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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 39 41
Rank change year-on-year -53 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing React 1,326 2,542 3,224
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.26% 5.67% 4.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.01% 25.55% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 1,560 2,900
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,475 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 6,627 9,949 15,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.27% 22.18% 22.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,082 6,007 12,869
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £101,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -25 582 £90,000 +2.86% 273
North of England -48 243 £65,000 +8.33% 155
South East -72 196 £65,000 +3.17% 137
Midlands -12 132 £62,500 +4.17% 66
North West -39 116 £65,000 +8.33% 87
Yorkshire -20 112 £65,000 -3.70% 52
South West -54 100 £62,500 -3.85% 69
East Midlands 0 69 £65,000 +8.33% 35
West Midlands -22 63 £60,000 - 31
East of England -79 46 £60,000 -11.11% 33
North East -41 15 £58,500 +14.15% 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 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (1.58%) Confluence
3 20 (1.51%) CMS
4 14 (1.06%) Apache
5 9 (0.68%) nginx
5 9 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.53%) IIS
8 5 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.30%) Appian
9 4 (0.30%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.30%) WordPress
10 3 (0.23%) Liferay
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.075%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.075%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Shopify
2 7 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.075%) Magento
4 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 606 (45.70%) AWS
2 414 (31.22%) Azure
3 172 (12.97%) Serverless
4 148 (11.16%) GitHub
5 147 (11.09%) GCP
6 129 (9.73%) SaaS
7 105 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
8 97 (7.32%) Amazon S3
9 76 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (3.39%) Figma
13 41 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.58%) Power Platform
17 20 (1.51%) npm
18 19 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (1.43%) Amazon EventBridge
19 17 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.90%) Internet
2 10 (0.75%) AMQP
3 6 (0.45%) Broadband
4 4 (0.30%) HTTP
5 3 (0.23%) SSL
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
6 2 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.075%) Firewall
7 1 (0.075%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.075%) MQTT
7 1 (0.075%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.86%) SQL Server
3 90 (6.79%) NoSQL
4 70 (5.28%) Relational Database
5 69 (5.20%) MySQL
6 53 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.70%) MongoDB
8 43 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (1.43%) Redis
11 18 (1.36%) Neo4j
12 15 (1.13%) Apache Arrow
13 14 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
13 14 (1.06%) DB2
13 14 (1.06%) Dremio
14 12 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.90%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.83%) Pinecone
15 11 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 174 (13.12%) Git
2 63 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.09%) JIRA
4 36 (2.71%) Cypress.io
5 25 (1.89%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.73%) Bitbucket
6 23 (1.73%) Vite
7 22 (1.66%) GitLab
7 22 (1.66%) Selenium
8 21 (1.58%) Storybook
8 21 (1.58%) webpack
9 19 (1.43%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.90%) JUnit
11 10 (0.75%) Maven
12 9 (0.68%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.60%) gulp
14 7 (0.53%) Gradle
15 6 (0.45%) git-flow
15 6 (0.45%) Mockito
16 5 (0.38%) Mocha
General
1 314 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 201 (15.16%) Finance
3 80 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (5.05%) Front Office
5 57 (4.30%) Banking
6 47 (3.54%) Retail
7 42 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.02%) Law
9 35 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.66%) Marketing
12 21 (1.58%) Games
13 15 (1.13%) Legal
14 14 (1.06%) Tech for Good
15 11 (0.83%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.68%) Back Office
16 9 (0.68%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.53%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.45%) Multimedia
19 5 (0.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 721 (54.37%) Developer
2 319 (24.06%) Senior
3 267 (20.14%) Software Engineer
4 264 (19.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 186 (14.03%) React Developer
6 166 (12.52%) Lead
7 150 (11.31%) Senior Developer
8 148 (11.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 101 (7.62%) Python Developer
10 79 (5.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 78 (5.88%) Java Developer
12 75 (5.66%) .NET Developer
13 71 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 66 (4.98%) Lead Developer
15 57 (4.30%) Software Developer
16 51 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 49 (3.70%) C# Developer
18 47 (3.54%) AWS Developer
18 47 (3.54%) Full-Stack Python Developer
19 46 (3.47%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (28.66%) Node.js
2 302 (22.78%) .NET
3 286 (21.57%) CSS
4 277 (20.89%) HTML
5 256 (19.31%) AngularJS
6 191 (14.40%) REST
7 183 (13.80%) Vue
8 135 (10.18%) RESTful
9 109 (8.22%) Next.js
10 105 (7.92%) .NET Core
11 103 (7.77%) Spring
12 95 (7.16%) GraphQL
13 92 (6.94%) Spring Boot
14 72 (5.43%) ASP.NET
15 67 (5.05%) Django
16 65 (4.90%) .NET Framework
16 65 (4.90%) React Native
17 57 (4.30%) WebSockets
18 52 (3.92%) Kafka
19 51 (3.85%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 146 (11.01%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.51%) Mobile App
3 58 (4.37%) Fixed Income
4 52 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 49 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 48 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
7 38 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.58%) Equities
11 19 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.43%) IoT
12 18 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.36%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.75%) Derivative
14 10 (0.75%) Operational Technology
14 10 (0.75%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.68%) AI Agents
15 9 (0.68%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.41%) Linux
2 20 (1.51%) Android
3 17 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.83%) Windows
5 5 (0.38%) CentOS
5 5 (0.38%) Debian
5 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.23%) Unix
7 1 (0.075%) VMS
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (47.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 527 (39.74%) Agile
3 462 (34.84%) Software Engineering
4 422 (31.83%) CI/CD
5 269 (20.29%) DevOps
6 267 (20.14%) Microservices
7 260 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
8 214 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 213 (16.06%) User Experience
10 211 (15.91%) Mentoring
11 206 (15.54%) AI
12 191 (14.40%) Front End Development
13 139 (10.48%) Clean Code
14 134 (10.11%) Containerisation
15 126 (9.50%) Scrum
16 123 (9.28%) Computer Science
17 117 (8.82%) Test Automation
18 108 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
18 108 (8.14%) TDD
19 92 (6.94%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 654 (49.32%) JavaScript
2 643 (48.49%) TypeScript
3 351 (26.47%) Python
4 312 (23.53%) Java
5 255 (19.23%) SQL
6 249 (18.78%) C#
7 73 (5.51%) PHP
8 52 (3.92%) Go
9 23 (1.73%) Kotlin
9 23 (1.73%) PowerShell
10 22 (1.66%) C
11 17 (1.28%) Rust
12 13 (0.98%) Ruby
13 12 (0.90%) C++
14 11 (0.83%) Bash
15 10 (0.75%) Scala
16 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.45%) Bicep
17 6 (0.45%) R
18 5 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 144 (10.86%) Degree
2 125 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 75 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 45 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.23%) ISEB
13 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.20%) Accessibility
2 66 (4.98%) QA
3 15 (1.13%) WCAG
4 8 (0.60%) SLA
5 5 (0.38%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) NCSC
6 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.23%) NIST
8 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.075%) Data Quality
System Software
1 215 (16.21%) Docker
2 13 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.075%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 208 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 141 (10.63%) Terraform
3 19 (1.43%) Grafana
4 14 (1.06%) Ansible
4 14 (1.06%) Argo
5 10 (0.75%) Kibana
6 7 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.38%) Puppet
8 4 (0.30%) Nagios
9 3 (0.23%) cPanel
9 3 (0.23%) Plesk
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.075%) Istio
11 1 (0.075%) Podman
Vendors
1 77 (5.81%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.11%) Atlassian
2 28 (2.11%) Google
3 26 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 19 (1.43%) Oracle
5 13 (0.98%) HubSpot
6 12 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 10 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (0.53%) Adobe
8 7 (0.53%) Foundry
8 7 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.45%) Databricks
10 5 (0.38%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.38%) IBM
10 5 (0.38%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.38%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.38%) SAP
11 4 (0.30%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.30%) Informatica
11 4 (0.30%) Solace