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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 51 48
Rank change year-on-year -50 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,415 1,850 3,661
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.89% 5.04% 4.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.61% 23.75% 21.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,164 1,465 3,081
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £110,500
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 7,604 7,790 16,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.15% 21.22% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,770 5,934 13,999
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £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 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 12 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 12 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 -29 620 £90,000 +2.86% 273
North of England -54 275 £65,000 - 120
South East -71 199 £65,000 +8.33% 125
Midlands -15 149 £64,000 +6.67% 55
North West -53 135 £63,750 -1.92% 63
Yorkshire -24 127 £70,000 +4.48% 44
South West -52 104 £62,500 -3.85% 73
East Midlands -16 88 £65,000 +8.33% 24
West Midlands -22 61 £60,000 - 31
East of England -53 52 £50,000 -23.08% 47
North East -43 13 £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 (1.34%) CMS
2 17 (1.20%) Confluence
3 16 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 14 (0.99%) Apache
5 10 (0.71%) IIS
6 9 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.57%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.49%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.42%) nginx
10 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.28%) Appian
10 4 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.28%) WordPress
11 3 (0.21%) CICS
11 3 (0.21%) Liferay
12 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.28%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.071%) Magento
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 656 (46.36%) AWS
2 427 (30.18%) Azure
3 182 (12.86%) Serverless
4 173 (12.23%) GCP
5 137 (9.68%) GitHub
6 127 (8.98%) SaaS
7 109 (7.70%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (6.43%) Amazon S3
9 85 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (3.39%) Figma
13 47 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (1.70%) Amazon EventBridge
17 21 (1.48%) npm
18 20 (1.41%) Power Platform
19 17 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 15 (1.06%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.06%) Broadband
1 15 (1.06%) Internet
2 11 (0.78%) AMQP
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) LTE
4 2 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.071%) MQTT
5 1 (0.071%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (7.42%) NoSQL
3 84 (5.94%) SQL Server
4 71 (5.02%) MySQL
5 58 (4.10%) MongoDB
6 55 (3.89%) DynamoDB
6 55 (3.89%) Relational Database
7 33 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (1.55%) Redis
9 21 (1.48%) Neo4j
10 18 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.06%) DB2
12 13 (0.92%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.78%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.71%) Power BI
16 8 (0.57%) Big Data
17 7 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.42%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 192 (13.57%) Git
2 71 (5.02%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.11%) JIRA
4 31 (2.19%) Cypress.io
5 25 (1.77%) Vite
6 23 (1.63%) Selenium
7 22 (1.55%) GitLab
8 21 (1.48%) TeamCity
9 18 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 17 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.13%) webpack
12 14 (0.99%) Storybook
13 13 (0.92%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.64%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.64%) Gradle
15 8 (0.57%) JUnit
15 8 (0.57%) Maven
16 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
16 5 (0.35%) ESLint
16 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 289 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 228 (16.11%) Finance
3 91 (6.43%) Front Office
4 76 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.82%) Banking
6 42 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 41 (2.90%) Law
8 36 (2.54%) Retail
9 28 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 21 (1.48%) Marketing
11 19 (1.34%) Legal
12 13 (0.92%) Games
12 13 (0.92%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.64%) Advertising
14 7 (0.49%) Back Office
14 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
15 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 769 (54.35%) Developer
2 339 (23.96%) Senior
3 302 (21.34%) Software Engineer
4 284 (20.07%) Full-Stack Developer
5 214 (15.12%) React Developer
6 206 (14.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 195 (13.78%) Lead
8 165 (11.66%) Senior Developer
9 97 (6.86%) Lead Developer
10 87 (6.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
12 83 (5.87%) Java Developer
13 80 (5.65%) Python Developer
14 67 (4.73%) .NET Developer
15 65 (4.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 60 (4.24%) Lead Software Engineer
17 54 (3.82%) Software Developer
18 49 (3.46%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 47 (3.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 47 (3.32%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (32.44%) Node.js
2 275 (19.43%) CSS
3 273 (19.29%) HTML
4 269 (19.01%) .NET
5 204 (14.42%) AngularJS
6 166 (11.73%) REST
7 154 (10.88%) Vue
8 149 (10.53%) RESTful
9 115 (8.13%) Next.js
10 114 (8.06%) Spring
11 103 (7.28%) GraphQL
12 98 (6.93%) Spring Boot
13 89 (6.29%) .NET Core
14 86 (6.08%) Redux
15 74 (5.23%) Kafka
16 73 (5.16%) Django
16 73 (5.16%) React Native
17 58 (4.10%) ASP.NET
18 52 (3.67%) WebSockets
19 46 (3.25%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.51%) Fixed Income
3 63 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
4 61 (4.31%) Mobile App
5 56 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 52 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (1.70%) Derivative
9 24 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.55%) IoT
11 19 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.34%) Equities
12 18 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 12 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 12 (0.85%) e-Learning
13 12 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.57%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.83%) Linux
2 18 (1.27%) Android
3 15 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.92%) Windows
5 6 (0.42%) CentOS
5 6 (0.42%) Debian
5 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (50.88%) Full-Stack Development
2 530 (37.46%) Agile
3 509 (35.97%) Software Engineering
4 429 (30.32%) CI/CD
5 306 (21.63%) DevOps
6 259 (18.30%) Microservices
7 251 (17.74%) Mentoring
8 248 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
9 235 (16.61%) AI
10 214 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 186 (13.14%) Front End Development
12 177 (12.51%) User Experience
13 160 (11.31%) Test Automation
14 154 (10.88%) Clean Code
15 147 (10.39%) Containerisation
16 140 (9.89%) Scrum
17 125 (8.83%) Computer Science
18 124 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
19 99 (7.00%) TDD
20 88 (6.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 737 (52.08%) TypeScript
2 688 (48.62%) JavaScript
3 384 (27.14%) Python
4 335 (23.67%) Java
5 251 (17.74%) SQL
6 223 (15.76%) C#
7 73 (5.16%) PHP
8 72 (5.09%) Go
9 23 (1.63%) C
10 20 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.99%) Bash
13 13 (0.92%) Ruby
14 11 (0.78%) C++
14 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.64%) Rust
16 7 (0.49%) Bicep
17 5 (0.35%) Swift
18 4 (0.28%) R
18 4 (0.28%) RPG
Qualifications
1 136 (9.61%) Degree
2 107 (7.56%) Security Cleared
3 85 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 63 (4.45%) SC Cleared
5 40 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
8 12 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.21%) ISEB
11 3 (0.21%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.88%) QA
2 45 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
4 3 (0.21%) WCAG
5 2 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.071%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.071%) NIST
6 1 (0.071%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 237 (16.75%) Docker
2 10 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 203 (14.35%) Kubernetes
2 161 (11.38%) Terraform
3 23 (1.63%) Grafana
4 19 (1.34%) Ansible
5 13 (0.92%) Argo
6 12 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.71%) Kibana
8 9 (0.64%) Podman
9 6 (0.42%) Puppet
10 5 (0.35%) Nagios
11 4 (0.28%) Plesk
12 3 (0.21%) cPanel
12 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) Packer
13 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 73 (5.16%) Microsoft
2 34 (2.40%) Google
3 24 (1.70%) Atlassian
3 24 (1.70%) OpenAI
4 20 (1.41%) Oracle
5 14 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
6 12 (0.85%) HubSpot
6 12 (0.85%) Red Hat
7 9 (0.64%) IBM
8 7 (0.49%) Adobe
9 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.42%) Foundry
9 6 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.42%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.42%) Solace
10 5 (0.35%) Apple
10 5 (0.35%) Databricks
10 5 (0.35%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.35%) Pega
10 5 (0.35%) SAP