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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 86 48
Rank change year-on-year -34 -38 -2
Permanent jobs citing React 1,582 1,509 2,819
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.52% 3.50% 4.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.63% 20.19% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,206 1,003 1,720
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 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £87,813
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 10,811 7,475 14,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.32% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,850 4,941 9,050
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -61 581 £85,000 -15.00% 978
North of England -12 348 £60,000 -7.69% 233
South East +33 277 £60,000 - 137
North West -15 196 £60,000 -7.69% 165
Midlands -26 149 £55,000 - 118
South West -25 141 £55,000 -8.33% 124
Yorkshire +11 99 £60,000 -11.11% 54
East Midlands -12 79 £52,500 -4.55% 35
East of England -18 70 £60,000 -4.00% 68
West Midlands -56 70 £55,000 -4.35% 83
North East -29 53 £65,000 +30.00% 15
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 31 (1.96%) CMS
2 28 (1.77%) Apache
3 24 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.33%) Headless CMS
5 18 (1.14%) Confluence
6 13 (0.82%) nginx
7 10 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.63%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.44%) IIS
8 7 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.32%) JBoss
10 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.25%) Kentico
10 4 (0.25%) WordPress
11 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
11 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.13%) Simulink
3 1 (0.063%) Revit
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
1 676 (42.73%) AWS
2 577 (36.47%) Azure
3 172 (10.87%) GitHub
4 143 (9.04%) Serverless
5 141 (8.91%) GCP
6 131 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (6.64%) SaaS
8 77 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (4.87%) Azure AI
9 62 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (2.97%) Anthropic Claude
11 44 (2.78%) Amazon S3
12 42 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
13 36 (2.28%) Power Platform
14 34 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 33 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
17 28 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (1.64%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.45%) Internet
2 22 (1.39%) 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 7 (0.44%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.32%) Firewall
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
9 4 (0.25%) Intranet
9 4 (0.25%) LAN
9 4 (0.25%) WAN
10 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.13%) LTE
10 2 (0.13%) MQTT
10 2 (0.13%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.13%) VPN
11 1 (0.063%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (12.64%) MongoDB
2 170 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (9.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 123 (7.77%) SQL Server
5 97 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
5 97 (6.13%) NoSQL
6 93 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 92 (5.82%) MySQL
8 40 (2.53%) DynamoDB
9 37 (2.34%) Redis
10 18 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.95%) Power BI
12 11 (0.70%) Big Data
12 11 (0.70%) Metadata
13 10 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.63%) Neo4j
14 9 (0.57%) Chroma
14 9 (0.57%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 255 (16.12%) Git
2 78 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 66 (4.17%) GitLab
4 55 (3.48%) Cypress.io
5 42 (2.65%) JIRA
6 41 (2.59%) JUnit
7 40 (2.53%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.90%) Subversion
9 27 (1.71%) Vite
10 25 (1.58%) Eclipse
11 24 (1.52%) Maven
12 21 (1.33%) Bitbucket
12 21 (1.33%) Selenium
13 18 (1.14%) Mockito
14 13 (0.82%) Storybook
15 11 (0.70%) Postman
16 10 (0.63%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.63%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
18 7 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 345 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 257 (16.25%) Finance
3 75 (4.74%) Retail
4 71 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 63 (3.98%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.29%) Marketing
8 48 (3.03%) Law
9 41 (2.59%) Banking
10 36 (2.28%) Legal
11 30 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.07%) Publishing
13 16 (1.01%) Front Office
13 16 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.01%) Legal Technology
14 13 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.76%) Advertising
16 11 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.70%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 798 (50.44%) Developer
2 350 (22.12%) Senior
3 331 (20.92%) Software Engineer
4 260 (16.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 208 (13.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 199 (12.58%) .NET Developer
7 159 (10.05%) Lead
8 150 (9.48%) Senior Developer
9 122 (7.71%) React Developer
10 118 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 80 (5.06%) Software Developer
12 78 (4.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 63 (3.98%) Java Developer
14 59 (3.73%) Lead Developer
14 59 (3.73%) Python Engineer
15 58 (3.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 55 (3.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 41 (2.59%) Junior
18 39 (2.47%) Engineering Manager
18 39 (2.47%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (29.39%) .NET
2 454 (28.70%) Node.js
3 254 (16.06%) REST
4 239 (15.11%) RESTful
5 238 (15.04%) AngularJS
6 225 (14.22%) ASP.NET
7 206 (13.02%) .NET Core
8 203 (12.83%) ASP.NET Core
9 201 (12.71%) CSS
10 187 (11.82%) Terraform
11 179 (11.31%) HTML
12 177 (11.19%) Next.js
13 174 (11.00%) Vue
14 162 (10.24%) Blazor
15 129 (8.15%) Spring
16 105 (6.64%) Spring Boot
17 90 (5.69%) .NET Framework
17 90 (5.69%) React Native
18 86 (5.44%) ASP.NET Web API
19 67 (4.24%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 236 (14.92%) Cloud Native
2 104 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 64 (4.05%) Mobile App
6 61 (3.86%) AI Agents
7 55 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 27 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.14%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.14%) Social Media
13 17 (1.07%) iPhone
14 15 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
15 14 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
16 13 (0.82%) IoT
16 13 (0.82%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.49%) Linux
2 30 (1.90%) Android
3 21 (1.33%) Windows
4 16 (1.01%) Debian
4 16 (1.01%) 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 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 893 (56.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 687 (43.43%) Agile
3 589 (37.23%) CI/CD
4 588 (37.17%) Software Engineering
5 483 (30.53%) AI
6 397 (25.09%) Microservices
7 361 (22.82%) DevOps
8 321 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
9 290 (18.33%) Mentoring
10 236 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 202 (12.77%) Test Automation
12 201 (12.71%) Code Quality
13 185 (11.69%) Scrum
14 184 (11.63%) Front End Development
15 177 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 172 (10.87%) Containerisation
17 161 (10.18%) Clean Code
18 148 (9.36%) SDLC
19 147 (9.29%) Computer Science
20 135 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 828 (52.34%) TypeScript
2 756 (47.79%) JavaScript
3 481 (30.40%) C#
4 430 (27.18%) SQL
5 401 (25.35%) Python
6 278 (17.57%) Java
7 65 (4.11%) C++
8 64 (4.05%) PHP
9 63 (3.98%) Go
10 45 (2.84%) Ruby
11 31 (1.96%) Rust
12 27 (1.71%) Bash
13 26 (1.64%) Perl
14 22 (1.39%) PL/SQL
15 16 (1.01%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.70%) PowerShell
17 10 (0.63%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.51%) Scala
18 8 (0.51%) Swift
19 6 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 199 (12.58%) Degree
2 156 (9.86%) Security Cleared
3 124 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 106 (6.70%) SC Cleared
5 33 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.63%) MBA
8 9 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.19%) OCP
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.19%) PhD
13 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.063%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.94%) QA
2 86 (5.44%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.64%) WCAG
4 13 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.70%) GDPR
6 8 (0.51%) 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
1 294 (18.58%) Docker
2 7 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 226 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.83%) Ansible
3 16 (1.01%) Grafana
4 14 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Puppet
7 6 (0.38%) Kibana
7 6 (0.38%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
8 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.25%) Argo
9 4 (0.25%) Packer
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.063%) Consul
Vendors
1 251 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.74%) Google
3 46 (2.91%) OpenAI
4 29 (1.83%) Oracle
5 23 (1.45%) Facebook
5 23 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.14%) Databricks
7 15 (0.95%) Red Hat
7 15 (0.95%) Splunk
8 13 (0.82%) Mistral
8 13 (0.82%) Palantir
9 12 (0.76%) Foundry
9 12 (0.76%) Sony
10 10 (0.63%) Apple
10 10 (0.63%) New Relic
10 10 (0.63%) Yahoo!
11 7 (0.44%) IBM
11 7 (0.44%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.38%) Atlassian