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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 41 42
Rank change year-on-year -48 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,279 2,570 3,026
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.31% 5.46% 4.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.03% 25.08% 21.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 1,533 2,718
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 6,384 10,248 14,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.55% 21.77% 23.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,872 5,995 12,146
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -31 565 £90,000 +5.88% 296
North of England -39 232 £65,000 +8.33% 203
South East -66 189 £63,750 +1.59% 331
Midlands -27 125 £62,500 +4.17% 95
North West -29 117 £65,000 +4.00% 105
Yorkshire -15 101 £65,000 -3.70% 72
South West -53 95 £62,500 +4.17% 124
West Midlands -15 63 £60,000 -4.00% 39
East Midlands -11 62 £65,000 +8.33% 55
East of England -75 47 £60,000 -11.11% 139
North East -38 14 £58,750 +11.90% 26
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 25 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (1.64%) Confluence
3 18 (1.41%) CMS
4 13 (1.02%) Apache
5 9 (0.70%) nginx
5 9 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.63%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.47%) IIS
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.31%) Appian
9 4 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.31%) WordPress
10 3 (0.23%) Liferay
11 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.078%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.078%) Camunda
12 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.078%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.078%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Shopify
2 7 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.078%) Magento
4 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 592 (46.29%) AWS
2 403 (31.51%) Azure
3 171 (13.37%) Serverless
4 151 (11.81%) GitHub
5 138 (10.79%) GCP
6 133 (10.40%) SaaS
7 105 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (7.11%) Amazon S3
9 75 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (3.36%) Figma
13 41 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.56%) Azure Functions
16 20 (1.56%) dbt
17 19 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (1.49%) Amazon EventBridge
17 19 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.94%) Internet
2 10 (0.78%) AMQP
3 7 (0.55%) Broadband
4 4 (0.31%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) DNS
5 2 (0.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.078%) Firewall
6 1 (0.078%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.078%) LTE
6 1 (0.078%) MQTT
6 1 (0.078%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (7.51%) NoSQL
3 93 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 72 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 66 (5.16%) MySQL
6 60 (4.69%) DynamoDB
7 53 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
7 53 (4.14%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (1.56%) Redis
10 18 (1.41%) Apache Arrow
10 18 (1.41%) Neo4j
11 17 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
11 17 (1.33%) Dremio
12 14 (1.09%) DB2
13 12 (0.94%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.94%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 164 (12.82%) Git
2 62 (4.85%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.89%) Cypress.io
4 36 (2.81%) JIRA
5 24 (1.88%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.80%) GitLab
6 23 (1.80%) Selenium
6 23 (1.80%) Vite
7 22 (1.72%) Storybook
8 21 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 20 (1.56%) webpack
10 19 (1.49%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.02%) JUnit
12 9 (0.70%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.63%) gulp
13 8 (0.63%) Maven
14 7 (0.55%) Mockito
15 6 (0.47%) git-flow
16 5 (0.39%) Babel
16 5 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 314 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 185 (14.46%) Finance
3 77 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (4.30%) Banking
5 54 (4.22%) Front Office
6 48 (3.75%) Retail
7 44 (3.44%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.13%) Law
9 34 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.72%) Marketing
12 20 (1.56%) Games
13 19 (1.49%) Tech for Good
14 17 (1.33%) Health Technology
15 13 (1.02%) Legal
16 9 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.70%) Publishing
17 8 (0.63%) Back Office
18 6 (0.47%) Multimedia
19 5 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 696 (54.42%) Developer
2 311 (24.32%) Senior
3 253 (19.78%) Software Engineer
4 251 (19.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 171 (13.37%) React Developer
6 160 (12.51%) Lead
7 149 (11.65%) Senior Developer
8 135 (10.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 100 (7.82%) Python Developer
10 79 (6.18%) .NET Developer
11 78 (6.10%) Java Developer
12 77 (6.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 72 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 57 (4.46%) Lead Developer
15 55 (4.30%) Software Developer
16 52 (4.07%) AWS Developer
17 48 (3.75%) C# Developer
17 48 (3.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 43 (3.36%) Architect
18 43 (3.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (28.69%) Node.js
2 304 (23.77%) .NET
3 281 (21.97%) CSS
4 271 (21.19%) HTML
5 267 (20.88%) AngularJS
6 193 (15.09%) REST
7 191 (14.93%) Vue
8 138 (10.79%) RESTful
9 107 (8.37%) .NET Core
10 101 (7.90%) Next.js
11 96 (7.51%) Spring
12 88 (6.88%) GraphQL
13 87 (6.80%) Spring Boot
14 78 (6.10%) ASP.NET
15 66 (5.16%) Django
15 66 (5.16%) React Native
16 64 (5.00%) .NET Framework
17 57 (4.46%) WebSockets
18 52 (4.07%) Jest
19 50 (3.91%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 142 (11.10%) Cloud Native
2 78 (6.10%) Mobile App
3 55 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (3.67%) Fixed Income
6 44 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
7 40 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.56%) Equities
11 19 (1.49%) IoT
12 18 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.86%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.78%) AI Agents
16 10 (0.78%) Client/Server
16 10 (0.78%) Operational Technology
17 9 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.58%) Linux
2 21 (1.64%) Android
3 17 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.94%) Windows
5 5 (0.39%) CentOS
5 5 (0.39%) Debian
5 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.31%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.078%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 603 (47.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 523 (40.89%) Agile
3 441 (34.48%) Software Engineering
4 418 (32.68%) CI/CD
5 267 (20.88%) DevOps
6 261 (20.41%) Microservices
7 251 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
8 217 (16.97%) User Experience
9 211 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 202 (15.79%) AI
11 200 (15.64%) Mentoring
12 190 (14.86%) Front End Development
13 139 (10.87%) Clean Code
14 133 (10.40%) Containerisation
15 132 (10.32%) Scrum
16 122 (9.54%) Computer Science
16 122 (9.54%) TDD
17 114 (8.91%) Test Automation
18 104 (8.13%) Infrastructure as Code
19 97 (7.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 631 (49.34%) JavaScript
2 618 (48.32%) TypeScript
3 332 (25.96%) Python
4 298 (23.30%) Java
5 255 (19.94%) SQL
6 252 (19.70%) C#
7 69 (5.39%) PHP
8 45 (3.52%) Go
9 25 (1.95%) Kotlin
10 22 (1.72%) C
10 22 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.41%) Rust
12 13 (1.02%) Ruby
13 12 (0.94%) C++
13 12 (0.94%) Scala
14 10 (0.78%) Bash
15 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.47%) R
16 5 (0.39%) Bicep
16 5 (0.39%) RPG
Qualifications
1 141 (11.02%) Degree
2 120 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 68 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (5.16%) SC Cleared
5 46 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.39%) MCP
12 4 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.23%) ISEB
13 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.63%) QA
2 67 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.25%) WCAG
4 11 (0.86%) SLA
5 4 (0.31%) GDPR
5 4 (0.31%) NCSC
6 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.23%) NIST
6 3 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.078%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.078%) Data Quality
System Software
1 207 (16.18%) Docker
2 13 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.078%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 198 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 139 (10.87%) Terraform
3 17 (1.33%) Grafana
4 14 (1.09%) Argo
5 13 (1.02%) Ansible
6 9 (0.70%) Kibana
7 6 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.39%) Puppet
9 3 (0.23%) cPanel
9 3 (0.23%) Nagios
9 3 (0.23%) Plesk
10 1 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.078%) Istio
10 1 (0.078%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.19%) OpenAI
3 27 (2.11%) Atlassian
3 27 (2.11%) Google
4 19 (1.49%) Oracle
5 13 (1.02%) HubSpot
6 12 (0.94%) Red Hat
7 9 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.63%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.55%) Adobe
9 7 (0.55%) Foundry
10 6 (0.47%) Databricks
10 6 (0.47%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.39%) IBM
11 5 (0.39%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.39%) SAP
12 4 (0.31%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.31%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.31%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.31%) Informatica