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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 83 45
Rank change year-on-year -42 -38 +2
Permanent jobs citing React 1,505 1,490 2,865
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.44% 3.50% 4.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.96% 20.31% 20.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,136 978 1,692
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -3.57%

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 10,782 7,338 13,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.28% 17.24% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,733 4,854 8,657
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -71 544 £85,000 -15.00% 90
North of England -19 335 £60,000 -7.69% 56
South East +25 270 £60,000 - 37
North West -28 193 £60,000 -7.69% 42
Midlands -32 145 £55,000 - 28
South West -19 135 £55,000 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire -4 90 £60,000 -11.11% 12
East Midlands -13 78 £50,000 -9.09% 4
West Midlands -59 67 £55,000 -6.38% 24
East of England -51 57 £58,750 -4.08% 9
North East -37 52 £65,000 +33.33% 2
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 32 (2.13%) CMS
2 27 (1.79%) Apache
3 22 (1.46%) Headless CMS
4 21 (1.40%) Confluence
5 20 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.93%) nginx
7 9 (0.60%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.47%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.40%) IIS
10 5 (0.33%) JBoss
11 4 (0.27%) Kentico
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.20%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.20%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.20%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.20%) Simulink
3 2 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.73%) Magento
2 7 (0.47%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.066%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 639 (42.46%) AWS
2 577 (38.34%) Azure
3 176 (11.69%) GitHub
4 137 (9.10%) GCP
5 129 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (8.44%) Serverless
7 100 (6.64%) SaaS
8 78 (5.18%) Azure AI
9 70 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (2.86%) Anthropic Claude
12 42 (2.79%) Amazon S3
13 40 (2.66%) GitHub Copilot
14 35 (2.33%) Power Platform
15 32 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 31 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
18 24 (1.59%) Vercel
19 23 (1.53%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.59%) Internet
2 22 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.66%) VoIP
4 9 (0.60%) HTTP
5 8 (0.53%) AMQP
5 8 (0.53%) DNS
6 7 (0.47%) Hyperconnected
6 7 (0.47%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.33%) Firewall
7 5 (0.33%) SSL
8 4 (0.27%) LAN
8 4 (0.27%) WAN
9 3 (0.20%) Broadband
9 3 (0.20%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.20%) VPN
10 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.066%) 4G
11 1 (0.066%) 5G
11 1 (0.066%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (13.29%) MongoDB
2 176 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
3 145 (9.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 123 (8.17%) SQL Server
5 98 (6.51%) Elasticsearch
6 95 (6.31%) Relational Database
7 89 (5.91%) MySQL
8 84 (5.58%) NoSQL
9 40 (2.66%) Redis
10 33 (2.19%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (1.00%) Power BI
13 12 (0.80%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.73%) Chroma
14 11 (0.73%) Metadata
15 10 (0.66%) Big Data
15 10 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (0.53%) Neo4j
17 8 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 248 (16.48%) Git
2 77 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 71 (4.72%) GitLab
4 48 (3.19%) Cypress.io
5 43 (2.86%) JIRA
6 41 (2.72%) JUnit
7 36 (2.39%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.99%) Subversion
9 25 (1.66%) Eclipse
10 24 (1.59%) Vite
11 23 (1.53%) Maven
12 19 (1.26%) Selenium
13 18 (1.20%) Bitbucket
13 18 (1.20%) Mockito
14 14 (0.93%) Storybook
15 11 (0.73%) Postman
15 11 (0.73%) Visual Studio
16 10 (0.66%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.47%) NUnit
17 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 332 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 243 (16.15%) Finance
3 76 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (4.92%) Retail
5 66 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 53 (3.52%) Marketing
8 45 (2.99%) Law
9 37 (2.46%) Banking
9 37 (2.46%) Legal
10 29 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.13%) Legal Technology
11 17 (1.13%) Publishing
12 15 (1.00%) Front Office
12 15 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (0.86%) Advertising
14 12 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 12 (0.80%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.73%) Tech for Good
16 10 (0.66%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 769 (51.10%) Developer
2 337 (22.39%) Senior
3 310 (20.60%) Software Engineer
4 244 (16.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 204 (13.55%) .NET Developer
6 186 (12.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 147 (9.77%) Senior Developer
8 141 (9.37%) Lead
9 115 (7.64%) React Developer
10 107 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
11 77 (5.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 77 (5.12%) Software Developer
12 58 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 56 (3.72%) Java Developer
13 56 (3.72%) Python Engineer
14 51 (3.39%) Lead Developer
15 50 (3.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 42 (2.79%) Junior
17 40 (2.66%) Engineering Manager
18 39 (2.59%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (31.10%) .NET
2 435 (28.90%) Node.js
3 252 (16.74%) REST
4 231 (15.35%) RESTful
5 229 (15.22%) ASP.NET
6 227 (15.08%) AngularJS
7 207 (13.75%) .NET Core
8 205 (13.62%) ASP.NET Core
9 198 (13.16%) CSS
10 183 (12.16%) Terraform
11 175 (11.63%) HTML
12 169 (11.23%) Next.js
13 166 (11.03%) Blazor
14 161 (10.70%) Vue
15 120 (7.97%) Spring
16 98 (6.51%) Spring Boot
17 89 (5.91%) .NET Framework
18 88 (5.85%) ASP.NET Web API
19 85 (5.65%) React Native
20 68 (4.52%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 231 (15.35%) Cloud Native
2 101 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (5.12%) Greenfield Project
4 60 (3.99%) AI Agents
5 58 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 56 (3.72%) Product Ownership
7 50 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.93%) Algorithms
11 26 (1.73%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.59%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.26%) Onboarding
14 18 (1.20%) Social Media
15 17 (1.13%) iPhone
16 16 (1.06%) IoT
17 15 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 14 (0.93%) Augmented Reality
19 13 (0.86%) Podcast
19 13 (0.86%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.58%) Linux
2 30 (1.99%) Android
3 21 (1.40%) Windows
4 16 (1.06%) Debian
4 16 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 14 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.53%) Unix
7 7 (0.47%) CentOS
8 4 (0.27%) macOS
9 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (56.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 673 (44.72%) Agile
3 579 (38.47%) CI/CD
4 573 (38.07%) Software Engineering
5 482 (32.03%) AI
6 395 (26.25%) Microservices
7 342 (22.72%) DevOps
8 310 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
9 276 (18.34%) Mentoring
10 215 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 199 (13.22%) Code Quality
12 197 (13.09%) Test Automation
13 183 (12.16%) Front End Development
14 178 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
15 165 (10.96%) Scrum
16 158 (10.50%) Containerisation
17 152 (10.10%) Clean Code
18 147 (9.77%) SDLC
19 146 (9.70%) Computer Science
20 129 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 783 (52.03%) TypeScript
2 735 (48.84%) JavaScript
3 479 (31.83%) C#
4 419 (27.84%) SQL
5 392 (26.05%) Python
6 261 (17.34%) Java
7 67 (4.45%) Go
8 63 (4.19%) C++
9 59 (3.92%) PHP
10 41 (2.72%) Ruby
11 31 (2.06%) Rust
12 26 (1.73%) Bash
13 25 (1.66%) Perl
14 19 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 18 (1.20%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.73%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.66%) PowerShell
18 8 (0.53%) Scala
19 7 (0.47%) Swift
20 5 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 198 (13.16%) Degree
2 146 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 98 (6.51%) SC Cleared
5 29 (1.93%) DV Cleared
5 29 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 10 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 10 (0.66%) MBA
7 5 (0.33%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.27%) OCP
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.20%) ICAEW
9 3 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.13%) PhD
11 1 (0.066%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.18%) Accessibility
2 83 (5.51%) QA
3 28 (1.86%) WCAG
4 13 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.73%) GDPR
6 9 (0.60%) GRC
7 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.20%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.066%) SLA
9 1 (0.066%) WAI
9 1 (0.066%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 287 (19.07%) Docker
2 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 221 (14.68%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.53%) Ansible
3 14 (0.93%) Grafana
4 12 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.53%) Puppet
7 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.33%) Nagios
7 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.27%) Packer
9 3 (0.20%) Argo
9 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.20%) Kibana
9 3 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.13%) Plesk
11 1 (0.066%) Consul
Vendors
1 255 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.85%) Google
3 50 (3.32%) OpenAI
4 24 (1.59%) Oracle
5 23 (1.53%) Facebook
5 23 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.26%) Databricks
7 15 (1.00%) Mistral
7 15 (1.00%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.00%) Splunk
8 13 (0.86%) Palantir
9 12 (0.80%) Foundry
9 12 (0.80%) Sony
10 10 (0.66%) Apple
10 10 (0.66%) New Relic
10 10 (0.66%) Yahoo!
11 7 (0.47%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.40%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.40%) OneLogin
12 6 (0.40%) Solace