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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 42 45
Rank change year-on-year -51 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,376 2,142 3,490
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.05% 5.66% 4.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.26% 25.62% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 1,513 3,026
10th Percentile £45,875 £47,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £56,625 £53,750 £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 £95,000 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £110,875
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 7,143 8,361 16,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.63% 22.10% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,439 5,975 13,630
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,001
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -28 604 £90,000 +2.86% 280
North of England -51 261 £65,000 +8.33% 115
South East -74 195 £60,000 -4.00% 111
Midlands -9 142 £62,500 +4.17% 65
Yorkshire -22 125 £70,000 +6.06% 45
North West -54 122 £65,000 - 58
South West -50 100 £62,500 -3.85% 79
East Midlands -23 81 £65,000 +8.33% 28
West Midlands -20 61 £60,000 - 37
East of England -83 46 £50,000 -25.93% 48
North East -38 14 £55,000 +12.24% 12
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 22 (1.60%) CMS
2 18 (1.31%) Confluence
3 13 (0.94%) Apache
4 10 (0.73%) IIS
4 10 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.65%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.36%) WordPress
9 4 (0.29%) Appian
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) CICS
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.073%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Shopify
2 5 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.073%) Magento
4 1 (0.073%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.073%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 627 (45.57%) AWS
2 425 (30.89%) Azure
3 173 (12.57%) Serverless
4 170 (12.35%) GCP
5 144 (10.47%) GitHub
6 131 (9.52%) SaaS
7 101 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
8 93 (6.76%) Amazon S3
9 78 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (3.49%) Figma
13 42 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (1.67%) npm
17 21 (1.53%) Amazon EventBridge
18 20 (1.45%) Power Platform
19 19 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 16 (1.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.16%) Internet
2 14 (1.02%) Broadband
3 10 (0.73%) AMQP
4 3 (0.22%) HTTP
4 3 (0.22%) SSL
5 2 (0.15%) DNS
5 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.15%) LTE
6 1 (0.073%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 90 (6.54%) SQL Server
4 71 (5.16%) MySQL
5 63 (4.58%) Relational Database
6 55 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 52 (3.78%) DynamoDB
8 35 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (1.38%) Neo4j
10 19 (1.38%) Redis
11 15 (1.09%) DB2
12 12 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.87%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.80%) Power BI
14 9 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 192 (13.95%) Git
2 69 (5.01%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.05%) JIRA
4 33 (2.40%) Cypress.io
5 24 (1.74%) TeamCity
5 24 (1.74%) Vite
6 21 (1.53%) Selenium
6 21 (1.53%) webpack
7 20 (1.45%) GitLab
8 18 (1.31%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.24%) Bitbucket
9 17 (1.24%) Storybook
10 14 (1.02%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.80%) JUnit
12 9 (0.65%) Gradle
12 9 (0.65%) Maven
13 7 (0.51%) gulp
14 5 (0.36%) Babel
14 5 (0.36%) ESLint
14 5 (0.36%) git-flow
General
1 300 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 221 (16.06%) Finance
3 93 (6.76%) Front Office
4 81 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (3.85%) Banking
6 44 (3.20%) Law
7 38 (2.76%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.62%) Retail
9 33 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.74%) Marketing
11 23 (1.67%) Legal
12 20 (1.45%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.09%) Games
14 13 (0.94%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.65%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.58%) Multimedia
17 7 (0.51%) Advertising
17 7 (0.51%) Back Office
17 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 769 (55.89%) Developer
2 323 (23.47%) Senior
3 285 (20.71%) Software Engineer
4 279 (20.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 216 (15.70%) React Developer
6 184 (13.37%) Lead
7 177 (12.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 160 (11.63%) Senior Developer
9 90 (6.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 89 (6.47%) Lead Developer
11 87 (6.32%) Python Developer
12 82 (5.96%) Java Developer
13 73 (5.31%) .NET Developer
14 69 (5.01%) Senior Software Engineer
15 58 (4.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 56 (4.07%) Software Developer
17 54 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
18 46 (3.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 45 (3.27%) Full-Stack Python Developer
20 44 (3.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (31.83%) Node.js
2 295 (21.44%) .NET
3 293 (21.29%) CSS
4 286 (20.78%) HTML
5 208 (15.12%) AngularJS
6 174 (12.65%) REST
7 157 (11.41%) Vue
8 144 (10.47%) RESTful
9 111 (8.07%) Next.js
10 109 (7.92%) GraphQL
11 101 (7.34%) .NET Core
12 97 (7.05%) Spring
13 85 (6.18%) Spring Boot
14 83 (6.03%) Redux
15 74 (5.38%) Django
16 72 (5.23%) Kafka
17 67 (4.87%) ASP.NET
17 67 (4.87%) React Native
18 58 (4.22%) WebSockets
19 56 (4.07%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.81%) Cloud Native
2 80 (5.81%) Fixed Income
3 60 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
4 58 (4.22%) Mobile App
5 53 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.82%) Derivative
9 25 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (1.60%) IoT
11 21 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.38%) Equities
14 13 (0.94%) Algorithms
15 11 (0.80%) AI Agents
15 11 (0.80%) Public Cloud
16 9 (0.65%) Virtual Team
17 8 (0.58%) Blog
17 8 (0.58%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.91%) Linux
2 17 (1.24%) Android
3 14 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 14 (1.02%) Windows
4 5 (0.36%) CentOS
4 5 (0.36%) Debian
4 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.073%) VMS
6 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (49.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 543 (39.46%) Agile
3 496 (36.05%) Software Engineering
4 430 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 281 (20.42%) DevOps
6 253 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
7 250 (18.17%) Microservices
8 242 (17.59%) Mentoring
9 221 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 214 (15.55%) AI
11 196 (14.24%) User Experience
12 193 (14.03%) Front End Development
13 152 (11.05%) Clean Code
14 147 (10.68%) Test Automation
15 141 (10.25%) Containerisation
16 134 (9.74%) Scrum
17 131 (9.52%) Computer Science
18 116 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
19 96 (6.98%) TDD
20 85 (6.18%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 700 (50.87%) TypeScript
2 691 (50.22%) JavaScript
3 373 (27.11%) Python
4 325 (23.62%) Java
5 251 (18.24%) SQL
6 240 (17.44%) C#
7 72 (5.23%) Go
8 69 (5.01%) PHP
9 22 (1.60%) C
10 18 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.24%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.02%) Bash
12 14 (1.02%) Rust
13 11 (0.80%) C++
13 11 (0.80%) Ruby
14 10 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.44%) Bicep
16 5 (0.36%) R
16 5 (0.36%) RPG
17 3 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 146 (10.61%) Degree
2 105 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 84 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (4.14%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (0.65%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.22%) ISEB
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.15%) PhD
16 1 (0.073%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.51%) QA
2 54 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.58%) WCAG
4 5 (0.36%) SLA
5 4 (0.29%) GDPR
5 4 (0.29%) NCSC
6 3 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.073%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 226 (16.42%) Docker
2 11 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 194 (14.10%) Kubernetes
2 150 (10.90%) Terraform
3 20 (1.45%) Grafana
4 13 (0.94%) Ansible
4 13 (0.94%) Argo
5 9 (0.65%) Kibana
5 9 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.51%) Podman
7 5 (0.36%) Nagios
7 5 (0.36%) Puppet
8 3 (0.22%) cPanel
8 3 (0.22%) Plesk
9 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (5.67%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.54%) Google
3 26 (1.89%) Atlassian
4 24 (1.74%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.38%) Oracle
6 13 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
6 13 (0.94%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.51%) Adobe
8 7 (0.51%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.44%) Foundry
9 6 (0.44%) Solace
10 5 (0.36%) Apple
10 5 (0.36%) Databricks
10 5 (0.36%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.36%) IBM
10 5 (0.36%) Pega
10 5 (0.36%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.36%) SAP
11 4 (0.29%) Informatica