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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 55 49
Rank change year-on-year -46 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing React 1,418 1,695 3,766
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 4.48% 4.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.23% 22.71% 22.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,150 1,424 3,096
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,400 £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 £93,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 7,777 7,463 16,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.71% 19.75% 20.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,875 5,758 14,132
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,487 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,249 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +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 2 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 2 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 -25 626 £89,500 +2.29% 311
North of England -44 272 £65,000 - 100
South East -50 209 £65,000 +8.33% 123
Midlands -21 147 £65,000 +8.33% 41
North West -32 135 £62,500 -3.85% 53
Yorkshire -31 118 £70,000 +3.70% 35
South West -66 96 £60,000 -4.00% 49
East Midlands -11 90 £65,000 +8.33% 18
West Midlands -37 57 £60,000 - 23
East of England -10 55 £50,000 -20.00% 32
North East -45 19 £55,000 +14.58% 12
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%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.34%) Confluence
3 18 (1.27%) CMS
4 11 (0.78%) Apache
4 11 (0.78%) 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 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.071%) Camunda
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.21%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 652 (45.98%) AWS
2 404 (28.49%) Azure
3 173 (12.20%) Serverless
4 166 (11.71%) GCP
5 131 (9.24%) GitHub
6 116 (8.18%) SaaS
7 102 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (5.57%) Amazon S3
10 47 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (3.17%) Figma
13 44 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (1.76%) Power Platform
17 23 (1.62%) Amazon EventBridge
18 22 (1.55%) npm
19 16 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
20 15 (1.06%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.20%) Broadband
2 14 (0.99%) Internet
3 9 (0.63%) AMQP
4 7 (0.49%) HTTP
5 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
7 3 (0.21%) LTE
8 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.071%) MQTT
9 1 (0.071%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (7.55%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 65 (4.58%) MySQL
5 62 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 50 (3.53%) DynamoDB
7 44 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 31 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.41%) Neo4j
9 20 (1.41%) Redis
10 18 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (0.99%) Pinecone
12 13 (0.92%) DB2
13 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.71%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.71%) Power BI
15 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.49%) Big Data
17 6 (0.42%) Metadata
18 5 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 187 (13.19%) Git
2 74 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.17%) JIRA
4 32 (2.26%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.12%) Vite
6 27 (1.90%) GitLab
7 20 (1.41%) Selenium
8 19 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.27%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.20%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.99%) Storybook
11 14 (0.99%) webpack
12 12 (0.85%) Claude Code
13 10 (0.71%) Gradle
13 10 (0.71%) Maven
14 7 (0.49%) JUnit
15 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.35%) ESLint
16 4 (0.28%) Babel
General
1 264 (18.62%) Social Skills
2 231 (16.29%) Finance
3 88 (6.21%) Front Office
4 74 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.46%) Banking
6 42 (2.96%) Law
7 38 (2.68%) Retail
8 34 (2.40%) Public Sector
9 25 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.55%) 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%) Games
15 8 (0.56%) Automotive
15 8 (0.56%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
17 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 773 (54.51%) Developer
2 346 (24.40%) Senior
3 290 (20.45%) Full-Stack Developer
4 288 (20.31%) Software Engineer
5 223 (15.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 220 (15.51%) React Developer
7 190 (13.40%) Lead
8 168 (11.85%) Senior Developer
9 99 (6.98%) Lead Developer
10 89 (6.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (5.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 78 (5.50%) Java Developer
13 76 (5.36%) Python Developer
14 66 (4.65%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 63 (4.44%) .NET Developer
16 62 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
17 58 (4.09%) Software Developer
18 54 (3.81%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 50 (3.53%) Java Engineer
20 49 (3.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (34.13%) Node.js
2 257 (18.12%) .NET
3 244 (17.21%) CSS
4 242 (17.07%) HTML
5 201 (14.17%) AngularJS
6 164 (11.57%) REST
7 149 (10.51%) RESTful
8 144 (10.16%) Vue
9 122 (8.60%) Next.js
10 119 (8.39%) Spring
11 102 (7.19%) Spring Boot
12 99 (6.98%) GraphQL
13 91 (6.42%) Redux
14 85 (5.99%) .NET Core
15 77 (5.43%) React Native
16 67 (4.72%) Kafka
17 64 (4.51%) Django
18 52 (3.67%) ASP.NET
19 45 (3.17%) Web Services
20 44 (3.10%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 143 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 70 (4.94%) Fixed Income
3 66 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 60 (4.23%) Mobile App
5 58 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (1.62%) Derivative
11 20 (1.41%) IoT
12 18 (1.27%) Equities
13 14 (0.99%) e-Learning
14 13 (0.92%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.92%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.71%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.71%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.71%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.68%) Linux
2 14 (0.99%) Android
3 13 (0.92%) Windows
4 11 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.35%) CentOS
5 5 (0.35%) Debian
5 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (52.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 512 (36.11%) Agile
3 490 (34.56%) Software Engineering
4 420 (29.62%) CI/CD
5 303 (21.37%) DevOps
6 256 (18.05%) Microservices
7 246 (17.35%) Mentoring
8 236 (16.64%) AI
9 232 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
10 207 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 186 (13.12%) Front End Development
12 159 (11.21%) User Experience
13 158 (11.14%) Test Automation
14 153 (10.79%) Clean Code
15 152 (10.72%) Containerisation
16 141 (9.94%) Scrum
17 123 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
18 113 (7.97%) Computer Science
19 102 (7.19%) TDD
20 90 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 768 (54.16%) TypeScript
2 652 (45.98%) JavaScript
3 384 (27.08%) Python
4 313 (22.07%) Java
5 242 (17.07%) SQL
6 228 (16.08%) C#
7 71 (5.01%) Go
7 71 (5.01%) PHP
8 20 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 19 (1.34%) C
10 16 (1.13%) Bash
10 16 (1.13%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.06%) Ruby
12 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.71%) C++
14 8 (0.56%) Bicep
15 5 (0.35%) Rust
15 5 (0.35%) Scala
15 5 (0.35%) Swift
15 5 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (8.67%) Degree
2 105 (7.40%) Security Cleared
3 81 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 39 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.62%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.99%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.14%) ISEB
13 2 (0.14%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.14%) PhD
14 1 (0.071%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.071%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.29%) QA
2 39 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.071%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.071%) NCSC
5 1 (0.071%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.071%) WCAG
System Software
1 236 (16.64%) Docker
2 10 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 195 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 154 (10.86%) 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 (0.071%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 81 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.47%) Google
3 32 (2.26%) OpenAI
4 22 (1.55%) Atlassian
5 18 (1.27%) Oracle
6 15 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.71%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.56%) IBM
10 7 (0.49%) Solace
11 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.42%) Databricks
12 5 (0.35%) Apple
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%) Salesforce