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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 51 49
Rank change year-on-year -49 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing React 1,413 1,833 3,666
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.86% 4.99% 4.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.58% 23.54% 21.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,157 1,452 3,078
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £93,000 £94,083 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £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 7,604 7,787 16,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.03% 21.18% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,762 5,920 14,013
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -28 616 £90,000 +2.86% 311
North of England -59 276 £65,000 - 102
South East -72 199 £65,000 +8.33% 115
Midlands -17 149 £64,000 +6.67% 40
North West -44 133 £65,000 - 48
Yorkshire -26 129 £70,000 +6.06% 37
South West -62 102 £61,250 -5.77% 46
East Midlands -19 88 £65,000 +8.33% 17
West Midlands -25 61 £60,000 - 23
East of England -46 55 £50,000 -23.08% 30
North East -39 14 £55,000 +14.58% 17
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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 19 (1.34%) CMS
2 17 (1.20%) Confluence
3 16 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 14 (0.99%) Apache
5 10 (0.71%) IIS
6 9 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.57%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.50%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.42%) nginx
10 5 (0.35%) WordPress
11 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.28%) Appian
11 4 (0.28%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.21%) CICS
12 3 (0.21%) Liferay
13 2 (0.14%) JBoss
13 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.35%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.071%) Magento
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 656 (46.43%) AWS
2 420 (29.72%) Azure
3 180 (12.74%) Serverless
4 173 (12.24%) GCP
5 136 (9.62%) GitHub
6 123 (8.70%) SaaS
7 109 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (6.44%) Amazon S3
9 85 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (3.40%) Figma
13 46 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (1.70%) Amazon EventBridge
17 21 (1.49%) npm
18 19 (1.34%) Power Platform
19 17 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 15 (1.06%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.34%) Broadband
2 15 (1.06%) Internet
3 11 (0.78%) AMQP
4 4 (0.28%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) DNS
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.14%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) LTE
5 2 (0.14%) SSL
6 1 (0.071%) MQTT
6 1 (0.071%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (7.64%) NoSQL
3 81 (5.73%) SQL Server
4 70 (4.95%) MySQL
5 61 (4.32%) MongoDB
6 55 (3.89%) DynamoDB
7 54 (3.82%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (1.56%) Redis
10 21 (1.49%) Neo4j
11 18 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.06%) DB2
13 13 (0.92%) Pinecone
14 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.78%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.64%) Power BI
17 8 (0.57%) Big Data
18 7 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
19 6 (0.42%) Hadoop
19 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 190 (13.45%) Git
2 71 (5.02%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.11%) JIRA
4 35 (2.48%) Cypress.io
5 25 (1.77%) Vite
6 23 (1.63%) Selenium
7 22 (1.56%) GitLab
8 21 (1.49%) TeamCity
9 18 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 17 (1.20%) CircleCI
10 17 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.13%) webpack
12 14 (0.99%) Storybook
13 9 (0.64%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.64%) Gradle
14 8 (0.57%) JUnit
14 8 (0.57%) Maven
15 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.35%) ESLint
15 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 284 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 225 (15.92%) Finance
3 90 (6.37%) Front Office
4 76 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.82%) Banking
6 41 (2.90%) Public Sector
7 40 (2.83%) Law
8 36 (2.55%) Retail
9 28 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.49%) Investment Banking
11 20 (1.42%) Marketing
12 18 (1.27%) Legal
13 13 (0.92%) Tech for Good
14 12 (0.85%) Games
15 9 (0.64%) Advertising
16 7 (0.50%) Back Office
16 7 (0.50%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.50%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.50%) Multimedia
17 6 (0.42%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 771 (54.56%) Developer
2 339 (23.99%) Senior
3 302 (21.37%) Software Engineer
4 286 (20.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 216 (15.29%) React Developer
6 208 (14.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 195 (13.80%) Lead
8 166 (11.75%) Senior Developer
9 98 (6.94%) Lead Developer
10 86 (6.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
12 82 (5.80%) Java Developer
13 79 (5.59%) Python Developer
14 66 (4.67%) .NET Developer
14 66 (4.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 60 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
16 51 (3.61%) Software Developer
17 49 (3.47%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 48 (3.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 47 (3.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (32.77%) Node.js
2 271 (19.18%) CSS
3 269 (19.04%) HTML
4 264 (18.68%) .NET
5 203 (14.37%) AngularJS
6 165 (11.68%) REST
7 151 (10.69%) Vue
8 146 (10.33%) RESTful
9 115 (8.14%) Spring
10 113 (8.00%) Next.js
11 101 (7.15%) GraphQL
12 98 (6.94%) Spring Boot
13 88 (6.23%) .NET Core
14 86 (6.09%) Redux
15 73 (5.17%) Kafka
15 73 (5.17%) React Native
16 71 (5.02%) Django
17 56 (3.96%) ASP.NET
18 51 (3.61%) WebSockets
19 44 (3.11%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.54%) Cloud Native
2 77 (5.45%) Fixed Income
3 62 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
4 61 (4.32%) Mobile App
5 55 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 51 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.70%) Derivative
10 24 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.56%) IoT
12 19 (1.34%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.34%) Equities
13 17 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.85%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.85%) e-Learning
14 12 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.85%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.57%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.83%) Linux
2 17 (1.20%) Android
3 14 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.92%) Windows
5 6 (0.42%) CentOS
5 6 (0.42%) Debian
5 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (51.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 525 (37.15%) Agile
3 507 (35.88%) Software Engineering
4 425 (30.08%) CI/CD
5 303 (21.44%) DevOps
6 257 (18.19%) Microservices
7 246 (17.41%) Mentoring
8 245 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
9 231 (16.35%) AI
10 215 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 184 (13.02%) Front End Development
12 173 (12.24%) User Experience
13 158 (11.18%) Test Automation
14 152 (10.76%) Clean Code
15 150 (10.62%) Containerisation
16 143 (10.12%) Scrum
17 123 (8.70%) Computer Science
17 123 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
18 98 (6.94%) TDD
19 88 (6.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 739 (52.30%) TypeScript
2 690 (48.83%) JavaScript
3 380 (26.89%) Python
4 332 (23.50%) Java
5 248 (17.55%) SQL
6 220 (15.57%) C#
7 72 (5.10%) PHP
8 71 (5.02%) Go
9 23 (1.63%) C
10 18 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 15 (1.06%) Ruby
13 14 (0.99%) Bash
14 11 (0.78%) C++
14 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.50%) Bicep
15 7 (0.50%) Rust
16 5 (0.35%) Swift
17 4 (0.28%) R
17 4 (0.28%) RPG
Qualifications
1 134 (9.48%) Degree
2 106 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 84 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 62 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 40 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
8 12 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.21%) ISEB
11 3 (0.21%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.95%) QA
2 44 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
4 3 (0.21%) WCAG
5 2 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.071%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.071%) NIST
6 1 (0.071%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 238 (16.84%) Docker
2 10 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 200 (14.15%) Kubernetes
2 160 (11.32%) Terraform
3 23 (1.63%) Grafana
4 19 (1.34%) Ansible
5 13 (0.92%) Argo
5 13 (0.92%) Podman
6 12 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.71%) Kibana
8 6 (0.42%) Puppet
9 5 (0.35%) Nagios
10 4 (0.28%) Plesk
11 3 (0.21%) cPanel
11 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) Packer
12 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 72 (5.10%) Microsoft
2 38 (2.69%) Google
3 24 (1.70%) Atlassian
3 24 (1.70%) OpenAI
4 20 (1.42%) Oracle
5 14 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
6 12 (0.85%) HubSpot
6 12 (0.85%) Red Hat
7 9 (0.64%) IBM
8 7 (0.50%) Adobe
9 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.42%) Foundry
9 6 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.42%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.42%) Solace
10 5 (0.35%) Apple
10 5 (0.35%) Databricks
10 5 (0.35%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.35%) Pega
10 5 (0.35%) SAP