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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 57 49
Rank change year-on-year -46 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing React 1,451 1,827 3,760
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.78% 4.62% 4.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.83% 23.00% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,170 1,375 3,089
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,875 £115,000 £110,000
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 8,139 7,945 17,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.96% 20.11% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,171 5,592 14,136
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -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 May 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 May 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 -32 615 £85,000 -2.86% 277
North of England -47 283 £65,000 - 136
South East -21 230 £65,000 +8.33% 116
Midlands -38 151 £62,500 +4.17% 47
North West -44 136 £62,500 -3.85% 79
Yorkshire -18 119 £67,500 - 44
South West -69 98 £60,000 -4.00% 56
East Midlands -29 85 £65,000 +13.04% 26
West Midlands -44 66 £60,000 - 21
East of England -19 59 £55,000 -12.00% 35
North East -36 28 £55,000 +10.00% 13
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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 22 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.45%) Confluence
3 16 (1.10%) CMS
4 14 (0.96%) Apache
5 11 (0.76%) IIS
6 10 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.34%) nginx
10 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.28%) WordPress
11 3 (0.21%) Appian
11 3 (0.21%) CICS
11 3 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Liferay
12 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.069%) Drupal
13 1 (0.069%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.069%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 662 (45.62%) AWS
2 437 (30.12%) Azure
3 174 (11.99%) Serverless
4 161 (11.10%) GCP
5 130 (8.96%) GitHub
6 109 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
7 108 (7.44%) SaaS
8 101 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (5.31%) Amazon S3
10 48 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
12 44 (3.03%) Figma
13 42 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (2.14%) Azure AI
16 30 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (1.72%) Power Platform
18 22 (1.52%) Amazon EventBridge
18 22 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (1.52%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.24%) Internet
2 17 (1.17%) Broadband
3 9 (0.62%) AMQP
4 6 (0.41%) HTTP
5 5 (0.34%) DNS
5 5 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
6 4 (0.28%) LTE
7 3 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
9 1 (0.069%) VoIP
9 1 (0.069%) Wireless
9 1 (0.069%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (7.03%) NoSQL
3 95 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 74 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 66 (4.55%) MySQL
6 50 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 47 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (3.24%) Relational Database
8 45 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.38%) Neo4j
9 20 (1.38%) Redis
10 12 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (0.76%) DB2
11 11 (0.76%) Pinecone
12 9 (0.62%) Big Data
12 9 (0.62%) Power BI
13 8 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.55%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 202 (13.92%) Git
2 75 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 47 (3.24%) JIRA
4 33 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.07%) GitLab
6 28 (1.93%) Vite
7 18 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.17%) Selenium
9 16 (1.10%) Claude Code
9 16 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.03%) Maven
10 15 (1.03%) webpack
11 14 (0.96%) Storybook
12 12 (0.83%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.76%) JUnit
14 9 (0.62%) Gradle
15 7 (0.48%) Mockito
16 5 (0.34%) Balsamiq
16 5 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 258 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 250 (17.23%) Finance
3 83 (5.72%) Front Office
4 74 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.03%) Retail
6 43 (2.96%) Banking
7 42 (2.89%) Law
8 36 (2.48%) Public Sector
9 27 (1.86%) Legal
10 24 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.52%) Marketing
12 16 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.10%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.62%) Advertising
13 9 (0.62%) Automotive
13 9 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.62%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.55%) Games
14 8 (0.55%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 804 (55.41%) Developer
2 345 (23.78%) Senior
3 300 (20.68%) Software Engineer
4 291 (20.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 224 (15.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 214 (14.75%) React Developer
7 190 (13.09%) Lead
8 166 (11.44%) Senior Developer
9 105 (7.24%) Lead Developer
10 98 (6.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 93 (6.41%) .NET Developer
12 88 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 75 (5.17%) Java Developer
14 67 (4.62%) Python Developer
15 63 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
15 63 (4.34%) Software Developer
16 62 (4.27%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 55 (3.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 51 (3.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 46 (3.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 491 (33.84%) Node.js
2 299 (20.61%) .NET
3 240 (16.54%) CSS
4 234 (16.13%) HTML
5 206 (14.20%) AngularJS
6 181 (12.47%) REST
7 168 (11.58%) RESTful
8 151 (10.41%) Vue
9 126 (8.68%) Next.js
10 125 (8.61%) Spring
11 114 (7.86%) .NET Core
12 105 (7.24%) Spring Boot
13 97 (6.69%) Redux
14 94 (6.48%) GraphQL
15 86 (5.93%) ASP.NET
16 85 (5.86%) React Native
17 72 (4.96%) ASP.NET Core
18 69 (4.76%) Kafka
19 63 (4.34%) Blazor
20 50 (3.45%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.79%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
3 70 (4.82%) Mobile App
4 64 (4.41%) Fixed Income
5 57 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 27 (1.86%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.52%) Derivative
13 20 (1.38%) IoT
14 17 (1.17%) Equities
15 15 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.90%) e-Learning
17 12 (0.83%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.83%) Public Cloud
18 11 (0.76%) Data Structures
19 10 (0.69%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.76%) Linux
2 17 (1.17%) Android
3 13 (0.90%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.34%) CentOS
5 5 (0.34%) Debian
5 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.069%) Unix
6 1 (0.069%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (54.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 555 (38.25%) Agile
3 511 (35.22%) Software Engineering
4 421 (29.01%) CI/CD
5 319 (21.98%) DevOps
6 278 (19.16%) Microservices
7 274 (18.88%) AI
8 270 (18.61%) Mentoring
9 237 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
10 210 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 193 (13.30%) Front End Development
12 160 (11.03%) Test Automation
12 160 (11.03%) User Experience
13 154 (10.61%) Containerisation
14 153 (10.54%) Scrum
15 152 (10.48%) Clean Code
16 125 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
17 115 (7.93%) Computer Science
18 109 (7.51%) TDD
19 102 (7.03%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 782 (53.89%) TypeScript
2 675 (46.52%) JavaScript
3 374 (25.78%) Python
4 306 (21.09%) Java
5 270 (18.61%) C#
6 264 (18.19%) SQL
7 69 (4.76%) Go
8 64 (4.41%) PHP
9 19 (1.31%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.24%) C
11 17 (1.17%) Bash
12 15 (1.03%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.03%) Ruby
13 14 (0.96%) C++
14 9 (0.62%) Bicep
15 6 (0.41%) Rust
16 5 (0.34%) Scala
16 5 (0.34%) Swift
16 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (8.61%) Degree
2 114 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 89 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 43 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.14%) PhD
14 1 (0.069%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.069%) ISEB
14 1 (0.069%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.069%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.31%) QA
2 43 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.34%) GDPR
4 3 (0.21%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) WCAG
5 1 (0.069%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.069%) NCSC
5 1 (0.069%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 242 (16.68%) Docker
2 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 193 (13.30%) Kubernetes
2 152 (10.48%) Terraform
3 21 (1.45%) Ansible
4 20 (1.38%) Grafana
5 13 (0.90%) Podman
6 12 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.62%) Argo
8 7 (0.48%) Kibana
9 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.34%) Nagios
10 5 (0.34%) Plesk
10 5 (0.34%) Puppet
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) cPanel
11 2 (0.14%) Packer
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 114 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 44 (3.03%) Google
3 29 (2.00%) OpenAI
4 21 (1.45%) Oracle
5 18 (1.24%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
7 9 (0.62%) Red Hat
8 8 (0.55%) Apple
8 8 (0.55%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.48%) IBM
9 7 (0.48%) Solace
10 6 (0.41%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.34%) Databricks
11 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.34%) Foundry
11 5 (0.34%) Pega
11 5 (0.34%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.28%) Facebook
12 4 (0.28%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.28%) Sony