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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 41 46
Rank change year-on-year -49 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,369 2,238 3,470
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.10% 5.71% 4.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.48% 25.55% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,136 1,542 3,051
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,313 £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 £126,250 £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 7,026 8,761 16,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.80% 22.33% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,360 6,035 13,602
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,275
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -28 602 £90,000 +2.86% 302
North of England -49 263 £65,000 +8.33% 122
South East -76 194 £60,000 -4.00% 115
Midlands -18 138 £62,500 +4.17% 65
Yorkshire -17 123 £70,000 +3.70% 46
North West -45 123 £65,000 +6.12% 61
South West -47 102 £62,500 -7.41% 65
East Midlands -15 78 £65,000 +8.33% 27
West Midlands -22 60 £60,000 - 38
East of England -83 44 £50,000 -25.93% 33
North East -36 17 £55,000 +14.58% 15
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 21 (1.53%) CMS
2 18 (1.31%) Confluence
3 13 (0.95%) Apache
4 9 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.66%) Headless CMS
4 9 (0.66%) OpenStack
4 9 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.58%) IIS
6 7 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.37%) WordPress
9 4 (0.29%) Appian
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) CICS
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.073%) Strapi
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Shopify
2 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.073%) Magento
4 1 (0.073%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.073%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 624 (45.58%) AWS
2 422 (30.83%) Azure
3 175 (12.78%) Serverless
4 166 (12.13%) GCP
5 146 (10.66%) GitHub
6 133 (9.72%) SaaS
7 101 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
8 94 (6.87%) Amazon S3
9 76 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
11 53 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (3.51%) Figma
13 42 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.61%) npm
17 21 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (1.53%) Power Platform
18 20 (1.46%) Amazon EventBridge
19 16 (1.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.17%) Internet
2 10 (0.73%) AMQP
3 5 (0.37%) Broadband
4 4 (0.29%) HTTP
5 3 (0.22%) SSL
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
6 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.073%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.57%) NoSQL
3 87 (6.36%) SQL Server
4 71 (5.19%) MySQL
5 65 (4.75%) Relational Database
6 52 (3.80%) DynamoDB
7 51 (3.73%) MongoDB
8 35 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (1.39%) Neo4j
10 19 (1.39%) Redis
11 15 (1.10%) DB2
12 13 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.88%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.88%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.80%) Power BI
15 9 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 191 (13.95%) Git
2 69 (5.04%) Jenkins
3 41 (2.99%) JIRA
4 31 (2.26%) Cypress.io
5 24 (1.75%) TeamCity
5 24 (1.75%) Vite
6 21 (1.53%) GitLab
6 21 (1.53%) webpack
7 20 (1.46%) Selenium
8 19 (1.39%) Storybook
9 18 (1.31%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.80%) JUnit
12 9 (0.66%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.66%) Maven
13 8 (0.58%) Gradle
14 7 (0.51%) gulp
15 5 (0.37%) Babel
15 5 (0.37%) ESLint
15 5 (0.37%) git-flow
General
1 296 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 218 (15.92%) Finance
3 93 (6.79%) Front Office
4 80 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.94%) Banking
6 43 (3.14%) Law
7 38 (2.78%) Retail
8 37 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.75%) Marketing
11 22 (1.61%) Legal
12 21 (1.53%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.24%) Games
14 13 (0.95%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.66%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.58%) Multimedia
17 7 (0.51%) Back Office
17 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 768 (56.10%) Developer
2 318 (23.23%) Senior
3 280 (20.45%) Software Engineer
4 279 (20.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 218 (15.92%) React Developer
6 183 (13.37%) Lead
7 170 (12.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 158 (11.54%) Senior Developer
9 90 (6.57%) Python Developer
10 89 (6.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 89 (6.50%) Lead Developer
11 82 (5.99%) Java Developer
12 70 (5.11%) .NET Developer
13 67 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 59 (4.31%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 53 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
15 53 (3.87%) Software Developer
16 48 (3.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 45 (3.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
18 43 (3.14%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 431 (31.48%) Node.js
2 299 (21.84%) CSS
3 293 (21.40%) .NET
4 290 (21.18%) HTML
5 215 (15.70%) AngularJS
6 177 (12.93%) REST
7 163 (11.91%) Vue
8 145 (10.59%) RESTful
9 116 (8.47%) GraphQL
10 115 (8.40%) Next.js
11 99 (7.23%) .NET Core
12 96 (7.01%) Spring
13 87 (6.36%) Redux
14 84 (6.14%) Spring Boot
15 75 (5.48%) Kafka
16 67 (4.89%) Django
17 65 (4.75%) ASP.NET
17 65 (4.75%) React Native
18 61 (4.46%) WebSockets
19 55 (4.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.01%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.06%) Fixed Income
3 63 (4.60%) Mobile App
4 59 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
5 52 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 43 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.75%) Derivative
11 21 (1.53%) Equities
11 21 (1.53%) IoT
12 20 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.39%) Data Structures
14 11 (0.80%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.73%) AI Agents
15 10 (0.73%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.73%) Public Cloud
16 9 (0.66%) Cybercrime
16 9 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.34%) Linux
2 16 (1.17%) Android
3 13 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.88%) Windows
5 5 (0.37%) CentOS
5 5 (0.37%) Debian
5 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.073%) VMS
7 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (49.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 535 (39.08%) Agile
3 494 (36.08%) Software Engineering
4 418 (30.53%) CI/CD
5 279 (20.38%) DevOps
6 251 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
7 248 (18.12%) Microservices
8 234 (17.09%) Mentoring
9 210 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (14.97%) AI
11 202 (14.76%) User Experience
12 194 (14.17%) Front End Development
13 147 (10.74%) Clean Code
14 135 (9.86%) Test Automation
15 133 (9.72%) Containerisation
16 127 (9.28%) Scrum
17 125 (9.13%) Computer Science
18 114 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
19 95 (6.94%) TDD
20 87 (6.36%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 701 (51.21%) TypeScript
2 686 (50.11%) JavaScript
3 365 (26.66%) Python
4 327 (23.89%) Java
5 251 (18.33%) SQL
6 236 (17.24%) C#
7 70 (5.11%) Go
8 69 (5.04%) PHP
9 22 (1.61%) C
10 17 (1.24%) Kotlin
10 17 (1.24%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.17%) Rust
12 12 (0.88%) Bash
13 11 (0.80%) C++
13 11 (0.80%) Ruby
14 10 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.44%) Bicep
16 5 (0.37%) R
16 5 (0.37%) RPG
17 3 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 141 (10.30%) Degree
2 113 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 80 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (4.75%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.22%) ISEB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.15%) PhD
15 1 (0.073%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.46%) QA
2 58 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.73%) WCAG
4 5 (0.37%) SLA
5 4 (0.29%) NCSC
6 3 (0.22%) GDPR
6 3 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.073%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 216 (15.78%) Docker
2 12 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.22%) Firmware
4 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 195 (14.24%) Kubernetes
2 147 (10.74%) Terraform
3 20 (1.46%) Grafana
4 13 (0.95%) Ansible
4 13 (0.95%) Argo
5 10 (0.73%) Kibana
6 9 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) Nagios
7 5 (0.37%) Puppet
8 3 (0.22%) cPanel
8 3 (0.22%) Plesk
9 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Podman
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (5.48%) Microsoft
2 33 (2.41%) Google
3 26 (1.90%) Atlassian
4 24 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.39%) Oracle
6 13 (0.95%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 11 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.51%) Adobe
9 7 (0.51%) Foundry
9 7 (0.51%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.44%) Databricks
11 5 (0.37%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.37%) IBM
11 5 (0.37%) Pega
11 5 (0.37%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.37%) SAP
11 5 (0.37%) Solace
12 4 (0.29%) Apple
12 4 (0.29%) Informatica