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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 58 49
Rank change year-on-year -46 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing React 1,453 1,790 3,763
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 4.56% 4.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.72% 22.87% 22.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,170 1,344 3,090
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £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 8,202 7,827 17,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 19.93% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,203 5,497 14,124
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,561 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 21 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 21 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 -33 619 £85,000 -5.56% 250
North of England -44 283 £65,000 - 111
South East -11 232 £65,000 +8.33% 113
Midlands -35 152 £62,500 +4.17% 37
North West -50 130 £62,500 -3.85% 67
Yorkshire -11 119 £67,500 - 32
South West -70 97 £60,000 -4.00% 48
East Midlands -24 82 £65,000 +15.56% 21
West Midlands -59 70 £60,000 - 16
East of England -12 59 £60,000 -4.00% 35
North East -33 34 £55,000 +4.76% 12
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 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.38%) Confluence
3 15 (1.03%) Apache
3 15 (1.03%) CMS
4 11 (0.76%) IIS
5 10 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.34%) nginx
8 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.21%) CICS
9 3 (0.21%) Liferay
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Appian
10 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.069%) Camunda
11 1 (0.069%) Strapi
Applications
1 13 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.069%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 662 (45.56%) AWS
2 437 (30.08%) Azure
3 176 (12.11%) Serverless
4 155 (10.67%) GCP
5 128 (8.81%) GitHub
6 111 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
7 108 (7.43%) SaaS
8 103 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
9 79 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 49 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (2.96%) Figma
13 42 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (2.13%) Azure AI
16 30 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (1.79%) Power Platform
18 22 (1.51%) Amazon EventBridge
18 22 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (1.51%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.24%) Internet
2 17 (1.17%) Broadband
3 9 (0.62%) AMQP
4 6 (0.41%) HTTP
4 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.34%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
6 4 (0.28%) LTE
7 3 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) VoIP
8 2 (0.14%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.069%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.069%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (6.95%) NoSQL
3 95 (6.54%) MongoDB
4 77 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 66 (4.54%) MySQL
6 50 (3.44%) DynamoDB
7 47 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 46 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.38%) Redis
11 16 (1.10%) Neo4j
12 12 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.69%) DB2
13 10 (0.69%) Pinecone
14 9 (0.62%) Big Data
14 9 (0.62%) Power BI
15 8 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.41%) Metadata
16 6 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 199 (13.70%) Git
2 74 (5.09%) Jenkins
3 47 (3.23%) JIRA
4 33 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.06%) GitLab
6 28 (1.93%) Vite
7 18 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 18 (1.24%) Maven
8 17 (1.17%) Claude Code
9 15 (1.03%) CircleCI
9 15 (1.03%) JUnit
9 15 (1.03%) Selenium
9 15 (1.03%) TeamCity
9 15 (1.03%) webpack
10 14 (0.96%) Storybook
11 10 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.69%) Mockito
12 9 (0.62%) Gradle
13 6 (0.41%) MLflow
14 5 (0.34%) ESLint
General
1 258 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 254 (17.48%) Finance
3 83 (5.71%) Front Office
4 75 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.03%) Retail
6 43 (2.96%) Law
7 42 (2.89%) Banking
8 36 (2.48%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.06%) Legal
10 24 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 17 (1.17%) Marketing
11 17 (1.17%) Tech for Good
12 10 (0.69%) Advertising
13 9 (0.62%) Automotive
13 9 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.62%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.55%) Games
14 8 (0.55%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 808 (55.61%) Developer
2 341 (23.47%) Senior
3 299 (20.58%) Software Engineer
4 292 (20.10%) Full-Stack Developer
5 227 (15.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 215 (14.80%) React Developer
7 191 (13.15%) Lead
8 163 (11.22%) Senior Developer
9 105 (7.23%) Lead Developer
10 96 (6.61%) .NET Developer
10 96 (6.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 88 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 78 (5.37%) Java Developer
13 69 (4.75%) Python Developer
14 65 (4.47%) Lead Software Engineer
15 64 (4.40%) Software Developer
16 61 (4.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 55 (3.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 52 (3.58%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 47 (3.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (33.38%) Node.js
2 303 (20.85%) .NET
3 233 (16.04%) CSS
4 227 (15.62%) HTML
5 209 (14.38%) AngularJS
6 187 (12.87%) REST
7 168 (11.56%) RESTful
8 154 (10.60%) Vue
9 130 (8.95%) Spring
10 128 (8.81%) Next.js
11 115 (7.91%) .NET Core
12 108 (7.43%) Spring Boot
13 93 (6.40%) Redux
14 90 (6.19%) GraphQL
15 88 (6.06%) ASP.NET
16 86 (5.92%) React Native
17 74 (5.09%) ASP.NET Core
18 69 (4.75%) Kafka
19 64 (4.40%) Blazor
20 48 (3.30%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.89%) Mobile App
3 67 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (4.34%) Fixed Income
5 58 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 48 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
7 47 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 24 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.45%) Derivative
13 19 (1.31%) IoT
14 16 (1.10%) Equities
15 15 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.96%) e-Learning
17 13 (0.89%) Public Cloud
18 12 (0.83%) Algorithms
18 12 (0.83%) Hedge funds
19 10 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.96%) Linux
2 17 (1.17%) Android
3 13 (0.89%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.41%) Debian
5 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.34%) CentOS
6 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.069%) Unix
7 1 (0.069%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (54.23%) Full-Stack Development
2 566 (38.95%) Agile
3 510 (35.10%) Software Engineering
4 429 (29.53%) CI/CD
5 319 (21.95%) DevOps
6 283 (19.48%) Microservices
7 281 (19.34%) AI
8 271 (18.65%) Mentoring
9 238 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
10 210 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 192 (13.21%) Front End Development
12 163 (11.22%) Test Automation
13 159 (10.94%) Containerisation
13 159 (10.94%) User Experience
14 157 (10.81%) Scrum
15 149 (10.25%) Clean Code
16 129 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
17 117 (8.05%) Computer Science
18 113 (7.78%) TDD
19 103 (7.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 772 (53.13%) TypeScript
2 666 (45.84%) JavaScript
3 368 (25.33%) Python
4 303 (20.85%) Java
5 276 (19.00%) C#
6 270 (18.58%) SQL
7 66 (4.54%) Go
8 60 (4.13%) PHP
9 20 (1.38%) Bash
10 19 (1.31%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.10%) C++
12 16 (1.10%) Ruby
13 15 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.96%) C
15 9 (0.62%) Bicep
16 8 (0.55%) Rust
17 5 (0.34%) Scala
17 5 (0.34%) Swift
17 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (8.74%) Degree
2 114 (7.85%) Security Cleared
3 89 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 67 (4.61%) SC Cleared
5 38 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.14%) PhD
14 1 (0.069%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.069%) HNC
14 1 (0.069%) HND
14 1 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.16%) QA
2 44 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.34%) GDPR
3 5 (0.34%) WCAG
4 2 (0.14%) SLA
5 1 (0.069%) NCSC
5 1 (0.069%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 241 (16.59%) Docker
2 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 191 (13.15%) Kubernetes
2 152 (10.46%) Terraform
3 21 (1.45%) Grafana
4 20 (1.38%) Ansible
5 13 (0.89%) Podman
5 13 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.55%) Argo
7 7 (0.48%) Kibana
8 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.34%) Nagios
9 5 (0.34%) Puppet
10 3 (0.21%) Plesk
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) Packer
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 113 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.96%) Google
3 28 (1.93%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.79%) Oracle
5 17 (1.17%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.55%) Apple
7 8 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.48%) IBM
8 7 (0.48%) Solace
9 6 (0.41%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.41%) Databricks
10 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.34%) Foundry
10 5 (0.34%) Pega
10 5 (0.34%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.28%) Facebook
11 4 (0.28%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.28%) Salesforce