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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 56 48
Rank change year-on-year -45 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing React 1,425 1,690 3,770
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.78% 4.47% 4.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.32% 22.63% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,156 1,418 3,100
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,600 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,157 £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 £93,188 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £110,575
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 7,779 7,468 16,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.73% 19.74% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,877 5,762 14,133
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -27 628 £90,000 +2.86% 307
North of England -43 273 £65,000 - 93
South East -42 209 £65,000 +8.33% 120
Midlands -21 150 £65,000 +8.33% 39
North West -33 135 £62,500 -3.85% 47
Yorkshire -29 119 £70,000 +3.70% 33
South West -68 96 £60,000 -4.00% 46
East Midlands -12 90 £65,000 +8.33% 17
West Midlands -41 60 £60,000 - 22
East of England -14 55 £50,000 -20.00% 30
North East -43 19 £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 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.33%) Confluence
3 18 (1.26%) CMS
4 11 (0.77%) Apache
4 11 (0.77%) IIS
5 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.35%) nginx
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
9 4 (0.28%) WordPress
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.070%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.21%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 654 (45.89%) AWS
2 407 (28.56%) Azure
3 173 (12.14%) Serverless
4 166 (11.65%) GCP
5 130 (9.12%) GitHub
6 118 (8.28%) SaaS
7 102 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
8 90 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (5.54%) Amazon S3
10 47 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (3.23%) Figma
12 44 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (1.75%) Power Platform
16 23 (1.61%) Amazon EventBridge
17 22 (1.54%) npm
18 15 (1.05%) Amazon Cognito
18 15 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.19%) Broadband
2 14 (0.98%) Internet
3 9 (0.63%) AMQP
4 7 (0.49%) HTTP
5 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
7 3 (0.21%) LTE
8 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.070%) MQTT
9 1 (0.070%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (7.51%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 64 (4.49%) MySQL
5 61 (4.28%) MongoDB
6 50 (3.51%) DynamoDB
7 44 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 31 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.40%) Neo4j
9 20 (1.40%) Redis
10 18 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (0.98%) DB2
11 14 (0.98%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.70%) Power BI
14 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (0.49%) Big Data
16 6 (0.42%) Metadata
17 5 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 187 (13.12%) Git
2 75 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.16%) JIRA
4 32 (2.25%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.11%) Vite
6 27 (1.89%) GitLab
7 21 (1.47%) Selenium
8 20 (1.40%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.33%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 15 (1.05%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.98%) Storybook
12 14 (0.98%) webpack
13 12 (0.84%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.77%) Maven
15 10 (0.70%) Gradle
16 8 (0.56%) JUnit
17 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
17 5 (0.35%) ESLint
18 4 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 264 (18.53%) Social Skills
2 233 (16.35%) Finance
3 89 (6.25%) Front Office
4 75 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.58%) Banking
6 42 (2.95%) Law
7 38 (2.67%) Retail
8 35 (2.46%) Public Sector
9 26 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.54%) Legal
11 20 (1.40%) Investment Banking
12 19 (1.33%) Marketing
13 16 (1.12%) Tech for Good
14 9 (0.63%) Advertising
14 9 (0.63%) Games
15 8 (0.56%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.49%) Automotive
16 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
17 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 778 (54.60%) Developer
2 344 (24.14%) Senior
3 291 (20.42%) Full-Stack Developer
4 285 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 223 (15.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 222 (15.58%) React Developer
7 192 (13.47%) Lead
8 168 (11.79%) Senior Developer
9 98 (6.88%) Lead Developer
10 90 (6.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 82 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 81 (5.68%) Java Developer
13 76 (5.33%) Python Developer
14 66 (4.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 63 (4.42%) .NET Developer
16 62 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
17 57 (4.00%) Software Developer
18 54 (3.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 50 (3.51%) Java Engineer
20 49 (3.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 486 (34.11%) Node.js
2 257 (18.04%) .NET
3 248 (17.40%) CSS
4 246 (17.26%) HTML
5 201 (14.11%) AngularJS
6 166 (11.65%) REST
7 148 (10.39%) RESTful
8 143 (10.04%) Vue
9 121 (8.49%) Next.js
10 120 (8.42%) Spring
11 102 (7.16%) Spring Boot
12 98 (6.88%) GraphQL
13 91 (6.39%) Redux
14 85 (5.96%) .NET Core
15 78 (5.47%) React Native
16 67 (4.70%) Kafka
17 66 (4.63%) Django
18 52 (3.65%) ASP.NET
19 46 (3.23%) WebSockets
20 45 (3.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 144 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.98%) Fixed Income
3 66 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
4 61 (4.28%) Mobile App
5 59 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 54 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
8 40 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (1.61%) Derivative
11 20 (1.40%) IoT
12 18 (1.26%) Equities
13 14 (0.98%) e-Learning
14 13 (0.91%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.70%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.70%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.70%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.60%) Linux
2 14 (0.98%) Android
3 13 (0.91%) Windows
4 11 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.35%) CentOS
5 5 (0.35%) Debian
5 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (52.63%) Full-Stack Development
2 518 (36.35%) Agile
3 489 (34.32%) Software Engineering
4 423 (29.68%) CI/CD
5 305 (21.40%) DevOps
6 259 (18.18%) Microservices
7 249 (17.47%) Mentoring
8 236 (16.56%) AI
9 233 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
10 211 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 188 (13.19%) Front End Development
12 161 (11.30%) User Experience
13 160 (11.23%) Test Automation
14 154 (10.81%) Clean Code
15 153 (10.74%) Containerisation
16 145 (10.18%) Scrum
17 124 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
18 112 (7.86%) Computer Science
19 103 (7.23%) TDD
20 92 (6.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 766 (53.75%) TypeScript
2 655 (45.96%) JavaScript
3 388 (27.23%) Python
4 316 (22.18%) Java
5 245 (17.19%) SQL
6 227 (15.93%) C#
7 71 (4.98%) Go
8 70 (4.91%) PHP
9 20 (1.40%) C
9 20 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.12%) Bash
10 16 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.05%) Ruby
12 12 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.70%) C++
14 8 (0.56%) Bicep
15 5 (0.35%) Rust
15 5 (0.35%) Scala
15 5 (0.35%) Swift
16 4 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 122 (8.56%) Degree
2 107 (7.51%) Security Cleared
3 80 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 40 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.14%) ISEB
14 2 (0.14%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.14%) PhD
15 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.40%) QA
2 40 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
5 2 (0.14%) WCAG
6 1 (0.070%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.070%) NCSC
6 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 238 (16.70%) Docker
2 10 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 196 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 155 (10.88%) Terraform
3 21 (1.47%) Grafana
4 20 (1.40%) Ansible
5 13 (0.91%) Argo
5 13 (0.91%) Podman
5 13 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.49%) Kibana
7 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.35%) Nagios
8 5 (0.35%) Puppet
9 3 (0.21%) Plesk
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.14%) cPanel
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 82 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.46%) Google
3 32 (2.25%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.61%) Atlassian
5 19 (1.33%) Oracle
6 15 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 9 (0.63%) IBM
10 7 (0.49%) Solace
11 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.42%) Databricks
12 5 (0.35%) Apple
12 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.35%) Foundry
12 5 (0.35%) Pega
12 5 (0.35%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.28%) Adobe
13 4 (0.28%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.28%) Salesforce