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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 86 48
Rank change year-on-year -37 -38 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,575 1,519 2,860
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.54% 3.54% 4.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.63% 20.05% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,210 1,019 1,789
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 £136,500 £107,750
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 10,768 7,575 14,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.52% 17.64% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,864 5,007 9,562
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £114,689
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -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 21 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 21 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 -57 576 £85,000 -15.00% 1,408
North of England -17 346 £60,000 -7.69% 296
South East +35 279 £60,000 - 185
North West -20 190 £60,000 -9.43% 196
Midlands -32 152 £55,000 - 117
South West -20 137 £55,000 -8.33% 143
Yorkshire +8 103 £63,750 -5.56% 63
East Midlands -11 79 £53,750 -2.27% 40
West Midlands -52 73 £55,000 -4.35% 77
East of England -26 69 £60,000 -4.00% 67
North East -23 53 £65,000 +30.00% 39
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 30 (1.90%) CMS
2 27 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.65%) Apache
4 20 (1.27%) Headless CMS
5 18 (1.14%) Confluence
6 11 (0.70%) 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%) Kentico
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) DNN
12 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.063%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.70%) 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
1 671 (42.60%) AWS
2 583 (37.02%) Azure
3 168 (10.67%) GitHub
4 140 (8.89%) GCP
5 138 (8.76%) Serverless
6 134 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (6.73%) SaaS
8 77 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (4.89%) Azure AI
9 59 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (2.92%) Anthropic Claude
11 42 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
12 41 (2.60%) Amazon S3
13 37 (2.35%) Power Platform
14 35 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 34 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (1.65%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.46%) Internet
2 22 (1.40%) 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%) Intranet
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
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
11 1 (0.063%) Network Security
11 1 (0.063%) OpenVPN
11 1 (0.063%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (12.57%) MongoDB
2 158 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (9.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 117 (7.43%) SQL Server
5 103 (6.54%) NoSQL
6 97 (6.16%) Elasticsearch
7 92 (5.84%) MySQL
8 83 (5.27%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.54%) DynamoDB
10 37 (2.35%) Redis
11 17 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.95%) Power BI
13 11 (0.70%) Big Data
13 11 (0.70%) 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
1 251 (15.94%) Git
2 75 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 64 (4.06%) GitLab
4 53 (3.37%) Cypress.io
5 46 (2.92%) JIRA
6 41 (2.60%) JUnit
7 38 (2.41%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.84%) Subversion
9 25 (1.59%) Eclipse
9 25 (1.59%) Vite
10 23 (1.46%) Maven
10 23 (1.46%) Selenium
11 21 (1.33%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.14%) Mockito
13 12 (0.76%) Storybook
14 11 (0.70%) Postman
15 10 (0.63%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.63%) Visual Studio
16 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 335 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 257 (16.32%) Finance
3 76 (4.83%) Retail
4 66 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 64 (4.06%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.30%) Marketing
8 51 (3.24%) Law
9 42 (2.67%) Banking
10 36 (2.29%) Legal
11 29 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.02%) Front Office
13 16 (1.02%) Legal Technology
14 14 (0.89%) Advertising
15 13 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.76%) Publishing
17 11 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.70%) Tech for Good
18 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 798 (50.67%) Developer
2 344 (21.84%) Senior
3 324 (20.57%) Software Engineer
4 260 (16.51%) Full-Stack Developer
5 206 (13.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 199 (12.63%) .NET Developer
7 162 (10.29%) Lead
8 148 (9.40%) Senior Developer
9 123 (7.81%) React Developer
10 117 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 80 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 77 (4.89%) Software Developer
13 63 (4.00%) Java Developer
14 62 (3.94%) Lead Developer
15 58 (3.68%) Python Engineer
16 57 (3.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 55 (3.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 43 (2.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 41 (2.60%) Java Engineer
20 40 (2.54%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (29.33%) .NET
2 451 (28.63%) Node.js
3 244 (15.49%) REST
4 241 (15.30%) AngularJS
5 237 (15.05%) RESTful
6 225 (14.29%) ASP.NET
7 205 (13.02%) CSS
8 204 (12.95%) .NET Core
9 203 (12.89%) ASP.NET Core
10 184 (11.68%) HTML
11 182 (11.56%) Terraform
12 174 (11.05%) Next.js
13 172 (10.92%) Vue
14 162 (10.29%) Blazor
15 126 (8.00%) Spring
16 102 (6.48%) Spring Boot
17 93 (5.90%) React Native
18 91 (5.78%) .NET Framework
19 86 (5.46%) ASP.NET Web API
20 67 (4.25%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 235 (14.92%) Cloud Native
2 100 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
4 65 (4.13%) Mobile App
5 63 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.68%) AI Agents
7 55 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.65%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.14%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.14%) Social Media
14 17 (1.08%) iPhone
15 14 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
15 14 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.89%) Virtual Reality
16 13 (0.83%) IoT
17 12 (0.76%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.38%) Linux
2 30 (1.90%) Android
3 19 (1.21%) Windows
4 16 (1.02%) Debian
4 16 (1.02%) 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 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (56.63%) Full-Stack Development
2 685 (43.49%) Agile
3 574 (36.44%) Software Engineering
4 570 (36.19%) CI/CD
5 472 (29.97%) AI
6 391 (24.83%) Microservices
7 366 (23.24%) DevOps
8 311 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
9 291 (18.48%) Mentoring
10 228 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 203 (12.89%) Test Automation
12 190 (12.06%) Code Quality
13 180 (11.43%) Front End Development
13 180 (11.43%) Scrum
14 173 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 166 (10.54%) Containerisation
16 154 (9.78%) Clean Code
17 149 (9.46%) SDLC
18 143 (9.08%) Computer Science
19 138 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 818 (51.94%) TypeScript
2 754 (47.87%) JavaScript
3 477 (30.29%) C#
4 427 (27.11%) SQL
5 396 (25.14%) Python
6 275 (17.46%) Java
7 64 (4.06%) C++
8 63 (4.00%) PHP
9 62 (3.94%) Go
10 48 (3.05%) Ruby
11 29 (1.84%) Rust
12 26 (1.65%) Bash
12 26 (1.65%) Perl
13 22 (1.40%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.70%) PowerShell
16 9 (0.57%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.51%) Scala
17 8 (0.51%) Swift
18 5 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 193 (12.25%) Degree
2 156 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 121 (7.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 108 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.63%) MBA
8 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.19%) OCP
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.19%) PhD
11 3 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.29%) QA
2 83 (5.27%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.59%) WCAG
4 13 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.70%) 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
1 277 (17.59%) Docker
2 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 212 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.84%) Ansible
3 17 (1.08%) Grafana
4 15 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Puppet
7 6 (0.38%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Kibana
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
9 4 (0.25%) Argo
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
10 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.063%) Consul
12 1 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 250 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 71 (4.51%) Google
3 45 (2.86%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.90%) Oracle
5 23 (1.46%) Facebook
5 23 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.02%) Databricks
7 15 (0.95%) Red Hat
7 15 (0.95%) Splunk
8 13 (0.83%) Mistral
8 13 (0.83%) 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 8 (0.51%) IBM
12 7 (0.44%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.38%) Solace