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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 88 47
Rank change year-on-year -34 -41 0
Permanent jobs citing React 1,543 1,504 2,907
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 3.47% 4.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.50% 20.26% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,170 995 1,727
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 £86,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -3.57%

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 10,642 7,423 14,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.24% 17.14% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,708 4,897 9,020
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 5 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 5 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 -63 562 £85,000 -15.00% 1,137
North of England -9 341 £60,000 -7.69% 349
South East +30 273 £60,000 - 270
North West -22 192 £60,000 -7.69% 213
Midlands -35 143 £55,000 - 190
South West -22 138 £55,000 -8.33% 172
Yorkshire -3 96 £60,000 -9.43% 101
East Midlands -16 78 £52,500 -4.55% 85
East of England -29 67 £60,000 -4.00% 136
West Midlands -52 65 £55,000 -6.38% 105
North East -25 53 £65,000 +18.18% 38
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 32 (2.07%) CMS
2 28 (1.81%) Apache
3 23 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.43%) Headless CMS
5 19 (1.23%) Confluence
6 13 (0.84%) nginx
7 9 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.58%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.45%) IIS
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.32%) JBoss
10 4 (0.26%) Kentico
10 4 (0.26%) WordPress
11 3 (0.19%) DNN
11 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
11 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.19%) Simulink
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.065%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.71%) Magento
2 8 (0.52%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 657 (42.58%) AWS
2 574 (37.20%) Azure
3 178 (11.54%) GitHub
4 138 (8.94%) GCP
5 133 (8.62%) Serverless
6 130 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (6.61%) SaaS
8 77 (4.99%) Azure AI
9 71 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (2.79%) Anthropic Claude
11 43 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
12 42 (2.72%) Amazon S3
13 36 (2.33%) Power Platform
14 33 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 33 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 27 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
16 26 (1.69%) Vercel
17 24 (1.56%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.49%) Internet
2 22 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.65%) VoIP
4 9 (0.58%) Broadband
5 8 (0.52%) AMQP
5 8 (0.52%) DNS
5 8 (0.52%) HTTP
6 7 (0.45%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.32%) Firewall
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
9 4 (0.26%) LAN
9 4 (0.26%) WAN
10 3 (0.19%) Intranet
11 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (0.13%) LTE
11 2 (0.13%) MQTT
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.13%) VPN
12 1 (0.065%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (13.16%) MongoDB
2 174 (11.28%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (9.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 122 (7.91%) SQL Server
5 96 (6.22%) Elasticsearch
6 94 (6.09%) NoSQL
7 88 (5.70%) MySQL
7 88 (5.70%) Relational Database
8 37 (2.40%) DynamoDB
9 36 (2.33%) Redis
10 18 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.97%) Power BI
12 13 (0.84%) Chroma
12 13 (0.84%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.71%) Big Data
13 11 (0.71%) Metadata
14 10 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.58%) Neo4j
16 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 250 (16.20%) Git
2 76 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 69 (4.47%) GitLab
4 55 (3.56%) Cypress.io
5 43 (2.79%) JIRA
6 41 (2.66%) JUnit
7 36 (2.33%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.94%) Subversion
9 26 (1.69%) Vite
10 25 (1.62%) Eclipse
11 23 (1.49%) Maven
12 20 (1.30%) Bitbucket
12 20 (1.30%) Selenium
13 18 (1.17%) Mockito
14 13 (0.84%) Storybook
15 11 (0.71%) Postman
16 10 (0.65%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.65%) Visual Studio
17 7 (0.45%) NUnit
17 7 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 338 (21.91%) Social Skills
2 248 (16.07%) Finance
3 73 (4.73%) Retail
4 72 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (3.43%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.37%) Marketing
8 47 (3.05%) Law
9 37 (2.40%) Banking
9 37 (2.40%) Legal
10 29 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.10%) Publishing
12 16 (1.04%) Front Office
12 16 (1.04%) Legal Technology
13 14 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.78%) Advertising
16 11 (0.71%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.71%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 785 (50.87%) Developer
2 342 (22.16%) Senior
3 323 (20.93%) Software Engineer
4 255 (16.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 199 (12.90%) .NET Developer
6 193 (12.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 154 (9.98%) Lead
8 147 (9.53%) Senior Developer
9 118 (7.65%) React Developer
10 114 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 79 (5.12%) Software Developer
12 77 (4.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 59 (3.82%) Java Developer
14 58 (3.76%) Lead Developer
15 57 (3.69%) Python Engineer
16 55 (3.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 53 (3.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 41 (2.66%) Junior
19 39 (2.53%) Engineering Manager
20 36 (2.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (30.20%) .NET
2 443 (28.71%) Node.js
3 245 (15.88%) REST
4 235 (15.23%) RESTful
5 229 (14.84%) AngularJS
6 226 (14.65%) ASP.NET
7 206 (13.35%) .NET Core
8 203 (13.16%) ASP.NET Core
9 198 (12.83%) CSS
10 181 (11.73%) Terraform
11 175 (11.34%) HTML
11 175 (11.34%) Next.js
12 170 (11.02%) Vue
13 161 (10.43%) Blazor
14 121 (7.84%) Spring
15 98 (6.35%) Spring Boot
16 89 (5.77%) .NET Framework
17 87 (5.64%) React Native
18 86 (5.57%) ASP.NET Web API
19 68 (4.41%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 231 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 101 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 61 (3.95%) AI Agents
5 61 (3.95%) Mobile App
6 54 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.75%) Virtual Team
11 22 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.17%) Social Media
13 17 (1.10%) iPhone
14 16 (1.04%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.91%) Augmented Reality
15 14 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.84%) IoT
16 13 (0.84%) Media Streaming
16 13 (0.84%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.54%) Linux
2 30 (1.94%) Android
3 21 (1.36%) Windows
4 16 (1.04%) Debian
4 16 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 14 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.52%) Unix
7 7 (0.45%) CentOS
8 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (56.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 675 (43.75%) Agile
3 583 (37.78%) CI/CD
4 575 (37.27%) Software Engineering
5 479 (31.04%) AI
6 391 (25.34%) Microservices
7 343 (22.23%) DevOps
8 311 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
9 288 (18.66%) Mentoring
10 231 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 199 (12.90%) Code Quality
12 196 (12.70%) Test Automation
13 185 (11.99%) Front End Development
14 179 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
15 175 (11.34%) Scrum
16 166 (10.76%) Containerisation
17 158 (10.24%) Clean Code
18 147 (9.53%) Computer Science
18 147 (9.53%) SDLC
19 132 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 805 (52.17%) TypeScript
2 750 (48.61%) JavaScript
3 480 (31.11%) C#
4 421 (27.28%) SQL
5 389 (25.21%) Python
6 267 (17.30%) Java
7 66 (4.28%) Go
8 65 (4.21%) C++
9 64 (4.15%) PHP
10 44 (2.85%) Ruby
11 31 (2.01%) Rust
12 27 (1.75%) Bash
13 25 (1.62%) Perl
14 18 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 15 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.71%) PowerShell
17 10 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.52%) Scala
19 7 (0.45%) Swift
20 5 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 199 (12.90%) Degree
2 149 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 125 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 99 (6.42%) SC Cleared
5 32 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 28 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.65%) MBA
8 9 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.32%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.19%) OCP
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.13%) PhD
13 1 (0.065%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.70%) QA
2 87 (5.64%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.75%) WCAG
4 13 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.71%) GDPR
6 8 (0.52%) GRC
7 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.065%) SLA
10 1 (0.065%) WAI
10 1 (0.065%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 287 (18.60%) Docker
2 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 220 (14.26%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.56%) Ansible
3 16 (1.04%) Grafana
4 14 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.52%) Puppet
7 6 (0.39%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
8 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.26%) Argo
9 4 (0.26%) Packer
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.065%) Consul
Vendors
1 250 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.86%) Google
3 51 (3.31%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.49%) Facebook
4 23 (1.49%) Oracle
4 23 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.17%) Databricks
6 17 (1.10%) Mistral
7 15 (0.97%) Red Hat
7 15 (0.97%) Splunk
8 13 (0.84%) Palantir
9 12 (0.78%) Foundry
9 12 (0.78%) Sony
10 10 (0.65%) Apple
10 10 (0.65%) New Relic
10 10 (0.65%) Yahoo!
11 7 (0.45%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.39%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.39%) OneLogin
12 6 (0.39%) Solace