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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 85 49
Rank change year-on-year -38 -36 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,583 1,496 2,818
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.53% 3.49% 4.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.68% 20.18% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,205 996 1,716
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £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 £86,250 £110,000 £87,500
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 10,781 7,414 14,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.31% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,836 4,885 9,077
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £49,750
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 29 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 29 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 -61 581 £85,000 -15.00% 942
North of England -10 353 £60,000 -7.69% 206
South East +34 276 £60,000 - 127
North West -16 200 £60,000 -7.69% 141
Midlands -29 148 £55,000 - 99
South West -25 140 £55,000 -8.33% 114
Yorkshire +13 100 £61,250 -9.26% 50
East Midlands -21 78 £52,500 -4.55% 33
West Midlands -51 70 £55,000 -4.35% 66
East of England -22 69 £60,000 -4.00% 69
North East -32 53 £65,000 +30.00% 16
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 31 (1.96%) CMS
2 26 (1.64%) Apache
3 24 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.33%) Headless CMS
5 18 (1.14%) Confluence
6 13 (0.82%) nginx
7 10 (0.63%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.51%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.44%) IIS
9 7 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.32%) JBoss
11 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.25%) Kentico
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.13%) Simulink
3 1 (0.063%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.69%) Magento
2 8 (0.51%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 680 (42.96%) AWS
2 577 (36.45%) Azure
3 171 (10.80%) GitHub
4 143 (9.03%) Serverless
5 138 (8.72%) GCP
6 130 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (6.63%) SaaS
8 77 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (4.86%) Azure AI
9 61 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (2.97%) Anthropic Claude
11 44 (2.78%) Amazon S3
12 42 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
13 36 (2.27%) Power Platform
14 34 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 33 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
17 28 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (1.64%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.45%) Internet
2 22 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.63%) VoIP
4 9 (0.57%) Broadband
4 9 (0.57%) DNS
4 9 (0.57%) HTTP
5 8 (0.51%) AMQP
6 7 (0.44%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
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
10 2 (0.13%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.13%) VPN
11 1 (0.063%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (12.57%) MongoDB
2 165 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (9.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 121 (7.64%) SQL Server
5 99 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 97 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
7 92 (5.81%) MySQL
8 90 (5.69%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.53%) DynamoDB
10 38 (2.40%) Redis
11 18 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.95%) Power BI
13 11 (0.69%) Big Data
13 11 (0.69%) Metadata
14 10 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.63%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.57%) Chroma
15 9 (0.57%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 252 (15.92%) Git
2 78 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 66 (4.17%) GitLab
4 54 (3.41%) Cypress.io
5 42 (2.65%) JIRA
6 41 (2.59%) JUnit
7 40 (2.53%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.83%) Subversion
9 27 (1.71%) Vite
10 25 (1.58%) Eclipse
11 23 (1.45%) Maven
12 22 (1.39%) Selenium
13 21 (1.33%) Bitbucket
14 18 (1.14%) Mockito
15 13 (0.82%) Storybook
16 11 (0.69%) Postman
17 10 (0.63%) TeamCity
17 10 (0.63%) Visual Studio
18 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
19 7 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 344 (21.73%) Social Skills
2 256 (16.17%) Finance
3 75 (4.74%) Retail
4 70 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 62 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.28%) Marketing
8 48 (3.03%) Law
9 42 (2.65%) Banking
10 36 (2.27%) Legal
11 30 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.07%) Publishing
13 16 (1.01%) Front Office
13 16 (1.01%) Legal Technology
14 13 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.76%) Advertising
16 11 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.69%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 798 (50.41%) Developer
2 349 (22.05%) Senior
3 333 (21.04%) Software Engineer
4 261 (16.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 209 (13.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 199 (12.57%) .NET Developer
7 160 (10.11%) Lead
8 150 (9.48%) Senior Developer
9 121 (7.64%) React Developer
10 118 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 80 (5.05%) Software Developer
12 78 (4.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 62 (3.92%) Java Developer
14 60 (3.79%) Lead Developer
15 58 (3.66%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 57 (3.60%) Python Engineer
17 56 (3.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 40 (2.53%) Java Engineer
18 40 (2.53%) Junior
18 40 (2.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (29.37%) .NET
2 453 (28.62%) Node.js
3 253 (15.98%) REST
4 238 (15.03%) AngularJS
5 237 (14.97%) RESTful
6 225 (14.21%) ASP.NET
7 206 (13.01%) .NET Core
8 203 (12.82%) ASP.NET Core
9 200 (12.63%) CSS
10 184 (11.62%) Terraform
11 179 (11.31%) HTML
12 175 (11.05%) Next.js
13 174 (10.99%) Vue
14 162 (10.23%) Blazor
15 133 (8.40%) Spring
16 110 (6.95%) Spring Boot
17 90 (5.69%) .NET Framework
17 90 (5.69%) React Native
18 86 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
19 67 (4.23%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 236 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 105 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 64 (4.04%) Mobile App
6 60 (3.79%) AI Agents
7 55 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.83%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 23 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.14%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.14%) Social Media
14 17 (1.07%) iPhone
15 15 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
17 13 (0.82%) IoT
17 13 (0.82%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.49%) Linux
2 30 (1.90%) Android
3 21 (1.33%) Windows
4 16 (1.01%) Debian
4 16 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 15 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.51%) Unix
7 7 (0.44%) CentOS
8 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (56.66%) Full-Stack Development
2 688 (43.46%) Agile
3 589 (37.21%) Software Engineering
4 587 (37.08%) CI/CD
5 483 (30.51%) AI
6 400 (25.27%) Microservices
7 363 (22.93%) DevOps
8 319 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
9 292 (18.45%) Mentoring
10 240 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 204 (12.89%) Test Automation
12 202 (12.76%) Code Quality
13 185 (11.69%) Scrum
14 182 (11.50%) Front End Development
15 175 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 172 (10.87%) Containerisation
17 158 (9.98%) Clean Code
18 149 (9.41%) SDLC
19 146 (9.22%) Computer Science
20 135 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 824 (52.05%) TypeScript
2 756 (47.76%) JavaScript
3 481 (30.39%) C#
4 428 (27.04%) SQL
5 398 (25.14%) Python
6 283 (17.88%) Java
7 65 (4.11%) C++
7 65 (4.11%) Go
7 65 (4.11%) PHP
8 45 (2.84%) Ruby
9 31 (1.96%) Rust
10 26 (1.64%) Bash
10 26 (1.64%) Perl
11 22 (1.39%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.69%) PowerShell
14 10 (0.63%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.51%) Scala
15 8 (0.51%) Swift
16 6 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 197 (12.44%) Degree
2 156 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 123 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 106 (6.70%) SC Cleared
5 32 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.63%) MBA
8 9 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.19%) OCP
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.063%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.00%) QA
2 86 (5.43%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.64%) WCAG
4 13 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.69%) GDPR
6 8 (0.51%) GRC
7 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.063%) SLA
System Software
1 290 (18.32%) Docker
2 7 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 222 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.83%) Ansible
3 16 (1.01%) Grafana
4 14 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Puppet
7 6 (0.38%) Kibana
7 6 (0.38%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
8 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.25%) Argo
9 4 (0.25%) Packer
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.063%) Consul
Vendors
1 251 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 71 (4.49%) Google
3 45 (2.84%) OpenAI
4 29 (1.83%) Oracle
5 23 (1.45%) Facebook
5 23 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.01%) Databricks
7 15 (0.95%) Red Hat
7 15 (0.95%) Splunk
8 13 (0.82%) Mistral
8 13 (0.82%) Palantir
9 12 (0.76%) Foundry
9 12 (0.76%) Sony
10 10 (0.63%) Apple
10 10 (0.63%) New Relic
10 10 (0.63%) Yahoo!
11 7 (0.44%) IBM
11 7 (0.44%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.38%) Atlassian