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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 65 49
Rank change year-on-year -35 -16 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,593 1,767 3,688
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.82% 4.08% 4.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.37% 22.17% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,302 1,239 2,852
10th Percentile £43,750 £44,950 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,790 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,750 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £89,313 £102,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,125 £132,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -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 9,173 7,970 17,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 18.39% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,023 5,401 13,534
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%

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 15 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 15 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 -38 630 £85,000 -10.53% 208
North of England +2 357 £62,500 -3.85% 238
South East +18 253 £60,000 +4.35% 208
North West -21 178 £60,000 -9.43% 119
Midlands -24 151 £60,000 +4.35% 113
Yorkshire +15 129 £65,000 -3.70% 93
South West -45 117 £55,000 -8.33% 61
East Midlands -17 79 £60,000 +11.63% 63
East of England -9 72 £55,000 -8.33% 106
West Midlands -39 72 £60,000 - 50
North East -27 50 £62,500 +16.28% 28
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 29 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.57%) CMS
3 20 (1.26%) Apache
4 14 (0.88%) Confluence
5 12 (0.75%) Headless CMS
6 11 (0.69%) IIS
7 9 (0.56%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.44%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.31%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.19%) CICS
10 3 (0.19%) DNN
10 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Kentico
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 17 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.44%) Shopify
2 5 (0.31%) Magento
3 3 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.063%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 718 (45.07%) AWS
2 562 (35.28%) Azure
3 169 (10.61%) GCP
4 163 (10.23%) Serverless
5 135 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (8.41%) GitHub
7 113 (7.09%) SaaS
8 95 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (4.58%) Azure AI
10 57 (3.58%) Amazon S3
11 43 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (2.26%) Anthropic Claude
12 36 (2.26%) Power Platform
13 34 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (2.13%) Figma
14 33 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
16 30 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 27 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.38%) Internet
2 20 (1.26%) Broadband
3 13 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.50%) AMQP
5 7 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.44%) VoIP
6 5 (0.31%) DNS
6 5 (0.31%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.25%) HTTP
7 4 (0.25%) Intranet
7 4 (0.25%) LAN
7 4 (0.25%) WAN
8 3 (0.19%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.13%) MQTT
10 1 (0.063%) Firewall
10 1 (0.063%) Network Security
10 1 (0.063%) SSL
10 1 (0.063%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (12.18%) MongoDB
2 146 (9.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 142 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
4 100 (6.28%) NoSQL
5 95 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
6 88 (5.52%) MySQL
7 76 (4.77%) SQL Server
8 62 (3.89%) Relational Database
9 50 (3.14%) DynamoDB
10 27 (1.69%) Redis
11 15 (0.94%) Neo4j
12 14 (0.88%) Power BI
13 12 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.75%) Metadata
14 11 (0.69%) Big Data
15 10 (0.63%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.44%) Pinecone
17 7 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 6 (0.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 219 (13.75%) Git
2 68 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.45%) JIRA
4 40 (2.51%) Cypress.io
5 39 (2.45%) GitLab
6 37 (2.32%) Claude Code
7 24 (1.51%) JUnit
7 24 (1.51%) Vite
8 20 (1.26%) Eclipse
8 20 (1.26%) Maven
9 19 (1.19%) Subversion
10 17 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.82%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.82%) Selenium
12 12 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.63%) Gradle
13 10 (0.63%) Mockito
13 10 (0.63%) webpack
14 9 (0.56%) Storybook
15 7 (0.44%) Cucumber
General
1 282 (17.70%) Finance
1 282 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 77 (4.83%) Front Office
3 70 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (4.33%) Retail
5 44 (2.76%) Law
6 42 (2.64%) Public Sector
7 40 (2.51%) Marketing
8 39 (2.45%) Legal
9 35 (2.20%) Banking
10 34 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.44%) Legal Technology
12 17 (1.07%) Advertising
13 16 (1.00%) Investment Banking
14 15 (0.94%) Tech for Good
15 13 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.63%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.63%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.56%) Automotive
18 7 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 886 (55.62%) Developer
2 344 (21.59%) Senior
3 332 (20.84%) Software Engineer
4 272 (17.07%) Full-Stack Developer
5 224 (14.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 193 (12.12%) .NET Developer
7 178 (11.17%) Lead
8 176 (11.05%) React Developer
9 150 (9.42%) Senior Developer
10 107 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 101 (6.34%) Lead Developer
12 88 (5.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 71 (4.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 71 (4.46%) Java Developer
14 68 (4.27%) Software Developer
15 62 (3.89%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 61 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
17 54 (3.39%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 49 (3.08%) Python Engineer
19 46 (2.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 540 (33.90%) Node.js
2 416 (26.11%) .NET
3 227 (14.25%) AngularJS
4 217 (13.62%) RESTful
5 215 (13.50%) ASP.NET
6 199 (12.49%) ASP.NET Core
7 198 (12.43%) CSS
8 196 (12.30%) REST
9 193 (12.12%) .NET Core
10 189 (11.86%) HTML
11 185 (11.61%) Vue
12 157 (9.86%) Blazor
13 150 (9.42%) Next.js
14 111 (6.97%) Spring
15 92 (5.78%) GraphQL
16 91 (5.71%) Redux
17 90 (5.65%) Spring Boot
18 87 (5.46%) ASP.NET Web API
19 76 (4.77%) React Native
20 70 (4.39%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 189 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 87 (5.46%) Greenfield Project
3 80 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (4.02%) Mobile App
5 62 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.70%) Fixed Income
7 53 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 22 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.26%) Derivative
14 18 (1.13%) Equities
15 17 (1.07%) iPhone
15 17 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.00%) Onboarding
17 14 (0.88%) Data Structures
17 14 (0.88%) IoT
17 14 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.70%) Linux
2 22 (1.38%) Android
3 15 (0.94%) Windows
4 12 (0.75%) Debian
5 11 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.44%) Unix
7 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.38%) CentOS
7 6 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (57.19%) Full-Stack Development
2 691 (43.38%) Agile
3 566 (35.53%) Software Engineering
4 464 (29.13%) CI/CD
5 391 (24.54%) AI
6 369 (23.16%) DevOps
7 354 (22.22%) Microservices
8 302 (18.96%) Mentoring
9 276 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
10 207 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 181 (11.36%) Scrum
12 178 (11.17%) Front End Development
13 175 (10.99%) Test Automation
14 154 (9.67%) Clean Code
15 153 (9.60%) Containerisation
16 144 (9.04%) User Experience
17 142 (8.91%) Infrastructure as Code
18 136 (8.54%) Computer Science
19 132 (8.29%) Code Quality
20 122 (7.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 832 (52.23%) TypeScript
2 787 (49.40%) JavaScript
3 419 (26.30%) C#
4 396 (24.86%) SQL
5 393 (24.67%) Python
6 282 (17.70%) Java
7 78 (4.90%) Go
8 68 (4.27%) PHP
9 45 (2.82%) C++
10 34 (2.13%) Ruby
11 21 (1.32%) Bash
11 21 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.19%) Rust
13 18 (1.13%) Perl
14 15 (0.94%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.63%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.56%) C
17 8 (0.50%) Scala
18 7 (0.44%) Bicep
18 7 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 162 (10.17%) Degree
2 119 (7.47%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (4.52%) SC Cleared
5 32 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 15 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.063%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.063%) HNC
14 1 (0.063%) HND
14 1 (0.063%) PhD
14 1 (0.063%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.46%) QA
2 51 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.69%) GDPR
3 11 (0.69%) WCAG
4 7 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.063%) SLA
6 1 (0.063%) SOC 2
System Software
1 250 (15.69%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.25%) Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 182 (11.42%) Kubernetes
2 164 (10.30%) Terraform
3 24 (1.51%) Ansible
4 17 (1.07%) Grafana
5 13 (0.82%) Podman
5 13 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.38%) Kibana
6 6 (0.38%) Puppet
7 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.19%) Nagios
8 3 (0.19%) Plesk
9 2 (0.13%) Packer
9 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.063%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.063%) Argo
Vendors
1 229 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 58 (3.64%) Google
3 26 (1.63%) Oracle
4 25 (1.57%) OpenAI
5 13 (0.82%) Apple
6 11 (0.69%) Facebook
6 11 (0.69%) Palantir
6 11 (0.69%) Sony
6 11 (0.69%) Yahoo!
7 9 (0.56%) Databricks
7 9 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.50%) Solace
9 7 (0.44%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.44%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.44%) Splunk
10 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.38%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.31%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.31%) IBM