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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 39 42
Rank change year-on-year -53 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,340 2,503 3,243
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.22% 5.69% 4.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.98% 25.59% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,115 1,558 2,901
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £110,000
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 6,708 9,782 15,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.09% 22.22% 22.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,152 5,995 12,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £108,625 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -27 587 £90,000 +2.86% 398
North of England -50 252 £65,000 +8.33% 206
South East -81 194 £62,500 -2.34% 274
Midlands -12 132 £62,500 +4.17% 111
North West -47 119 £65,000 +4.00% 109
Yorkshire -14 117 £65,000 -3.35% 70
South West -54 103 £62,500 -3.85% 114
East Midlands +4 71 £65,000 +8.33% 61
West Midlands -22 61 £60,000 - 47
East of England -80 45 £60,000 -11.11% 101
North East -42 16 £56,750 +15.82% 27
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 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
1 19 (1.42%) CMS
1 19 (1.42%) Confluence
2 13 (0.97%) Apache
3 9 (0.67%) nginx
3 9 (0.67%) OpenStack
4 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
5 7 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.52%) IIS
6 6 (0.45%) WordPress
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.37%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.30%) Appian
9 3 (0.22%) Liferay
10 2 (0.15%) JBoss
10 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.075%) Camunda
11 1 (0.075%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Shopify
2 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.075%) Magento
4 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 612 (45.67%) AWS
2 414 (30.90%) Azure
3 174 (12.99%) Serverless
4 154 (11.49%) GCP
5 149 (11.12%) GitHub
6 125 (9.33%) SaaS
7 104 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
8 97 (7.24%) Amazon S3
9 74 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
11 53 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (3.43%) Figma
13 41 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (1.64%) Power Platform
17 21 (1.57%) npm
18 19 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
19 17 (1.27%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.90%) Internet
2 10 (0.75%) AMQP
3 5 (0.37%) Broadband
4 4 (0.30%) HTTP
5 3 (0.22%) SSL
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
6 2 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.075%) Firewall
7 1 (0.075%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.075%) MQTT
7 1 (0.075%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 87 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 70 (5.22%) MySQL
5 68 (5.07%) Relational Database
6 51 (3.81%) DynamoDB
7 46 (3.43%) MongoDB
8 36 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (1.34%) Neo4j
10 18 (1.34%) Redis
11 14 (1.04%) DB2
12 13 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (0.90%) Apache Arrow
13 12 (0.90%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.82%) Apache Iceberg
14 11 (0.82%) Dremio
14 11 (0.82%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 176 (13.13%) Git
2 64 (4.78%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.06%) JIRA
4 36 (2.69%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 24 (1.79%) Vite
7 22 (1.64%) GitLab
7 22 (1.64%) Selenium
7 22 (1.64%) Storybook
7 22 (1.64%) webpack
8 21 (1.57%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.82%) JUnit
11 10 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.75%) Maven
12 7 (0.52%) Gradle
12 7 (0.52%) gulp
13 6 (0.45%) git-flow
13 6 (0.45%) Mockito
14 5 (0.37%) Mocha
General
1 305 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 204 (15.22%) Finance
3 79 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (5.82%) Front Office
5 56 (4.18%) Banking
6 48 (3.58%) Retail
7 43 (3.21%) Law
8 41 (3.06%) Public Sector
9 36 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.72%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.64%) Marketing
12 21 (1.57%) Games
13 19 (1.42%) Legal
14 13 (0.97%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.67%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.60%) Back Office
16 8 (0.60%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.45%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.45%) Multimedia
17 6 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 735 (54.85%) Developer
2 317 (23.66%) Senior
3 275 (20.52%) Software Engineer
4 271 (20.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 199 (14.85%) React Developer
6 171 (12.76%) Lead
7 153 (11.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 150 (11.19%) Senior Developer
9 99 (7.39%) Python Developer
10 88 (6.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 77 (5.75%) Java Developer
12 73 (5.45%) Lead Developer
13 71 (5.30%) .NET Developer
13 71 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
14 56 (4.18%) Software Developer
15 54 (4.03%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 49 (3.66%) Full-Stack Python Developer
17 46 (3.43%) C# Developer
18 44 (3.28%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
19 43 (3.21%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (28.96%) Node.js
2 300 (22.39%) .NET
3 288 (21.49%) CSS
4 280 (20.90%) HTML
5 244 (18.21%) AngularJS
6 187 (13.96%) REST
7 174 (12.99%) Vue
8 135 (10.07%) RESTful
9 112 (8.36%) Next.js
10 104 (7.76%) Spring
11 103 (7.69%) .NET Core
12 99 (7.39%) GraphQL
13 93 (6.94%) Spring Boot
14 67 (5.00%) ASP.NET
14 67 (5.00%) Django
15 65 (4.85%) React Native
16 63 (4.70%) Redux
17 60 (4.48%) .NET Framework
17 60 (4.48%) Kafka
18 59 (4.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 148 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 72 (5.37%) Mobile App
3 69 (5.15%) Fixed Income
4 51 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 50 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.64%) Equities
11 20 (1.49%) IoT
12 18 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.19%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.04%) Derivative
14 14 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.75%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.67%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.67%) Cybercrime
16 9 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.31%) Linux
2 20 (1.49%) Android
3 17 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.82%) Windows
5 5 (0.37%) CentOS
5 5 (0.37%) Debian
5 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.30%) Unix
7 1 (0.075%) VMS
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (48.06%) Full-Stack Development
2 529 (39.48%) Agile
3 471 (35.15%) Software Engineering
4 424 (31.64%) CI/CD
5 270 (20.15%) DevOps
6 265 (19.78%) Microservices
7 262 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (16.27%) Mentoring
9 212 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 209 (15.60%) User Experience
11 201 (15.00%) AI
12 198 (14.78%) Front End Development
13 146 (10.90%) Clean Code
14 140 (10.45%) Containerisation
15 123 (9.18%) Scrum
16 121 (9.03%) Test Automation
17 120 (8.96%) Computer Science
18 111 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
19 104 (7.76%) TDD
20 89 (6.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 669 (49.93%) JavaScript
2 657 (49.03%) TypeScript
3 353 (26.34%) Python
4 316 (23.58%) Java
5 248 (18.51%) SQL
6 240 (17.91%) C#
7 75 (5.60%) PHP
8 56 (4.18%) Go
9 22 (1.64%) C
9 22 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.49%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.12%) Rust
12 12 (0.90%) Bash
12 12 (0.90%) C++
12 12 (0.90%) Ruby
13 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.52%) Scala
14 6 (0.45%) Bicep
14 6 (0.45%) R
15 5 (0.37%) RPG
Qualifications
1 141 (10.52%) Degree
2 122 (9.10%) Security Cleared
3 75 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (5.37%) SC Cleared
5 43 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.22%) ISEB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.07%) Accessibility
2 63 (4.70%) QA
3 15 (1.12%) WCAG
4 7 (0.52%) SLA
5 5 (0.37%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) NCSC
6 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.22%) NIST
8 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.075%) Data Quality
System Software
1 219 (16.34%) Docker
2 13 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.075%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 210 (15.67%) Kubernetes
2 144 (10.75%) Terraform
3 19 (1.42%) Grafana
4 14 (1.04%) Ansible
4 14 (1.04%) Argo
5 10 (0.75%) Kibana
6 7 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) Puppet
8 4 (0.30%) Nagios
9 3 (0.22%) cPanel
9 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.075%) Istio
11 1 (0.075%) Podman
Vendors
1 74 (5.52%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.16%) Google
3 27 (2.01%) Atlassian
4 26 (1.94%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.34%) Oracle
6 13 (0.97%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.90%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.52%) Adobe
9 7 (0.52%) Foundry
9 7 (0.52%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.45%) Databricks
11 5 (0.37%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.37%) IBM
11 5 (0.37%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.37%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.37%) SAP
12 4 (0.30%) Apple
12 4 (0.30%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.30%) Informatica