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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 72 49
Rank change year-on-year -35 -23 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,645 1,665 2,953
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.75% 3.81% 4.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.09% 21.87% 21.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 1,153 2,091
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -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 9,628 7,612 13,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.25% 17.43% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,214 5,078 10,213
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,213 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -42 634 £85,000 -10.53% 1,010
North of England -5 361 £60,000 -7.69% 218
South East +45 274 £60,000 +4.35% 136
North West -23 181 £57,500 -14.81% 143
Midlands -9 156 £57,500 - 89
South West -28 132 £47,500 -20.83% 100
Yorkshire +25 125 £65,000 +15.56% 46
West Midlands -31 79 £60,000 - 53
East Midlands -15 77 £55,000 +4.76% 36
East of England -17 75 £56,250 -10.00% 46
North East -18 55 £63,750 +18.60% 31
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 30 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.52%) CMS
3 22 (1.34%) Apache
4 16 (0.97%) Confluence
5 13 (0.79%) Headless CMS
6 10 (0.61%) IIS
7 9 (0.55%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.43%) nginx
8 7 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.36%) WordPress
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.30%) JBoss
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.18%) CICS
11 3 (0.18%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.18%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
11 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 19 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.55%) Shopify
2 8 (0.49%) Magento
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 723 (43.95%) AWS
2 585 (35.56%) Azure
3 163 (9.91%) GitHub
4 162 (9.85%) GCP
5 146 (8.88%) Serverless
6 141 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (7.23%) SaaS
8 86 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
9 79 (4.80%) Azure AI
10 57 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (2.92%) Amazon S3
12 42 (2.55%) Anthropic Claude
13 39 (2.37%) Power Platform
14 37 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
15 36 (2.19%) Figma
16 33 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 30 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.46%) Internet
2 20 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.16%) Broadband
4 9 (0.55%) DNS
4 9 (0.55%) HTTP
4 9 (0.55%) VoIP
5 7 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.36%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.30%) AMQP
7 5 (0.30%) SSL
8 4 (0.24%) Firewall
8 4 (0.24%) Intranet
8 4 (0.24%) LAN
8 4 (0.24%) WAN
9 2 (0.12%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.12%) LTE
9 2 (0.12%) MQTT
10 1 (0.061%) Network Security
10 1 (0.061%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.061%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (12.40%) MongoDB
2 156 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (9.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 110 (6.69%) NoSQL
5 105 (6.38%) SQL Server
6 94 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
6 94 (5.71%) MySQL
7 73 (4.44%) Relational Database
8 48 (2.92%) DynamoDB
9 33 (2.01%) Redis
10 16 (0.97%) Power BI
11 13 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.67%) Metadata
12 11 (0.67%) Neo4j
13 9 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.55%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.49%) Big Data
14 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 253 (15.38%) Git
2 79 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 57 (3.47%) JIRA
4 51 (3.10%) Cypress.io
5 48 (2.92%) GitLab
6 38 (2.31%) JUnit
7 37 (2.25%) Claude Code
8 27 (1.64%) Subversion
9 26 (1.58%) Eclipse
10 25 (1.52%) Vite
11 23 (1.40%) Maven
12 22 (1.34%) Bitbucket
13 19 (1.16%) Selenium
14 16 (0.97%) Mockito
15 13 (0.79%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.73%) TeamCity
17 11 (0.67%) Storybook
17 11 (0.67%) webpack
18 9 (0.55%) SonarQube
18 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 333 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 299 (18.18%) Finance
3 76 (4.62%) Retail
4 69 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (3.89%) Law
6 63 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 56 (3.40%) Front Office
9 51 (3.10%) Marketing
10 49 (2.98%) Legal
11 41 (2.49%) Banking
12 25 (1.52%) Legal Technology
13 21 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 16 (0.97%) Advertising
14 16 (0.97%) Investment Banking
15 14 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.61%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.61%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 889 (54.04%) Developer
2 355 (21.58%) Senior
3 339 (20.61%) Software Engineer
4 278 (16.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 226 (13.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 196 (11.91%) .NET Developer
7 186 (11.31%) Lead
8 160 (9.73%) Senior Developer
9 159 (9.67%) React Developer
10 109 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
11 97 (5.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 95 (5.78%) Lead Developer
13 75 (4.56%) Java Developer
14 74 (4.50%) Software Developer
15 66 (4.01%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 63 (3.83%) Python Engineer
17 62 (3.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 57 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
19 52 (3.16%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
20 44 (2.67%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 519 (31.55%) Node.js
2 452 (27.48%) .NET
3 242 (14.71%) AngularJS
4 238 (14.47%) RESTful
5 231 (14.04%) ASP.NET
6 230 (13.98%) REST
7 217 (13.19%) CSS
8 210 (12.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 205 (12.46%) .NET Core
10 202 (12.28%) HTML
11 186 (11.31%) Vue
12 172 (10.46%) Next.js
13 164 (9.97%) Blazor
14 111 (6.75%) Spring
15 92 (5.59%) GraphQL
16 91 (5.53%) React Native
17 89 (5.41%) Spring Boot
18 87 (5.29%) ASP.NET Web API
18 87 (5.29%) Redux
19 85 (5.17%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 221 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 95 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
4 67 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 63 (3.83%) Mobile App
6 62 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (2.98%) AI Agents
8 45 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
9 43 (2.61%) Fixed Income
10 31 (1.88%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.58%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.16%) Social Media
14 17 (1.03%) iPhone
15 16 (0.97%) Derivative
16 14 (0.85%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.85%) Equities
16 14 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 66 (4.01%) Linux
2 29 (1.76%) Android
3 15 (0.91%) Windows
4 13 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.61%) Debian
6 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.43%) Unix
8 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (57.02%) Full-Stack Development
2 733 (44.56%) Agile
3 592 (35.99%) Software Engineering
4 531 (32.28%) CI/CD
5 443 (26.93%) AI
6 390 (23.71%) DevOps
7 376 (22.86%) Microservices
8 321 (19.51%) Mentoring
9 309 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
10 219 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 196 (11.91%) Scrum
12 194 (11.79%) Front End Development
12 194 (11.79%) Test Automation
13 169 (10.27%) Code Quality
14 168 (10.21%) Clean Code
15 162 (9.85%) Containerisation
16 161 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
17 142 (8.63%) Computer Science
17 142 (8.63%) User Experience
18 140 (8.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 865 (52.58%) TypeScript
2 810 (49.24%) JavaScript
3 467 (28.39%) C#
4 420 (25.53%) SQL
5 411 (24.98%) Python
6 280 (17.02%) Java
7 84 (5.11%) Go
8 69 (4.19%) PHP
9 59 (3.59%) C++
10 46 (2.80%) Ruby
11 25 (1.52%) Bash
12 24 (1.46%) Perl
12 24 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 22 (1.34%) Rust
14 18 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.85%) PowerShell
16 9 (0.55%) Swift
17 8 (0.49%) Scala
18 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
19 5 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 186 (11.31%) Degree
2 133 (8.09%) Security Cleared
3 118 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 93 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 27 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 25 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 16 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.61%) MBA
9 7 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.18%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.18%) OCP
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.061%) HNC
13 1 (0.061%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.08%) QA
2 75 (4.56%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.16%) WCAG
4 11 (0.67%) GDPR
5 8 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.18%) NIST
7 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.061%) GRC
9 1 (0.061%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.061%) SLA
System Software
1 265 (16.11%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.30%) Firmware
3 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 185 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 179 (10.88%) Terraform
3 22 (1.34%) Ansible
4 18 (1.09%) Grafana
5 17 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.73%) Podman
7 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.36%) Kibana
8 6 (0.36%) Nagios
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.30%) Puppet
10 3 (0.18%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.18%) Plesk
11 2 (0.12%) Argo
11 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.061%) Packer
Vendors
1 244 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.38%) Google
3 45 (2.74%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.82%) Oracle
5 24 (1.46%) Facebook
6 23 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 14 (0.85%) Databricks
7 14 (0.85%) Splunk
8 13 (0.79%) Apple
8 13 (0.79%) Sony
9 12 (0.73%) Palantir
9 12 (0.73%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.67%) Yahoo!
11 10 (0.61%) New Relic
12 8 (0.49%) Foundry
13 6 (0.36%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.36%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.36%) IBM
13 6 (0.36%) OneLogin
13 6 (0.36%) Solace