 (13.99%) React Developer
6 167 (12.70%) Lead
7 153 (11.63%) Senior Developer
8 144 (10.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 103 (7.83%) Python Developer
10 78 (5.93%) Java Developer
11 77 (5.86%) .NET Developer
11 77 (5.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 71 (5.40%) Senior Software Engineer
13 65 (4.94%) Lead Developer
14 55 (4.18%) Software Developer
15 51 (3.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 49 (3.73%) C# Developer
17 48 (3.65%) AWS Developer
18 47 (3.57%) Full-Stack Python Developer
19 44 (3.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (28.97%) Node.js
2 306 (23.27%) .NET
3 286 (21.75%) CSS
4 276 (20.99%) HTML
5 264 (20.08%) AngularJS
6 192 (14.60%) REST
7 188 (14.30%) Vue
8 136 (10.34%) RESTful
9 107 (8.14%) .NET Core
10 104 (7.91%) Next.js
11 98 (7.45%) Spring
12 96 (7.30%) GraphQL
13 90 (6.84%) Spring Boot
14 78 (5.93%) ASP.NET
15 68 (5.17%) .NET Framework
16 67 (5.10%) Django
17 64 (4.87%) React Native
18 58 (4.41%) WebSockets
19 52 (3.95%) Kafka
20 51 (3.88%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.80%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.55%) Mobile App
3 58 (4.41%) Fixed Income
4 55 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 49 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
7 41 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 32 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.60%) Equities
10 20 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.44%) IoT
12 18 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.37%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.14%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.76%) Client/Server
14 10 (0.76%) Derivative
14 10 (0.76%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.76%) Operational Technology
15 9 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.59%) Linux
2 21 (1.60%) Android
3 17 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.99%) 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 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.076%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (47.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 533 (40.53%) Agile
3 458 (34.83%) Software Engineering
4 421 (32.02%) CI/CD
5 267 (20.30%) DevOps
6 265 (20.15%) Microservices
7 256 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
8 215 (16.35%) User Experience
9 211 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 210 (15.97%) Mentoring
11 209 (15.89%) AI
12 191 (14.52%) Front End Development
13 136 (10.34%) Clean Code
14 131 (9.96%) Containerisation
15 130 (9.89%) Scrum
16 124 (9.43%) Computer Science
17 118 (8.97%) TDD
17 118 (8.97%) Test Automation
18 107 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
19 93 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 654 (49.73%) JavaScript
2 642 (48.82%) TypeScript
3 351 (26.69%) Python
4 307 (23.35%) Java
5 262 (19.92%) SQL
6 252 (19.16%) C#
7 70 (5.32%) PHP
8 53 (4.03%) Go
9 24 (1.83%) PowerShell
10 23 (1.75%) Kotlin
11 22 (1.67%) C
12 17 (1.29%) Rust
13 13 (0.99%) C++
13 13 (0.99%) Ruby
14 12 (0.91%) Bash
15 10 (0.76%) Scala
16 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.46%) R
18 5 (0.38%) Bicep
18 5 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 146 (11.10%) Degree
2 125 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 72 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 71 (5.40%) SC Cleared
5 48 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.38%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.23%) ISEB
14 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.25%) QA
2 67 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.14%) WCAG
4 10 (0.76%) SLA
5 4 (0.30%) GDPR
5 4 (0.30%) NCSC
6 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.23%) NIST
6 3 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.076%) Data Quality
System Software
1 210 (15.97%) Docker
2 13 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.076%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 201 (15.29%) Kubernetes
2 138 (10.49%) Terraform
3 16 (1.22%) Grafana
4 14 (1.06%) Argo
5 13 (0.99%) Ansible
6 9 (0.68%) Kibana
7 5 (0.38%) 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%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.076%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.076%) Istio
11 1 (0.076%) Packer
11 1 (0.076%) Podman
Vendors
1 82 (6.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.13%) Atlassian
2 28 (2.13%) Google
3 27 (2.05%) OpenAI
4 20 (1.52%) Oracle
5 13 (0.99%) HubSpot
5 13 (0.99%) Red Hat
6 10 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (0.53%) Adobe
7 7 (0.53%) Foundry
7 7 (0.53%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.46%) Databricks
8 6 (0.46%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.38%) IBM
9 5 (0.38%) SaltStack
9 5 (0.38%) SAP
10 4 (0.30%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.30%) Guidewire
10 4 (0.30%) Informatica
10 4 (0.30%) Palo Alto