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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 43 46
Rank change year-on-year -48 +3 -15
Permanent jobs citing React 1,240 2,630 2,361
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.38% 5.33% 5.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.93% 24.86% 20.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 1,575 2,079
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,663
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.29% -2.86% -

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 6,221 10,581 11,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.94% 21.45% 24.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,784 6,250 9,550
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,088 £50,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 2 January 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 January 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 -26 576 £95,000 +11.76% 253
North of England -37 224 £65,000 +8.33% 151
South East -72 190 £62,500 -3.85% 126
Yorkshire -14 105 £65,000 +18.18% 57
North West -32 105 £65,000 +8.33% 76
Midlands -25 101 £62,500 +4.17% 66
South West -56 80 £62,500 +4.17% 54
West Midlands -24 58 £60,000 -4.00% 24
East of England -76 46 £60,000 -11.11% 46
East Midlands -30 43 £66,000 +17.33% 41
North East -34 14 £56,750 +8.10% 18
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 37 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.18%) Confluence
3 16 (1.29%) CMS
4 12 (0.97%) Headless CMS
5 11 (0.89%) Apache
6 10 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.73%) nginx
8 6 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.40%) WordPress
10 4 (0.32%) Appian
10 4 (0.32%) IIS
11 3 (0.24%) Liferay
12 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.081%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.081%) JBoss
13 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.16%) Sketch
3 2 (0.16%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.05%) Shopify
2 7 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.081%) Magento
4 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 584 (47.10%) AWS
2 403 (32.50%) Azure
3 161 (12.98%) Serverless
4 153 (12.34%) GCP
5 142 (11.45%) GitHub
6 128 (10.32%) SaaS
7 94 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
8 82 (6.61%) Amazon S3
9 67 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (3.79%) Figma
12 44 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
13 42 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (2.58%) dbt
15 30 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.69%) Power Platform
17 20 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 20 (1.61%) Azure Functions
17 20 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.97%) Internet
2 9 (0.73%) AMQP
2 9 (0.73%) Broadband
3 6 (0.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.16%) SSL
5 1 (0.081%) Firewall
5 1 (0.081%) MQTT
5 1 (0.081%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (8.15%) NoSQL
3 97 (7.82%) SQL Server
4 74 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 64 (5.16%) MySQL
6 58 (4.68%) DynamoDB
7 56 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
8 54 (4.35%) MongoDB
9 29 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (2.34%) Apache Arrow
9 29 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
9 29 (2.34%) Dremio
10 28 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 19 (1.53%) Redis
12 14 (1.13%) DB2
12 14 (1.13%) Neo4j
13 10 (0.81%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.81%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.81%) Power BI
14 8 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 186 (15.00%) Git
2 58 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.63%) JIRA
4 41 (3.31%) Cypress.io
5 26 (2.10%) webpack
6 24 (1.94%) Storybook
7 23 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 22 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.77%) GitLab
8 22 (1.77%) Selenium
9 17 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.37%) Vite
10 13 (1.05%) JUnit
11 10 (0.81%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.73%) gulp
13 7 (0.56%) Babel
13 7 (0.56%) Maven
13 7 (0.56%) Mockito
14 6 (0.48%) git-flow
14 6 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 329 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 197 (15.89%) Finance
3 70 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (5.65%) Front Office
4 60 (4.84%) Law
5 52 (4.19%) Banking
6 51 (4.11%) Retail
7 45 (3.63%) Public Sector
8 34 (2.74%) Marketing
9 28 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.94%) Investment Banking
11 23 (1.85%) Health Technology
12 22 (1.77%) Games
13 17 (1.37%) Legal
14 16 (1.29%) Tech for Good
15 13 (1.05%) Publishing
16 11 (0.89%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.65%) Back Office
18 7 (0.56%) Multimedia
18 7 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 703 (56.69%) Developer
2 308 (24.84%) Senior
3 261 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 243 (19.60%) Software Engineer
5 169 (13.63%) Senior Developer
6 160 (12.90%) Lead
7 152 (12.26%) React Developer
8 116 (9.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 105 (8.47%) Python Developer
10 82 (6.61%) Java Developer
11 74 (5.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 72 (5.81%) .NET Developer
13 64 (5.16%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 63 (5.08%) AWS Developer
15 60 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
16 57 (4.60%) Lead Developer
17 56 (4.52%) Software Developer
18 48 (3.87%) Architect
19 43 (3.47%) C# Developer
20 42 (3.39%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (30.65%) Node.js
2 302 (24.35%) .NET
3 295 (23.79%) CSS
4 284 (22.90%) HTML
5 276 (22.26%) AngularJS
6 202 (16.29%) Vue
7 189 (15.24%) REST
8 154 (12.42%) RESTful
9 108 (8.71%) GraphQL
10 104 (8.39%) Next.js
11 99 (7.98%) .NET Core
12 86 (6.94%) ASP.NET
12 86 (6.94%) Spring
13 81 (6.53%) Spring Boot
14 77 (6.21%) .NET Framework
15 63 (5.08%) React Native
16 60 (4.84%) Django
17 57 (4.60%) Jest
18 54 (4.35%) Redux
19 53 (4.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 142 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.21%) Mobile App
3 65 (5.24%) Fixed Income
4 53 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
7 39 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 36 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (2.58%) Equities
10 26 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 13 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 12 (0.97%) IoT
16 12 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.81%) Client/Server
17 10 (0.81%) Operational Technology
18 9 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.74%) Linux
2 21 (1.69%) Android
3 19 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.81%) Windows
5 5 (0.40%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) CentOS
6 3 (0.24%) Debian
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (46.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 560 (45.16%) Agile
3 418 (33.71%) Software Engineering
4 403 (32.50%) CI/CD
5 274 (22.10%) DevOps
6 259 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
7 249 (20.08%) Microservices
8 237 (19.11%) User Experience
9 198 (15.97%) Mentoring
10 195 (15.73%) AI
11 192 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 191 (15.40%) Front End Development
13 142 (11.45%) Clean Code
14 137 (11.05%) Scrum
15 132 (10.65%) Containerisation
16 125 (10.08%) Test Automation
17 118 (9.52%) TDD
18 117 (9.44%) Computer Science
19 100 (8.06%) UX Design
20 95 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 639 (51.53%) JavaScript
2 611 (49.27%) TypeScript
3 322 (25.97%) Python
4 290 (23.39%) Java
5 261 (21.05%) C#
6 244 (19.68%) SQL
7 62 (5.00%) PHP
8 51 (4.11%) Go
9 23 (1.85%) Kotlin
10 19 (1.53%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.45%) C
12 17 (1.37%) Rust
13 14 (1.13%) Ruby
14 12 (0.97%) C++
15 10 (0.81%) Scala
16 8 (0.65%) Bash
17 6 (0.48%) R
18 5 (0.40%) Bicep
18 5 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.40%) RPG
Qualifications
1 136 (10.97%) Degree
2 106 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 63 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 61 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.40%) MCP
12 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.24%) ISEB
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.18%) QA
2 79 (6.37%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.45%) WCAG
4 11 (0.89%) SLA
5 4 (0.32%) GDPR
5 4 (0.32%) NCSC
6 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.24%) NIST
6 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.081%) Data Quality
System Software
1 204 (16.45%) Docker
2 14 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.081%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 188 (15.16%) Kubernetes
2 120 (9.68%) Terraform
3 14 (1.13%) Argo
3 14 (1.13%) Grafana
4 11 (0.89%) Ansible
4 11 (0.89%) Kibana
5 4 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.24%) cPanel
6 3 (0.24%) Plesk
6 3 (0.24%) Puppet
7 2 (0.16%) Nagios
8 1 (0.081%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.081%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.081%) Istio
8 1 (0.081%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.081%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.10%) Google
2 26 (2.10%) OpenAI
3 23 (1.85%) Atlassian
4 20 (1.61%) Oracle
5 10 (0.81%) HubSpot
5 10 (0.81%) Red Hat
6 7 (0.56%) Foundry
7 6 (0.48%) Adobe
7 6 (0.48%) Apple
7 6 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (0.48%) MuleSoft
8 5 (0.40%) Databricks
8 5 (0.40%) IBM
8 5 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.40%) SAP
9 4 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.32%) Guidewire
9 4 (0.32%) Informatica
10 3 (0.24%) ServiceNow