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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 58 49
Rank change year-on-year -45 -9 -9
Permanent jobs citing React 1,457 1,696 3,760
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 4.46% 4.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.56% 22.74% 21.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 1,244 3,078
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +9.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,875 £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 8,295 7,459 17,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.02% 19.62% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,297 5,095 14,216
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,750 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -28 615 £85,000 -5.56% 266
North of England -39 291 £65,000 - 108
South East -5 231 £65,000 +8.33% 101
Midlands -44 153 £62,500 +4.17% 36
North West -48 136 £60,000 -7.69% 66
Yorkshire -12 119 £67,500 - 28
South West -67 96 £60,000 -4.00% 37
East Midlands -27 82 £65,000 +18.18% 22
West Midlands -54 71 £60,000 - 14
East of England -15 60 £57,500 -8.00% 32
North East -29 36 £55,000 +4.76% 14
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 23 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.37%) Confluence
3 16 (1.10%) Apache
4 14 (0.96%) CMS
5 12 (0.82%) IIS
6 10 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.27%) nginx
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Appian
11 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 1 (0.069%) Camunda
12 1 (0.069%) Strapi
Applications
1 12 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Shopify
2 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.069%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 660 (45.30%) AWS
2 436 (29.92%) Azure
3 173 (11.87%) Serverless
4 155 (10.64%) GCP
5 127 (8.72%) GitHub
6 110 (7.55%) SaaS
7 108 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (5.28%) Amazon S3
10 49 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (2.88%) Figma
13 41 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (2.06%) Azure AI
16 28 (1.92%) Power Platform
17 22 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (1.44%) Amazon EventBridge
19 20 (1.37%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.17%) Broadband
1 17 (1.17%) Internet
2 8 (0.55%) AMQP
2 8 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.34%) HTTP
4 4 (0.27%) DNS
4 4 (0.27%) Intranet
4 4 (0.27%) LTE
5 3 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.21%) VoIP
5 3 (0.21%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.14%) SSL
7 1 (0.069%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.069%) LAN
7 1 (0.069%) WAN
7 1 (0.069%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (6.86%) NoSQL
3 95 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 76 (5.22%) SQL Server
5 69 (4.74%) MySQL
6 50 (3.43%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.36%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.37%) Redis
11 16 (1.10%) Neo4j
12 12 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.75%) Power BI
14 10 (0.69%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.62%) Big Data
15 9 (0.62%) DB2
16 8 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.41%) Metadata
17 6 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 202 (13.86%) Git
2 75 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.43%) JIRA
4 33 (2.26%) Cypress.io
5 32 (2.20%) GitLab
6 28 (1.92%) Vite
7 19 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.30%) Claude Code
8 18 (1.24%) Maven
9 16 (1.10%) JUnit
9 16 (1.10%) Selenium
10 15 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.03%) TeamCity
11 14 (0.96%) Storybook
12 13 (0.89%) webpack
13 10 (0.69%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.69%) Gradle
13 10 (0.69%) Mockito
14 6 (0.41%) MLflow
15 5 (0.34%) ESLint
General
1 266 (18.26%) Social Skills
2 254 (17.43%) Finance
3 85 (5.83%) Front Office
4 78 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.02%) Retail
6 43 (2.95%) Banking
6 43 (2.95%) Law
7 37 (2.54%) Public Sector
8 31 (2.13%) Legal
9 27 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.24%) Marketing
11 17 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 17 (1.17%) Tech for Good
12 10 (0.69%) Advertising
12 10 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.62%) Automotive
13 9 (0.62%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.48%) Games
14 7 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 809 (55.53%) Developer
2 342 (23.47%) Senior
3 302 (20.73%) Software Engineer
4 288 (19.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 224 (15.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 214 (14.69%) React Developer
7 191 (13.11%) Lead
8 164 (11.26%) Senior Developer
9 106 (7.28%) Lead Developer
10 96 (6.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 94 (6.45%) .NET Developer
12 89 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
13 80 (5.49%) Java Developer
14 65 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
14 65 (4.46%) Python Developer
15 64 (4.39%) Software Developer
16 61 (4.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 56 (3.84%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 53 (3.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 47 (3.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (33.29%) Node.js
2 303 (20.80%) .NET
3 237 (16.27%) CSS
4 228 (15.65%) HTML
5 213 (14.62%) AngularJS
6 189 (12.97%) REST
7 167 (11.46%) RESTful
8 156 (10.71%) Vue
9 131 (8.99%) Spring
10 128 (8.79%) Next.js
11 115 (7.89%) .NET Core
12 108 (7.41%) Spring Boot
13 93 (6.38%) Redux
14 89 (6.11%) ASP.NET
14 89 (6.11%) GraphQL
15 83 (5.70%) React Native
16 75 (5.15%) ASP.NET Core
17 68 (4.67%) Kafka
18 64 (4.39%) Blazor
19 48 (3.29%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 67 (4.60%) Mobile App
3 64 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (4.32%) Fixed Income
5 56 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
7 47 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.92%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.44%) Derivative
13 18 (1.24%) IoT
14 16 (1.10%) Equities
14 16 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.96%) e-Learning
16 13 (0.89%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.82%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.82%) Hedge funds
18 11 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.09%) Linux
2 15 (1.03%) Android
3 14 (0.96%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.48%) Debian
5 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.34%) CentOS
6 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.069%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (53.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 569 (39.05%) Agile
3 512 (35.14%) Software Engineering
4 431 (29.58%) CI/CD
5 321 (22.03%) DevOps
6 288 (19.77%) AI
7 281 (19.29%) Microservices
8 279 (19.15%) Mentoring
9 243 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
10 210 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 192 (13.18%) Front End Development
12 162 (11.12%) Containerisation
12 162 (11.12%) Test Automation
13 161 (11.05%) Scrum
14 158 (10.84%) User Experience
15 147 (10.09%) Clean Code
16 129 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 120 (8.24%) Computer Science
18 112 (7.69%) TDD
19 100 (6.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 766 (52.57%) TypeScript
2 672 (46.12%) JavaScript
3 368 (25.26%) Python
4 303 (20.80%) Java
5 277 (19.01%) C#
6 270 (18.53%) SQL
7 68 (4.67%) Go
8 59 (4.05%) PHP
9 20 (1.37%) Bash
10 19 (1.30%) C++
10 19 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.30%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.24%) Ruby
12 14 (0.96%) C
12 14 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.62%) Bicep
14 8 (0.55%) Rust
15 5 (0.34%) Scala
15 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 132 (9.06%) Degree
2 116 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 93 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 38 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.34%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
13 1 (0.069%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.069%) HNC
13 1 (0.069%) HND
13 1 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.069%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.28%) QA
2 45 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.41%) GDPR
4 5 (0.34%) WCAG
5 2 (0.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.069%) NCSC
6 1 (0.069%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 246 (16.88%) Docker
2 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 192 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 150 (10.30%) Terraform
3 21 (1.44%) Ansible
3 21 (1.44%) Grafana
4 13 (0.89%) Podman
4 13 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.55%) Argo
6 7 (0.48%) Kibana
7 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.34%) Nagios
8 5 (0.34%) Puppet
9 3 (0.21%) Plesk
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 114 (7.82%) Microsoft
2 42 (2.88%) Google
3 27 (1.85%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.78%) Oracle
5 17 (1.17%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.55%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.55%) Solace
8 7 (0.48%) Apple
8 7 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.48%) IBM
9 6 (0.41%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.41%) Databricks
9 6 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.34%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.27%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.27%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.27%) Sony
11 4 (0.27%) Yahoo!