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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 55 48
Rank change year-on-year -42 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,465 1,864 3,757
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.82% 4.75% 4.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.17% 23.85% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,182 1,415 3,094
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,450 £40,250
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 £90,750 £95,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 8,064 7,816 16,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.02% 19.92% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,120 5,709 14,144
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 11 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 11 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 -27 629 £87,500 - 282
North of England -49 276 £65,000 - 131
South East -27 227 £65,000 +8.33% 107
Midlands -47 156 £65,000 +8.33% 52
North West -54 135 £62,500 -3.85% 68
Yorkshire -24 116 £67,500 - 47
South West -58 102 £60,000 -4.00% 51
East Midlands -25 93 £65,000 +8.33% 28
West Midlands -56 63 £60,000 - 24
East of England -10 61 £55,000 -12.00% 35
North East -47 25 £55,000 +14.58% 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 22 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.43%) Confluence
3 17 (1.16%) CMS
4 13 (0.89%) Apache
5 11 (0.75%) IIS
6 9 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.27%) Appian
9 4 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.27%) WordPress
10 3 (0.20%) CICS
10 3 (0.20%) Liferay
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.068%) Drupal
12 1 (0.068%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 12 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.068%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.068%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 667 (45.53%) AWS
2 445 (30.38%) Azure
3 173 (11.81%) Serverless
4 164 (11.19%) GCP
5 137 (9.35%) GitHub
6 115 (7.85%) SaaS
7 112 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 48 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (3.00%) Figma
12 42 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (2.12%) Azure AI
15 27 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (1.84%) Power Platform
16 22 (1.50%) Amazon EventBridge
16 22 (1.50%) npm
17 21 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.23%) Internet
2 17 (1.16%) Broadband
3 8 (0.55%) AMQP
4 7 (0.48%) HTTP
5 5 (0.34%) DNS
5 5 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.27%) Intranet
7 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
7 3 (0.20%) LTE
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
9 1 (0.068%) MQTT
9 1 (0.068%) VoIP
9 1 (0.068%) Wireless
9 1 (0.068%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (7.37%) NoSQL
3 98 (6.69%) MongoDB
4 76 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 69 (4.71%) MySQL
6 49 (3.34%) DynamoDB
7 48 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.37%) Neo4j
10 20 (1.37%) Redis
11 14 (0.96%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.82%) DB2
13 11 (0.75%) Power BI
14 10 (0.68%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.55%) Big Data
16 6 (0.41%) Metadata
16 6 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 199 (13.58%) Git
2 78 (5.32%) Jenkins
3 47 (3.21%) JIRA
4 32 (2.18%) Cypress.io
5 31 (2.12%) GitLab
6 30 (2.05%) Vite
7 19 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.23%) Selenium
9 17 (1.16%) CircleCI
9 17 (1.16%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.02%) webpack
11 14 (0.96%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.96%) Maven
11 14 (0.96%) Storybook
12 13 (0.89%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.68%) JUnit
14 9 (0.61%) Gradle
15 6 (0.41%) Mockito
16 5 (0.34%) Balsamiq
16 5 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 265 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 244 (16.66%) Finance
3 85 (5.80%) Front Office
4 74 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (3.14%) Banking
6 44 (3.00%) Retail
7 43 (2.94%) Law
8 36 (2.46%) Public Sector
9 25 (1.71%) Legal
10 24 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.43%) Marketing
12 18 (1.23%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.09%) Tech for Good
14 9 (0.61%) Advertising
14 9 (0.61%) Automotive
14 9 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.61%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.55%) Games
16 7 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 814 (55.56%) Developer
2 347 (23.69%) Senior
3 299 (20.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 295 (20.14%) Software Engineer
5 227 (15.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 219 (14.95%) React Developer
7 193 (13.17%) Lead
8 170 (11.60%) Senior Developer
9 103 (7.03%) Lead Developer
10 95 (6.48%) .NET Developer
11 93 (6.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 86 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 77 (5.26%) Java Developer
14 72 (4.91%) Python Developer
15 69 (4.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 64 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
17 62 (4.23%) Software Developer
18 53 (3.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 50 (3.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 49 (3.34%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 497 (33.92%) Node.js
2 301 (20.55%) .NET
3 244 (16.66%) CSS
4 240 (16.38%) HTML
5 211 (14.40%) AngularJS
6 178 (12.15%) REST
7 169 (11.54%) RESTful
8 149 (10.17%) Vue
9 125 (8.53%) Next.js
10 123 (8.40%) Spring
11 115 (7.85%) .NET Core
12 104 (7.10%) Spring Boot
13 96 (6.55%) GraphQL
13 96 (6.55%) Redux
14 88 (6.01%) ASP.NET
15 84 (5.73%) React Native
16 72 (4.91%) ASP.NET Core
17 71 (4.85%) Kafka
18 63 (4.30%) Blazor
19 57 (3.89%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
3 70 (4.78%) Mobile App
4 66 (4.51%) Fixed Income
5 58 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.50%) Derivative
12 20 (1.37%) IoT
13 17 (1.16%) Equities
14 14 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.89%) e-Learning
15 13 (0.89%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.68%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.68%) Hedge funds
16 10 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.66%) Linux
2 19 (1.30%) Android
3 13 (0.89%) Windows
4 10 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.27%) CentOS
5 4 (0.27%) Debian
5 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.068%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (54.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 552 (37.68%) Agile
3 501 (34.20%) Software Engineering
4 429 (29.28%) CI/CD
5 326 (22.25%) DevOps
6 282 (19.25%) Microservices
7 269 (18.36%) AI
8 262 (17.88%) Mentoring
9 236 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
10 205 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 191 (13.04%) Front End Development
12 161 (10.99%) Test Automation
13 159 (10.85%) User Experience
14 158 (10.78%) Containerisation
15 152 (10.38%) Clean Code
16 146 (9.97%) Scrum
17 124 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
18 116 (7.92%) Computer Science
19 107 (7.30%) TDD
20 99 (6.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 781 (53.31%) TypeScript
2 690 (47.10%) JavaScript
3 384 (26.21%) Python
4 316 (21.57%) Java
5 273 (18.63%) SQL
6 272 (18.57%) C#
7 71 (4.85%) Go
8 68 (4.64%) PHP
9 20 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.23%) C
11 17 (1.16%) Bash
11 17 (1.16%) Ruby
12 15 (1.02%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.96%) C++
13 14 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.55%) Bicep
15 5 (0.34%) Rust
15 5 (0.34%) Scala
15 5 (0.34%) Swift
15 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (8.74%) Degree
2 113 (7.71%) Security Cleared
3 89 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 42 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 9 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.27%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.14%) PhD
14 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.068%) ISEB
14 1 (0.068%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.068%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.068%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.12%) QA
2 44 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.27%) GDPR
3 4 (0.27%) SLA
4 2 (0.14%) WCAG
5 1 (0.068%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.068%) NCSC
5 1 (0.068%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.068%) SOC 2
System Software
1 247 (16.86%) Docker
2 10 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.34%) Firmware
5 3 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 199 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 153 (10.44%) Terraform
3 21 (1.43%) Grafana
4 20 (1.37%) Ansible
5 13 (0.89%) Argo
5 13 (0.89%) Podman
5 13 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.48%) Kibana
7 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.34%) Nagios
8 5 (0.34%) Plesk
9 4 (0.27%) Puppet
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.14%) cPanel
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.068%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 116 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.94%) Google
3 32 (2.18%) OpenAI
4 21 (1.43%) Atlassian
4 21 (1.43%) Oracle
5 15 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 9 (0.61%) HubSpot
8 8 (0.55%) Apple
9 7 (0.48%) IBM
9 7 (0.48%) Solace
10 6 (0.41%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.41%) Databricks
11 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.34%) Foundry
11 5 (0.34%) Pega
12 4 (0.27%) Facebook
12 4 (0.27%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.27%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.27%) Sony