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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 49 48
Rank change year-on-year -49 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,390 1,909 3,616
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.92% 5.21% 4.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.64% 24.24% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,470 3,066
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £93,563 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,375 £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 7,459 7,876 16,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.28% 21.50% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,670 5,973 13,915
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 6 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 6 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 -31 606 £90,000 +2.86% 273
North of England -55 268 £65,000 +4.00% 120
South East -75 200 £63,750 +6.25% 125
Midlands -15 147 £64,000 +6.67% 55
Yorkshire -22 127 £70,000 +6.06% 44
North West -51 127 £65,000 - 63
South West -50 102 £62,500 -3.85% 73
East Midlands -17 84 £65,000 +8.33% 24
West Midlands -18 63 £60,000 - 31
East of England -75 48 £50,000 -25.93% 47
North East -39 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 20 (1.44%) CMS
2 16 (1.15%) Confluence
3 15 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 12 (0.86%) Apache
5 10 (0.72%) IIS
6 9 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.58%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.50%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.43%) nginx
10 4 (0.29%) Appian
10 4 (0.29%) WordPress
11 3 (0.22%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.22%) CICS
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
12 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.072%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 10 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.072%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.072%) Magento
3 1 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 642 (46.19%) AWS
2 431 (31.01%) Azure
3 179 (12.88%) Serverless
4 172 (12.37%) GCP
5 139 (10.00%) GitHub
6 126 (9.06%) SaaS
7 106 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
8 90 (6.47%) Amazon S3
9 83 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (3.45%) Figma
13 45 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.58%) Amazon EventBridge
17 20 (1.44%) npm
17 20 (1.44%) Power Platform
18 17 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 15 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.15%) Internet
2 13 (0.94%) Broadband
3 10 (0.72%) AMQP
4 4 (0.29%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) DNS
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.14%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) LTE
5 2 (0.14%) SSL
6 1 (0.072%) MQTT
6 1 (0.072%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (7.19%) NoSQL
3 86 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 73 (5.25%) MySQL
5 58 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 56 (4.03%) MongoDB
7 53 (3.81%) DynamoDB
8 35 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (1.58%) Redis
10 21 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (1.44%) Neo4j
12 16 (1.15%) DB2
13 12 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.86%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.79%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.79%) Power BI
15 8 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.43%) Big Data
16 6 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 186 (13.38%) Git
2 70 (5.04%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.17%) JIRA
4 29 (2.09%) Cypress.io
5 24 (1.73%) Vite
6 23 (1.65%) Selenium
6 23 (1.65%) TeamCity
7 20 (1.44%) GitLab
8 18 (1.29%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.15%) webpack
10 15 (1.08%) Storybook
11 11 (0.79%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.65%) Gradle
13 8 (0.58%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.58%) JUnit
13 8 (0.58%) Maven
14 5 (0.36%) Babel
14 5 (0.36%) Balsamiq
14 5 (0.36%) ESLint
General
1 289 (20.79%) Social Skills
2 225 (16.19%) Finance
3 91 (6.55%) Front Office
4 77 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (4.10%) Banking
6 43 (3.09%) Public Sector
7 40 (2.88%) Law
8 35 (2.52%) Retail
9 32 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.58%) Marketing
11 21 (1.51%) Investment Banking
12 19 (1.37%) Legal
13 14 (1.01%) Games
14 13 (0.94%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.65%) Advertising
16 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.50%) Back Office
17 7 (0.50%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.50%) Multimedia
18 6 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 766 (55.11%) Developer
2 331 (23.81%) Senior
3 292 (21.01%) Software Engineer
4 281 (20.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 214 (15.40%) React Developer
6 191 (13.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 189 (13.60%) Lead
8 165 (11.87%) Senior Developer
9 92 (6.62%) Lead Developer
10 86 (6.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (6.04%) Python Developer
12 82 (5.90%) Java Developer
13 77 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 71 (5.11%) .NET Developer
15 67 (4.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 58 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
17 54 (3.88%) Software Developer
18 46 (3.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 46 (3.31%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 45 (3.24%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (32.23%) Node.js
2 280 (20.14%) .NET
2 280 (20.14%) CSS
3 278 (20.00%) HTML
4 202 (14.53%) AngularJS
5 167 (12.01%) REST
6 154 (11.08%) Vue
7 146 (10.50%) RESTful
8 112 (8.06%) Next.js
9 107 (7.70%) Spring
10 100 (7.19%) GraphQL
11 96 (6.91%) .NET Core
12 93 (6.69%) Spring Boot
13 80 (5.76%) Redux
14 79 (5.68%) Django
15 73 (5.25%) React Native
16 72 (5.18%) Kafka
17 65 (4.68%) ASP.NET
18 52 (3.74%) WebSockets
19 48 (3.45%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 139 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.61%) Fixed Income
3 60 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
4 58 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 52 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (3.67%) Product Ownership
7 39 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 38 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.73%) Derivative
11 23 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.58%) IoT
13 21 (1.51%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.37%) Equities
15 18 (1.29%) AI Agents
16 13 (0.94%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.86%) Public Cloud
18 11 (0.79%) Virtual Team
19 10 (0.72%) e-Learning
20 8 (0.58%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.73%) Linux
2 18 (1.29%) Android
3 15 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.01%) Windows
5 5 (0.36%) CentOS
5 5 (0.36%) Debian
5 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.072%) VMS
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (50.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 531 (38.20%) Agile
3 503 (36.19%) Software Engineering
4 423 (30.43%) CI/CD
5 300 (21.58%) DevOps
6 254 (18.27%) Microservices
7 249 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (17.41%) Mentoring
9 227 (16.33%) AI
10 212 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 187 (13.45%) Front End Development
12 177 (12.73%) User Experience
13 159 (11.44%) Test Automation
14 151 (10.86%) Clean Code
15 141 (10.14%) Containerisation
16 137 (9.86%) Scrum
17 132 (9.50%) Computer Science
18 121 (8.71%) Infrastructure as Code
19 99 (7.12%) TDD
20 83 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 712 (51.22%) TypeScript
2 685 (49.28%) JavaScript
3 383 (27.55%) Python
4 329 (23.67%) Java
5 251 (18.06%) SQL
6 229 (16.47%) C#
7 72 (5.18%) PHP
8 70 (5.04%) Go
9 23 (1.65%) C
10 21 (1.51%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.08%) PowerShell
12 13 (0.94%) Bash
13 12 (0.86%) Ruby
14 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.65%) C++
16 8 (0.58%) Rust
17 7 (0.50%) Bicep
18 5 (0.36%) RPG
18 5 (0.36%) Swift
19 4 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 142 (10.22%) Degree
2 102 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 85 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.32%) SC Cleared
5 36 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.22%) ISEB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.82%) QA
2 46 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.29%) SLA
3 4 (0.29%) WCAG
4 3 (0.22%) GDPR
4 3 (0.22%) NCSC
5 2 (0.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.072%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.072%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.072%) SOC 2
System Software
1 233 (16.76%) Docker
2 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.36%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 195 (14.03%) Kubernetes
2 159 (11.44%) Terraform
3 21 (1.51%) Grafana
4 17 (1.22%) Ansible
5 12 (0.86%) Argo
6 10 (0.72%) Kibana
6 10 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.50%) Podman
8 5 (0.36%) Nagios
8 5 (0.36%) Puppet
9 4 (0.29%) Plesk
10 3 (0.22%) cPanel
10 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) Packer
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 80 (5.76%) Microsoft
2 31 (2.23%) Google
3 24 (1.73%) Atlassian
3 24 (1.73%) OpenAI
4 21 (1.51%) Oracle
5 13 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
5 13 (0.94%) HubSpot
6 11 (0.79%) Red Hat
7 10 (0.72%) IBM
8 7 (0.50%) Adobe
9 6 (0.43%) Foundry
9 6 (0.43%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.43%) Solace
10 5 (0.36%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.36%) Apple
10 5 (0.36%) Databricks
10 5 (0.36%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.36%) Pega
10 5 (0.36%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.36%) SAP