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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 83 49
Rank change year-on-year -40 -34 -2
Permanent jobs citing React 1,548 1,509 2,836
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.49% 3.48% 4.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.50% 20.24% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 1,001 1,719
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £86,000 £110,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -3.57%

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 10,674 7,457 14,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.26% 17.19% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7,733 4,922 9,018
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -3.70%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -61 562 £85,000 -15.00% 1,197
North of England -15 343 £60,000 -7.69% 367
South East +31 273 £60,000 - 254
North West -18 194 £60,000 -7.69% 212
Midlands -29 144 £55,000 - 185
South West -20 138 £55,000 -8.33% 171
Yorkshire -4 96 £60,000 -9.43% 102
East Midlands -24 79 £52,500 -4.55% 73
East of England -27 69 £60,000 -4.00% 121
West Midlands -54 65 £55,000 -6.38% 112
North East -23 53 £65,000 +18.18% 57
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 31 (2.00%) CMS
2 28 (1.81%) Apache
3 23 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.36%) Headless CMS
5 19 (1.23%) Confluence
6 13 (0.84%) nginx
7 9 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.58%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.45%) IIS
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.32%) JBoss
10 4 (0.26%) Kentico
10 4 (0.26%) WordPress
11 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
11 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.19%) Simulink
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.065%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.71%) Magento
2 8 (0.52%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 659 (42.57%) AWS
2 572 (36.95%) Azure
3 178 (11.50%) GitHub
4 137 (8.85%) GCP
5 133 (8.59%) Serverless
6 130 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (6.59%) SaaS
8 77 (4.97%) Azure AI
9 72 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (2.84%) Anthropic Claude
12 43 (2.78%) Amazon S3
12 43 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
13 36 (2.33%) Power Platform
14 34 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 33 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 27 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (1.68%) Vercel
18 24 (1.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.49%) Internet
2 22 (1.42%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.65%) VoIP
4 9 (0.58%) Broadband
5 8 (0.52%) AMQP
5 8 (0.52%) DNS
5 8 (0.52%) HTTP
6 7 (0.45%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.32%) Firewall
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
9 4 (0.26%) LAN
9 4 (0.26%) WAN
10 3 (0.19%) Intranet
11 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (0.13%) LTE
11 2 (0.13%) MQTT
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.13%) VPN
12 1 (0.065%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (13.11%) MongoDB
2 175 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (9.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 122 (7.88%) SQL Server
5 96 (6.20%) Elasticsearch
6 94 (6.07%) NoSQL
7 89 (5.75%) MySQL
7 89 (5.75%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.45%) DynamoDB
9 36 (2.33%) Redis
10 18 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.97%) Power BI
12 13 (0.84%) Chroma
12 13 (0.84%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.71%) Big Data
13 11 (0.71%) Metadata
14 10 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.58%) Neo4j
16 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 250 (16.15%) Git
2 77 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 69 (4.46%) GitLab
4 55 (3.55%) Cypress.io
5 43 (2.78%) JIRA
6 41 (2.65%) JUnit
7 37 (2.39%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.94%) Subversion
9 26 (1.68%) Vite
10 25 (1.61%) Eclipse
11 24 (1.55%) Maven
12 20 (1.29%) Bitbucket
12 20 (1.29%) Selenium
13 18 (1.16%) Mockito
14 13 (0.84%) Storybook
15 11 (0.71%) Postman
16 10 (0.65%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.65%) Visual Studio
17 7 (0.45%) NUnit
17 7 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 340 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 250 (16.15%) Finance
3 74 (4.78%) Retail
4 72 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.36%) Marketing
8 47 (3.04%) Law
9 37 (2.39%) Banking
9 37 (2.39%) Legal
10 29 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.10%) Publishing
12 16 (1.03%) Front Office
12 16 (1.03%) Legal Technology
13 14 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.78%) Advertising
16 11 (0.71%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.71%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 785 (50.71%) Developer
2 342 (22.09%) Senior
3 323 (20.87%) Software Engineer
4 254 (16.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 199 (12.86%) .NET Developer
6 198 (12.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 155 (10.01%) Lead
8 146 (9.43%) Senior Developer
9 119 (7.69%) React Developer
10 114 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 79 (5.10%) Software Developer
12 77 (4.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 59 (3.81%) Java Developer
14 58 (3.75%) Lead Developer
15 57 (3.68%) Python Engineer
16 56 (3.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 53 (3.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 41 (2.65%) Junior
19 39 (2.52%) Engineering Manager
20 36 (2.33%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (30.04%) .NET
2 446 (28.81%) Node.js
3 241 (15.57%) REST
4 235 (15.18%) RESTful
5 228 (14.73%) AngularJS
6 226 (14.60%) ASP.NET
7 205 (13.24%) .NET Core
8 203 (13.11%) ASP.NET Core
9 198 (12.79%) CSS
10 183 (11.82%) Terraform
11 176 (11.37%) Next.js
12 175 (11.30%) HTML
13 170 (10.98%) Vue
14 161 (10.40%) Blazor
15 121 (7.82%) Spring
16 98 (6.33%) Spring Boot
17 89 (5.75%) .NET Framework
18 87 (5.62%) React Native
19 86 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
20 68 (4.39%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 229 (14.79%) Cloud Native
2 99 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.49%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 62 (4.01%) AI Agents
6 61 (3.94%) Mobile App
7 55 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.81%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.49%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.16%) Social Media
14 17 (1.10%) iPhone
15 16 (1.03%) Onboarding
16 14 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 13 (0.84%) IoT
17 13 (0.84%) Media Streaming
17 13 (0.84%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.52%) Linux
2 30 (1.94%) Android
3 21 (1.36%) Windows
4 16 (1.03%) Debian
4 16 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 14 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.52%) Unix
7 7 (0.45%) CentOS
8 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 875 (56.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 675 (43.60%) Agile
3 584 (37.73%) CI/CD
4 575 (37.14%) Software Engineering
5 480 (31.01%) AI
6 390 (25.19%) Microservices
7 344 (22.22%) DevOps
8 314 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
9 288 (18.60%) Mentoring
10 231 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 199 (12.86%) Code Quality
12 194 (12.53%) Test Automation
13 183 (11.82%) Front End Development
14 179 (11.56%) Infrastructure as Code
15 176 (11.37%) Scrum
16 169 (10.92%) Containerisation
17 156 (10.08%) Clean Code
18 146 (9.43%) SDLC
19 145 (9.37%) Computer Science
20 133 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 810 (52.33%) TypeScript
2 750 (48.45%) JavaScript
3 479 (30.94%) C#
4 423 (27.33%) SQL
5 391 (25.26%) Python
6 267 (17.25%) Java
7 65 (4.20%) C++
7 65 (4.20%) PHP
8 64 (4.13%) Go
9 44 (2.84%) Ruby
10 31 (2.00%) Rust
11 27 (1.74%) Bash
12 25 (1.61%) Perl
13 18 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 15 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.71%) PowerShell
16 10 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.52%) Scala
18 7 (0.45%) Swift
19 5 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 198 (12.79%) Degree
2 149 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 124 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 99 (6.40%) SC Cleared
5 32 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 28 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.65%) MBA
8 9 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.32%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.19%) OCP
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.13%) PhD
13 1 (0.065%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (5.75%) QA
2 86 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.68%) WCAG
4 13 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.71%) GDPR
6 8 (0.52%) GRC
7 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.065%) SLA
System Software
1 289 (18.67%) Docker
2 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 221 (14.28%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.55%) Ansible
3 16 (1.03%) Grafana
4 14 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.52%) Puppet
7 6 (0.39%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
8 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.26%) Argo
9 4 (0.26%) Packer
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.065%) Consul
Vendors
1 249 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.84%) Google
3 51 (3.29%) OpenAI
4 24 (1.55%) Oracle
5 23 (1.49%) Facebook
5 23 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.16%) Databricks
7 17 (1.10%) Mistral
8 15 (0.97%) Red Hat
8 15 (0.97%) Splunk
9 13 (0.84%) Palantir
10 12 (0.78%) Foundry
10 12 (0.78%) Sony
11 10 (0.65%) Apple
11 10 (0.65%) New Relic
11 10 (0.65%) Yahoo!
12 7 (0.45%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.39%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.39%) OneLogin
13 6 (0.39%) Solace