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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -43 -5 -7
Permanent jobs citing React 1,434 1,753 3,763
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.81% 4.67% 4.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.50% 23.14% 22.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 1,440 3,094
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,200 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,969 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £110,350
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 7,753 7,576 16,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.81% 20.18% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,860 5,822 14,109
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -28 627 £90,000 +2.86% 240
North of England -41 275 £65,000 - 87
South East -61 204 £65,000 +8.33% 114
Midlands -17 153 £65,000 +8.33% 49
North West -33 133 £62,500 -3.85% 47
Yorkshire -35 125 £70,000 +3.70% 27
South West -50 103 £60,000 -4.00% 47
East Midlands -28 90 £65,000 +8.33% 20
West Midlands -40 63 £60,000 - 29
East of England -28 57 £50,000 -20.00% 23
North East -51 17 £55,000 +14.58% 13
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 19 (1.32%) CMS
1 19 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.26%) Confluence
3 12 (0.84%) Apache
4 10 (0.70%) IIS
5 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.35%) nginx
8 5 (0.35%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
9 4 (0.28%) WordPress
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.070%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.070%) Sketch
4 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.35%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.070%) Magento
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 667 (46.51%) AWS
2 416 (29.01%) Azure
3 178 (12.41%) Serverless
4 169 (11.79%) GCP
5 131 (9.14%) GitHub
6 118 (8.23%) SaaS
7 106 (7.39%) AWS Lambda
8 87 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
9 86 (6.00%) Amazon S3
10 49 (3.42%) Figma
10 49 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (1.74%) Amazon EventBridge
14 25 (1.74%) Power Platform
15 21 (1.46%) npm
16 16 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
17 15 (1.05%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.32%) Broadband
2 14 (0.98%) Internet
3 9 (0.63%) AMQP
4 7 (0.49%) HTTP
5 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
7 3 (0.21%) LTE
8 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.070%) MQTT
9 1 (0.070%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (7.67%) NoSQL
3 82 (5.72%) SQL Server
4 64 (4.46%) MySQL
5 62 (4.32%) MongoDB
6 54 (3.77%) DynamoDB
7 47 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 34 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (1.60%) Neo4j
10 20 (1.39%) Redis
11 19 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.98%) DB2
12 14 (0.98%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.77%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.77%) Power BI
15 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.49%) Big Data
17 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
18 5 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 193 (13.46%) Git
2 71 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.07%) JIRA
4 34 (2.37%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.81%) Vite
6 23 (1.60%) GitLab
7 22 (1.53%) Selenium
8 20 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.32%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 16 (1.12%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.05%) webpack
13 14 (0.98%) Storybook
14 10 (0.70%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.70%) Maven
15 9 (0.63%) Gradle
16 8 (0.56%) JUnit
17 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
17 5 (0.35%) ESLint
17 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 276 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 237 (16.53%) Finance
3 89 (6.21%) Front Office
4 77 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.56%) Banking
6 42 (2.93%) Law
7 36 (2.51%) Public Sector
7 36 (2.51%) Retail
8 27 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.53%) Legal
10 20 (1.39%) Investment Banking
11 19 (1.32%) Marketing
12 14 (0.98%) Tech for Good
13 10 (0.70%) Games
14 9 (0.63%) Advertising
15 7 (0.49%) Automotive
15 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.42%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 782 (54.53%) Developer
2 348 (24.27%) Senior
3 298 (20.78%) Software Engineer
4 290 (20.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 221 (15.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 218 (15.20%) React Developer
7 197 (13.74%) Lead
8 169 (11.79%) Senior Developer
9 100 (6.97%) Lead Developer
10 91 (6.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 86 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 80 (5.58%) Java Developer
13 76 (5.30%) Python Developer
14 66 (4.60%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 65 (4.53%) .NET Developer
16 62 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
17 55 (3.84%) Software Developer
18 53 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 50 (3.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 49 (3.42%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 478 (33.33%) Node.js
2 257 (17.92%) .NET
2 257 (17.92%) CSS
3 255 (17.78%) HTML
4 208 (14.50%) AngularJS
5 164 (11.44%) REST
6 153 (10.67%) RESTful
7 149 (10.39%) Vue
8 118 (8.23%) Spring
9 117 (8.16%) Next.js
10 104 (7.25%) GraphQL
11 99 (6.90%) Spring Boot
12 91 (6.35%) Redux
13 87 (6.07%) .NET Core
14 75 (5.23%) React Native
15 69 (4.81%) Django
15 69 (4.81%) Kafka
16 53 (3.70%) ASP.NET
17 48 (3.35%) WebSockets
18 45 (3.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 152 (10.60%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.09%) Fixed Income
3 68 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
4 58 (4.04%) Mobile App
5 57 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 23 (1.60%) Derivative
12 21 (1.46%) IoT
13 20 (1.39%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.26%) Equities
15 14 (0.98%) e-Learning
16 13 (0.91%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.84%) Public Cloud
18 11 (0.77%) Data Structures
19 9 (0.63%) Algorithms
19 9 (0.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.58%) Linux
2 15 (1.05%) Android
3 12 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 12 (0.84%) Windows
4 5 (0.35%) CentOS
4 5 (0.35%) Debian
4 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (52.23%) Full-Stack Development
2 523 (36.47%) Agile
3 504 (35.15%) Software Engineering
4 426 (29.71%) CI/CD
5 307 (21.41%) DevOps
6 262 (18.27%) Microservices
7 253 (17.64%) Mentoring
8 244 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 232 (16.18%) AI
10 217 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 186 (12.97%) Front End Development
12 166 (11.58%) User Experience
13 162 (11.30%) Test Automation
14 155 (10.81%) Clean Code
15 152 (10.60%) Containerisation
16 144 (10.04%) Scrum
17 125 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
18 114 (7.95%) Computer Science
19 101 (7.04%) TDD
20 93 (6.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 766 (53.42%) TypeScript
2 678 (47.28%) JavaScript
3 386 (26.92%) Python
4 327 (22.80%) Java
5 251 (17.50%) SQL
6 226 (15.76%) C#
7 73 (5.09%) PHP
8 71 (4.95%) Go
9 24 (1.67%) C
10 18 (1.26%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.12%) Ruby
13 15 (1.05%) Bash
14 12 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.77%) C++
16 8 (0.56%) Bicep
17 5 (0.35%) Rust
17 5 (0.35%) Scala
17 5 (0.35%) Swift
18 4 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 125 (8.72%) Degree
2 107 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.18%) SC Cleared
5 42 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.14%) ISEB
14 2 (0.14%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.14%) PhD
15 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.30%) QA
2 43 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) GDPR
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 2 (0.14%) WCAG
5 1 (0.070%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.070%) NCSC
5 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 244 (17.02%) Docker
2 10 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 200 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 159 (11.09%) Terraform
3 22 (1.53%) Grafana
4 20 (1.39%) Ansible
5 13 (0.91%) Argo
5 13 (0.91%) Podman
5 13 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.49%) Kibana
7 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.35%) Nagios
8 5 (0.35%) Puppet
9 3 (0.21%) Plesk
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.14%) cPanel
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 80 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.51%) Google
3 27 (1.88%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.60%) Atlassian
5 18 (1.26%) Oracle
6 14 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 9 (0.63%) IBM
10 7 (0.49%) Adobe
11 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.42%) Databricks
11 6 (0.42%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.42%) Solace
12 5 (0.35%) Apple
12 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.35%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.35%) Pega
12 5 (0.35%) SaltStack
12 5 (0.35%) SAP