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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 82 47
Rank change year-on-year -35 -35 0
Permanent jobs citing React 1,570 1,531 2,890
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.61% 3.57% 4.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.71% 20.06% 19.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 1,024 1,901
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -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 10,673 7,634 14,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.95% 17.78% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,933 5,045 10,133
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -55 572 £85,000 -15.00% 985
North of England -11 344 £60,000 -11.11% 201
South East +38 275 £60,000 - 133
North West -24 179 £57,500 -14.81% 137
Midlands -17 155 £55,000 - 97
South West -24 133 £52,500 -12.50% 120
Yorkshire +3 111 £65,000 -3.70% 41
East Midlands -13 80 £55,000 - 40
West Midlands -31 75 £55,000 -8.33% 57
East of England -9 72 £60,000 -4.00% 37
North East -22 54 £65,000 +40.54% 26
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 28 (1.78%) CMS
2 26 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.46%) Apache
4 16 (1.02%) Confluence
4 16 (1.02%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.57%) IIS
5 9 (0.57%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.51%) nginx
7 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.32%) JBoss
10 4 (0.25%) WordPress
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.19%) DNN
11 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Kentico
11 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 18 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.064%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (0.64%) Magento
2 8 (0.51%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 678 (43.18%) AWS
2 578 (36.82%) Azure
3 165 (10.51%) GitHub
4 143 (9.11%) GCP
5 138 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
6 133 (8.47%) Serverless
7 112 (7.13%) SaaS
8 79 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
9 78 (4.97%) Azure AI
10 57 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (2.87%) Anthropic Claude
12 42 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 40 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
14 37 (2.36%) Power Platform
15 34 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 29 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (1.85%) Figma
17 28 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.66%) Internet
2 21 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.21%) Broadband
4 9 (0.57%) DNS
4 9 (0.57%) HTTP
4 9 (0.57%) VoIP
5 7 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.38%) AMQP
6 6 (0.38%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.32%) Firewall
7 5 (0.32%) SSL
8 4 (0.25%) Intranet
8 4 (0.25%) LAN
8 4 (0.25%) WAN
9 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.13%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) MQTT
10 1 (0.064%) Network Security
10 1 (0.064%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.064%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (13.12%) MongoDB
2 154 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (9.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 109 (6.94%) SQL Server
5 107 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 95 (6.05%) Elasticsearch
7 92 (5.86%) MySQL
8 78 (4.97%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.68%) DynamoDB
10 35 (2.23%) Redis
11 16 (1.02%) Power BI
12 15 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.70%) Metadata
14 10 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.64%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.57%) Big Data
16 8 (0.51%) Chroma
16 8 (0.51%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 249 (15.86%) Git
2 76 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 58 (3.69%) GitLab
4 56 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 48 (3.06%) JIRA
6 40 (2.55%) JUnit
7 38 (2.42%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.85%) Subversion
9 25 (1.59%) Eclipse
10 23 (1.46%) Maven
10 23 (1.46%) Selenium
11 22 (1.40%) Bitbucket
12 20 (1.27%) Vite
13 17 (1.08%) Mockito
14 12 (0.76%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.64%) Postman
15 10 (0.64%) Storybook
15 10 (0.64%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.57%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 333 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 260 (16.56%) Finance
3 76 (4.84%) Retail
4 64 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (4.01%) Public Sector
6 61 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (3.44%) Law
8 52 (3.31%) Marketing
9 41 (2.61%) Banking
10 39 (2.48%) Legal
11 25 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.15%) Front Office
12 18 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.15%) Legal Technology
13 15 (0.96%) Advertising
14 13 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.64%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 802 (51.08%) Developer
2 336 (21.40%) Senior
3 315 (20.06%) Software Engineer
4 260 (16.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 214 (13.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 197 (12.55%) .NET Developer
7 162 (10.32%) Lead
8 143 (9.11%) Senior Developer
9 128 (8.15%) React Developer
10 113 (7.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 82 (5.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 71 (4.52%) Software Developer
13 65 (4.14%) Java Developer
13 65 (4.14%) Lead Developer
14 61 (3.89%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 59 (3.76%) Python Engineer
16 58 (3.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 43 (2.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 41 (2.61%) Engineering Manager
19 39 (2.48%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (29.55%) Node.js
2 449 (28.60%) .NET
3 235 (14.97%) AngularJS
4 234 (14.90%) RESTful
5 232 (14.78%) REST
6 230 (14.65%) ASP.NET
7 209 (13.31%) ASP.NET Core
8 206 (13.12%) .NET Core
8 206 (13.12%) CSS
9 187 (11.91%) HTML
10 177 (11.27%) Terraform
11 172 (10.96%) Vue
12 171 (10.89%) Next.js
13 167 (10.64%) Blazor
14 116 (7.39%) Spring
15 94 (5.99%) React Native
16 93 (5.92%) Spring Boot
17 87 (5.54%) ASP.NET Web API
18 83 (5.29%) .NET Framework
19 71 (4.52%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 225 (14.33%) Cloud Native
2 99 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 65 (4.14%) Mobile App
6 60 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (3.25%) AI Agents
8 39 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.91%) Virtual Team
10 25 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.21%) Social Media
13 17 (1.08%) iPhone
14 16 (1.02%) Onboarding
15 15 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.89%) Virtual Reality
17 13 (0.83%) IoT
18 12 (0.76%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.33%) Linux
2 30 (1.91%) Android
3 15 (0.96%) Windows
4 14 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.83%) Debian
6 12 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.45%) Unix
8 6 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.32%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.064%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 898 (57.20%) Full-Stack Development
2 700 (44.59%) Agile
3 552 (35.16%) Software Engineering
4 548 (34.90%) CI/CD
5 453 (28.85%) AI
6 381 (24.27%) Microservices
7 366 (23.31%) DevOps
8 307 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
9 304 (19.36%) Mentoring
10 235 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 204 (12.99%) Test Automation
12 184 (11.72%) Scrum
13 179 (11.40%) Code Quality
14 174 (11.08%) Front End Development
15 167 (10.64%) Containerisation
16 165 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 158 (10.06%) Clean Code
18 147 (9.36%) SDLC
19 136 (8.66%) Computer Science
20 135 (8.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 809 (51.53%) TypeScript
2 760 (48.41%) JavaScript
3 467 (29.75%) C#
4 418 (26.62%) SQL
5 390 (24.84%) Python
6 260 (16.56%) Java
7 63 (4.01%) Go
7 63 (4.01%) PHP
8 61 (3.89%) C++
9 47 (2.99%) Ruby
10 27 (1.72%) Rust
11 26 (1.66%) Perl
12 25 (1.59%) Bash
13 22 (1.40%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 13 (0.83%) PowerShell
16 9 (0.57%) Swift
17 8 (0.51%) Scala
18 7 (0.45%) T-SQL
19 5 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 185 (11.78%) Degree
2 148 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 116 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 103 (6.56%) SC Cleared
5 29 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 27 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 14 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.64%) MBA
9 8 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.19%) OCP
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.13%) PhD
14 1 (0.064%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.56%) QA
2 81 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.46%) WCAG
4 10 (0.64%) GDPR
4 10 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.32%) GRC
6 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.19%) NIST
8 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.064%) SLA
System Software
1 271 (17.26%) Docker
2 7 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.32%) Firmware
3 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.064%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 195 (12.42%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.66%) Ansible
3 16 (1.02%) Grafana
4 13 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.76%) Podman
5 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.38%) Puppet
7 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.32%) Nagios
8 4 (0.25%) Kibana
9 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.19%) Plesk
10 2 (0.13%) Argo
11 1 (0.064%) Consul
11 1 (0.064%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 247 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.78%) Google
3 44 (2.80%) OpenAI
4 29 (1.85%) Oracle
5 24 (1.53%) Facebook
6 23 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 15 (0.96%) Databricks
7 15 (0.96%) Splunk
8 13 (0.83%) Palantir
8 13 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 13 (0.83%) Sony
9 12 (0.76%) Mistral
10 11 (0.70%) Apple
10 11 (0.70%) Yahoo!
11 10 (0.64%) New Relic
12 9 (0.57%) Foundry
13 7 (0.45%) IBM
14 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.38%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.38%) OneLogin