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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 38 42
Rank change year-on-year -52 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,324 2,528 3,260
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.23% 5.69% 4.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.03% 25.57% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,103 1,553 2,930
10th Percentile £46,418 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £110,000
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 6,609 9,888 15,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.14% 22.25% 22.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,080 5,959 12,923
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
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 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +7.64% -8.89%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -26 585 £92,500 +5.71% 222
North of England -56 244 £65,000 +8.33% 150
South East -71 194 £65,000 +3.17% 129
Midlands -15 130 £62,500 +4.17% 64
North West -43 117 £65,000 +4.00% 82
Yorkshire -26 111 £65,000 -3.70% 51
South West -55 99 £62,500 -3.85% 65
East Midlands -1 69 £65,000 +8.33% 29
West Midlands -19 61 £60,000 - 35
East of England -76 45 £60,000 -11.11% 34
North East -36 16 £56,750 +10.73% 17
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 22 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (1.51%) CMS
3 19 (1.44%) Confluence
4 13 (0.98%) Apache
5 9 (0.68%) nginx
5 9 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.53%) IIS
8 5 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.30%) Appian
9 4 (0.30%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.30%) WordPress
10 3 (0.23%) Liferay
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.076%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.076%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Shopify
2 7 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.076%) Magento
4 1 (0.076%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.076%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 613 (46.30%) AWS
2 414 (31.27%) Azure
3 172 (12.99%) Serverless
4 153 (11.56%) GCP
5 147 (11.10%) GitHub
6 125 (9.44%) SaaS
7 104 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
8 96 (7.25%) Amazon S3
9 75 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
12 44 (3.32%) Figma
13 41 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.59%) Power Platform
17 19 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (1.44%) Amazon EventBridge
17 19 (1.44%) npm
18 17 (1.28%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.91%) Internet
2 10 (0.76%) AMQP
3 6 (0.45%) Broadband
4 4 (0.30%) HTTP
5 3 (0.23%) SSL
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
6 2 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.076%) Firewall
7 1 (0.076%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.076%) MQTT
7 1 (0.076%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.80%) NoSQL
3 88 (6.65%) SQL Server
4 68 (5.14%) MySQL
4 68 (5.14%) Relational Database
5 53 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 48 (3.63%) MongoDB
7 42 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (1.44%) Redis
10 18 (1.36%) Neo4j
11 15 (1.13%) Apache Arrow
12 14 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
12 14 (1.06%) DB2
12 14 (1.06%) Dremio
13 12 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.91%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.83%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 171 (12.92%) Git
2 62 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 38 (2.87%) JIRA
4 35 (2.64%) Cypress.io
5 25 (1.89%) TeamCity
6 22 (1.66%) Selenium
6 22 (1.66%) Vite
7 21 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 21 (1.59%) GitLab
7 21 (1.59%) Storybook
8 20 (1.51%) webpack
9 19 (1.44%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.83%) JUnit
11 10 (0.76%) Maven
12 9 (0.68%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.60%) gulp
14 7 (0.53%) Gradle
15 6 (0.45%) git-flow
15 6 (0.45%) Mockito
16 5 (0.38%) Mocha
General
1 303 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 208 (15.71%) Finance
3 80 (6.04%) Front Office
4 76 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (4.31%) Banking
6 47 (3.55%) Retail
7 42 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.02%) Law
9 36 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.81%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.66%) Marketing
12 21 (1.59%) Games
13 15 (1.13%) Legal
14 14 (1.06%) Tech for Good
15 10 (0.76%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.68%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.60%) Back Office
18 6 (0.45%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.45%) Multimedia
19 5 (0.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 730 (55.14%) Developer
2 310 (23.41%) Senior
3 275 (20.77%) Software Engineer
4 269 (20.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 194 (14.65%) React Developer
6 169 (12.76%) Lead
7 148 (11.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 147 (11.10%) Senior Developer
9 104 (7.85%) Python Developer
10 81 (6.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 77 (5.82%) Java Developer
12 75 (5.66%) .NET Developer
13 72 (5.44%) Lead Developer
14 70 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
15 58 (4.38%) Software Developer
16 51 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 48 (3.63%) AWS Developer
17 48 (3.63%) Full-Stack Python Developer
18 47 (3.55%) C# Developer
19 44 (3.32%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (29.23%) Node.js
2 299 (22.58%) .NET
3 284 (21.45%) CSS
4 275 (20.77%) HTML
5 254 (19.18%) AngularJS
6 188 (14.20%) REST
7 184 (13.90%) Vue
8 135 (10.20%) RESTful
9 107 (8.08%) Next.js
10 106 (8.01%) .NET Core
11 102 (7.70%) Spring
12 100 (7.55%) GraphQL
13 91 (6.87%) Spring Boot
14 70 (5.29%) ASP.NET
15 67 (5.06%) Django
16 64 (4.83%) .NET Framework
17 63 (4.76%) React Native
17 63 (4.76%) Redux
18 60 (4.53%) Kafka
19 59 (4.46%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 145 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 72 (5.44%) Fixed Income
3 71 (5.36%) Mobile App
4 51 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 49 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 31 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.89%) Equities
11 19 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.44%) IoT
12 18 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.21%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.06%) Derivative
15 13 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.76%) Private Cloud
17 9 (0.68%) Client/Server
17 9 (0.68%) Cybercrime
17 9 (0.68%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.27%) Linux
2 20 (1.51%) Android
3 17 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.83%) Windows
5 5 (0.38%) CentOS
5 5 (0.38%) Debian
5 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.23%) Unix
7 1 (0.076%) VMS
7 1 (0.076%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (48.04%) Full-Stack Development
2 533 (40.26%) Agile
3 469 (35.42%) Software Engineering
4 419 (31.65%) CI/CD
5 266 (20.09%) DevOps
6 265 (20.02%) Microservices
7 258 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
8 214 (16.16%) Mentoring
9 210 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 208 (15.71%) User Experience
11 200 (15.11%) AI
12 190 (14.35%) Front End Development
13 138 (10.42%) Clean Code
14 134 (10.12%) Containerisation
15 126 (9.52%) Scrum
16 121 (9.14%) Computer Science
17 119 (8.99%) Test Automation
18 109 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
19 108 (8.16%) TDD
20 87 (6.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 664 (50.15%) JavaScript
2 650 (49.09%) TypeScript
3 358 (27.04%) Python
4 316 (23.87%) Java
5 252 (19.03%) SQL
6 244 (18.43%) C#
7 73 (5.51%) PHP
8 57 (4.31%) Go
9 22 (1.66%) C
9 22 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.51%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.13%) Rust
12 13 (0.98%) Ruby
13 12 (0.91%) C++
14 11 (0.83%) Bash
15 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.53%) Scala
16 6 (0.45%) Bicep
16 6 (0.45%) R
17 5 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 142 (10.73%) Degree
2 125 (9.44%) Security Cleared
3 74 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 45 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.23%) ISEB
13 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.06%) Accessibility
2 64 (4.83%) QA
3 15 (1.13%) WCAG
4 8 (0.60%) SLA
5 5 (0.38%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) NCSC
6 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.23%) NIST
8 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.076%) Data Quality
System Software
1 215 (16.24%) Docker
2 13 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.076%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 207 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 142 (10.73%) Terraform
3 20 (1.51%) Grafana
4 14 (1.06%) Ansible
4 14 (1.06%) Argo
5 9 (0.68%) Kibana
6 7 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.38%) Puppet
8 4 (0.30%) Nagios
9 3 (0.23%) cPanel
9 3 (0.23%) Plesk
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.076%) Istio
11 1 (0.076%) Podman
Vendors
1 77 (5.82%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.11%) Google
3 27 (2.04%) Atlassian
4 25 (1.89%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.36%) Oracle
6 13 (0.98%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.91%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.53%) Adobe
9 7 (0.53%) Foundry
9 7 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.45%) Databricks
11 5 (0.38%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.38%) IBM
11 5 (0.38%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.38%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.38%) SAP
12 4 (0.30%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.30%) Informatica
12 4 (0.30%) Solace