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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 65 47
Rank change year-on-year -32 -18 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,642 1,724 3,101
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.80% 3.96% 4.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.31% 22.11% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 1,209 2,274
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £132,500 £110,000
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 9,485 7,796 14,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.39% 17.92% 18.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,197 5,247 10,969
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -41 638 £85,000 -10.53% 345
North of England +4 371 £60,000 -7.69% 131
South East +31 269 £60,000 +4.35% 103
North West -23 179 £60,000 -11.11% 86
Midlands -34 154 £57,500 - 45
Yorkshire +25 137 £65,000 +18.18% 33
South West -41 121 £47,500 -20.83% 43
West Midlands -30 78 £60,000 - 27
East Midlands -17 76 £55,000 +2.33% 18
East of England -5 74 £57,500 -4.17% 29
North East -13 55 £62,500 +19.05% 14
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 (1.71%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.52%) CMS
3 23 (1.40%) Apache
4 16 (0.97%) Confluence
5 12 (0.73%) Headless CMS
6 10 (0.61%) IIS
7 9 (0.55%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.49%) nginx
9 6 (0.37%) JBoss
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.30%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.18%) DNN
11 3 (0.18%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.18%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
11 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 19 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.55%) Shopify
2 6 (0.37%) Magento
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 725 (44.15%) AWS
2 580 (35.32%) Azure
3 166 (10.11%) GCP
4 151 (9.20%) GitHub
5 150 (9.14%) Serverless
6 140 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (7.43%) SaaS
8 87 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (4.51%) Azure AI
10 50 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 50 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
11 41 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
12 39 (2.38%) Power Platform
13 37 (2.25%) Figma
14 33 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
15 32 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 30 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.34%) Internet
2 19 (1.16%) Broadband
3 16 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.43%) VoIP
5 6 (0.37%) DNS
5 6 (0.37%) HTTP
5 6 (0.37%) SSL
5 6 (0.37%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.30%) AMQP
7 4 (0.24%) Intranet
7 4 (0.24%) LAN
7 4 (0.24%) WAN
8 3 (0.18%) Firewall
8 3 (0.18%) LTE
9 2 (0.12%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.12%) MQTT
10 1 (0.061%) Network Security
10 1 (0.061%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.061%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (12.36%) MongoDB
2 153 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (9.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 103 (6.27%) NoSQL
5 94 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
6 93 (5.66%) SQL Server
7 91 (5.54%) MySQL
8 69 (4.20%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.98%) DynamoDB
10 32 (1.95%) Redis
11 15 (0.91%) Power BI
12 13 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.67%) Metadata
13 11 (0.67%) Neo4j
14 10 (0.61%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.55%) Big Data
16 8 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 6 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 245 (14.92%) Git
2 76 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.59%) JIRA
4 45 (2.74%) Cypress.io
4 45 (2.74%) GitLab
5 38 (2.31%) Claude Code
6 31 (1.89%) JUnit
7 27 (1.64%) Subversion
8 26 (1.58%) Vite
9 24 (1.46%) Eclipse
10 23 (1.40%) Bitbucket
11 22 (1.34%) Maven
12 16 (0.97%) Selenium
13 13 (0.79%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.79%) Mockito
13 13 (0.79%) webpack
14 12 (0.73%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.61%) Storybook
16 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.49%) Gradle
General
1 318 (19.37%) Social Skills
2 296 (18.03%) Finance
3 75 (4.57%) Retail
4 71 (4.32%) Front Office
5 70 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (3.41%) Law
7 51 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (3.05%) Public Sector
9 45 (2.74%) Legal
9 45 (2.74%) Marketing
10 38 (2.31%) Banking
11 24 (1.46%) Legal Technology
12 20 (1.22%) Advertising
13 18 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 16 (0.97%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
17 11 (0.67%) Health Technology
18 10 (0.61%) Financial Institution
19 8 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 896 (54.57%) Developer
2 352 (21.44%) Senior
3 340 (20.71%) Software Engineer
4 278 (16.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 231 (14.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 194 (11.81%) .NET Developer
7 185 (11.27%) Lead
8 168 (10.23%) React Developer
9 155 (9.44%) Senior Developer
10 108 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
11 102 (6.21%) Lead Developer
12 95 (5.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 76 (4.63%) Java Developer
14 71 (4.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 71 (4.32%) Software Developer
15 65 (3.96%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 63 (3.84%) Lead Software Engineer
17 62 (3.78%) Python Engineer
18 53 (3.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 46 (2.80%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 523 (31.85%) Node.js
2 438 (26.67%) .NET
3 234 (14.25%) AngularJS
4 229 (13.95%) ASP.NET
5 228 (13.89%) RESTful
6 221 (13.46%) REST
7 214 (13.03%) CSS
8 209 (12.73%) ASP.NET Core
9 200 (12.18%) HTML
10 196 (11.94%) .NET Core
11 187 (11.39%) Vue
12 168 (10.23%) Next.js
13 163 (9.93%) Blazor
14 112 (6.82%) Spring
15 97 (5.91%) Redux
16 92 (5.60%) GraphQL
17 90 (5.48%) Spring Boot
18 88 (5.36%) ASP.NET Web API
19 84 (5.12%) React Native
20 80 (4.87%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 205 (12.48%) Cloud Native
2 92 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
4 64 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 63 (3.84%) Mobile App
6 57 (3.47%) Fixed Income
7 56 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 40 (2.44%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.58%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.40%) Algorithms
13 22 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 20 (1.22%) Derivative
15 19 (1.16%) Social Media
16 18 (1.10%) Equities
17 17 (1.04%) iPhone
18 16 (0.97%) Data Structures
19 14 (0.85%) Onboarding
20 12 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.78%) Linux
2 25 (1.52%) Android
3 14 (0.85%) Windows
4 10 (0.61%) Debian
5 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.43%) Unix
7 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (56.94%) Full-Stack Development
2 732 (44.58%) Agile
3 587 (35.75%) Software Engineering
4 503 (30.63%) CI/CD
5 427 (26.00%) AI
6 388 (23.63%) DevOps
7 369 (22.47%) Microservices
8 315 (19.18%) Mentoring
9 297 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
10 204 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 191 (11.63%) Front End Development
11 191 (11.63%) Scrum
12 188 (11.45%) Test Automation
13 160 (9.74%) Clean Code
14 154 (9.38%) Code Quality
14 154 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 152 (9.26%) Containerisation
16 143 (8.71%) Computer Science
17 141 (8.59%) User Experience
18 130 (7.92%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 864 (52.62%) TypeScript
2 810 (49.33%) JavaScript
3 448 (27.28%) C#
4 415 (25.27%) Python
5 413 (25.15%) SQL
6 283 (17.24%) Java
7 84 (5.12%) Go
8 70 (4.26%) PHP
9 54 (3.29%) C++
10 39 (2.38%) Ruby
11 23 (1.40%) Bash
11 23 (1.40%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.34%) Perl
13 19 (1.16%) Rust
14 15 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.85%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.37%) Bicep
17 6 (0.37%) Scala
17 6 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 177 (10.78%) Degree
2 124 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 119 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 87 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 27 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.43%) MBA
9 6 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.12%) ICAEW
13 2 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.061%) OCP
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.061%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.97%) QA
2 68 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.97%) WCAG
4 11 (0.67%) GDPR
5 8 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.061%) NIST
9 1 (0.061%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.061%) SLA
System Software
1 259 (15.77%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 186 (11.33%) Kubernetes
2 172 (10.48%) Terraform
3 23 (1.40%) Ansible
4 17 (1.04%) Grafana
5 15 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.79%) Podman
7 10 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.43%) Nagios
9 6 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.37%) Kibana
10 5 (0.30%) Puppet
11 3 (0.18%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.18%) Plesk
12 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.061%) Argo
13 1 (0.061%) Packer
Vendors
1 241 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 65 (3.96%) Google
3 35 (2.13%) OpenAI
4 29 (1.77%) Oracle
5 19 (1.16%) Facebook
6 16 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 14 (0.85%) Splunk
8 13 (0.79%) Apple
8 13 (0.79%) Sony
9 12 (0.73%) Databricks
9 12 (0.73%) Palantir
10 11 (0.67%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.67%) Yahoo!
11 9 (0.55%) New Relic
12 7 (0.43%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.43%) Solace
13 6 (0.37%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.37%) Foundry
14 5 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.30%) OneLogin