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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 55 49
Rank change year-on-year -47 -6 -6
Permanent jobs citing React 1,433 1,845 3,768
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 4.72% 4.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.13% 24.00% 22.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,154 1,418 3,100
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,175 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,188 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,875 £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 7,904 7,689 16,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.71% 19.66% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,964 5,726 14,176
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,188 £51,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +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 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 7 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 7 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 -28 627 £87,500 - 298
North of England -45 273 £65,000 - 121
South East -43 215 £65,000 +8.33% 120
Midlands -44 150 £65,000 +8.33% 55
North West -49 136 £62,500 -3.85% 58
Yorkshire -28 116 £70,000 +3.70% 47
South West -63 99 £60,000 -4.00% 59
East Midlands -29 92 £65,000 +8.33% 31
West Midlands -54 58 £60,000 - 24
East of England -16 55 £52,500 -16.00% 36
North East -35 21 £55,000 +14.58% 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 21 (1.47%) Confluence
2 20 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.19%) CMS
4 13 (0.91%) Apache
5 11 (0.77%) IIS
6 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.35%) nginx
10 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.28%) Appian
10 4 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.28%) WordPress
11 3 (0.21%) CICS
11 3 (0.21%) Liferay
12 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.070%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.28%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 655 (45.71%) AWS
2 421 (29.38%) Azure
3 173 (12.07%) Serverless
4 165 (11.51%) GCP
5 132 (9.21%) GitHub
6 115 (8.03%) SaaS
7 100 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
8 95 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 47 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (3.14%) Figma
12 42 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (1.74%) Power Platform
16 22 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
16 22 (1.54%) npm
17 19 (1.33%) Azure AI
18 17 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.19%) Broadband
2 16 (1.12%) Internet
3 9 (0.63%) AMQP
4 7 (0.49%) HTTP
5 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
6 4 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.21%) LTE
8 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
9 1 (0.070%) MQTT
9 1 (0.070%) VoIP
9 1 (0.070%) Wireless
9 1 (0.070%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (7.33%) NoSQL
3 77 (5.37%) MongoDB
3 77 (5.37%) SQL Server
4 63 (4.40%) MySQL
5 49 (3.42%) DynamoDB
6 45 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 38 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (1.47%) Redis
10 20 (1.40%) Neo4j
11 14 (0.98%) Pinecone
12 13 (0.91%) DB2
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.70%) Power BI
15 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.56%) Big Data
16 6 (0.42%) Metadata
16 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 192 (13.40%) Git
2 75 (5.23%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.21%) JIRA
4 33 (2.30%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.09%) Vite
6 27 (1.88%) GitLab
7 21 (1.47%) Selenium
8 20 (1.40%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.26%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 15 (1.05%) webpack
12 14 (0.98%) Claude Code
12 14 (0.98%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.98%) Storybook
13 12 (0.84%) Maven
14 9 (0.63%) Gradle
14 9 (0.63%) JUnit
15 5 (0.35%) ESLint
15 5 (0.35%) gulp
15 5 (0.35%) Mockito
General
1 265 (18.49%) Social Skills
2 237 (16.54%) Finance
3 87 (6.07%) Front Office
4 76 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (3.49%) Banking
6 42 (2.93%) Law
7 39 (2.72%) Retail
8 36 (2.51%) Public Sector
9 24 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.54%) Legal
11 20 (1.40%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.26%) Marketing
13 16 (1.12%) Tech for Good
14 9 (0.63%) Advertising
14 9 (0.63%) Automotive
14 9 (0.63%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.56%) Games
16 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
16 7 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 793 (55.34%) Developer
2 346 (24.15%) Senior
3 298 (20.80%) Full-Stack Developer
4 291 (20.31%) Software Engineer
5 222 (15.49%) React Developer
6 221 (15.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 194 (13.54%) Lead
8 170 (11.86%) Senior Developer
9 102 (7.12%) Lead Developer
10 91 (6.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 77 (5.37%) Java Developer
13 76 (5.30%) Python Developer
14 73 (5.09%) .NET Developer
15 68 (4.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 65 (4.54%) Lead Software Engineer
17 59 (4.12%) Software Developer
18 53 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 49 (3.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 49 (3.42%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (33.98%) Node.js
2 272 (18.98%) .NET
3 247 (17.24%) CSS
4 243 (16.96%) HTML
5 203 (14.17%) AngularJS
6 172 (12.00%) REST
7 155 (10.82%) RESTful
8 143 (9.98%) Vue
9 123 (8.58%) Next.js
10 121 (8.44%) Spring
11 103 (7.19%) Spring Boot
12 97 (6.77%) GraphQL
13 95 (6.63%) .NET Core
14 94 (6.56%) Redux
15 81 (5.65%) React Native
16 69 (4.82%) Kafka
17 64 (4.47%) ASP.NET
18 62 (4.33%) Django
19 46 (3.21%) .NET Framework
19 46 (3.21%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 69 (4.82%) Fixed Income
2 69 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
3 62 (4.33%) Mobile App
4 59 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 27 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 25 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.61%) Derivative
11 20 (1.40%) IoT
12 18 (1.26%) Equities
13 14 (0.98%) e-Learning
13 14 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.91%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.70%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.70%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.70%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.79%) Linux
2 14 (0.98%) Android
2 14 (0.98%) Windows
3 10 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.35%) CentOS
4 5 (0.35%) Debian
4 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (53.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 533 (37.19%) Agile
3 492 (34.33%) Software Engineering
4 420 (29.31%) CI/CD
5 309 (21.56%) DevOps
6 269 (18.77%) Microservices
7 251 (17.52%) Mentoring
8 243 (16.96%) AI
9 233 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
10 207 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 190 (13.26%) Front End Development
12 160 (11.17%) Test Automation
12 160 (11.17%) User Experience
13 154 (10.75%) Containerisation
14 152 (10.61%) Clean Code
15 145 (10.12%) Scrum
16 121 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
17 111 (7.75%) Computer Science
18 106 (7.40%) TDD
19 93 (6.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 774 (54.01%) TypeScript
2 668 (46.62%) JavaScript
3 384 (26.80%) Python
4 315 (21.98%) Java
5 251 (17.52%) SQL
6 246 (17.17%) C#
7 70 (4.88%) Go
8 69 (4.82%) PHP
9 20 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.26%) C
11 17 (1.19%) Bash
12 16 (1.12%) Ruby
13 15 (1.05%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.91%) C++
14 13 (0.91%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.56%) Bicep
16 5 (0.35%) Scala
16 5 (0.35%) Swift
16 5 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 123 (8.58%) Degree
2 109 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 83 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.98%) DBS Check
7 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.14%) ISEB
12 2 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
13 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.30%) QA
2 43 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.070%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.070%) NCSC
5 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.070%) WCAG
System Software
1 240 (16.75%) Docker
2 10 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 197 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 151 (10.54%) Terraform
3 21 (1.47%) Grafana
4 20 (1.40%) Ansible
5 13 (0.91%) Argo
5 13 (0.91%) Podman
5 13 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.49%) Kibana
7 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.35%) Nagios
8 5 (0.35%) Puppet
9 4 (0.28%) Plesk
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.14%) cPanel
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 92 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 37 (2.58%) Google
3 32 (2.23%) OpenAI
4 22 (1.54%) Atlassian
5 20 (1.40%) Oracle
6 15 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.56%) IBM
10 7 (0.49%) Solace
11 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.42%) Apple
11 6 (0.42%) Databricks
12 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.35%) Foundry
12 5 (0.35%) Pega
12 5 (0.35%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.28%) Adobe
13 4 (0.28%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.28%) Palo Alto