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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 83 48
Rank change year-on-year -38 -35 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,579 1,547 2,873
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.58% 3.56% 4.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.65% 20.11% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 1,038 1,820
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,000 £110,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -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 10,779 7,693 14,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.76% 17.70% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,967 5,087 9,811
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -57 572 £85,000 -15.00% 691
North of England -10 350 £60,000 -11.11% 143
South East +36 278 £60,000 - 128
North West -23 185 £58,750 -12.96% 92
Midlands -23 155 £55,000 - 69
South West -29 134 £53,750 -10.42% 88
Yorkshire -2 111 £65,000 -3.70% 36
East Midlands -16 80 £55,000 - 30
West Midlands -34 75 £55,000 -4.35% 39
East of England -16 72 £60,000 -4.00% 33
North East -17 54 £65,000 +40.54% 17
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 27 (1.71%) CMS
2 26 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.52%) Apache
4 16 (1.01%) Confluence
4 16 (1.01%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.57%) IIS
5 9 (0.57%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.51%) nginx
7 7 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.32%) JBoss
9 4 (0.25%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.19%) DNN
10 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Kentico
10 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 18 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (0.63%) Magento
2 8 (0.51%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 681 (43.13%) AWS
2 580 (36.73%) Azure
3 167 (10.58%) GitHub
4 145 (9.18%) GCP
5 137 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
6 135 (8.55%) Serverless
7 111 (7.03%) SaaS
8 79 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 78 (4.94%) Azure AI
10 58 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (2.98%) Anthropic Claude
12 41 (2.60%) Amazon S3
12 41 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
13 37 (2.34%) Power Platform
14 34 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 29 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (1.71%) Figma
17 26 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.65%) Internet
2 21 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.20%) Broadband
4 10 (0.63%) VoIP
5 9 (0.57%) DNS
5 9 (0.57%) HTTP
6 7 (0.44%) AMQP
6 7 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.38%) Wireshark
8 5 (0.32%) Firewall
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
9 4 (0.25%) Intranet
9 4 (0.25%) LAN
9 4 (0.25%) WAN
10 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.13%) LTE
10 2 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.063%) Network Security
11 1 (0.063%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.063%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (13.05%) MongoDB
2 156 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (9.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 110 (6.97%) SQL Server
5 108 (6.84%) NoSQL
6 95 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
7 91 (5.76%) MySQL
8 78 (4.94%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.60%) DynamoDB
10 35 (2.22%) Redis
11 16 (1.01%) Power BI
12 15 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.70%) Metadata
14 10 (0.63%) Big Data
14 10 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.63%) Neo4j
15 8 (0.51%) Chroma
15 8 (0.51%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 246 (15.58%) Git
2 76 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 60 (3.80%) GitLab
4 57 (3.61%) Cypress.io
5 47 (2.98%) JIRA
6 40 (2.53%) JUnit
7 38 (2.41%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.84%) Subversion
9 25 (1.58%) Eclipse
10 23 (1.46%) Maven
10 23 (1.46%) Selenium
11 22 (1.39%) Bitbucket
12 20 (1.27%) Vite
13 17 (1.08%) Mockito
14 12 (0.76%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.70%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.63%) Postman
16 10 (0.63%) Storybook
17 9 (0.57%) Visual Studio
18 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 335 (21.22%) Social Skills
2 261 (16.53%) Finance
3 77 (4.88%) Retail
4 64 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (3.99%) Public Sector
6 61 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
7 53 (3.36%) Law
8 52 (3.29%) Marketing
9 42 (2.66%) Banking
10 37 (2.34%) Legal
11 26 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.08%) Front Office
14 16 (1.01%) Legal Technology
15 15 (0.95%) Advertising
16 13 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.70%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.63%) Tech for Good
19 9 (0.57%) Aerospace
19 9 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 800 (50.66%) Developer
2 340 (21.53%) Senior
3 320 (20.27%) Software Engineer
4 260 (16.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 215 (13.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 200 (12.67%) .NET Developer
7 163 (10.32%) Lead
8 146 (9.25%) Senior Developer
9 126 (7.98%) React Developer
10 114 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
11 79 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 74 (4.69%) Software Developer
13 65 (4.12%) Java Developer
13 65 (4.12%) Lead Developer
14 60 (3.80%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 59 (3.74%) Python Engineer
16 57 (3.61%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 43 (2.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 41 (2.60%) Engineering Manager
19 39 (2.47%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (29.51%) Node.js
2 453 (28.69%) .NET
3 237 (15.01%) AngularJS
4 233 (14.76%) RESTful
5 231 (14.63%) ASP.NET
5 231 (14.63%) REST
6 209 (13.24%) ASP.NET Core
7 207 (13.11%) .NET Core
8 202 (12.79%) CSS
9 183 (11.59%) HTML
10 182 (11.53%) Terraform
11 173 (10.96%) Vue
12 169 (10.70%) Next.js
13 167 (10.58%) Blazor
14 120 (7.60%) Spring
15 97 (6.14%) Spring Boot
16 93 (5.89%) React Native
17 87 (5.51%) ASP.NET Web API
18 83 (5.26%) .NET Framework
19 71 (4.50%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 232 (14.69%) Cloud Native
2 100 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (4.18%) Mobile App
5 65 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (3.36%) AI Agents
8 39 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.65%) Algorithms
12 23 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.20%) Social Media
14 17 (1.08%) iPhone
15 16 (1.01%) Onboarding
16 15 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 14 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
17 14 (0.89%) IoT
17 14 (0.89%) Virtual Reality
18 12 (0.76%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.43%) Linux
2 30 (1.90%) Android
3 16 (1.01%) Windows
4 15 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.95%) Debian
4 15 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.44%) Unix
6 6 (0.38%) CentOS
7 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 900 (57.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 702 (44.46%) Agile
3 564 (35.72%) Software Engineering
4 558 (35.34%) CI/CD
5 462 (29.26%) AI
6 384 (24.32%) Microservices
7 372 (23.56%) DevOps
8 308 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
9 304 (19.25%) Mentoring
10 239 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 204 (12.92%) Test Automation
12 187 (11.84%) Scrum
13 183 (11.59%) Code Quality
14 172 (10.89%) Front End Development
15 169 (10.70%) Containerisation
16 168 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
17 157 (9.94%) Clean Code
18 146 (9.25%) SDLC
19 139 (8.80%) Computer Science
20 137 (8.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 816 (51.68%) TypeScript
2 761 (48.20%) JavaScript
3 473 (29.96%) C#
4 422 (26.73%) SQL
5 393 (24.89%) Python
6 265 (16.78%) Java
7 63 (3.99%) Go
7 63 (3.99%) PHP
8 61 (3.86%) C++
9 48 (3.04%) Ruby
10 27 (1.71%) Rust
11 26 (1.65%) Bash
11 26 (1.65%) Perl
12 22 (1.39%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.82%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.57%) Swift
16 8 (0.51%) Scala
16 8 (0.51%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 187 (11.84%) Degree
2 149 (9.44%) Security Cleared
3 117 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 104 (6.59%) SC Cleared
5 29 (1.84%) Master's Degree
6 28 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 13 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.63%) MBA
9 7 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.19%) OCP
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.13%) PhD
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.52%) QA
2 82 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.52%) WCAG
4 12 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.63%) GDPR
6 9 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.44%) GRC
8 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.19%) NIST
10 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.063%) SLA
System Software
1 275 (17.42%) Docker
2 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.32%) Firmware
3 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.063%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 200 (12.67%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.71%) Ansible
3 17 (1.08%) Grafana
4 14 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.76%) Podman
5 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.44%) Puppet
7 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.32%) Nagios
8 4 (0.25%) Kibana
9 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.19%) Plesk
9 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.13%) Argo
10 2 (0.13%) Packer
11 1 (0.063%) Consul
Vendors
1 248 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 76 (4.81%) Google
3 44 (2.79%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.90%) Oracle
5 24 (1.52%) Facebook
6 23 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 15 (0.95%) Databricks
7 15 (0.95%) Splunk
8 14 (0.89%) Red Hat
9 13 (0.82%) Palantir
9 13 (0.82%) Sony
10 12 (0.76%) Mistral
11 11 (0.70%) Apple
11 11 (0.70%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.63%) New Relic
13 9 (0.57%) Foundry
14 7 (0.44%) IBM
15 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
15 6 (0.38%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.38%) SaltStack