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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 39 42
Rank change year-on-year -51 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,339 2,538 3,249
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.26% 5.67% 4.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.13% 25.55% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,116 1,557 2,924
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,400 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £95,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 6,653 9,932 15,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.25% 22.20% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,110 5,986 12,935
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £102,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +7.64% -8.89%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -26 596 £95,000 +8.57% 207
North of England -49 243 £65,000 +8.33% 151
South East -75 195 £65,000 +1.56% 133
Midlands -12 132 £62,500 +4.17% 69
North West -39 117 £65,000 +6.12% 82
Yorkshire -26 110 £65,000 -3.35% 54
South West -58 100 £62,500 -3.85% 69
East Midlands -1 70 £65,000 +8.33% 35
West Midlands -17 62 £60,000 - 34
East of England -76 46 £60,000 -11.11% 31
North East -41 16 £56,750 +8.10% 15
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 22 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (1.57%) Confluence
3 20 (1.49%) CMS
4 14 (1.05%) Apache
5 9 (0.67%) nginx
5 9 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.52%) IIS
8 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.30%) Appian
9 4 (0.30%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.30%) WordPress
10 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.075%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.075%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Shopify
2 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.075%) Magento
4 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 617 (46.08%) AWS
2 417 (31.14%) Azure
3 173 (12.92%) Serverless
4 153 (11.43%) GCP
5 148 (11.05%) GitHub
6 129 (9.63%) SaaS
7 105 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
8 97 (7.24%) Amazon S3
9 76 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (3.36%) Figma
13 41 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.57%) Power Platform
17 20 (1.49%) npm
18 19 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
19 17 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.90%) Internet
2 10 (0.75%) AMQP
3 6 (0.45%) Broadband
4 4 (0.30%) HTTP
5 3 (0.22%) SSL
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
6 2 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.075%) Firewall
7 1 (0.075%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.075%) MQTT
7 1 (0.075%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.72%) NoSQL
2 90 (6.72%) SQL Server
3 69 (5.15%) MySQL
3 69 (5.15%) Relational Database
4 53 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 49 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 43 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (1.42%) Redis
9 18 (1.34%) Neo4j
10 15 (1.12%) Apache Arrow
11 14 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.05%) Apache Iceberg
11 14 (1.05%) DB2
11 14 (1.05%) Dremio
12 12 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.90%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.82%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 174 (12.99%) Git
2 63 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.06%) JIRA
4 36 (2.69%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 23 (1.72%) Vite
7 22 (1.64%) GitLab
7 22 (1.64%) Selenium
8 21 (1.57%) Storybook
8 21 (1.57%) webpack
9 19 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.90%) JUnit
11 10 (0.75%) Maven
12 9 (0.67%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.60%) gulp
14 7 (0.52%) Gradle
15 6 (0.45%) git-flow
15 6 (0.45%) Mockito
16 5 (0.37%) Mocha
General
1 310 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 212 (15.83%) Finance
3 80 (5.97%) Front Office
4 77 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (4.33%) Banking
6 48 (3.58%) Retail
7 42 (3.14%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.06%) Law
9 36 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.87%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.64%) Games
11 22 (1.64%) Marketing
12 15 (1.12%) Legal
13 14 (1.05%) Tech for Good
14 10 (0.75%) Health Technology
15 9 (0.67%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.60%) Back Office
17 7 (0.52%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.45%) Multimedia
19 5 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 732 (54.67%) Developer
2 315 (23.53%) Senior
3 278 (20.76%) Software Engineer
4 268 (20.01%) Full-Stack Developer
5 193 (14.41%) React Developer
6 173 (12.92%) Lead
7 151 (11.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 148 (11.05%) Senior Developer
9 104 (7.77%) Python Developer
10 81 (6.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 77 (5.75%) Java Developer
12 75 (5.60%) .NET Developer
13 73 (5.45%) Lead Developer
14 70 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
15 57 (4.26%) Software Developer
16 51 (3.81%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 49 (3.66%) C# Developer
18 48 (3.58%) AWS Developer
18 48 (3.58%) Full-Stack Python Developer
19 46 (3.44%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 391 (29.20%) Node.js
2 302 (22.55%) .NET
3 285 (21.28%) CSS
4 276 (20.61%) HTML
5 257 (19.19%) AngularJS
6 191 (14.26%) REST
7 185 (13.82%) Vue
8 135 (10.08%) RESTful
9 111 (8.29%) Next.js
10 106 (7.92%) .NET Core
11 103 (7.69%) GraphQL
11 103 (7.69%) Spring
12 92 (6.87%) Spring Boot
13 71 (5.30%) ASP.NET
14 67 (5.00%) Django
15 65 (4.85%) .NET Framework
15 65 (4.85%) React Native
16 63 (4.71%) Redux
17 60 (4.48%) Kafka
18 59 (4.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 146 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.45%) Mobile App
3 72 (5.38%) Fixed Income
4 52 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 49 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
6 37 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 32 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.87%) Equities
10 19 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.42%) IoT
11 18 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.34%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.05%) Derivative
12 14 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.75%) Operational Technology
13 10 (0.75%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.67%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.67%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.39%) Linux
2 20 (1.49%) Android
3 17 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.82%) Windows
5 5 (0.37%) CentOS
5 5 (0.37%) Debian
5 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.075%) VMS
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (48.10%) Full-Stack Development
2 540 (40.33%) Agile
3 475 (35.47%) Software Engineering
4 423 (31.59%) CI/CD
5 269 (20.09%) DevOps
6 267 (19.94%) Microservices
7 259 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (16.13%) Mentoring
9 215 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 213 (15.91%) User Experience
11 205 (15.31%) AI
12 192 (14.34%) Front End Development
13 141 (10.53%) Clean Code
14 134 (10.01%) Containerisation
15 126 (9.41%) Scrum
16 122 (9.11%) Computer Science
17 119 (8.89%) Test Automation
18 109 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
19 108 (8.07%) TDD
20 92 (6.87%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 670 (50.04%) JavaScript
2 659 (49.22%) TypeScript
3 361 (26.96%) Python
4 319 (23.82%) Java
5 254 (18.97%) SQL
6 248 (18.52%) C#
7 73 (5.45%) PHP
8 57 (4.26%) Go
9 23 (1.72%) PowerShell
10 22 (1.64%) C
11 20 (1.49%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.27%) Rust
13 13 (0.97%) Ruby
14 12 (0.90%) C++
15 11 (0.82%) Bash
16 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.52%) Scala
17 6 (0.45%) Bicep
17 6 (0.45%) R
18 5 (0.37%) RPG
Qualifications
1 143 (10.68%) Degree
2 125 (9.34%) Security Cleared
3 75 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (5.45%) SC Cleared
5 45 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.22%) ISEB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.15%) Accessibility
2 66 (4.93%) QA
3 15 (1.12%) WCAG
4 8 (0.60%) SLA
5 5 (0.37%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) NCSC
6 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.22%) NIST
8 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.075%) Data Quality
System Software
1 216 (16.13%) Docker
2 13 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.075%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 209 (15.61%) Kubernetes
2 142 (10.60%) Terraform
3 20 (1.49%) Grafana
4 14 (1.05%) Ansible
4 14 (1.05%) Argo
5 10 (0.75%) Kibana
6 7 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) Puppet
8 4 (0.30%) Nagios
9 3 (0.22%) cPanel
9 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.075%) Istio
11 1 (0.075%) Podman
Vendors
1 77 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.09%) Atlassian
2 28 (2.09%) Google
3 26 (1.94%) OpenAI
4 19 (1.42%) Oracle
5 13 (0.97%) HubSpot
6 12 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 10 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (0.52%) Adobe
8 7 (0.52%) Foundry
8 7 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.45%) Databricks
10 5 (0.37%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.37%) IBM
10 5 (0.37%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.37%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.37%) SAP
11 4 (0.30%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.30%) Informatica
11 4 (0.30%) Solace