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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 82 48
Rank change year-on-year -37 -34 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,576 1,535 2,898
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 3.55% 4.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.64% 20.05% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,211 1,034 1,812
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -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 10,762 7,655 14,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.59% 17.72% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,872 5,073 9,652
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -58 575 £85,000 -15.00% 1,217
North of England -17 349 £60,000 -7.69% 256
South East +45 278 £60,000 - 185
North West -13 191 £60,000 -11.11% 171
Midlands -25 153 £55,000 - 112
South West -37 136 £55,000 -8.33% 126
Yorkshire -3 105 £62,500 -7.41% 55
East Midlands -21 79 £53,750 -2.27% 48
West Midlands -45 74 £55,000 -6.38% 64
East of England -19 69 £60,000 -4.00% 62
North East -36 53 £65,000 +30.00% 32
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 29 (1.84%) CMS
2 27 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.59%) Apache
4 19 (1.21%) Headless CMS
5 18 (1.14%) Confluence
6 11 (0.70%) nginx
7 10 (0.63%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.51%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.44%) IIS
9 7 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.32%) JBoss
11 4 (0.25%) Kentico
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) DNN
12 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.063%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.70%) Magento
2 8 (0.51%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 671 (42.58%) AWS
2 582 (36.93%) Azure
3 168 (10.66%) GitHub
4 140 (8.88%) GCP
5 137 (8.69%) Serverless
6 135 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 107 (6.79%) SaaS
8 78 (4.95%) Azure AI
9 77 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (2.98%) Anthropic Claude
12 42 (2.66%) GitHub Copilot
13 41 (2.60%) Amazon S3
14 37 (2.35%) Power Platform
15 35 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 34 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
18 27 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (1.65%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.46%) Internet
2 21 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.63%) VoIP
4 9 (0.57%) Broadband
4 9 (0.57%) DNS
4 9 (0.57%) HTTP
5 8 (0.51%) AMQP
6 6 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.38%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.32%) Firewall
7 5 (0.32%) Intranet
7 5 (0.32%) SSL
8 4 (0.25%) LAN
8 4 (0.25%) WAN
9 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.13%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) MQTT
10 1 (0.063%) Network Security
10 1 (0.063%) OpenVPN
10 1 (0.063%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (12.63%) MongoDB
2 157 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
3 144 (9.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 116 (7.36%) SQL Server
5 104 (6.60%) NoSQL
6 97 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
7 92 (5.84%) MySQL
8 82 (5.20%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.54%) DynamoDB
10 37 (2.35%) Redis
11 17 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.95%) Power BI
13 11 (0.70%) Big Data
13 11 (0.70%) Metadata
14 10 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.63%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.57%) Chroma
15 9 (0.57%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 253 (16.05%) Git
2 74 (4.70%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.00%) GitLab
4 53 (3.36%) Cypress.io
5 47 (2.98%) JIRA
6 41 (2.60%) JUnit
7 39 (2.47%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.84%) Subversion
9 25 (1.59%) Eclipse
9 25 (1.59%) Vite
10 23 (1.46%) Maven
10 23 (1.46%) Selenium
11 21 (1.33%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.14%) Mockito
13 12 (0.76%) Storybook
14 11 (0.70%) Postman
15 10 (0.63%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.57%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
18 7 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 335 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 259 (16.43%) Finance
3 77 (4.89%) Retail
4 66 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 64 (4.06%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.30%) Marketing
8 51 (3.24%) Law
9 42 (2.66%) Banking
10 36 (2.28%) Legal
11 29 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.02%) Front Office
13 16 (1.02%) Legal Technology
14 15 (0.95%) Advertising
15 13 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.76%) Publishing
17 11 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.70%) Tech for Good
18 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 802 (50.89%) Developer
2 345 (21.89%) Senior
3 322 (20.43%) Software Engineer
4 262 (16.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 209 (13.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 200 (12.69%) .NET Developer
7 161 (10.22%) Lead
8 150 (9.52%) Senior Developer
9 122 (7.74%) React Developer
10 116 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 81 (5.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 76 (4.82%) Software Developer
13 64 (4.06%) Java Developer
14 62 (3.93%) Lead Developer
15 58 (3.68%) Python Engineer
15 58 (3.68%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 56 (3.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 44 (2.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 40 (2.54%) Engineering Manager
18 40 (2.54%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (29.19%) .NET
2 450 (28.55%) Node.js
3 245 (15.55%) REST
4 241 (15.29%) AngularJS
5 240 (15.23%) RESTful
6 226 (14.34%) ASP.NET
7 204 (12.94%) .NET Core
7 204 (12.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 204 (12.94%) CSS
8 183 (11.61%) HTML
9 182 (11.55%) Terraform
10 175 (11.10%) Next.js
11 173 (10.98%) Vue
12 163 (10.34%) Blazor
13 127 (8.06%) Spring
14 103 (6.54%) Spring Boot
15 94 (5.96%) React Native
16 90 (5.71%) .NET Framework
17 86 (5.46%) ASP.NET Web API
18 68 (4.31%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 234 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 100 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (5.20%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (4.19%) Mobile App
5 64 (4.06%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.74%) AI Agents
7 56 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.65%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.21%) Social Media
14 18 (1.14%) Onboarding
15 17 (1.08%) iPhone
16 14 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.89%) Virtual Reality
17 13 (0.82%) IoT
18 12 (0.76%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.38%) Linux
2 30 (1.90%) Android
3 18 (1.14%) Windows
4 16 (1.02%) Debian
4 16 (1.02%) Ubuntu
5 15 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.51%) Unix
7 7 (0.44%) CentOS
8 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (56.85%) Full-Stack Development
2 686 (43.53%) Agile
3 570 (36.17%) Software Engineering
4 569 (36.10%) CI/CD
5 470 (29.82%) AI
6 392 (24.87%) Microservices
7 367 (23.29%) DevOps
8 311 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
9 291 (18.46%) Mentoring
10 227 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 204 (12.94%) Test Automation
12 189 (11.99%) Code Quality
13 181 (11.48%) Scrum
14 180 (11.42%) Front End Development
15 172 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 167 (10.60%) Containerisation
17 152 (9.64%) Clean Code
18 147 (9.33%) SDLC
19 142 (9.01%) Computer Science
20 138 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 818 (51.90%) TypeScript
2 755 (47.91%) JavaScript
3 476 (30.20%) C#
4 428 (27.16%) SQL
5 398 (25.25%) Python
6 276 (17.51%) Java
7 63 (4.00%) C++
8 62 (3.93%) Go
8 62 (3.93%) PHP
9 48 (3.05%) Ruby
10 29 (1.84%) Rust
11 26 (1.65%) Bash
11 26 (1.65%) Perl
12 22 (1.40%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.70%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.57%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.51%) Scala
16 8 (0.51%) Swift
17 5 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 191 (12.12%) Degree
2 155 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 120 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 108 (6.85%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.63%) MBA
8 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.19%) OCP
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.35%) QA
2 83 (5.27%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.59%) WCAG
4 12 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.70%) GDPR
6 7 (0.44%) GRC
7 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.063%) SLA
System Software
1 276 (17.51%) Docker
2 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 212 (13.45%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.84%) Ansible
3 17 (1.08%) Grafana
4 15 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Puppet
7 6 (0.38%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Kibana
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
9 4 (0.25%) Argo
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
10 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.063%) Consul
12 1 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 250 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.57%) Google
3 45 (2.86%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.90%) Oracle
5 24 (1.52%) Facebook
6 23 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.02%) Databricks
8 15 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 15 (0.95%) Splunk
9 13 (0.82%) Mistral
9 13 (0.82%) Palantir
9 13 (0.82%) Sony
10 12 (0.76%) Foundry
11 11 (0.70%) Apple
11 11 (0.70%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.63%) New Relic
13 8 (0.51%) IBM
14 7 (0.44%) SaltStack
15 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
15 6 (0.38%) Solace