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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 52 49
Rank change year-on-year -46 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing React 1,421 1,810 3,718
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.85% 4.87% 4.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.43% 23.34% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 1,458 3,109
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £92,625 £95,000 £85,000
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 7,710 7,754 16,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.02% 20.86% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,817 5,906 14,111
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 18 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 18 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 -27 617 £90,000 +2.86% 303
North of England -42 280 £65,000 - 91
South East -61 202 £65,000 +8.33% 116
Midlands -13 151 £65,000 +8.33% 37
North West -33 135 £63,750 -1.92% 43
Yorkshire -31 130 £70,000 +3.70% 33
South West -59 99 £62,500 -3.85% 45
East Midlands -22 89 £65,000 +8.33% 14
West Midlands -28 62 £60,000 - 23
East of England -49 55 £50,000 -23.08% 27
North East -42 15 £55,000 +14.58% 15
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 19 (1.34%) CMS
1 19 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.13%) Confluence
3 13 (0.91%) Apache
4 10 (0.70%) IIS
5 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.49%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.42%) nginx
9 5 (0.35%) WordPress
10 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.28%) Appian
10 4 (0.28%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.21%) CICS
11 3 (0.21%) Liferay
12 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.35%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.070%) Magento
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 660 (46.45%) AWS
2 422 (29.70%) Azure
3 182 (12.81%) Serverless
4 173 (12.17%) GCP
5 135 (9.50%) GitHub
6 123 (8.66%) SaaS
7 108 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (6.26%) Amazon S3
9 86 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (3.45%) Figma
12 46 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (1.76%) Amazon EventBridge
16 23 (1.62%) Power Platform
17 21 (1.48%) npm
18 16 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (0.99%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.34%) Broadband
2 14 (0.99%) Internet
3 11 (0.77%) AMQP
4 6 (0.42%) HTTP
5 4 (0.28%) DNS
5 4 (0.28%) Intranet
6 3 (0.21%) LTE
7 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 1 (0.070%) MQTT
8 1 (0.070%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.070%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (7.81%) NoSQL
3 81 (5.70%) SQL Server
4 66 (4.64%) MySQL
5 62 (4.36%) MongoDB
6 54 (3.80%) DynamoDB
7 51 (3.59%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (1.55%) Neo4j
10 21 (1.48%) Redis
11 18 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.99%) DB2
12 14 (0.99%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.77%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.70%) Power BI
16 8 (0.56%) Big Data
17 7 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
18 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
18 6 (0.42%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 191 (13.44%) Git
2 71 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.03%) JIRA
4 34 (2.39%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.83%) Vite
6 22 (1.55%) GitLab
6 22 (1.55%) Selenium
7 19 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 17 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.20%) CircleCI
9 16 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.13%) webpack
10 14 (0.99%) Storybook
11 10 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.63%) Gradle
13 8 (0.56%) Maven
14 7 (0.49%) JUnit
15 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.35%) ESLint
15 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 284 (19.99%) Social Skills
2 230 (16.19%) Finance
3 89 (6.26%) Front Office
4 76 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (3.73%) Banking
6 41 (2.89%) Law
7 40 (2.81%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.53%) Retail
9 27 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 21 (1.48%) Marketing
11 19 (1.34%) Legal
12 13 (0.91%) Tech for Good
13 11 (0.77%) Games
14 9 (0.63%) Advertising
15 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.42%) Automotive
16 6 (0.42%) Back Office
16 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 771 (54.26%) Developer
2 343 (24.14%) Senior
3 301 (21.18%) Software Engineer
4 285 (20.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 213 (14.99%) React Developer
6 212 (14.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 197 (13.86%) Lead
8 165 (11.61%) Senior Developer
9 99 (6.97%) Lead Developer
10 89 (6.26%) Senior Software Engineer
11 86 (6.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 81 (5.70%) Java Developer
13 79 (5.56%) Python Developer
14 65 (4.57%) .NET Developer
15 64 (4.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 61 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
17 52 (3.66%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 50 (3.52%) Software Developer
19 47 (3.31%) Java Engineer
20 46 (3.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 469 (33.00%) Node.js
2 267 (18.79%) CSS
3 266 (18.72%) HTML
4 263 (18.51%) .NET
5 203 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 163 (11.47%) REST
7 151 (10.63%) RESTful
8 150 (10.56%) Vue
9 120 (8.44%) Next.js
10 115 (8.09%) Spring
11 105 (7.39%) GraphQL
12 97 (6.83%) Spring Boot
13 87 (6.12%) .NET Core
14 86 (6.05%) Redux
15 74 (5.21%) React Native
16 72 (5.07%) Kafka
17 71 (5.00%) Django
18 54 (3.80%) ASP.NET
19 49 (3.45%) WebSockets
20 45 (3.17%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.49%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.35%) Fixed Income
3 63 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
4 59 (4.15%) Mobile App
5 57 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 52 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.69%) Derivative
12 21 (1.48%) IoT
13 20 (1.41%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.34%) Equities
15 15 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.91%) e-Learning
17 12 (0.84%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.84%) Virtual Team
18 10 (0.70%) Algorithms
19 8 (0.56%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.74%) Linux
2 16 (1.13%) Android
3 13 (0.91%) Apple iOS
3 13 (0.91%) Windows
4 6 (0.42%) CentOS
4 6 (0.42%) Debian
4 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (51.23%) Full-Stack Development
2 523 (36.81%) Agile
3 509 (35.82%) Software Engineering
4 427 (30.05%) CI/CD
5 306 (21.53%) DevOps
6 260 (18.30%) Microservices
7 254 (17.87%) Mentoring
8 247 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
9 233 (16.40%) AI
10 220 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 183 (12.88%) Front End Development
12 170 (11.96%) User Experience
13 162 (11.40%) Test Automation
14 154 (10.84%) Clean Code
14 154 (10.84%) Containerisation
15 143 (10.06%) Scrum
16 127 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 120 (8.44%) Computer Science
18 98 (6.90%) TDD
19 90 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 750 (52.78%) TypeScript
2 684 (48.14%) JavaScript
3 381 (26.81%) Python
4 328 (23.08%) Java
5 247 (17.38%) SQL
6 226 (15.90%) C#
7 74 (5.21%) PHP
8 71 (5.00%) Go
9 23 (1.62%) C
10 18 (1.27%) Kotlin
10 18 (1.27%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.06%) Ruby
12 14 (0.99%) Bash
13 11 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.70%) C++
15 8 (0.56%) Bicep
16 7 (0.49%) Rust
17 5 (0.35%) Swift
18 4 (0.28%) RPG
18 4 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 130 (9.15%) Degree
2 105 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 84 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.22%) SC Cleared
5 40 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.76%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.84%) 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
13 3 (0.21%) ISEB
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.07%) QA
2 45 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
4 3 (0.21%) WCAG
5 2 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.070%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.070%) NIST
6 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 243 (17.10%) Docker
2 10 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 205 (14.43%) Kubernetes
2 164 (11.54%) Terraform
3 22 (1.55%) Grafana
4 20 (1.41%) Ansible
5 13 (0.91%) Argo
5 13 (0.91%) Podman
5 13 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.56%) Kibana
7 6 (0.42%) Puppet
8 5 (0.35%) Nagios
8 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.28%) Plesk
10 3 (0.21%) cPanel
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) Packer
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 77 (5.42%) Microsoft
2 38 (2.67%) Google
3 25 (1.76%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.62%) Atlassian
5 18 (1.27%) Oracle
6 14 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
7 12 (0.84%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 9 (0.63%) IBM
9 7 (0.49%) Adobe
10 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.42%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.42%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.42%) Solace
11 5 (0.35%) Apple
11 5 (0.35%) Databricks
11 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.35%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.35%) Pega
11 5 (0.35%) SAP