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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 52 48
Rank change year-on-year -45 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing React 1,423 1,777 3,733
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.82% 4.74% 4.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.36% 22.98% 22.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 1,444 3,078
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £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 £110,150
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 7,752 7,733 16,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.94% 20.64% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,869 5,896 14,030
10th Percentile £38,100 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 22 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 22 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 -31 620 £90,000 +2.86% 301
North of England -41 276 £65,000 - 83
South East -62 202 £65,000 +8.33% 111
Midlands -26 153 £65,000 +8.33% 45
North West -36 132 £62,500 -3.85% 44
Yorkshire -22 130 £70,000 +3.70% 26
South West -57 100 £60,000 -5.88% 59
East Midlands -23 90 £65,000 +8.33% 19
West Midlands -32 63 £60,000 - 26
East of England -32 56 £50,000 -23.08% 28
North East -53 14 £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 19 (1.34%) CMS
1 19 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.19%) Confluence
3 12 (0.84%) Apache
4 10 (0.70%) IIS
5 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.42%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.42%) nginx
8 5 (0.35%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.35%) WordPress
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
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 (0.070%) Camunda
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
1 668 (46.94%) AWS
2 417 (29.30%) Azure
3 182 (12.79%) Serverless
4 170 (11.95%) GCP
5 133 (9.35%) GitHub
6 120 (8.43%) SaaS
7 107 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 88 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (3.58%) Figma
11 49 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (1.69%) Amazon EventBridge
15 24 (1.69%) Power Platform
16 21 (1.48%) npm
17 15 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (1.05%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.34%) Broadband
2 14 (0.98%) Internet
3 10 (0.70%) 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
1 145 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (7.80%) NoSQL
3 83 (5.83%) SQL Server
4 66 (4.64%) MySQL
5 63 (4.43%) MongoDB
6 54 (3.79%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.44%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (1.62%) Neo4j
10 20 (1.41%) Redis
11 18 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.98%) DB2
12 14 (0.98%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.77%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.70%) Power BI
16 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.49%) Big Data
18 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
18 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 193 (13.56%) Git
2 72 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.02%) JIRA
4 36 (2.53%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.83%) Vite
6 23 (1.62%) GitLab
7 22 (1.55%) Selenium
8 19 (1.34%) TeamCity
9 18 (1.26%) Bitbucket
10 17 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 16 (1.12%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.12%) webpack
12 14 (0.98%) Storybook
13 10 (0.70%) Claude Code
13 10 (0.70%) Maven
14 9 (0.63%) Gradle
15 7 (0.49%) JUnit
16 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
16 5 (0.35%) ESLint
16 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 279 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 232 (16.30%) Finance
3 88 (6.18%) Front Office
4 76 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.65%) Banking
6 41 (2.88%) Law
7 40 (2.81%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.53%) Retail
9 28 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.48%) Legal
11 20 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 20 (1.41%) Marketing
12 13 (0.91%) Tech for Good
13 10 (0.70%) Games
14 9 (0.63%) Advertising
15 7 (0.49%) Automotive
15 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.42%) Back Office
16 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 772 (54.25%) Developer
2 342 (24.03%) Senior
3 303 (21.29%) Software Engineer
4 288 (20.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 219 (15.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 213 (14.97%) React Developer
7 195 (13.70%) Lead
8 164 (11.52%) Senior Developer
9 100 (7.03%) Lead Developer
10 87 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
11 85 (5.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 81 (5.69%) Java Developer
13 79 (5.55%) Python Developer
14 65 (4.57%) .NET Developer
15 64 (4.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 62 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
17 53 (3.72%) Software Developer
18 52 (3.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 51 (3.58%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 48 (3.37%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 470 (33.03%) Node.js
2 264 (18.55%) CSS
3 262 (18.41%) HTML
4 261 (18.34%) .NET
5 204 (14.34%) AngularJS
6 161 (11.31%) REST
7 154 (10.82%) RESTful
8 151 (10.61%) Vue
9 120 (8.43%) Next.js
10 117 (8.22%) Spring
11 104 (7.31%) GraphQL
12 98 (6.89%) Spring Boot
13 89 (6.25%) Redux
14 88 (6.18%) .NET Core
15 76 (5.34%) React Native
16 72 (5.06%) Kafka
17 71 (4.99%) Django
18 53 (3.72%) ASP.NET
19 47 (3.30%) WebSockets
20 45 (3.16%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 152 (10.68%) Cloud Native
2 75 (5.27%) Fixed Income
3 66 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
4 59 (4.15%) Mobile App
4 59 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 24 (1.69%) Derivative
9 21 (1.48%) IoT
10 20 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.34%) Equities
12 15 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 14 (0.98%) e-Learning
14 12 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.84%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.67%) Linux
2 15 (1.05%) Android
3 13 (0.91%) Windows
4 12 (0.84%) 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
1 738 (51.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 523 (36.75%) Agile
3 508 (35.70%) Software Engineering
4 432 (30.36%) CI/CD
5 310 (21.78%) DevOps
6 262 (18.41%) Microservices
7 251 (17.64%) Mentoring
8 247 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
9 234 (16.44%) AI
10 220 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 185 (13.00%) Front End Development
12 172 (12.09%) User Experience
13 165 (11.60%) Test Automation
14 158 (11.10%) Clean Code
15 155 (10.89%) Containerisation
16 143 (10.05%) Scrum
17 130 (9.14%) Infrastructure as Code
18 119 (8.36%) Computer Science
19 98 (6.89%) TDD
20 91 (6.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 758 (53.27%) TypeScript
2 683 (48.00%) JavaScript
3 383 (26.91%) Python
4 329 (23.12%) Java
5 251 (17.64%) SQL
6 228 (16.02%) C#
7 74 (5.20%) PHP
8 71 (4.99%) Go
9 24 (1.69%) C
10 18 (1.26%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.05%) Bash
13 14 (0.98%) Ruby
14 11 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.70%) C++
16 8 (0.56%) Bicep
17 5 (0.35%) Rust
17 5 (0.35%) Scala
17 5 (0.35%) Swift
18 4 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 129 (9.07%) Degree
2 106 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 84 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 59 (4.15%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.98%) 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
15 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.27%) QA
2 45 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
4 3 (0.21%) WCAG
5 1 (0.070%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.070%) NCSC
5 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 245 (17.22%) 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
1 201 (14.13%) Kubernetes
2 162 (11.38%) 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%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.35%) Nagios
8 5 (0.35%) Puppet
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
12 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 77 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.53%) Google
3 26 (1.83%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.62%) Atlassian
5 18 (1.26%) Oracle
6 14 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (0.77%) HubSpot
7 11 (0.77%) 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%) Solace
11 5 (0.35%) Apple
11 5 (0.35%) Databricks
11 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.35%) Foundry
11 5 (0.35%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.35%) Pega
11 5 (0.35%) SaltStack