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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 42 45
Rank change year-on-year -47 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing React 1,256 2,598 2,684
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.33% 5.46% 4.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.95% 25.26% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,045 1,555 2,385
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

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 6,295 10,286 12,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.70% 21.60% 23.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,817 6,022 10,774
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,906 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £106,250
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 20 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 20 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 -31 551 £92,500 +8.82% 291
North of England -36 234 £65,000 +8.33% 235
South East -69 188 £62,500 -2.34% 366
Midlands -10 121 £62,500 +4.17% 110
North West -30 113 £65,000 +8.33% 127
Yorkshire -20 105 £65,000 +2.36% 75
South West -57 90 £62,500 +4.17% 131
West Midlands -14 61 £60,000 -4.00% 42
East Midlands -8 60 £65,000 +8.33% 66
East of England -76 47 £60,000 -11.11% 156
North East -33 16 £56,750 +3.18% 33
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 28 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (1.91%) Confluence
3 17 (1.35%) CMS
4 13 (1.04%) Apache
5 9 (0.72%) nginx
5 9 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.56%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.40%) IIS
8 5 (0.40%) WordPress
9 4 (0.32%) Appian
10 3 (0.24%) Liferay
10 3 (0.24%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.080%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.080%) JBoss
12 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.16%) Sketch
4 2 (0.16%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.64%) Shopify
2 7 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.080%) Magento
4 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 577 (45.94%) AWS
2 396 (31.53%) Azure
3 170 (13.54%) Serverless
4 148 (11.78%) GitHub
5 137 (10.91%) GCP
6 131 (10.43%) SaaS
7 104 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
8 87 (6.93%) Amazon S3
9 73 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (3.26%) Figma
13 39 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (1.83%) dbt
17 21 (1.67%) Azure Functions
18 20 (1.59%) Power Platform
19 19 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 19 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.96%) Internet
2 11 (0.88%) AMQP
3 9 (0.72%) Broadband
4 5 (0.40%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) DNS
5 2 (0.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.080%) Firewall
6 1 (0.080%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.080%) LTE
6 1 (0.080%) MQTT
6 1 (0.080%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (7.80%) NoSQL
3 93 (7.40%) SQL Server
4 73 (5.81%) Relational Database
5 63 (5.02%) MySQL
6 61 (4.86%) DynamoDB
7 58 (4.62%) MongoDB
8 53 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (1.67%) Redis
11 20 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (1.59%) Apache Arrow
11 20 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
11 20 (1.59%) Dremio
12 14 (1.11%) DB2
12 14 (1.11%) Neo4j
13 12 (0.96%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.88%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.80%) Power BI
16 9 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 165 (13.14%) Git
2 62 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.26%) JIRA
4 36 (2.87%) Cypress.io
5 24 (1.91%) GitLab
6 23 (1.83%) Selenium
7 22 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 22 (1.75%) Storybook
7 22 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 22 (1.75%) webpack
8 21 (1.67%) Vite
9 18 (1.43%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.11%) JUnit
11 9 (0.72%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.64%) 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
1 312 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 181 (14.41%) Finance
3 74 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (4.38%) Front Office
5 54 (4.30%) Banking
6 49 (3.90%) Retail
7 43 (3.42%) Law
7 43 (3.42%) Public Sector
8 32 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.91%) Investment Banking
10 22 (1.75%) Games
11 21 (1.67%) Marketing
12 20 (1.59%) Health Technology
13 19 (1.51%) Tech for Good
14 16 (1.27%) Legal
15 11 (0.88%) Publishing
16 10 (0.80%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.64%) Back Office
18 6 (0.48%) Multimedia
19 5 (0.40%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 680 (54.14%) Developer
2 309 (24.60%) Senior
3 254 (20.22%) Software Engineer
4 240 (19.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 167 (13.30%) React Developer
6 160 (12.74%) Lead
7 151 (12.02%) Senior Developer
8 128 (10.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 98 (7.80%) Python Developer
10 79 (6.29%) .NET Developer
10 79 (6.29%) Java Developer
11 75 (5.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 72 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 56 (4.46%) AWS Developer
13 56 (4.46%) Software Developer
14 55 (4.38%) Lead Developer
15 47 (3.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 46 (3.66%) C# Developer
17 44 (3.50%) Architect
18 40 (3.18%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (28.50%) Node.js
2 305 (24.28%) .NET
3 278 (22.13%) CSS
4 268 (21.34%) HTML
5 267 (21.26%) AngularJS
6 192 (15.29%) REST
6 192 (15.29%) Vue
7 141 (11.23%) RESTful
8 107 (8.52%) .NET Core
9 97 (7.72%) Next.js
9 97 (7.72%) Spring
10 92 (7.32%) GraphQL
11 89 (7.09%) Spring Boot
12 81 (6.45%) ASP.NET
13 69 (5.49%) .NET Framework
14 67 (5.33%) React Native
15 63 (5.02%) Django
16 55 (4.38%) WebSockets
17 53 (4.22%) HTML5
17 53 (4.22%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 143 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.37%) Mobile App
3 56 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 52 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (3.82%) Fixed Income
6 46 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
7 39 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 31 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.83%) Equities
11 20 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.51%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.35%) IoT
14 14 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.88%) AI Agents
15 11 (0.88%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.80%) Client/Server
16 10 (0.80%) Operational Technology
17 9 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.71%) Linux
2 22 (1.75%) Android
3 18 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.88%) Windows
5 5 (0.40%) CentOS
5 5 (0.40%) Debian
5 5 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.32%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.080%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (46.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 534 (42.52%) Agile
3 438 (34.87%) Software Engineering
4 413 (32.88%) CI/CD
5 264 (21.02%) DevOps
6 259 (20.62%) Microservices
7 247 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
8 217 (17.28%) User Experience
9 209 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 203 (16.16%) AI
11 201 (16.00%) Mentoring
12 194 (15.45%) Front End Development
13 144 (11.46%) Clean Code
14 138 (10.99%) Scrum
15 130 (10.35%) Containerisation
16 123 (9.79%) Computer Science
17 118 (9.39%) TDD
18 108 (8.60%) Test Automation
19 104 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
20 98 (7.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 620 (49.36%) JavaScript
2 608 (48.41%) TypeScript
3 325 (25.88%) Python
4 292 (23.25%) Java
5 258 (20.54%) C#
6 256 (20.38%) SQL
7 66 (5.25%) PHP
8 44 (3.50%) Go
9 24 (1.91%) Kotlin
10 21 (1.67%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.43%) C
12 17 (1.35%) Rust
13 13 (1.04%) Ruby
14 12 (0.96%) C++
15 11 (0.88%) Scala
16 9 (0.72%) Bash
17 6 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.48%) R
18 5 (0.40%) RPG
19 4 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (11.23%) Degree
2 111 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 67 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 66 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.56%) DBS Check
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%) ISEB
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.21%) QA
2 70 (5.57%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.35%) WCAG
4 11 (0.88%) 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 (0.080%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.080%) Data Quality
System Software
1 200 (15.92%) Docker
2 13 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.080%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 189 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 135 (10.75%) Terraform
3 14 (1.11%) Argo
3 14 (1.11%) Grafana
4 13 (1.04%) Ansible
5 11 (0.88%) Kibana
6 5 (0.40%) Puppet
7 4 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.24%) cPanel
8 3 (0.24%) Plesk
9 2 (0.16%) Nagios
10 1 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.080%) Istio
10 1 (0.080%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.080%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (6.69%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.23%) OpenAI
3 27 (2.15%) Google
4 23 (1.83%) Atlassian
5 21 (1.67%) Oracle
6 13 (1.04%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.96%) Red Hat
8 8 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.56%) Foundry
9 7 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.48%) Adobe
10 6 (0.48%) Databricks
10 6 (0.48%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.40%) IBM
11 5 (0.40%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.40%) SAP
12 4 (0.32%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.32%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.32%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.32%) Informatica