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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 40 47
Rank change year-on-year -49 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing React 1,387 2,241 3,441
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.11% 5.70% 4.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.46% 25.61% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,552 3,024
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,938 £53,750 £48,750
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 £93,563 £86,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +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 7,129 8,750 16,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.83% 22.24% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,440 6,072 13,590
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -30 615 £90,000 +2.86% 276
North of England -55 263 £65,000 +8.33% 114
South East -77 194 £60,000 -4.00% 102
Midlands -17 140 £62,500 +4.17% 50
Yorkshire -15 124 £70,000 +3.70% 43
North West -46 122 £65,000 +4.00% 59
South West -45 103 £62,500 -7.41% 58
East Midlands -20 78 £65,000 +8.33% 23
West Midlands -18 62 £60,000 - 27
East of England -84 45 £50,000 -25.93% 25
North East -30 17 £55,000 +12.24% 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 22 (1.59%) CMS
2 19 (1.37%) Confluence
3 13 (0.94%) Apache
4 9 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.65%) Headless CMS
4 9 (0.65%) OpenStack
4 9 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.58%) IIS
6 7 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.43%) nginx
8 5 (0.36%) WordPress
9 4 (0.29%) Appian
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.14%) CICS
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.072%) Strapi
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.072%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) Shopify
2 5 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.072%) Magento
4 1 (0.072%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 632 (45.57%) AWS
2 423 (30.50%) Azure
3 175 (12.62%) Serverless
4 170 (12.26%) GCP
5 146 (10.53%) GitHub
6 134 (9.66%) SaaS
7 101 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
8 94 (6.78%) Amazon S3
9 75 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (3.46%) Figma
12 41 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (1.59%) npm
16 21 (1.51%) Power Platform
17 20 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (1.44%) Amazon EventBridge
18 16 (1.15%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.15%) Internet
2 13 (0.94%) Broadband
3 10 (0.72%) AMQP
4 4 (0.29%) HTTP
5 3 (0.22%) SSL
6 2 (0.14%) DNS
6 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.14%) LTE
7 1 (0.072%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.60%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (6.85%) NoSQL
3 89 (6.42%) SQL Server
4 71 (5.12%) MySQL
5 64 (4.61%) Relational Database
6 54 (3.89%) MongoDB
7 52 (3.75%) DynamoDB
8 35 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (1.37%) Neo4j
10 19 (1.37%) Redis
11 15 (1.08%) DB2
12 13 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.87%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.87%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.79%) Power BI
15 9 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 191 (13.77%) Git
2 71 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.03%) JIRA
4 35 (2.52%) Cypress.io
5 25 (1.80%) TeamCity
6 24 (1.73%) Vite
7 21 (1.51%) webpack
8 20 (1.44%) GitLab
8 20 (1.44%) Selenium
9 19 (1.37%) Storybook
10 18 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.23%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.94%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.79%) JUnit
14 9 (0.65%) Gradle
14 9 (0.65%) Maven
15 7 (0.50%) gulp
16 5 (0.36%) Babel
16 5 (0.36%) ESLint
16 5 (0.36%) git-flow
General
1 300 (21.63%) Social Skills
2 223 (16.08%) Finance
3 95 (6.85%) Front Office
4 80 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (3.97%) Banking
6 43 (3.10%) Law
7 38 (2.74%) Retail
8 37 (2.67%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.73%) Marketing
11 23 (1.66%) Legal
12 22 (1.59%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.23%) Games
14 13 (0.94%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.65%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.58%) Multimedia
17 7 (0.50%) Back Office
17 7 (0.50%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 776 (55.95%) Developer
2 327 (23.58%) Senior
3 288 (20.76%) Software Engineer
4 282 (20.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 219 (15.79%) React Developer
6 185 (13.34%) Lead
7 172 (12.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 162 (11.68%) Senior Developer
9 90 (6.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 89 (6.42%) Lead Developer
10 89 (6.42%) Python Developer
11 82 (5.91%) Java Developer
12 71 (5.12%) .NET Developer
13 70 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 60 (4.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 55 (3.97%) Software Developer
16 54 (3.89%) Lead Software Engineer
17 48 (3.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 44 (3.17%) C# Developer
18 44 (3.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (31.51%) Node.js
2 299 (21.56%) CSS
3 294 (21.20%) .NET
4 290 (20.91%) HTML
5 216 (15.57%) AngularJS
6 178 (12.83%) REST
7 164 (11.82%) Vue
8 145 (10.45%) RESTful
9 116 (8.36%) GraphQL
10 115 (8.29%) Next.js
11 99 (7.14%) .NET Core
12 97 (6.99%) Spring
13 87 (6.27%) Redux
14 85 (6.13%) Spring Boot
15 74 (5.34%) Kafka
16 70 (5.05%) Django
17 66 (4.76%) React Native
18 65 (4.69%) ASP.NET
19 61 (4.40%) WebSockets
20 55 (3.97%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 83 (5.98%) Fixed Income
3 64 (4.61%) Mobile App
4 59 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
5 52 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 48 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (1.80%) Derivative
11 22 (1.59%) IoT
12 21 (1.51%) Equities
13 20 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.87%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.72%) AI Agents
15 10 (0.72%) Public Cloud
16 9 (0.65%) Cybercrime
16 9 (0.65%) Onboarding
16 9 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.60%) Linux
2 17 (1.23%) Android
3 14 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.87%) Windows
5 5 (0.36%) CentOS
5 5 (0.36%) Debian
5 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.072%) VMS
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 685 (49.39%) Full-Stack Development
2 546 (39.37%) Agile
3 505 (36.41%) Software Engineering
4 428 (30.86%) CI/CD
5 280 (20.19%) DevOps
6 256 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
7 248 (17.88%) Microservices
8 241 (17.38%) Mentoring
9 219 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 213 (15.36%) AI
11 202 (14.56%) User Experience
12 196 (14.13%) Front End Development
13 152 (10.96%) Clean Code
14 140 (10.09%) Test Automation
15 139 (10.02%) Containerisation
16 131 (9.44%) Scrum
17 127 (9.16%) Computer Science
18 114 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
19 96 (6.92%) TDD
20 88 (6.34%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 711 (51.26%) TypeScript
2 697 (50.25%) JavaScript
3 371 (26.75%) Python
4 328 (23.65%) Java
5 253 (18.24%) SQL
6 240 (17.30%) C#
7 71 (5.12%) Go
8 69 (4.97%) PHP
9 22 (1.59%) C
10 18 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.15%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.15%) Rust
12 12 (0.87%) Bash
13 11 (0.79%) C++
13 11 (0.79%) Ruby
14 10 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.43%) Bicep
16 5 (0.36%) R
16 5 (0.36%) RPG
17 3 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 144 (10.38%) Degree
2 112 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (4.61%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.22%) ISEB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.14%) PhD
15 1 (0.072%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (4.25%) QA
2 58 (4.18%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.72%) WCAG
4 5 (0.36%) SLA
5 4 (0.29%) GDPR
5 4 (0.29%) NCSC
6 3 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.072%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.072%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.072%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 222 (16.01%) Docker
2 12 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 196 (14.13%) Kubernetes
2 148 (10.67%) Terraform
3 20 (1.44%) Grafana
4 13 (0.94%) Ansible
4 13 (0.94%) Argo
5 10 (0.72%) Kibana
6 9 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.43%) Podman
8 5 (0.36%) Nagios
8 5 (0.36%) Puppet
9 3 (0.22%) cPanel
9 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 37 (2.67%) Google
3 26 (1.87%) Atlassian
4 24 (1.73%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.37%) Oracle
6 13 (0.94%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 11 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.50%) Adobe
9 7 (0.50%) Foundry
9 7 (0.50%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.43%) Databricks
10 6 (0.43%) Solace
11 5 (0.36%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.36%) IBM
11 5 (0.36%) Pega
11 5 (0.36%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.36%) SAP
12 4 (0.29%) Apple
12 4 (0.29%) Informatica