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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 83 48
Rank change year-on-year -40 -35 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,591 1,521 2,856
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.54% 3.53% 4.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.66% 20.08% 19.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,215 1,018 1,769
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 £136,250 £108,750
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 10,850 7,576 14,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 17.57% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 7,902 5,012 9,370
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,000
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -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 25 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 25 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 -59 585 £85,000 -15.00% 1,160
North of England -6 356 £60,000 -7.69% 270
South East +30 277 £60,000 - 191
North West -16 199 £60,000 -9.43% 176
Midlands -20 150 £55,000 - 112
South West -25 138 £55,000 -8.33% 125
Yorkshire +6 104 £63,750 -5.56% 68
East Midlands -11 79 £53,750 -2.27% 36
West Midlands -50 71 £55,000 -6.38% 76
East of England -11 69 £60,000 -4.00% 75
North East -34 53 £65,000 +30.00% 27
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 (1.89%) CMS
2 27 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.63%) Apache
4 20 (1.26%) Headless CMS
5 18 (1.13%) Confluence
6 12 (0.75%) nginx
7 10 (0.63%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.44%) IIS
9 7 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.31%) JBoss
11 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.25%) Kentico
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.063%) Revit
3 1 (0.063%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.69%) Magento
2 8 (0.50%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 679 (42.68%) AWS
2 585 (36.77%) Azure
3 171 (10.75%) GitHub
4 144 (9.05%) Serverless
5 139 (8.74%) GCP
6 134 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
7 109 (6.85%) SaaS
8 79 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (4.84%) Azure AI
10 60 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
12 44 (2.77%) Amazon S3
13 43 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
14 37 (2.33%) Power Platform
15 35 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 34 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
18 30 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
19 28 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
20 26 (1.63%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.45%) Internet
2 22 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.63%) VoIP
4 9 (0.57%) Broadband
4 9 (0.57%) DNS
4 9 (0.57%) HTTP
5 8 (0.50%) AMQP
6 7 (0.44%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.31%) Firewall
8 5 (0.31%) Intranet
8 5 (0.31%) 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%) OpenVPN
11 1 (0.063%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.063%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (12.51%) MongoDB
2 162 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (8.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 120 (7.54%) SQL Server
5 99 (6.22%) NoSQL
6 97 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
7 93 (5.85%) MySQL
8 87 (5.47%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.64%) DynamoDB
10 37 (2.33%) Redis
11 17 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.94%) Power BI
13 11 (0.69%) Big Data
13 11 (0.69%) Metadata
14 10 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.63%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.57%) Chroma
15 9 (0.57%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.50%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 254 (15.96%) Git
2 76 (4.78%) Jenkins
3 65 (4.09%) GitLab
4 54 (3.39%) Cypress.io
5 44 (2.77%) JIRA
6 41 (2.58%) JUnit
7 39 (2.45%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.82%) Subversion
9 26 (1.63%) Vite
10 25 (1.57%) Eclipse
11 23 (1.45%) Maven
12 22 (1.38%) Selenium
13 21 (1.32%) Bitbucket
14 18 (1.13%) Mockito
15 13 (0.82%) Storybook
16 11 (0.69%) Postman
17 10 (0.63%) TeamCity
17 10 (0.63%) Visual Studio
18 8 (0.50%) SonarQube
19 7 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 342 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 260 (16.34%) Finance
3 76 (4.78%) Retail
4 67 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 65 (4.09%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.27%) Marketing
8 51 (3.21%) Law
9 44 (2.77%) Banking
10 36 (2.26%) Legal
11 30 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.07%) Publishing
13 16 (1.01%) Front Office
13 16 (1.01%) Legal Technology
14 13 (0.82%) Advertising
14 13 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.69%) Tech for Good
16 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 803 (50.47%) Developer
2 350 (22.00%) Senior
3 335 (21.06%) Software Engineer
4 262 (16.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 207 (13.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 199 (12.51%) .NET Developer
7 163 (10.25%) Lead
8 149 (9.37%) Senior Developer
9 124 (7.79%) React Developer
10 121 (7.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 81 (5.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 78 (4.90%) Software Developer
13 63 (3.96%) Java Developer
14 61 (3.83%) Lead Developer
15 58 (3.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 57 (3.58%) Python Engineer
17 56 (3.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 41 (2.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 40 (2.51%) Engineering Manager
19 40 (2.51%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (29.29%) .NET
2 456 (28.66%) Node.js
3 248 (15.59%) REST
4 241 (15.15%) AngularJS
5 238 (14.96%) RESTful
6 225 (14.14%) ASP.NET
7 204 (12.82%) .NET Core
8 203 (12.76%) ASP.NET Core
8 203 (12.76%) CSS
9 183 (11.50%) Terraform
10 182 (11.44%) HTML
11 175 (11.00%) Next.js
11 175 (11.00%) Vue
12 162 (10.18%) Blazor
13 134 (8.42%) Spring
14 110 (6.91%) Spring Boot
15 93 (5.85%) React Native
16 91 (5.72%) .NET Framework
17 86 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
18 67 (4.21%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 237 (14.90%) Cloud Native
2 103 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
4 65 (4.09%) Mobile App
5 64 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.65%) AI Agents
7 55 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.82%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.63%) Algorithms
12 23 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.13%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.13%) Social Media
14 17 (1.07%) iPhone
15 15 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
17 13 (0.82%) IoT
17 13 (0.82%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.34%) Linux
2 30 (1.89%) Android
3 20 (1.26%) Windows
4 16 (1.01%) Debian
4 16 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 15 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.50%) Unix
7 7 (0.44%) CentOS
8 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 900 (56.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 695 (43.68%) Agile
3 589 (37.02%) Software Engineering
4 583 (36.64%) CI/CD
5 484 (30.42%) AI
6 401 (25.20%) Microservices
7 370 (23.26%) DevOps
8 316 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
9 299 (18.79%) Mentoring
10 235 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 204 (12.82%) Test Automation
12 199 (12.51%) Code Quality
13 184 (11.57%) Scrum
14 183 (11.50%) Front End Development
15 173 (10.87%) Containerisation
15 173 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
16 154 (9.68%) Clean Code
17 152 (9.55%) SDLC
18 144 (9.05%) Computer Science
19 137 (8.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 829 (52.11%) TypeScript
2 761 (47.83%) JavaScript
3 483 (30.36%) C#
4 430 (27.03%) SQL
5 401 (25.20%) Python
6 284 (17.85%) Java
7 64 (4.02%) C++
8 63 (3.96%) Go
8 63 (3.96%) PHP
9 46 (2.89%) Ruby
10 30 (1.89%) Rust
11 26 (1.63%) Bash
11 26 (1.63%) Perl
12 22 (1.38%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.69%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.50%) Scala
16 8 (0.50%) Swift
17 5 (0.31%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 194 (12.19%) Degree
2 158 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 121 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 108 (6.79%) SC Cleared
5 32 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.63%) MBA
8 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.31%) 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%) HNC
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (6.10%) QA
2 85 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.63%) WCAG
4 13 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.69%) GDPR
6 8 (0.50%) GRC
7 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.063%) SLA
System Software
1 284 (17.85%) Docker
2 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 222 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.82%) Ansible
3 17 (1.07%) Grafana
4 15 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.50%) Puppet
7 6 (0.38%) Podman
8 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.31%) Kibana
8 5 (0.31%) Nagios
8 5 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.25%) Argo
9 4 (0.25%) Packer
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.063%) Consul
Vendors
1 254 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.53%) Google
3 45 (2.83%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.89%) Oracle
5 23 (1.45%) Facebook
5 23 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.01%) Databricks
7 15 (0.94%) Red Hat
7 15 (0.94%) Splunk
8 13 (0.82%) Mistral
8 13 (0.82%) Palantir
9 12 (0.75%) Foundry
9 12 (0.75%) Sony
10 10 (0.63%) Apple
10 10 (0.63%) New Relic
10 10 (0.63%) Yahoo!
11 8 (0.50%) IBM
12 7 (0.44%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.38%) Solace