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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 41 46
Rank change year-on-year -49 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,381 2,183 3,447
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.09% 5.66% 4.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.45% 25.62% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,136 1,531 3,027
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,625 £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 £93,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +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 7,102 8,521 16,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.74% 22.08% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,416 6,026 13,616
10th Percentile £37,000 £39,750 £36,500
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,050 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.59% +10.08% -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 17 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 17 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 -26 614 £90,000 +2.86% 311
North of England -49 257 £65,000 +8.33% 113
South East -71 194 £60,000 - 121
Midlands -16 141 £62,500 +4.17% 54
Yorkshire -16 122 £70,000 +4.09% 43
North West -49 120 £65,000 +4.00% 54
South West -44 102 £62,500 -5.66% 70
East Midlands -13 80 £65,000 +8.33% 23
West Midlands -14 61 £60,000 - 31
East of England -87 45 £50,000 -25.93% 38
North East -41 15 £55,000 +12.24% 16
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 (1.59%) CMS
2 19 (1.38%) Confluence
3 13 (0.94%) Apache
4 9 (0.65%) Headless CMS
4 9 (0.65%) IIS
4 9 (0.65%) OpenStack
4 9 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.43%) nginx
7 5 (0.36%) WordPress
8 4 (0.29%) Appian
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.22%) Liferay
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.14%) CICS
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
10 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.072%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.072%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Shopify
2 5 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.072%) Magento
4 1 (0.072%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 632 (45.76%) AWS
2 423 (30.63%) Azure
3 173 (12.53%) Serverless
4 170 (12.31%) GCP
5 145 (10.50%) GitHub
6 134 (9.70%) SaaS
7 101 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
8 93 (6.73%) Amazon S3
9 75 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (3.55%) Figma
13 42 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.59%) npm
17 21 (1.52%) Amazon EventBridge
18 20 (1.45%) Power Platform
19 19 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 16 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.16%) Internet
2 14 (1.01%) Broadband
3 10 (0.72%) AMQP
4 3 (0.22%) HTTP
4 3 (0.22%) SSL
5 2 (0.14%) DNS
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.14%) LTE
6 1 (0.072%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (7.10%) NoSQL
3 90 (6.52%) SQL Server
4 71 (5.14%) MySQL
5 64 (4.63%) Relational Database
6 55 (3.98%) MongoDB
7 52 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 35 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (1.45%) Redis
10 19 (1.38%) Neo4j
11 15 (1.09%) DB2
12 12 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.87%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.80%) Power BI
14 9 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 190 (13.76%) Git
2 71 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.04%) JIRA
4 35 (2.53%) Cypress.io
5 25 (1.81%) TeamCity
6 24 (1.74%) Vite
7 21 (1.52%) Selenium
7 21 (1.52%) webpack
8 20 (1.45%) GitLab
9 19 (1.38%) Storybook
10 18 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.23%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.01%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.80%) JUnit
14 9 (0.65%) Gradle
14 9 (0.65%) Maven
15 7 (0.51%) gulp
16 5 (0.36%) Babel
16 5 (0.36%) ESLint
16 5 (0.36%) git-flow
General
1 303 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 220 (15.93%) Finance
3 94 (6.81%) Front Office
4 81 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (3.98%) Banking
6 43 (3.11%) Law
7 37 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 37 (2.68%) Retail
8 35 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.74%) Marketing
10 23 (1.67%) Legal
11 22 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.23%) Games
13 13 (0.94%) Tech for Good
14 9 (0.65%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.58%) Multimedia
16 7 (0.51%) Back Office
16 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 769 (55.68%) Developer
2 325 (23.53%) Senior
3 286 (20.71%) Software Engineer
4 277 (20.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 219 (15.86%) React Developer
6 186 (13.47%) Lead
7 175 (12.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 159 (11.51%) Senior Developer
9 89 (6.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 89 (6.44%) Lead Developer
10 87 (6.30%) Python Developer
11 82 (5.94%) Java Developer
12 71 (5.14%) .NET Developer
13 70 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
14 57 (4.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 55 (3.98%) Software Developer
16 54 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
17 46 (3.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 44 (3.19%) C# Developer
18 44 (3.19%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (31.57%) Node.js
2 294 (21.29%) CSS
3 293 (21.22%) .NET
4 287 (20.78%) HTML
5 210 (15.21%) AngularJS
6 175 (12.67%) REST
7 157 (11.37%) Vue
8 143 (10.35%) RESTful
9 115 (8.33%) Next.js
10 114 (8.25%) GraphQL
11 99 (7.17%) .NET Core
12 96 (6.95%) Spring
13 84 (6.08%) Redux
13 84 (6.08%) Spring Boot
14 74 (5.36%) Kafka
15 73 (5.29%) Django
16 66 (4.78%) React Native
17 65 (4.71%) ASP.NET
18 60 (4.34%) WebSockets
19 55 (3.98%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.85%) Cloud Native
2 81 (5.87%) Fixed Income
3 60 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
3 60 (4.34%) Mobile App
4 54 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 48 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 25 (1.81%) Derivative
10 22 (1.59%) IoT
11 20 (1.45%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.38%) Equities
13 13 (0.94%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.80%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.72%) AI Agents
16 9 (0.65%) Cybercrime
16 9 (0.65%) Onboarding
16 9 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.75%) Linux
2 17 (1.23%) Android
3 14 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.94%) Windows
5 5 (0.36%) CentOS
5 5 (0.36%) Debian
5 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.072%) VMS
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 685 (49.60%) Full-Stack Development
2 545 (39.46%) Agile
3 499 (36.13%) Software Engineering
4 431 (31.21%) CI/CD
5 278 (20.13%) DevOps
6 256 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
7 247 (17.89%) Microservices
8 242 (17.52%) Mentoring
9 221 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 211 (15.28%) AI
11 200 (14.48%) User Experience
12 193 (13.98%) Front End Development
13 152 (11.01%) Clean Code
14 143 (10.35%) Test Automation
15 142 (10.28%) Containerisation
16 134 (9.70%) Scrum
17 130 (9.41%) Computer Science
18 116 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
19 95 (6.88%) TDD
20 84 (6.08%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 704 (50.98%) TypeScript
2 688 (49.82%) JavaScript
3 372 (26.94%) Python
4 326 (23.61%) Java
5 252 (18.25%) SQL
6 239 (17.31%) C#
7 71 (5.14%) Go
8 69 (5.00%) PHP
9 22 (1.59%) C
10 18 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.23%) PowerShell
12 16 (1.16%) Rust
13 13 (0.94%) Bash
14 11 (0.80%) C++
14 11 (0.80%) Ruby
15 10 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.43%) Bicep
17 5 (0.36%) R
17 5 (0.36%) RPG
18 3 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 146 (10.57%) Degree
2 107 (7.75%) Security Cleared
3 84 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 59 (4.27%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (0.65%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.22%) ISEB
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.14%) PhD
16 1 (0.072%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.42%) QA
2 57 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 9 (0.65%) WCAG
4 5 (0.36%) SLA
5 4 (0.29%) GDPR
5 4 (0.29%) NCSC
6 3 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.072%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.072%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.072%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 227 (16.44%) Docker
2 11 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 197 (14.27%) Kubernetes
2 150 (10.86%) Terraform
3 21 (1.52%) Grafana
4 13 (0.94%) Ansible
4 13 (0.94%) Argo
5 9 (0.65%) Kibana
5 9 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.51%) Podman
7 5 (0.36%) Nagios
7 5 (0.36%) Puppet
8 3 (0.22%) cPanel
8 3 (0.22%) Plesk
9 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.14%) Packer
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (5.36%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.53%) Google
3 26 (1.88%) Atlassian
4 24 (1.74%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.38%) Oracle
6 13 (0.94%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
7 12 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.51%) Adobe
8 7 (0.51%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.43%) Foundry
9 6 (0.43%) Solace
10 5 (0.36%) Databricks
10 5 (0.36%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.36%) IBM
10 5 (0.36%) Pega
10 5 (0.36%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.36%) SAP
11 4 (0.29%) Apple
11 4 (0.29%) Informatica