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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 41 44
Rank change year-on-year -47 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing React 1,268 2,602 2,809
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.34% 5.46% 5.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.97% 25.21% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,052 1,559 2,509
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -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 6,348 10,322 13,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.72% 21.64% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,850 6,056 11,263
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,856
% change year-on-year - +1.79% -5.40%

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 January 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 January 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 -32 556 £95,000 +11.76% 292
North of England -38 238 £63,750 +6.25% 213
South East -67 188 £62,500 -2.34% 319
Midlands -17 121 £62,500 +4.17% 97
North West -33 115 £65,000 +8.33% 117
Yorkshire -20 107 £65,000 +2.36% 71
South West -52 93 £62,500 +4.17% 113
West Midlands -16 61 £60,000 -4.00% 37
East Midlands -7 60 £65,000 +8.33% 57
East of England -81 47 £60,000 -11.11% 128
North East -34 16 £56,750 +3.18% 25
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 28 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (1.89%) Confluence
3 18 (1.42%) CMS
4 13 (1.03%) Apache
5 9 (0.71%) nginx
5 9 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.63%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.39%) IIS
9 5 (0.39%) WordPress
10 4 (0.32%) Appian
11 3 (0.24%) Liferay
11 3 (0.24%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.079%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.079%) JBoss
13 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.16%) Sketch
4 2 (0.16%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Shopify
2 7 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.079%) Magento
4 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 582 (45.90%) AWS
2 402 (31.70%) Azure
3 171 (13.49%) Serverless
4 148 (11.67%) GitHub
5 137 (10.80%) GCP
6 131 (10.33%) SaaS
7 105 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (6.94%) Amazon S3
9 74 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (3.23%) Figma
13 39 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (1.81%) dbt
17 21 (1.66%) Azure Functions
18 20 (1.58%) Power Platform
19 19 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 19 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.95%) Internet
2 11 (0.87%) AMQP
3 9 (0.71%) Broadband
4 5 (0.39%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) DNS
5 2 (0.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.079%) Firewall
6 1 (0.079%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.079%) LTE
6 1 (0.079%) MQTT
6 1 (0.079%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (7.73%) NoSQL
3 93 (7.33%) SQL Server
4 73 (5.76%) Relational Database
5 63 (4.97%) MySQL
6 62 (4.89%) DynamoDB
7 58 (4.57%) MongoDB
8 53 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (1.66%) Redis
11 20 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (1.58%) Apache Arrow
11 20 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
11 20 (1.58%) Dremio
12 14 (1.10%) DB2
12 14 (1.10%) Neo4j
13 12 (0.95%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.87%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.79%) Power BI
16 9 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 167 (13.17%) Git
2 62 (4.89%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.23%) JIRA
4 36 (2.84%) Cypress.io
5 24 (1.89%) GitLab
6 23 (1.81%) Selenium
7 22 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 22 (1.74%) Storybook
7 22 (1.74%) TeamCity
7 22 (1.74%) webpack
8 21 (1.66%) Vite
9 18 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.10%) JUnit
11 9 (0.71%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.63%) gulp
13 7 (0.55%) Babel
13 7 (0.55%) Maven
13 7 (0.55%) Mockito
14 6 (0.47%) git-flow
14 6 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 313 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 185 (14.59%) Finance
3 74 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (4.42%) Front Office
5 54 (4.26%) Banking
6 49 (3.86%) Retail
7 43 (3.39%) Law
7 43 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 32 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.89%) Investment Banking
10 22 (1.74%) Games
11 21 (1.66%) Marketing
12 20 (1.58%) Health Technology
12 20 (1.58%) Tech for Good
13 16 (1.26%) Legal
14 11 (0.87%) Publishing
15 10 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.63%) Back Office
17 6 (0.47%) Multimedia
18 5 (0.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 686 (54.10%) Developer
2 311 (24.53%) Senior
3 258 (20.35%) Software Engineer
4 240 (18.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 168 (13.25%) React Developer
6 161 (12.70%) Lead
7 151 (11.91%) Senior Developer
8 129 (10.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 98 (7.73%) Python Developer
10 80 (6.31%) .NET Developer
11 79 (6.23%) Java Developer
12 75 (5.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 74 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
14 56 (4.42%) AWS Developer
14 56 (4.42%) Lead Developer
14 56 (4.42%) Software Developer
15 47 (3.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 46 (3.63%) C# Developer
17 45 (3.55%) Architect
18 40 (3.15%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (28.55%) Node.js
2 307 (24.21%) .NET
3 278 (21.92%) CSS
4 270 (21.29%) AngularJS
5 268 (21.14%) HTML
6 195 (15.38%) Vue
7 193 (15.22%) REST
8 142 (11.20%) RESTful
9 108 (8.52%) .NET Core
10 99 (7.81%) Next.js
11 98 (7.73%) Spring
12 92 (7.26%) GraphQL
13 90 (7.10%) Spring Boot
14 81 (6.39%) ASP.NET
15 69 (5.44%) .NET Framework
16 68 (5.36%) React Native
17 63 (4.97%) Django
18 56 (4.42%) WebSockets
19 53 (4.18%) HTML5
19 53 (4.18%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.39%) Mobile App
3 56 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 52 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (3.86%) Fixed Income
6 46 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
7 39 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 31 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.81%) Equities
11 20 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.42%) IoT
14 17 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.87%) AI Agents
16 11 (0.87%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.79%) Client/Server
17 10 (0.79%) Operational Technology
18 9 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.68%) Linux
2 22 (1.74%) Android
3 18 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.87%) Windows
5 5 (0.39%) CentOS
5 5 (0.39%) Debian
5 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.32%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.079%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (46.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 538 (42.43%) Agile
3 442 (34.86%) Software Engineering
4 415 (32.73%) CI/CD
5 267 (21.06%) DevOps
6 262 (20.66%) Microservices
7 248 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
8 217 (17.11%) User Experience
9 209 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (16.17%) AI
11 201 (15.85%) Mentoring
12 194 (15.30%) Front End Development
13 145 (11.44%) Clean Code
14 138 (10.88%) Scrum
15 131 (10.33%) Containerisation
16 123 (9.70%) Computer Science
17 121 (9.54%) TDD
18 109 (8.60%) Test Automation
19 105 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
20 98 (7.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 626 (49.37%) JavaScript
2 610 (48.11%) TypeScript
3 328 (25.87%) Python
4 296 (23.34%) Java
5 260 (20.50%) C#
6 257 (20.27%) SQL
7 66 (5.21%) PHP
8 44 (3.47%) Go
9 24 (1.89%) Kotlin
10 21 (1.66%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.42%) C
12 17 (1.34%) Rust
13 13 (1.03%) Ruby
14 12 (0.95%) C++
15 11 (0.87%) Scala
16 9 (0.71%) Bash
17 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.47%) R
18 5 (0.39%) RPG
19 4 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (11.12%) Degree
2 115 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 67 (5.28%) SC Cleared
4 66 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.39%) MCP
12 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.24%) ISEB
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.15%) QA
2 70 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.34%) WCAG
4 11 (0.87%) SLA
5 4 (0.32%) GDPR
5 4 (0.32%) NCSC
6 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.24%) NIST
6 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.079%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.079%) Data Quality
System Software
1 200 (15.77%) Docker
2 13 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.079%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 189 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 136 (10.73%) Terraform
3 14 (1.10%) Argo
3 14 (1.10%) Grafana
4 13 (1.03%) Ansible
5 11 (0.87%) Kibana
6 5 (0.39%) Puppet
7 4 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.24%) cPanel
8 3 (0.24%) Plesk
9 2 (0.16%) Nagios
10 1 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.079%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.079%) Istio
10 1 (0.079%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.079%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (6.62%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.21%) OpenAI
3 27 (2.13%) Google
4 26 (2.05%) Atlassian
5 21 (1.66%) Oracle
6 13 (1.03%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 8 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.55%) Adobe
9 7 (0.55%) Foundry
9 7 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.47%) Databricks
10 6 (0.47%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.39%) IBM
11 5 (0.39%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.39%) SAP
12 4 (0.32%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.32%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.32%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.32%) Informatica