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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 38 40
Rank change year-on-year -55 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing React 1,344 2,425 3,288
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.20% 5.70% 4.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.01% 25.51% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 1,538 2,925
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £49,750
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £126,250 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 6,715 9,507 15,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.99% 22.33% 22.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,152 5,925 12,921
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -8.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%

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 February 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 February 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 -24 599 £92,500 +5.71% 261
North of England -50 248 £65,000 +8.33% 132
South East -81 192 £62,500 -0.79% 127
Midlands -12 132 £62,500 +4.17% 68
Yorkshire -20 117 £70,000 +3.70% 45
North West -45 115 £65,000 +6.12% 69
South West -54 103 £62,500 -3.85% 60
East Midlands -5 71 £65,000 +8.33% 32
West Midlands -25 61 £60,000 - 36
East of England -84 43 £57,500 -14.81% 28
North East -37 16 £56,750 +15.82% 18
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 20 (1.49%) Confluence
2 19 (1.41%) CMS
3 18 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.97%) Apache
5 9 (0.67%) nginx
5 9 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.52%) IIS
7 7 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.45%) WordPress
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.30%) Appian
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
12 2 (0.15%) JBoss
12 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.074%) SAS
13 1 (0.074%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Shopify
2 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.074%) Magento
4 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 620 (46.13%) AWS
2 417 (31.03%) Azure
3 175 (13.02%) Serverless
4 162 (12.05%) GCP
5 148 (11.01%) GitHub
6 124 (9.23%) SaaS
7 105 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (7.29%) Amazon S3
9 72 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (3.57%) Figma
13 42 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (1.79%) Power Platform
16 21 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (1.49%) Amazon EventBridge
17 20 (1.49%) npm
18 17 (1.26%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.89%) Internet
2 10 (0.74%) AMQP
3 5 (0.37%) Broadband
4 4 (0.30%) HTTP
5 3 (0.22%) SSL
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
6 2 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.074%) Firewall
7 1 (0.074%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.074%) MQTT
7 1 (0.074%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.77%) NoSQL
3 83 (6.18%) SQL Server
4 68 (5.06%) MySQL
5 66 (4.91%) Relational Database
6 52 (3.87%) DynamoDB
7 48 (3.57%) MongoDB
8 36 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (1.34%) Neo4j
10 18 (1.34%) Redis
11 14 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.04%) DB2
12 13 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.89%) Apache Arrow
13 12 (0.89%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.89%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.82%) Apache Iceberg
14 11 (0.82%) Dremio
14 11 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 177 (13.17%) Git
2 66 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.05%) JIRA
4 35 (2.60%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.93%) TeamCity
6 24 (1.79%) Vite
7 23 (1.71%) GitLab
8 22 (1.64%) Selenium
8 22 (1.64%) webpack
9 20 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 19 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.41%) Storybook
11 11 (0.82%) JUnit
12 10 (0.74%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.74%) Maven
13 7 (0.52%) Gradle
13 7 (0.52%) gulp
14 6 (0.45%) git-flow
15 5 (0.37%) Babel
15 5 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 304 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 208 (15.48%) Finance
3 88 (6.55%) Front Office
4 78 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (4.17%) Banking
6 46 (3.42%) Retail
7 43 (3.20%) Law
8 42 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.71%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.64%) Marketing
12 21 (1.56%) Games
12 21 (1.56%) Legal
13 13 (0.97%) Tech for Good
14 9 (0.67%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.67%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.52%) Back Office
16 6 (0.45%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.45%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 743 (55.28%) Developer
2 313 (23.29%) Senior
3 283 (21.06%) Software Engineer
4 270 (20.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 206 (15.33%) React Developer
6 177 (13.17%) Lead
7 160 (11.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 151 (11.24%) Senior Developer
9 100 (7.44%) Python Developer
10 85 (6.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 82 (6.10%) Lead Developer
12 80 (5.95%) Java Developer
13 70 (5.21%) .NET Developer
14 69 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
15 56 (4.17%) Software Developer
16 54 (4.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 48 (3.57%) Full-Stack Python Developer
18 46 (3.42%) C# Developer
18 46 (3.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 45 (3.35%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (29.91%) Node.js
2 293 (21.80%) .NET
3 291 (21.65%) CSS
4 283 (21.06%) HTML
5 237 (17.63%) AngularJS
6 181 (13.47%) REST
7 174 (12.95%) Vue
8 132 (9.82%) RESTful
9 108 (8.04%) Next.js
10 105 (7.81%) GraphQL
11 102 (7.59%) Spring
12 100 (7.44%) .NET Core
13 91 (6.77%) Spring Boot
14 74 (5.51%) Redux
15 67 (4.99%) ASP.NET
15 67 (4.99%) Django
15 67 (4.99%) Kafka
15 67 (4.99%) React Native
16 59 (4.39%) WebSockets
17 58 (4.32%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 147 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 80 (5.95%) Fixed Income
3 69 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
5 51 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.93%) Equities
11 20 (1.49%) IoT
12 18 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.34%) Derivative
12 18 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.12%) Onboarding
14 13 (0.97%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.74%) AI Agents
15 10 (0.74%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.67%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.67%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.31%) Linux
2 18 (1.34%) Android
3 15 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.82%) Windows
5 5 (0.37%) CentOS
5 5 (0.37%) Debian
5 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.30%) Unix
7 1 (0.074%) VMS
7 1 (0.074%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (48.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 535 (39.81%) Agile
3 477 (35.49%) Software Engineering
4 419 (31.18%) CI/CD
5 267 (19.87%) DevOps
6 260 (19.35%) Microservices
7 256 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 217 (16.15%) Mentoring
9 208 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (15.25%) User Experience
11 204 (15.18%) AI
12 195 (14.51%) Front End Development
13 144 (10.71%) Clean Code
14 140 (10.42%) Containerisation
15 123 (9.15%) Test Automation
16 122 (9.08%) Scrum
17 119 (8.85%) Computer Science
18 111 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
19 101 (7.51%) TDD
20 88 (6.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 678 (50.45%) JavaScript
2 669 (49.78%) TypeScript
3 362 (26.93%) Python
4 324 (24.11%) Java
5 248 (18.45%) SQL
6 237 (17.63%) C#
7 73 (5.43%) PHP
8 63 (4.69%) Go
9 22 (1.64%) Kotlin
10 21 (1.56%) C
10 21 (1.56%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.12%) Rust
12 12 (0.89%) Bash
12 12 (0.89%) C++
12 12 (0.89%) Ruby
13 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.45%) Bicep
14 6 (0.45%) R
14 6 (0.45%) Scala
15 5 (0.37%) RPG
Qualifications
1 140 (10.42%) Degree
2 123 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 75 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 43 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
7 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.22%) ISEB
12 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.15%) PhD
13 2 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.91%) Accessibility
2 62 (4.61%) QA
3 14 (1.04%) WCAG
4 6 (0.45%) SLA
5 5 (0.37%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) NCSC
7 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.22%) NIST
7 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.074%) Data Quality
System Software
1 221 (16.44%) Docker
2 13 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 209 (15.55%) Kubernetes
2 145 (10.79%) Terraform
3 19 (1.41%) Grafana
4 14 (1.04%) Ansible
4 14 (1.04%) Argo
5 10 (0.74%) Kibana
6 7 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) Puppet
8 4 (0.30%) Nagios
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
11 1 (0.074%) Istio
11 1 (0.074%) Podman
Vendors
1 74 (5.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.23%) Google
3 27 (2.01%) Atlassian
3 27 (2.01%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.34%) Oracle
5 13 (0.97%) HubSpot
6 12 (0.89%) Red Hat
7 10 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (0.52%) Adobe
8 7 (0.52%) Foundry
8 7 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.45%) Databricks
10 5 (0.37%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.37%) IBM
10 5 (0.37%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.37%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.37%) SAP
11 4 (0.30%) Apple
11 4 (0.30%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.30%) Informatica