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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 58 49
Rank change year-on-year -48 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing React 1,480 1,756 3,821
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.78% 4.50% 4.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.57% 22.80% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,192 1,277 3,096
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £112,500 £117,500 £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 8,422 7,702 17,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.13% 19.75% 19.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,399 5,249 14,352
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -32 614 £85,000 -8.11% 370
North of England -33 307 £63,750 -1.92% 133
South East -9 230 £60,000 - 119
Midlands -33 154 £61,250 +2.08% 46
North West -45 144 £60,000 -7.69% 85
Yorkshire 0 126 £67,500 - 29
South West -63 101 £58,750 -4.08% 51
East Midlands -22 83 £65,000 +18.18% 28
West Midlands -48 71 £60,000 - 18
East of England -1 61 £60,000 -4.00% 30
North East -27 37 £55,000 +4.76% 19
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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 24 (1.62%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.15%) Apache
2 17 (1.15%) Confluence
3 14 (0.95%) CMS
4 11 (0.74%) IIS
5 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.27%) nginx
8 3 (0.20%) CICS
8 3 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.20%) Liferay
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.20%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.068%) Drupal
10 1 (0.068%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.068%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Shopify
2 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.068%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 669 (45.20%) AWS
2 458 (30.95%) Azure
3 174 (11.76%) Serverless
4 159 (10.74%) GCP
5 124 (8.38%) GitHub
6 113 (7.64%) SaaS
7 111 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
8 103 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
9 75 (5.07%) Amazon S3
10 48 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
12 40 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
12 40 (2.70%) Figma
13 36 (2.43%) Azure AI
14 34 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (2.03%) Power Platform
17 23 (1.55%) Anthropic Claude
17 23 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 20 (1.35%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.28%) Broadband
2 13 (0.88%) Internet
3 10 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.54%) AMQP
5 5 (0.34%) VoIP
6 4 (0.27%) DNS
6 4 (0.27%) HTTP
6 4 (0.27%) Intranet
6 4 (0.27%) LTE
6 4 (0.27%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.14%) LAN
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) WAN
9 1 (0.068%) MQTT
9 1 (0.068%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (7.09%) MongoDB
3 100 (6.76%) NoSQL
4 76 (5.14%) SQL Server
5 70 (4.73%) MySQL
6 57 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (3.38%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 46 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.22%) Redis
11 16 (1.08%) Neo4j
12 12 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.81%) Power BI
13 9 (0.61%) Big Data
13 9 (0.61%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.54%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.47%) DB2
16 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 205 (13.85%) Git
2 71 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 51 (3.45%) JIRA
4 35 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 33 (2.23%) GitLab
6 28 (1.89%) Vite
7 21 (1.42%) Claude Code
8 19 (1.28%) Maven
9 18 (1.22%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.08%) JUnit
11 15 (1.01%) CircleCI
11 15 (1.01%) Selenium
12 14 (0.95%) Storybook
13 13 (0.88%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.81%) webpack
15 10 (0.68%) Mockito
16 9 (0.61%) Eclipse
16 9 (0.61%) Gradle
16 9 (0.61%) Subversion
17 7 (0.47%) Cucumber
General
1 272 (18.38%) Social Skills
2 268 (18.11%) Finance
3 82 (5.54%) Front Office
4 79 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (3.18%) Retail
6 45 (3.04%) Law
7 41 (2.77%) Banking
8 36 (2.43%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.36%) Legal
10 29 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.42%) Marketing
12 16 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.08%) Tech for Good
13 12 (0.81%) Advertising
14 10 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.61%) Automotive
15 9 (0.61%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 808 (54.59%) Developer
2 340 (22.97%) Senior
3 319 (21.55%) Software Engineer
4 271 (18.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 224 (15.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 205 (13.85%) React Developer
7 193 (13.04%) Lead
8 161 (10.88%) Senior Developer
9 108 (7.30%) Lead Developer
10 107 (7.23%) .NET Developer
11 95 (6.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 92 (6.22%) Senior Software Engineer
13 79 (5.34%) Java Developer
14 69 (4.66%) Software Developer
15 67 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
16 61 (4.12%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 60 (4.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 59 (3.99%) Python Developer
19 53 (3.58%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
20 48 (3.24%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (32.64%) Node.js
2 321 (21.69%) .NET
3 229 (15.47%) CSS
4 220 (14.86%) AngularJS
5 218 (14.73%) HTML
6 191 (12.91%) REST
7 171 (11.55%) RESTful
8 158 (10.68%) Vue
9 132 (8.92%) Next.js
10 129 (8.72%) .NET Core
10 129 (8.72%) Spring
11 104 (7.03%) Spring Boot
12 100 (6.76%) ASP.NET
13 93 (6.28%) Redux
14 87 (5.88%) GraphQL
15 86 (5.81%) ASP.NET Core
16 83 (5.61%) React Native
17 73 (4.93%) Blazor
18 67 (4.53%) Kafka
19 51 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.07%) Cloud Native
2 67 (4.53%) Mobile App
3 62 (4.19%) Fixed Income
4 60 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
5 57 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
8 44 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.03%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 26 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.42%) Derivative
13 17 (1.15%) e-Learning
14 16 (1.08%) Equities
14 16 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.01%) IoT
16 13 (0.88%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.88%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.81%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.38%) Linux
2 16 (1.08%) Android
3 15 (1.01%) Windows
4 9 (0.61%) Debian
5 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.34%) CentOS
6 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (53.78%) Full-Stack Development
2 592 (40.00%) Agile
3 525 (35.47%) Software Engineering
4 444 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 331 (22.36%) DevOps
6 310 (20.95%) AI
7 287 (19.39%) Mentoring
8 286 (19.32%) Microservices
9 251 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
10 215 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 191 (12.91%) Front End Development
12 167 (11.28%) Scrum
13 163 (11.01%) Test Automation
14 162 (10.95%) Containerisation
15 155 (10.47%) User Experience
16 147 (9.93%) Clean Code
17 132 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
18 126 (8.51%) Computer Science
19 115 (7.77%) TDD
20 107 (7.23%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 771 (52.09%) TypeScript
2 691 (46.69%) JavaScript
3 372 (25.14%) Python
4 300 (20.27%) C#
4 300 (20.27%) Java
5 295 (19.93%) SQL
6 72 (4.86%) Go
7 63 (4.26%) PHP
8 25 (1.69%) Ruby
9 24 (1.62%) C++
10 21 (1.42%) Bash
11 20 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.28%) PowerShell
13 14 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.88%) C
15 10 (0.68%) Rust
16 9 (0.61%) Bicep
17 7 (0.47%) Perl
17 7 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 141 (9.53%) Degree
2 118 (7.97%) Security Cleared
3 100 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (4.66%) SC Cleared
5 39 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 13 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.41%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
13 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.068%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.068%) HNC
13 1 (0.068%) HND
13 1 (0.068%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.068%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.47%) QA
2 45 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.54%) GDPR
4 5 (0.34%) WCAG
5 2 (0.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.068%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.068%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.068%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.068%) SOC 2
System Software
1 250 (16.89%) Docker
2 9 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.27%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 193 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 157 (10.61%) Terraform
3 22 (1.49%) Ansible
4 20 (1.35%) Grafana
5 13 (0.88%) Podman
6 12 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.47%) Argo
8 6 (0.41%) Kibana
8 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.34%) Puppet
10 4 (0.27%) Nagios
11 3 (0.20%) Plesk
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.14%) Packer
12 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 130 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.97%) Google
3 28 (1.89%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.76%) Oracle
5 15 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 14 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.54%) Solace
8 7 (0.47%) Apple
8 7 (0.47%) Databricks
8 7 (0.47%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.41%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.41%) IBM
10 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.34%) Palantir
10 5 (0.34%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.34%) Splunk
11 4 (0.27%) Facebook
11 4 (0.27%) Foundry