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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 42 46
Rank change year-on-year -46 +4 -10
Permanent jobs citing React 1,251 2,616 2,517
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.39% 5.42% 5.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.13% 25.21% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 1,568 2,227
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +1.45% -1.43%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £68,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.62% +0.74% -3.57%

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 6,216 10,377 12,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.85% 21.52% 24.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,789 6,085 10,082
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,007
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 10 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 10 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 -30 559 £92,500 +8.82% 276
North of England -36 231 £65,000 +8.33% 199
South East -66 194 £65,000 - 331
Midlands -17 112 £62,500 +4.17% 115
North West -33 109 £65,000 +8.33% 93
Yorkshire -18 107 £65,000 +18.18% 76
South West -64 84 £62,500 +4.17% 127
West Midlands -24 59 £60,000 -4.00% 39
East Midlands -1 53 £65,000 +13.04% 76
East of England -81 48 £60,000 -11.11% 140
North East -36 15 £58,500 +11.43% 30
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 34 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.08%) Confluence
3 17 (1.36%) CMS
4 11 (0.88%) Apache
5 9 (0.72%) nginx
5 9 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.56%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.40%) WordPress
8 4 (0.32%) Appian
8 4 (0.32%) IIS
8 4 (0.32%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.24%) Liferay
10 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.080%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.080%) Camunda
11 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.16%) Sketch
4 2 (0.16%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.64%) Shopify
2 7 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.080%) Magento
4 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 580 (46.36%) AWS
2 408 (32.61%) Azure
3 160 (12.79%) Serverless
4 149 (11.91%) GCP
5 143 (11.43%) GitHub
6 128 (10.23%) SaaS
7 96 (7.67%) AWS Lambda
8 82 (6.55%) Amazon S3
9 71 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (3.20%) Figma
13 39 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (2.32%) dbt
15 25 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (1.60%) Power Platform
18 19 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 18 (1.44%) AWS Step Functions
19 18 (1.44%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.04%) Internet
2 9 (0.72%) AMQP
3 8 (0.64%) Broadband
4 5 (0.40%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) DNS
5 2 (0.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.080%) Firewall
6 1 (0.080%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.080%) MQTT
6 1 (0.080%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (7.59%) NoSQL
3 94 (7.51%) SQL Server
4 73 (5.84%) Relational Database
5 62 (4.96%) MySQL
6 60 (4.80%) DynamoDB
7 58 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
7 58 (4.64%) MongoDB
8 32 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
9 26 (2.08%) Apache Arrow
9 26 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
9 26 (2.08%) Dremio
10 20 (1.60%) Redis
11 14 (1.12%) DB2
11 14 (1.12%) Neo4j
12 10 (0.80%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.80%) Pinecone
12 10 (0.80%) Power BI
13 9 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 181 (14.47%) Git
2 59 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.44%) JIRA
4 35 (2.80%) Cypress.io
5 25 (2.00%) webpack
6 24 (1.92%) Storybook
7 23 (1.84%) TeamCity
8 22 (1.76%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.76%) GitLab
8 22 (1.76%) Selenium
9 17 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.36%) Vite
10 13 (1.04%) JUnit
11 9 (0.72%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.72%) gulp
12 7 (0.56%) Babel
12 7 (0.56%) Maven
12 7 (0.56%) Mockito
13 6 (0.48%) git-flow
13 6 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 328 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 186 (14.87%) Finance
3 73 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (4.64%) Front Office
4 58 (4.64%) Law
5 52 (4.16%) Banking
6 51 (4.08%) Retail
7 45 (3.60%) Public Sector
8 34 (2.72%) Marketing
9 31 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.92%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.76%) Games
11 22 (1.76%) Health Technology
12 17 (1.36%) Tech for Good
13 16 (1.28%) Legal
14 13 (1.04%) Publishing
15 11 (0.88%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.64%) Back Office
17 6 (0.48%) Multimedia
17 6 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 700 (55.96%) Developer
2 315 (25.18%) Senior
3 257 (20.54%) Full-Stack Developer
4 243 (19.42%) Software Engineer
5 165 (13.19%) Senior Developer
6 161 (12.87%) React Developer
7 159 (12.71%) Lead
8 119 (9.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 108 (8.63%) Python Developer
10 81 (6.47%) .NET Developer
11 79 (6.31%) Java Developer
12 75 (6.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 66 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
14 62 (4.96%) AWS Developer
15 61 (4.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 58 (4.64%) Software Developer
17 56 (4.48%) Lead Developer
18 46 (3.68%) Architect
18 46 (3.68%) C# Developer
19 42 (3.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (29.66%) Node.js
2 307 (24.54%) .NET
3 293 (23.42%) CSS
4 282 (22.54%) HTML
5 274 (21.90%) AngularJS
6 200 (15.99%) Vue
7 187 (14.95%) REST
8 155 (12.39%) RESTful
9 107 (8.55%) .NET Core
10 97 (7.75%) Next.js
11 94 (7.51%) GraphQL
12 88 (7.03%) Spring
13 86 (6.87%) ASP.NET
14 82 (6.55%) Spring Boot
15 73 (5.84%) .NET Framework
16 65 (5.20%) React Native
17 63 (5.04%) Django
18 53 (4.24%) HTML5
18 53 (4.24%) Jest
18 53 (4.24%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.51%) Cloud Native
2 78 (6.24%) Mobile App
3 54 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 53 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (4.24%) Fixed Income
5 48 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
6 37 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (2.32%) Equities
10 20 (1.60%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.52%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.04%) IoT
12 13 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.96%) AI Agents
14 11 (0.88%) Low-Code
15 10 (0.80%) Client/Server
15 10 (0.80%) Operational Technology
16 9 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.64%) Linux
2 22 (1.76%) Android
3 18 (1.44%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.80%) Windows
5 4 (0.32%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) CentOS
6 3 (0.24%) Debian
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.080%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (47.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 550 (43.96%) Agile
3 425 (33.97%) Software Engineering
4 408 (32.61%) CI/CD
5 274 (21.90%) DevOps
6 259 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
7 254 (20.30%) Microservices
8 230 (18.39%) User Experience
9 203 (16.23%) Mentoring
10 199 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 198 (15.83%) AI
12 191 (15.27%) Front End Development
13 142 (11.35%) Clean Code
14 140 (11.19%) Scrum
15 135 (10.79%) Containerisation
16 122 (9.75%) Computer Science
17 118 (9.43%) TDD
18 117 (9.35%) Test Automation
19 99 (7.91%) SDLC
20 98 (7.83%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 633 (50.60%) JavaScript
2 601 (48.04%) TypeScript
3 324 (25.90%) Python
4 283 (22.62%) Java
5 265 (21.18%) C#
6 246 (19.66%) SQL
7 65 (5.20%) PHP
8 43 (3.44%) Go
9 24 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 20 (1.60%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.44%) C
12 17 (1.36%) Rust
13 14 (1.12%) Ruby
14 12 (0.96%) C++
15 10 (0.80%) Scala
16 8 (0.64%) Bash
17 6 (0.48%) R
18 5 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.40%) RPG
19 3 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (11.19%) Degree
2 107 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 63 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (5.04%) SC Cleared
4 41 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 27 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 18 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
7 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.40%) MCP
11 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.24%) ISEB
12 3 (0.24%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.19%) QA
2 72 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.36%) WCAG
4 11 (0.88%) SLA
5 4 (0.32%) GDPR
5 4 (0.32%) NCSC
6 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.24%) NIST
6 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.080%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.080%) Data Quality
System Software
1 206 (16.47%) Docker
2 13 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.080%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 191 (15.27%) Kubernetes
2 123 (9.83%) Terraform
3 14 (1.12%) Argo
3 14 (1.12%) Grafana
4 11 (0.88%) Ansible
4 11 (0.88%) Kibana
5 4 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.24%) cPanel
6 3 (0.24%) Plesk
6 3 (0.24%) Puppet
7 2 (0.16%) Nagios
8 1 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.080%) Istio
8 1 (0.080%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.080%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.16%) Google
3 26 (2.08%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.84%) Atlassian
5 20 (1.60%) Oracle
6 11 (0.88%) HubSpot
7 10 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 8 (0.64%) Foundry
9 7 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.48%) Adobe
10 6 (0.48%) Databricks
10 6 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.48%) SAP
11 5 (0.40%) IBM
11 5 (0.40%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.32%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.32%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.32%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.32%) Informatica
12 4 (0.32%) Palo Alto