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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 54 48
Rank change year-on-year -51 -6 -6
Permanent jobs citing React 1,420 1,837 3,752
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.75% 4.72% 4.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.06% 23.88% 22.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 1,411 3,084
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £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 7,862 7,694 16,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.67% 19.78% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,936 5,733 14,101
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,750
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 £100,000
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 6 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 6 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 -31 619 £87,500 - 303
North of England -48 273 £65,000 - 96
South East -40 215 £65,000 +8.33% 117
Midlands -48 147 £65,000 +8.33% 46
North West -57 134 £63,750 -1.92% 47
Yorkshire -24 118 £70,000 +3.70% 36
South West -61 97 £60,000 -4.00% 51
East Midlands -34 91 £65,000 +8.33% 20
West Midlands -56 56 £60,000 - 26
East of England -16 54 £53,750 -14.00% 32
North East -35 21 £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 (1.41%) Confluence
1 20 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.27%) CMS
3 12 (0.85%) Apache
4 11 (0.77%) IIS
5 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.35%) nginx
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
9 4 (0.28%) WordPress
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.070%) Drupal
12 1 (0.070%) PegaRULES
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 3 (0.21%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 647 (45.56%) AWS
2 411 (28.94%) Azure
3 172 (12.11%) Serverless
4 165 (11.62%) GCP
5 131 (9.23%) GitHub
6 115 (8.10%) SaaS
7 100 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
8 92 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
9 77 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 47 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (3.17%) Figma
13 42 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (1.83%) Power Platform
16 22 (1.55%) Amazon EventBridge
16 22 (1.55%) npm
17 18 (1.27%) Azure AI
18 17 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.20%) Broadband
2 16 (1.13%) 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
1 142 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (7.39%) NoSQL
3 77 (5.42%) SQL Server
4 70 (4.93%) MongoDB
5 63 (4.44%) MySQL
6 48 (3.38%) DynamoDB
7 44 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (1.41%) Neo4j
10 20 (1.41%) Redis
11 14 (0.99%) Pinecone
12 13 (0.92%) DB2
13 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.77%) Power BI
15 10 (0.70%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.49%) Big Data
18 6 (0.42%) Metadata
18 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 188 (13.24%) Git
2 74 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.24%) JIRA
4 32 (2.25%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.11%) Vite
6 26 (1.83%) GitLab
7 20 (1.41%) Selenium
8 19 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.27%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.20%) CircleCI
11 15 (1.06%) webpack
12 14 (0.99%) Claude Code
12 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.99%) Storybook
13 9 (0.63%) Gradle
13 9 (0.63%) Maven
14 7 (0.49%) JUnit
15 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.35%) ESLint
15 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 262 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 229 (16.13%) Finance
3 87 (6.13%) Front Office
4 74 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.45%) Banking
6 42 (2.96%) Law
7 39 (2.75%) Retail
8 35 (2.46%) Public Sector
9 24 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.48%) Legal
11 19 (1.34%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.27%) Marketing
13 15 (1.06%) Tech for Good
14 9 (0.63%) Advertising
14 9 (0.63%) Automotive
15 8 (0.56%) Games
15 8 (0.56%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
16 7 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 779 (54.86%) Developer
2 345 (24.30%) Senior
3 294 (20.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 293 (20.63%) Software Engineer
5 221 (15.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 220 (15.49%) React Developer
7 190 (13.38%) Lead
8 168 (11.83%) Senior Developer
9 99 (6.97%) Lead Developer
10 91 (6.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (5.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 75 (5.28%) Java Developer
12 75 (5.28%) Python Developer
13 68 (4.79%) .NET Developer
14 67 (4.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 65 (4.58%) Lead Software Engineer
16 56 (3.94%) Software Developer
17 53 (3.73%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 50 (3.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 48 (3.38%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (34.37%) Node.js
2 262 (18.45%) .NET
3 248 (17.46%) CSS
4 245 (17.25%) HTML
5 201 (14.15%) AngularJS
6 167 (11.76%) REST
7 154 (10.85%) RESTful
8 144 (10.14%) Vue
9 123 (8.66%) Next.js
10 116 (8.17%) Spring
11 101 (7.11%) Spring Boot
12 98 (6.90%) GraphQL
13 94 (6.62%) Redux
14 88 (6.20%) .NET Core
15 80 (5.63%) React Native
16 67 (4.72%) Kafka
17 63 (4.44%) Django
18 56 (3.94%) ASP.NET
19 44 (3.10%) Web Services
20 43 (3.03%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 69 (4.86%) Fixed Income
3 67 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
4 62 (4.37%) Mobile App
5 58 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 26 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.62%) Derivative
12 20 (1.41%) IoT
13 18 (1.27%) Equities
14 14 (0.99%) e-Learning
14 14 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.70%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.70%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.75%) Linux
2 14 (0.99%) Android
2 14 (0.99%) 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
1 755 (53.17%) Full-Stack Development
2 518 (36.48%) Agile
3 492 (34.65%) Software Engineering
4 419 (29.51%) CI/CD
5 306 (21.55%) DevOps
6 257 (18.10%) Microservices
7 246 (17.32%) Mentoring
8 239 (16.83%) AI
9 230 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
10 207 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 189 (13.31%) Front End Development
12 160 (11.27%) User Experience
13 158 (11.13%) Test Automation
14 153 (10.77%) Containerisation
15 151 (10.63%) Clean Code
16 140 (9.86%) Scrum
17 121 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
18 111 (7.82%) Computer Science
19 103 (7.25%) TDD
20 90 (6.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 774 (54.51%) TypeScript
2 656 (46.20%) JavaScript
3 383 (26.97%) Python
4 307 (21.62%) Java
5 245 (17.25%) SQL
6 236 (16.62%) C#
7 71 (5.00%) Go
8 69 (4.86%) PHP
9 20 (1.41%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.27%) C
11 16 (1.13%) Bash
12 15 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.06%) Ruby
13 11 (0.77%) C++
13 11 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.56%) Bicep
15 5 (0.35%) Scala
15 5 (0.35%) Swift
15 5 (0.35%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 122 (8.59%) Degree
2 106 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 58 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 40 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.99%) DBS Check
7 14 (0.99%) 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 75 (5.28%) QA
2 42 (2.96%) 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
1 236 (16.62%) 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
1 194 (13.66%) Kubernetes
2 151 (10.63%) Terraform
3 21 (1.48%) Grafana
4 20 (1.41%) Ansible
5 13 (0.92%) Argo
5 13 (0.92%) Podman
5 13 (0.92%) 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 86 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 37 (2.61%) Google
3 32 (2.25%) OpenAI
4 22 (1.55%) Atlassian
5 17 (1.20%) Oracle
6 15 (1.06%) 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%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.28%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.28%) Salesforce