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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 50 48
Rank change year-on-year -47 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,396 1,882 3,618
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.90% 5.15% 4.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.52% 24.02% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 1,461 3,067
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £93,750 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £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 7,536 7,836 16,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.25% 21.44% 20.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,718 5,956 13,924
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,318 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% +10.53% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -28 609 £90,000 +2.86% 273
North of England -57 272 £65,000 +4.00% 120
South East -69 199 £63,750 +6.25% 125
Midlands -19 149 £64,000 +6.67% 55
Yorkshire -22 130 £70,000 +6.06% 44
North West -57 128 £65,000 - 63
South West -50 101 £62,500 -3.85% 73
East Midlands -28 85 £65,000 +8.33% 24
West Midlands -11 64 £60,000 - 31
East of England -77 48 £50,000 -23.08% 47
North East -38 14 £55,000 +14.58% 13
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 20 (1.43%) CMS
2 16 (1.15%) Confluence
2 16 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.86%) Apache
4 10 (0.72%) IIS
5 9 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.57%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.43%) nginx
9 4 (0.29%) Appian
9 4 (0.29%) WordPress
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
10 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.072%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.072%) Magento
3 1 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 641 (45.92%) AWS
2 433 (31.02%) Azure
3 178 (12.75%) Serverless
4 171 (12.25%) GCP
5 139 (9.96%) GitHub
6 127 (9.10%) SaaS
7 105 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (6.38%) Amazon S3
9 86 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (3.44%) Figma
13 44 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.58%) Amazon EventBridge
17 21 (1.50%) npm
17 21 (1.50%) Power Platform
18 17 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 15 (1.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.07%) Internet
2 13 (0.93%) Broadband
3 10 (0.72%) AMQP
4 4 (0.29%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) DNS
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.14%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) LTE
5 2 (0.14%) SSL
6 1 (0.072%) MQTT
6 1 (0.072%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 86 (6.16%) SQL Server
4 72 (5.16%) MySQL
5 58 (4.15%) Relational Database
6 53 (3.80%) MongoDB
7 52 (3.72%) DynamoDB
8 32 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (1.65%) Redis
10 20 (1.43%) Neo4j
11 18 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.15%) DB2
13 12 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.86%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.79%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.79%) Power BI
15 7 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.43%) Big Data
16 6 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 189 (13.54%) Git
2 70 (5.01%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.15%) JIRA
4 30 (2.15%) Cypress.io
5 25 (1.79%) Vite
6 24 (1.72%) Selenium
7 23 (1.65%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.43%) GitLab
9 18 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 16 (1.15%) webpack
12 15 (1.07%) Storybook
13 11 (0.79%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.64%) Gradle
15 8 (0.57%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.57%) JUnit
15 8 (0.57%) Maven
16 5 (0.36%) Babel
16 5 (0.36%) Balsamiq
16 5 (0.36%) ESLint
General
1 287 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 226 (16.19%) Finance
3 90 (6.45%) Front Office
4 77 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (4.08%) Banking
6 43 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 41 (2.94%) Law
8 35 (2.51%) Retail
9 32 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.58%) Marketing
11 21 (1.50%) Investment Banking
12 19 (1.36%) Legal
13 14 (1.00%) Games
14 13 (0.93%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.64%) Advertising
16 8 (0.57%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.50%) Back Office
17 7 (0.50%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.50%) Multimedia
18 6 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 762 (54.58%) Developer
2 335 (24.00%) Senior
3 297 (21.28%) Software Engineer
4 279 (19.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 212 (15.19%) React Developer
6 193 (13.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 190 (13.61%) Lead
8 165 (11.82%) Senior Developer
9 93 (6.66%) Lead Developer
10 86 (6.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (6.02%) Python Developer
12 81 (5.80%) Java Developer
12 81 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
13 68 (4.87%) .NET Developer
14 66 (4.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 59 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
16 53 (3.80%) Software Developer
17 47 (3.37%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 46 (3.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 46 (3.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (32.16%) Node.js
2 279 (19.99%) CSS
3 277 (19.84%) HTML
4 276 (19.77%) .NET
5 202 (14.47%) AngularJS
6 167 (11.96%) REST
7 154 (11.03%) Vue
8 145 (10.39%) RESTful
9 113 (8.09%) Next.js
10 109 (7.81%) Spring
11 102 (7.31%) GraphQL
12 94 (6.73%) Spring Boot
13 92 (6.59%) .NET Core
14 82 (5.87%) Redux
15 79 (5.66%) Django
16 74 (5.30%) React Native
17 72 (5.16%) Kafka
18 63 (4.51%) ASP.NET
19 51 (3.65%) WebSockets
20 48 (3.44%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 140 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 77 (5.52%) Fixed Income
3 60 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
3 60 (4.30%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 39 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 24 (1.72%) Derivative
9 23 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.58%) IoT
11 21 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.36%) Equities
13 18 (1.29%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.93%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.86%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.79%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.72%) e-Learning
18 8 (0.57%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.79%) Linux
2 18 (1.29%) Android
3 15 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.00%) 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 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.072%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (50.07%) Full-Stack Development
2 528 (37.82%) Agile
3 509 (36.46%) Software Engineering
4 425 (30.44%) CI/CD
5 301 (21.56%) DevOps
6 251 (17.98%) Microservices
7 250 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 248 (17.77%) Mentoring
9 229 (16.40%) AI
10 212 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 188 (13.47%) Front End Development
12 177 (12.68%) User Experience
13 161 (11.53%) Test Automation
14 149 (10.67%) Clean Code
15 140 (10.03%) Containerisation
16 135 (9.67%) Scrum
17 131 (9.38%) Computer Science
18 123 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
19 96 (6.88%) TDD
20 86 (6.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 716 (51.29%) TypeScript
2 685 (49.07%) JavaScript
3 384 (27.51%) Python
4 327 (23.42%) Java
5 250 (17.91%) SQL
6 228 (16.33%) C#
7 72 (5.16%) PHP
8 71 (5.09%) Go
9 23 (1.65%) C
10 20 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.22%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.00%) Bash
13 12 (0.86%) Ruby
14 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.72%) C++
16 9 (0.64%) Rust
17 7 (0.50%) Bicep
18 5 (0.36%) RPG
18 5 (0.36%) Swift
19 4 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 140 (10.03%) Degree
2 102 (7.31%) Security Cleared
3 85 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.30%) SC Cleared
5 36 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.50%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.21%) ISEB
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.73%) QA
2 46 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.29%) SLA
3 4 (0.29%) WCAG
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
5 2 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.072%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.072%) NIST
6 1 (0.072%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.072%) SOC 2
System Software
1 234 (16.76%) Docker
2 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.36%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 197 (14.11%) Kubernetes
2 160 (11.46%) Terraform
3 22 (1.58%) Grafana
4 17 (1.22%) Ansible
5 13 (0.93%) Argo
6 11 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.72%) Kibana
8 7 (0.50%) Podman
9 5 (0.36%) Nagios
9 5 (0.36%) Puppet
10 4 (0.29%) Plesk
11 3 (0.21%) cPanel
11 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) Packer
12 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 77 (5.52%) Microsoft
2 31 (2.22%) Google
3 24 (1.72%) Atlassian
3 24 (1.72%) OpenAI
4 21 (1.50%) Oracle
5 14 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
6 13 (0.93%) HubSpot
7 11 (0.79%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.72%) IBM
9 7 (0.50%) Adobe
10 6 (0.43%) Foundry
10 6 (0.43%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.43%) Solace
11 5 (0.36%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.36%) Apple
11 5 (0.36%) Databricks
11 5 (0.36%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.36%) Pega
11 5 (0.36%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.36%) SAP