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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 57 49
Rank change year-on-year -45 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing React 1,450 1,816 3,762
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 4.61% 4.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.76% 23.01% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 1,365 3,090
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £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 8,164 7,891 17,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.96% 20.05% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,185 5,554 14,133
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +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 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 19 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 19 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 -31 615 £85,000 -5.56% 265
North of England -47 283 £65,000 - 116
South East -18 232 £65,000 +8.33% 112
Midlands -37 150 £62,500 +4.17% 46
North West -44 135 £62,500 -3.85% 70
Yorkshire -21 119 £67,500 - 33
South West -67 97 £60,000 -4.00% 53
East Midlands -29 83 £65,000 +13.04% 25
West Midlands -42 67 £60,000 - 21
East of England -21 59 £55,000 -12.00% 40
North East -37 29 £55,000 +10.00% 13
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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 22 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.45%) Confluence
3 16 (1.10%) CMS
4 13 (0.90%) Apache
5 11 (0.76%) IIS
6 10 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.28%) WordPress
10 3 (0.21%) Appian
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.069%) Drupal
12 1 (0.069%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 13 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.069%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 663 (45.72%) AWS
2 438 (30.21%) Azure
3 175 (12.07%) Serverless
4 159 (10.97%) GCP
5 129 (8.90%) GitHub
6 110 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (7.59%) SaaS
7 102 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
8 78 (5.38%) Amazon S3
9 49 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (3.03%) Figma
12 42 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (2.14%) Azure AI
15 30 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (1.72%) Power Platform
17 22 (1.52%) Amazon EventBridge
17 22 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (1.52%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.24%) Internet
2 17 (1.17%) Broadband
3 9 (0.62%) AMQP
4 6 (0.41%) HTTP
5 5 (0.34%) DNS
5 5 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
6 4 (0.28%) LTE
7 3 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
9 1 (0.069%) VoIP
9 1 (0.069%) Wireless
9 1 (0.069%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (6.97%) NoSQL
3 95 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 74 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 65 (4.48%) MySQL
6 50 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 47 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (3.24%) Relational Database
8 45 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.38%) Neo4j
9 20 (1.38%) Redis
10 12 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (0.76%) DB2
11 11 (0.76%) Pinecone
12 9 (0.62%) Big Data
12 9 (0.62%) Power BI
13 8 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.41%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 201 (13.86%) Git
2 75 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 47 (3.24%) JIRA
4 33 (2.28%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.07%) GitLab
6 28 (1.93%) Vite
7 18 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.17%) Selenium
9 16 (1.10%) Claude Code
9 16 (1.10%) Maven
9 16 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.03%) webpack
11 14 (0.97%) Storybook
12 12 (0.83%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.83%) JUnit
13 9 (0.62%) Gradle
14 8 (0.55%) Mockito
15 5 (0.34%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 258 (17.79%) Social Skills
2 252 (17.38%) Finance
3 83 (5.72%) Front Office
4 75 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.03%) Retail
6 43 (2.97%) Banking
7 42 (2.90%) Law
8 36 (2.48%) Public Sector
9 27 (1.86%) Legal
10 24 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.38%) Marketing
12 16 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.10%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.62%) Advertising
13 9 (0.62%) Automotive
13 9 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.62%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.55%) Games
14 8 (0.55%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 804 (55.45%) Developer
2 344 (23.72%) Senior
3 299 (20.62%) Software Engineer
4 289 (19.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 223 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 214 (14.76%) React Developer
7 190 (13.10%) Lead
8 164 (11.31%) Senior Developer
9 104 (7.17%) Lead Developer
10 98 (6.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 93 (6.41%) .NET Developer
12 89 (6.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 75 (5.17%) Java Developer
14 69 (4.76%) Python Developer
15 64 (4.41%) Lead Software Engineer
16 63 (4.34%) Software Developer
17 61 (4.21%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 55 (3.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 51 (3.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 46 (3.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (33.45%) Node.js
2 298 (20.55%) .NET
3 236 (16.28%) CSS
4 231 (15.93%) HTML
5 204 (14.07%) AngularJS
6 183 (12.62%) REST
7 167 (11.52%) RESTful
8 149 (10.28%) Vue
9 125 (8.62%) Next.js
9 125 (8.62%) Spring
10 113 (7.79%) .NET Core
11 105 (7.24%) Spring Boot
12 95 (6.55%) Redux
13 94 (6.48%) GraphQL
14 85 (5.86%) ASP.NET
14 85 (5.86%) React Native
15 72 (4.97%) ASP.NET Core
16 69 (4.76%) Kafka
17 63 (4.34%) Blazor
18 49 (3.38%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.97%) Greenfield Project
3 70 (4.83%) Mobile App
4 64 (4.41%) Fixed Income
5 58 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 51 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 27 (1.86%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.52%) Derivative
13 20 (1.38%) IoT
14 17 (1.17%) Equities
15 16 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.90%) e-Learning
16 13 (0.90%) Public Cloud
17 11 (0.76%) Algorithms
17 11 (0.76%) Hedge funds
18 10 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.76%) Linux
2 17 (1.17%) Android
3 13 (0.90%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.34%) CentOS
5 5 (0.34%) Debian
5 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.069%) Unix
6 1 (0.069%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (53.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 560 (38.62%) Agile
3 510 (35.17%) Software Engineering
4 423 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 322 (22.21%) DevOps
6 280 (19.31%) Microservices
7 274 (18.90%) AI
7 274 (18.90%) Mentoring
8 234 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
9 210 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 194 (13.38%) Front End Development
11 161 (11.10%) Test Automation
12 160 (11.03%) User Experience
13 155 (10.69%) Scrum
14 153 (10.55%) Containerisation
15 151 (10.41%) Clean Code
16 126 (8.69%) Infrastructure as Code
17 114 (7.86%) Computer Science
18 111 (7.66%) TDD
19 103 (7.10%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 780 (53.79%) TypeScript
2 673 (46.41%) JavaScript
3 371 (25.59%) Python
4 303 (20.90%) Java
5 272 (18.76%) C#
6 265 (18.28%) SQL
7 67 (4.62%) Go
8 64 (4.41%) PHP
9 19 (1.31%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.24%) C
11 17 (1.17%) Bash
12 16 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.97%) C++
14 14 (0.97%) Ruby
15 9 (0.62%) Bicep
16 6 (0.41%) Rust
17 5 (0.34%) Scala
17 5 (0.34%) Swift
17 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (8.48%) Degree
2 114 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 87 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 43 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.14%) PhD
14 1 (0.069%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.069%) ISEB
14 1 (0.069%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.069%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.24%) QA
2 42 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.34%) GDPR
4 3 (0.21%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) WCAG
5 1 (0.069%) NCSC
5 1 (0.069%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 241 (16.62%) Docker
2 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 193 (13.31%) Kubernetes
2 153 (10.55%) Terraform
3 21 (1.45%) Ansible
4 20 (1.38%) Grafana
5 13 (0.90%) Podman
6 12 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.55%) Argo
8 7 (0.48%) Kibana
9 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.34%) Nagios
10 5 (0.34%) Plesk
10 5 (0.34%) Puppet
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) cPanel
11 2 (0.14%) Packer
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 113 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 44 (3.03%) Google
3 29 (2.00%) OpenAI
4 22 (1.52%) Oracle
5 18 (1.24%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.55%) Apple
7 8 (0.55%) HubSpot
7 8 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.48%) IBM
8 7 (0.48%) Solace
9 6 (0.41%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.41%) Databricks
10 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.34%) Foundry
10 5 (0.34%) Pega
10 5 (0.34%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.28%) Facebook
11 4 (0.28%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.28%) Sony