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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 51 48
Rank change year-on-year -49 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,414 1,869 3,668
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.91% 5.11% 4.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.61% 23.91% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,161 1,470 3,089
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £110,500
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 7,599 7,816 16,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.26% 21.39% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,759 5,954 14,041
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -29 616 £90,000 +2.86% 273
North of England -54 278 £65,000 - 120
South East -67 199 £60,000 - 125
Midlands -27 151 £64,000 +6.67% 55
North West -54 133 £65,000 - 63
Yorkshire -21 132 £70,000 +6.06% 44
South West -50 103 £62,500 -3.85% 73
East Midlands -21 88 £65,000 +8.33% 24
West Midlands -21 63 £60,000 - 31
East of England -69 51 £50,000 -23.08% 47
North East -42 13 £55,000 +14.58% 13
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 20 (1.41%) CMS
2 17 (1.20%) Confluence
3 16 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 14 (0.99%) Apache
5 10 (0.71%) IIS
6 9 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.57%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
9 4 (0.28%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.28%) WordPress
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.28%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.071%) Magento
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 655 (46.32%) AWS
2 429 (30.34%) Azure
3 185 (13.08%) Serverless
4 173 (12.23%) GCP
5 139 (9.83%) GitHub
6 128 (9.05%) SaaS
7 109 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (6.44%) Amazon S3
9 86 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (3.47%) Figma
13 47 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (1.70%) Amazon EventBridge
17 21 (1.49%) npm
17 21 (1.49%) Power Platform
18 17 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (0.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.06%) Broadband
1 15 (1.06%) Internet
2 11 (0.78%) AMQP
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) LTE
4 2 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.071%) MQTT
5 1 (0.071%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (7.43%) NoSQL
3 86 (6.08%) SQL Server
4 73 (5.16%) MySQL
5 58 (4.10%) Relational Database
6 57 (4.03%) MongoDB
7 55 (3.89%) DynamoDB
8 33 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (1.56%) Redis
10 21 (1.49%) Neo4j
11 18 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.06%) DB2
13 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.85%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.78%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.78%) Power BI
15 8 (0.57%) Big Data
16 7 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.42%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 191 (13.51%) Git
2 69 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.25%) JIRA
4 32 (2.26%) Cypress.io
5 25 (1.77%) Vite
6 23 (1.63%) Selenium
7 21 (1.49%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.41%) GitLab
9 17 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 17 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.20%) webpack
10 14 (0.99%) Storybook
11 13 (0.92%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.64%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.64%) Gradle
13 8 (0.57%) JUnit
13 8 (0.57%) Maven
14 5 (0.35%) Babel
14 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
14 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 293 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 229 (16.20%) Finance
3 91 (6.44%) Front Office
4 77 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.82%) Banking
6 42 (2.97%) Law
6 42 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 36 (2.55%) Retail
8 29 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.56%) Marketing
10 21 (1.49%) Investment Banking
11 19 (1.34%) Legal
12 13 (0.92%) Games
12 13 (0.92%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.64%) Advertising
14 8 (0.57%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.50%) Back Office
15 7 (0.50%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.50%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 768 (54.31%) Developer
2 337 (23.83%) Senior
3 302 (21.36%) Software Engineer
4 280 (19.80%) Full-Stack Developer
5 214 (15.13%) React Developer
6 203 (14.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 193 (13.65%) Lead
8 163 (11.53%) Senior Developer
9 95 (6.72%) Lead Developer
10 87 (6.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
12 83 (5.87%) Python Developer
13 82 (5.80%) Java Developer
14 67 (4.74%) .NET Developer
15 64 (4.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 60 (4.24%) Lead Software Engineer
17 55 (3.89%) Software Developer
18 49 (3.47%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 46 (3.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 46 (3.25%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (32.25%) Node.js
2 281 (19.87%) CSS
3 279 (19.73%) HTML
4 271 (19.17%) .NET
5 201 (14.21%) AngularJS
6 165 (11.67%) REST
7 153 (10.82%) Vue
8 149 (10.54%) RESTful
9 116 (8.20%) Next.js
10 112 (7.92%) Spring
11 102 (7.21%) GraphQL
12 96 (6.79%) Spring Boot
13 90 (6.36%) .NET Core
14 85 (6.01%) Redux
15 76 (5.37%) Django
16 75 (5.30%) React Native
17 74 (5.23%) Kafka
18 59 (4.17%) ASP.NET
19 52 (3.68%) WebSockets
20 48 (3.39%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.52%) Fixed Income
3 63 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
4 62 (4.38%) Mobile App
5 57 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.70%) Derivative
10 24 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.56%) IoT
12 20 (1.41%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.34%) AI Agents
13 19 (1.34%) Equities
14 12 (0.85%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.85%) e-Learning
14 12 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.85%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.57%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.83%) Linux
2 18 (1.27%) Android
3 15 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 14 (0.99%) Windows
5 6 (0.42%) CentOS
5 6 (0.42%) Debian
5 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (50.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 535 (37.84%) Agile
3 512 (36.21%) Software Engineering
4 429 (30.34%) CI/CD
5 305 (21.57%) DevOps
6 257 (18.18%) Microservices
6 257 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 253 (17.89%) Mentoring
8 233 (16.48%) AI
9 217 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (13.30%) Front End Development
11 179 (12.66%) User Experience
12 162 (11.46%) Test Automation
13 154 (10.89%) Clean Code
14 146 (10.33%) Containerisation
15 142 (10.04%) Scrum
16 129 (9.12%) Computer Science
17 125 (8.84%) Infrastructure as Code
18 98 (6.93%) TDD
19 88 (6.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 732 (51.77%) TypeScript
2 693 (49.01%) JavaScript
3 386 (27.30%) Python
4 334 (23.62%) Java
5 253 (17.89%) SQL
6 225 (15.91%) C#
7 74 (5.23%) PHP
8 72 (5.09%) Go
9 23 (1.63%) C
10 20 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.99%) Bash
13 12 (0.85%) Ruby
14 11 (0.78%) C++
14 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.64%) Rust
16 7 (0.50%) Bicep
17 5 (0.35%) RPG
17 5 (0.35%) Swift
18 4 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 140 (9.90%) Degree
2 104 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 86 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 39 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
8 12 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.50%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.21%) ISEB
11 3 (0.21%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.88%) QA
2 46 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
3 4 (0.28%) WCAG
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
5 2 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.071%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.071%) NIST
6 1 (0.071%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 238 (16.83%) Docker
2 10 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 201 (14.21%) Kubernetes
2 162 (11.46%) Terraform
3 23 (1.63%) Grafana
4 18 (1.27%) Ansible
5 13 (0.92%) Argo
6 12 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.71%) Kibana
8 9 (0.64%) Podman
9 6 (0.42%) Puppet
10 5 (0.35%) Nagios
11 4 (0.28%) Plesk
12 3 (0.21%) cPanel
12 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) Packer
13 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 74 (5.23%) Microsoft
2 34 (2.40%) Google
3 24 (1.70%) Atlassian
4 23 (1.63%) OpenAI
5 20 (1.41%) Oracle
6 14 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
7 13 (0.92%) HubSpot
8 12 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.71%) IBM
10 7 (0.50%) Adobe
11 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.42%) Foundry
11 6 (0.42%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.42%) SaltStack
11 6 (0.42%) Solace
12 5 (0.35%) Apple
12 5 (0.35%) Databricks
12 5 (0.35%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.35%) Pega
12 5 (0.35%) SAP