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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 45 48
Rank change year-on-year -50 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,369 2,010 3,609
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.95% 5.49% 4.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.80% 25.32% 21.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 1,486 3,069
10th Percentile £45,875 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £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 7,280 7,937 16,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.39% 21.68% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,540 5,962 13,887
10th Percentile £37,200 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,318 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% +10.53% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 31 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 31 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 -29 599 £90,000 +2.86% 273
North of England -54 265 £65,000 +4.00% 120
South East -80 193 £62,500 +4.17% 125
Midlands -15 143 £64,000 +6.67% 55
Yorkshire -20 129 £70,000 +6.06% 44
North West -55 122 £65,000 - 63
South West -46 100 £62,500 -3.85% 73
East Midlands -22 82 £65,000 +8.33% 24
West Midlands -19 61 £60,000 - 31
East of England -90 44 £50,000 -25.93% 47
North East -31 14 £55,000 +12.24% 13
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 22 (1.61%) CMS
2 17 (1.24%) Confluence
3 13 (0.95%) Apache
3 13 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.73%) IIS
5 9 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.37%) WordPress
9 4 (0.29%) Appian
10 3 (0.22%) CICS
10 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Shopify
2 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.073%) Magento
3 1 (0.073%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 629 (45.95%) AWS
2 426 (31.12%) Azure
3 173 (12.64%) GCP
4 171 (12.49%) Serverless
5 139 (10.15%) GitHub
6 126 (9.20%) SaaS
7 102 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (6.65%) Amazon S3
9 80 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (3.43%) Figma
13 42 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.61%) npm
17 21 (1.53%) Amazon EventBridge
18 20 (1.46%) Power Platform
19 18 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 16 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.17%) Internet
2 14 (1.02%) Broadband
3 10 (0.73%) AMQP
4 3 (0.22%) HTTP
4 3 (0.22%) SSL
5 2 (0.15%) DNS
5 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.15%) LTE
6 1 (0.073%) Intranet
6 1 (0.073%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.52%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (7.30%) NoSQL
3 87 (6.36%) SQL Server
4 72 (5.26%) MySQL
5 58 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 54 (3.94%) MongoDB
7 51 (3.73%) DynamoDB
8 35 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (1.53%) Redis
10 19 (1.39%) Neo4j
11 15 (1.10%) DB2
12 12 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.88%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.80%) Power BI
14 8 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 187 (13.66%) Git
2 65 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.29%) JIRA
4 31 (2.26%) Cypress.io
5 24 (1.75%) Vite
6 23 (1.68%) TeamCity
7 22 (1.61%) Selenium
8 20 (1.46%) GitLab
8 20 (1.46%) webpack
9 17 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.10%) Storybook
12 12 (0.88%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.66%) Gradle
13 9 (0.66%) JUnit
14 7 (0.51%) Maven
15 6 (0.44%) gulp
16 5 (0.37%) Babel
16 5 (0.37%) Balsamiq
16 5 (0.37%) ESLint
General
1 293 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 218 (15.92%) Finance
3 92 (6.72%) Front Office
4 79 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.94%) Banking
6 44 (3.21%) Law
7 38 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 34 (2.48%) Retail
9 33 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.68%) Marketing
11 21 (1.53%) Legal
12 20 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.02%) Games
14 13 (0.95%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.66%) Advertising
16 8 (0.58%) Multimedia
17 7 (0.51%) Back Office
17 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.51%) Health Technology
17 7 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 760 (55.51%) Developer
2 325 (23.74%) Senior
3 288 (21.04%) Software Engineer
4 281 (20.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 213 (15.56%) React Developer
6 186 (13.59%) Lead
7 178 (13.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 162 (11.83%) Senior Developer
9 91 (6.65%) Lead Developer
10 87 (6.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (6.14%) Python Developer
12 80 (5.84%) Java Developer
13 74 (5.41%) .NET Developer
14 71 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
15 63 (4.60%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 55 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
17 54 (3.94%) Software Developer
18 46 (3.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 44 (3.21%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 43 (3.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 440 (32.14%) Node.js
2 287 (20.96%) .NET
3 283 (20.67%) CSS
4 279 (20.38%) HTML
5 207 (15.12%) AngularJS
6 161 (11.76%) REST
7 157 (11.47%) Vue
8 140 (10.23%) RESTful
9 108 (7.89%) Next.js
10 103 (7.52%) GraphQL
11 102 (7.45%) Spring
12 100 (7.30%) .NET Core
13 90 (6.57%) Spring Boot
14 81 (5.92%) Redux
15 75 (5.48%) Django
16 71 (5.19%) Kafka
17 70 (5.11%) React Native
18 65 (4.75%) ASP.NET
19 54 (3.94%) WebSockets
20 52 (3.80%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 79 (5.77%) Fixed Income
3 59 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
4 55 (4.02%) Mobile App
5 49 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 48 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.83%) Derivative
9 25 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.61%) IoT
11 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.39%) Equities
13 13 (0.95%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.88%) AI Agents
14 12 (0.88%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.73%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.58%) Blog
16 8 (0.58%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.78%) Linux
2 17 (1.24%) Android
3 14 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 14 (1.02%) Windows
4 5 (0.37%) CentOS
4 5 (0.37%) Debian
4 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.073%) VMS
6 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (50.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 529 (38.64%) Agile
3 495 (36.16%) Software Engineering
4 419 (30.61%) CI/CD
5 285 (20.82%) DevOps
6 250 (18.26%) Microservices
7 246 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
8 243 (17.75%) Mentoring
9 222 (16.22%) AI
10 216 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 187 (13.66%) Front End Development
12 181 (13.22%) User Experience
13 151 (11.03%) Test Automation
14 149 (10.88%) Clean Code
15 140 (10.23%) Containerisation
16 130 (9.50%) Scrum
17 129 (9.42%) Computer Science
18 119 (8.69%) Infrastructure as Code
19 93 (6.79%) TDD
20 82 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 694 (50.69%) TypeScript
2 687 (50.18%) JavaScript
3 376 (27.47%) Python
4 328 (23.96%) Java
5 248 (18.12%) SQL
6 234 (17.09%) C#
7 73 (5.33%) Go
8 69 (5.04%) PHP
9 22 (1.61%) C
10 19 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.17%) PowerShell
12 13 (0.95%) Bash
13 12 (0.88%) Ruby
13 12 (0.88%) Rust
14 10 (0.73%) C++
15 7 (0.51%) Bicep
15 7 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.37%) R
16 5 (0.37%) RPG
17 4 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 143 (10.45%) Degree
2 105 (7.67%) Security Cleared
3 84 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 39 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.22%) ISEB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.67%) QA
2 48 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.37%) WCAG
4 4 (0.29%) GDPR
4 4 (0.29%) SLA
5 3 (0.22%) NCSC
6 2 (0.15%) NIST
7 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.073%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 222 (16.22%) Docker
2 10 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.44%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 188 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 152 (11.10%) Terraform
3 21 (1.53%) Grafana
4 13 (0.95%) Ansible
4 13 (0.95%) Argo
5 10 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.58%) Kibana
7 7 (0.51%) Podman
8 5 (0.37%) Nagios
8 5 (0.37%) Puppet
9 3 (0.22%) cPanel
9 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (5.70%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.63%) Google
3 25 (1.83%) Atlassian
4 24 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 16 (1.17%) Oracle
6 13 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
6 13 (0.95%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.51%) Adobe
9 6 (0.44%) Foundry
9 6 (0.44%) IBM
9 6 (0.44%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.44%) Solace
10 5 (0.37%) Apple
10 5 (0.37%) Databricks
10 5 (0.37%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.37%) Pega
10 5 (0.37%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.37%) SAP
11 4 (0.29%) Informatica