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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 57 49
Rank change year-on-year -48 -8 -8
Permanent jobs citing React 1,463 1,713 3,765
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 4.47% 4.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.64% 22.78% 22.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,178 1,259 3,087
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +9.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £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 8,293 7,519 17,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 19.62% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,285 5,151 14,195
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,550 £45,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,235 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.39% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -31 624 £85,000 -5.56% 244
North of England -34 286 £65,000 - 119
South East -8 232 £65,000 +8.33% 102
Midlands -31 153 £62,500 +4.17% 33
North West -43 132 £62,500 -3.85% 66
Yorkshire -7 119 £67,500 - 39
South West -71 97 £60,000 -4.00% 37
East Midlands -28 82 £65,000 +18.18% 19
West Midlands -41 71 £60,000 - 14
East of England -9 60 £57,500 -8.00% 32
North East -30 35 £55,000 +4.76% 14
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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 23 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.37%) Confluence
3 16 (1.09%) Apache
4 15 (1.03%) CMS
5 12 (0.82%) IIS
6 10 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Appian
11 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 1 (0.068%) Camunda
12 1 (0.068%) Strapi
Applications
1 13 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Shopify
2 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 667 (45.59%) AWS
2 440 (30.08%) Azure
3 175 (11.96%) Serverless
4 156 (10.66%) GCP
5 129 (8.82%) GitHub
6 111 (7.59%) SaaS
7 110 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
8 102 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
9 78 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 49 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (2.94%) Figma
13 41 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (2.12%) Azure AI
15 30 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (1.85%) Power Platform
17 22 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (1.50%) npm
18 21 (1.44%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.23%) Internet
2 17 (1.16%) Broadband
3 9 (0.62%) AMQP
4 7 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.41%) HTTP
6 5 (0.34%) DNS
7 4 (0.27%) Intranet
7 4 (0.27%) LTE
8 3 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 3 (0.21%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.14%) SSL
9 2 (0.14%) VoIP
10 1 (0.068%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.068%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 96 (6.56%) MongoDB
4 77 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 67 (4.58%) MySQL
6 50 (3.42%) DynamoDB
7 47 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (3.21%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.37%) Redis
10 16 (1.09%) Neo4j
11 12 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.68%) DB2
12 10 (0.68%) Pinecone
12 10 (0.68%) Power BI
13 9 (0.62%) Big Data
14 8 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.41%) Metadata
15 6 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 200 (13.67%) Git
2 75 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 48 (3.28%) JIRA
4 34 (2.32%) Cypress.io
5 32 (2.19%) GitLab
6 28 (1.91%) Vite
7 19 (1.30%) Claude Code
8 18 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.23%) Maven
9 16 (1.09%) Selenium
10 15 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.03%) JUnit
10 15 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.03%) webpack
11 14 (0.96%) Storybook
12 10 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.68%) Mockito
13 9 (0.62%) Gradle
14 6 (0.41%) MLflow
15 5 (0.34%) ESLint
General
1 265 (18.11%) Social Skills
2 256 (17.50%) Finance
3 84 (5.74%) Front Office
4 77 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.01%) Retail
6 43 (2.94%) Banking
6 43 (2.94%) Law
7 37 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 30 (2.05%) Legal
9 27 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 17 (1.16%) Marketing
10 17 (1.16%) Tech for Good
11 10 (0.68%) Advertising
12 9 (0.62%) Automotive
12 9 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 9 (0.62%) Health Technology
13 8 (0.55%) Games
13 8 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 810 (55.37%) Developer
2 345 (23.58%) Senior
3 305 (20.85%) Software Engineer
4 289 (19.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 227 (15.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 214 (14.63%) React Developer
7 193 (13.19%) Lead
8 165 (11.28%) Senior Developer
9 106 (7.25%) Lead Developer
10 96 (6.56%) .NET Developer
10 96 (6.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 90 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
12 78 (5.33%) Java Developer
13 66 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
13 66 (4.51%) Python Developer
13 66 (4.51%) Software Developer
14 61 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 56 (3.83%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 53 (3.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 47 (3.21%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (33.29%) Node.js
2 308 (21.05%) .NET
3 237 (16.20%) CSS
4 230 (15.72%) HTML
5 212 (14.49%) AngularJS
6 189 (12.92%) REST
7 168 (11.48%) RESTful
8 157 (10.73%) Vue
9 131 (8.95%) Spring
10 130 (8.89%) Next.js
11 116 (7.93%) .NET Core
12 109 (7.45%) Spring Boot
13 94 (6.43%) Redux
14 91 (6.22%) GraphQL
15 89 (6.08%) ASP.NET
16 86 (5.88%) React Native
17 75 (5.13%) ASP.NET Core
18 69 (4.72%) Kafka
19 64 (4.37%) Blazor
20 48 (3.28%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.85%) Mobile App
3 66 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (4.31%) Fixed Income
5 58 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
7 47 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.91%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.44%) Derivative
13 19 (1.30%) IoT
14 16 (1.09%) Equities
15 15 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.96%) e-Learning
17 13 (0.89%) Public Cloud
18 12 (0.82%) Algorithms
18 12 (0.82%) Hedge funds
19 11 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.01%) Linux
2 17 (1.16%) Android
3 14 (0.96%) Windows
4 9 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.41%) Debian
5 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.34%) CentOS
6 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.068%) Unix
7 1 (0.068%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (53.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 572 (39.10%) Agile
3 517 (35.34%) Software Engineering
4 434 (29.67%) CI/CD
5 324 (22.15%) DevOps
6 288 (19.69%) AI
7 285 (19.48%) Microservices
8 276 (18.87%) Mentoring
9 244 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
10 213 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 195 (13.33%) Front End Development
12 166 (11.35%) Test Automation
13 163 (11.14%) User Experience
14 160 (10.94%) Containerisation
14 160 (10.94%) Scrum
15 150 (10.25%) Clean Code
16 129 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 121 (8.27%) Computer Science
18 113 (7.72%) TDD
19 103 (7.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 774 (52.90%) TypeScript
2 670 (45.80%) JavaScript
3 369 (25.22%) Python
4 306 (20.92%) Java
5 281 (19.21%) C#
6 274 (18.73%) SQL
7 68 (4.65%) Go
8 59 (4.03%) PHP
9 20 (1.37%) Bash
10 19 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.30%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.16%) C++
11 17 (1.16%) Ruby
12 15 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.96%) C
14 9 (0.62%) Bicep
15 8 (0.55%) Rust
16 6 (0.41%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.34%) Scala
17 5 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 133 (9.09%) Degree
2 116 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 92 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 38 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.34%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
13 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.068%) HNC
13 1 (0.068%) HND
13 1 (0.068%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.068%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.26%) QA
2 46 (3.14%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.34%) GDPR
3 5 (0.34%) WCAG
4 2 (0.14%) SLA
5 1 (0.068%) NCSC
5 1 (0.068%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.068%) SOC 2
System Software
1 244 (16.68%) Docker
2 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 193 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 152 (10.39%) Terraform
3 21 (1.44%) Grafana
4 20 (1.37%) Ansible
5 13 (0.89%) Podman
5 13 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.55%) Argo
7 7 (0.48%) Kibana
8 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.34%) Nagios
9 5 (0.34%) Puppet
10 3 (0.21%) Plesk
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) Packer
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.068%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 114 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.94%) Google
3 28 (1.91%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.78%) Oracle
5 17 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.55%) Apple
7 8 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.48%) IBM
8 7 (0.48%) Solace
9 6 (0.41%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.41%) Databricks
10 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.34%) Foundry
10 5 (0.34%) Pega
10 5 (0.34%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.27%) Facebook
11 4 (0.27%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.27%) Salesforce