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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 85 47
Rank change year-on-year -38 -38 0
Permanent jobs citing React 1,529 1,514 2,906
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 3.50% 4.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.43% 20.39% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 1,001 1,719
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,438 £110,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -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 10,597 7,427 14,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.23% 17.15% 21.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,699 4,898 8,909
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -66 555 £85,000 -15.00% 1,165
North of England -11 338 £60,000 -7.69% 237
South East +23 273 £60,000 - 127
North West -20 192 £60,000 -7.69% 162
Midlands -27 142 £55,000 - 107
South West -23 135 £55,000 -8.33% 95
Yorkshire +6 93 £60,000 -11.11% 61
East Midlands -7 78 £51,250 -6.82% 31
East of England -26 66 £60,000 -4.00% 68
West Midlands -58 64 £55,000 -4.35% 76
North East -23 53 £65,000 +18.18% 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 32 (2.09%) CMS
2 28 (1.83%) Apache
3 22 (1.44%) Headless CMS
4 21 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.24%) Confluence
6 13 (0.85%) nginx
7 9 (0.59%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.52%) Umbraco
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.39%) IIS
11 5 (0.33%) JBoss
12 4 (0.26%) Kentico
12 4 (0.26%) WordPress
13 3 (0.20%) DNN
13 3 (0.20%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.20%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.20%) Sitefinity
13 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.20%) Simulink
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.065%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.72%) Magento
2 8 (0.52%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 657 (42.97%) AWS
2 568 (37.15%) Azure
3 175 (11.45%) GitHub
4 139 (9.09%) GCP
5 133 (8.70%) Serverless
6 126 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (6.61%) SaaS
8 77 (5.04%) Azure AI
9 71 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (2.88%) Anthropic Claude
12 42 (2.75%) Amazon S3
12 42 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
13 36 (2.35%) Power Platform
14 33 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 33 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 27 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (1.77%) Vercel
16 26 (1.70%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.50%) Internet
2 22 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.65%) VoIP
4 9 (0.59%) Broadband
5 8 (0.52%) AMQP
5 8 (0.52%) DNS
5 8 (0.52%) HTTP
6 7 (0.46%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.33%) Firewall
8 5 (0.33%) SSL
9 4 (0.26%) LAN
9 4 (0.26%) WAN
10 3 (0.20%) Intranet
11 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (0.13%) LTE
11 2 (0.13%) MQTT
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.13%) VPN
12 1 (0.065%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (13.28%) MongoDB
2 172 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (9.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 121 (7.91%) SQL Server
5 97 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
6 92 (6.02%) NoSQL
7 88 (5.76%) MySQL
7 88 (5.76%) Relational Database
8 37 (2.42%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.29%) Redis
10 18 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.05%) Power BI
12 13 (0.85%) Chroma
12 13 (0.85%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.72%) Big Data
14 10 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.65%) Metadata
15 9 (0.59%) Neo4j
16 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 248 (16.22%) Git
2 76 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 69 (4.51%) GitLab
4 54 (3.53%) Cypress.io
5 42 (2.75%) JIRA
6 41 (2.68%) JUnit
7 37 (2.42%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.96%) Subversion
9 25 (1.64%) Eclipse
9 25 (1.64%) Vite
10 23 (1.50%) Maven
11 19 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 19 (1.24%) Selenium
12 18 (1.18%) Mockito
13 13 (0.85%) Storybook
14 11 (0.72%) Postman
15 10 (0.65%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.65%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.46%) NUnit
16 7 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 336 (21.98%) Social Skills
2 245 (16.02%) Finance
3 74 (4.84%) Retail
4 72 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (3.47%) Marketing
6 53 (3.47%) Public Sector
7 46 (3.01%) Law
8 37 (2.42%) Legal
9 36 (2.35%) Banking
10 29 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.11%) Publishing
12 16 (1.05%) Front Office
12 16 (1.05%) Legal Technology
13 14 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.85%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.78%) Advertising
16 11 (0.72%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.72%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 779 (50.95%) Developer
2 336 (21.98%) Senior
3 319 (20.86%) Software Engineer
4 253 (16.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 199 (13.02%) .NET Developer
6 194 (12.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 152 (9.94%) Lead
8 146 (9.55%) Senior Developer
9 118 (7.72%) React Developer
10 109 (7.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 78 (5.10%) Software Developer
12 76 (4.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 58 (3.79%) Java Developer
14 57 (3.73%) Lead Developer
14 57 (3.73%) Python Engineer
15 55 (3.60%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 52 (3.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 41 (2.68%) Junior
18 39 (2.55%) Engineering Manager
19 36 (2.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (30.41%) .NET
2 441 (28.84%) Node.js
3 242 (15.83%) REST
4 233 (15.24%) RESTful
5 228 (14.91%) AngularJS
6 224 (14.65%) ASP.NET
7 206 (13.47%) .NET Core
8 201 (13.15%) ASP.NET Core
9 196 (12.82%) CSS
10 179 (11.71%) Terraform
11 174 (11.38%) Next.js
12 173 (11.31%) HTML
13 168 (10.99%) Vue
14 162 (10.60%) Blazor
15 119 (7.78%) Spring
16 96 (6.28%) Spring Boot
17 89 (5.82%) .NET Framework
18 86 (5.62%) ASP.NET Web API
18 86 (5.62%) React Native
19 68 (4.45%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 230 (15.04%) Cloud Native
2 101 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
4 62 (4.05%) AI Agents
5 61 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 60 (3.92%) Mobile App
7 53 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.77%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.18%) Social Media
14 17 (1.11%) iPhone
14 17 (1.11%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.92%) Augmented Reality
15 14 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.85%) IoT
16 13 (0.85%) Media Streaming
16 13 (0.85%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.45%) Linux
2 30 (1.96%) Android
3 20 (1.31%) Windows
4 16 (1.05%) Debian
4 16 (1.05%) Ubuntu
5 14 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.52%) Unix
7 7 (0.46%) CentOS
8 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (56.77%) Full-Stack Development
2 671 (43.88%) Agile
3 577 (37.74%) CI/CD
4 571 (37.34%) Software Engineering
5 478 (31.26%) AI
6 390 (25.51%) Microservices
7 338 (22.11%) DevOps
8 309 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
9 282 (18.44%) Mentoring
10 229 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 198 (12.95%) Code Quality
12 193 (12.62%) Test Automation
13 181 (11.84%) Front End Development
14 176 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
15 173 (11.31%) Scrum
16 165 (10.79%) Containerisation
17 158 (10.33%) Clean Code
18 145 (9.48%) SDLC
19 144 (9.42%) Computer Science
20 130 (8.50%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 796 (52.06%) TypeScript
2 743 (48.59%) JavaScript
3 477 (31.20%) C#
4 418 (27.34%) SQL
5 390 (25.51%) Python
6 264 (17.27%) Java
7 66 (4.32%) Go
8 64 (4.19%) C++
9 63 (4.12%) PHP
10 44 (2.88%) Ruby
11 30 (1.96%) Rust
12 26 (1.70%) Bash
13 25 (1.64%) Perl
14 18 (1.18%) PL/SQL
15 15 (0.98%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 9 (0.59%) PowerShell
18 8 (0.52%) Scala
19 7 (0.46%) Swift
20 5 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 197 (12.88%) Degree
2 149 (9.74%) Security Cleared
3 123 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 99 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 32 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 28 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.65%) MBA
8 9 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.20%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.20%) OCP
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.13%) PhD
13 1 (0.065%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.76%) QA
2 87 (5.69%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.77%) WCAG
4 13 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.72%) GDPR
6 8 (0.52%) GRC
7 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.20%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.065%) SLA
10 1 (0.065%) WAI
10 1 (0.065%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 285 (18.64%) Docker
2 7 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 216 (14.13%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.57%) Ansible
3 15 (0.98%) Grafana
4 13 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.52%) Puppet
7 6 (0.39%) Podman
8 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.33%) Nagios
8 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.26%) Packer
10 3 (0.20%) Argo
10 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
11 2 (0.13%) Plesk
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.065%) Consul
Vendors
1 248 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.91%) Google
3 51 (3.34%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.50%) Facebook
4 23 (1.50%) Oracle
4 23 (1.50%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.18%) Databricks
6 17 (1.11%) Mistral
7 15 (0.98%) Red Hat
7 15 (0.98%) Splunk
8 13 (0.85%) Palantir
9 12 (0.78%) Foundry
9 12 (0.78%) Sony
10 10 (0.65%) Apple
10 10 (0.65%) New Relic
10 10 (0.65%) Yahoo!
11 7 (0.46%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.39%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.39%) OneLogin
12 6 (0.39%) Solace