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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 87 49
Rank change year-on-year -35 -38 -2
Permanent jobs citing React 1,571 1,506 2,833
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.51% 3.48% 4.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.59% 20.21% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,201 1,000 1,732
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 £86,250 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £64,585 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +15.38% -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 10,769 7,452 14,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.36% 17.23% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,818 4,917 9,120
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,857 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,600
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 2 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 2 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 -59 578 £85,000 -15.00% 1,203
North of England -4 344 £60,000 -7.69% 271
South East +40 275 £60,000 - 197
North West -16 194 £60,000 -7.69% 184
Midlands -35 145 £55,000 - 131
South West -22 140 £55,000 -8.33% 139
Yorkshire +11 97 £60,000 -11.11% 68
East Midlands -15 79 £52,500 -4.55% 43
East of England -30 70 £60,000 -4.00% 79
West Midlands -59 66 £55,000 -6.38% 88
North East -25 53 £65,000 +18.18% 20
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 31 (1.97%) CMS
2 28 (1.78%) Apache
3 23 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.34%) Headless CMS
5 18 (1.15%) Confluence
6 13 (0.83%) nginx
7 10 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.64%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.45%) IIS
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.32%) JBoss
10 4 (0.25%) Kentico
10 4 (0.25%) 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 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.13%) Simulink
3 1 (0.064%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.70%) Magento
2 8 (0.51%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 673 (42.84%) AWS
2 576 (36.66%) Azure
3 177 (11.27%) GitHub
4 139 (8.85%) GCP
5 138 (8.78%) Serverless
6 131 (8.34%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (6.62%) SaaS
8 77 (4.90%) Azure AI
9 75 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (2.93%) Anthropic Claude
12 44 (2.80%) Amazon S3
13 43 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
14 36 (2.29%) Power Platform
15 34 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 29 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (1.65%) Vercel
18 25 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.46%) Internet
2 22 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.64%) VoIP
4 9 (0.57%) Broadband
4 9 (0.57%) DNS
4 9 (0.57%) HTTP
5 8 (0.51%) AMQP
6 7 (0.45%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.32%) Firewall
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
9 4 (0.25%) LAN
9 4 (0.25%) 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 (0.064%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (12.86%) MongoDB
2 173 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (9.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 121 (7.70%) SQL Server
5 96 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
6 95 (6.05%) NoSQL
7 91 (5.79%) MySQL
8 90 (5.73%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.55%) DynamoDB
10 37 (2.36%) Redis
11 18 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.95%) Power BI
13 13 (0.83%) Chroma
13 13 (0.83%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.70%) Big Data
14 11 (0.70%) Metadata
15 10 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.57%) Neo4j
17 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 256 (16.30%) Git
2 79 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 70 (4.46%) GitLab
4 55 (3.50%) Cypress.io
5 42 (2.67%) JIRA
6 41 (2.61%) JUnit
7 40 (2.55%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.91%) Subversion
9 27 (1.72%) Vite
10 25 (1.59%) Eclipse
11 24 (1.53%) Maven
12 21 (1.34%) Bitbucket
12 21 (1.34%) Selenium
13 18 (1.15%) Mockito
14 13 (0.83%) Storybook
15 11 (0.70%) Postman
16 10 (0.64%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.64%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
18 7 (0.45%) NUnit
General
1 344 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 255 (16.23%) Finance
3 74 (4.71%) Retail
4 72 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (3.76%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.31%) Marketing
8 47 (2.99%) Law
9 38 (2.42%) Banking
10 36 (2.29%) Legal
11 29 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.08%) Publishing
13 16 (1.02%) Front Office
13 16 (1.02%) Legal Technology
14 14 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.76%) Advertising
17 11 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.70%) Tech for Good
18 10 (0.64%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 795 (50.60%) Developer
2 347 (22.09%) Senior
3 328 (20.88%) Software Engineer
4 259 (16.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 204 (12.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 199 (12.67%) .NET Developer
7 158 (10.06%) Lead
8 149 (9.48%) Senior Developer
9 122 (7.77%) React Developer
10 116 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 80 (5.09%) Software Developer
12 78 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 60 (3.82%) Java Developer
14 58 (3.69%) Lead Developer
14 58 (3.69%) Python Engineer
14 58 (3.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 55 (3.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 41 (2.61%) Junior
17 39 (2.48%) Engineering Manager
18 38 (2.42%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (29.54%) .NET
2 450 (28.64%) Node.js
3 246 (15.66%) REST
4 237 (15.09%) RESTful
5 232 (14.77%) AngularJS
6 225 (14.32%) ASP.NET
7 206 (13.11%) .NET Core
8 203 (12.92%) ASP.NET Core
9 199 (12.67%) CSS
10 187 (11.90%) Terraform
11 177 (11.27%) Next.js
12 176 (11.20%) HTML
13 173 (11.01%) Vue
14 162 (10.31%) Blazor
15 124 (7.89%) Spring
16 100 (6.37%) Spring Boot
17 90 (5.73%) .NET Framework
18 88 (5.60%) React Native
19 86 (5.47%) ASP.NET Web API
20 68 (4.33%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 234 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 102 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 65 (4.14%) AI Agents
6 63 (4.01%) Mobile App
7 55 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 27 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.15%) Social Media
13 17 (1.08%) iPhone
13 17 (1.08%) Onboarding
14 15 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
16 13 (0.83%) IoT
16 13 (0.83%) Media Streaming
16 13 (0.83%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.46%) Linux
2 30 (1.91%) Android
3 21 (1.34%) Windows
4 16 (1.02%) Debian
4 16 (1.02%) Ubuntu
5 14 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.51%) Unix
7 7 (0.45%) CentOS
8 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (56.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 685 (43.60%) Agile
3 590 (37.56%) CI/CD
4 586 (37.30%) Software Engineering
5 487 (31.00%) AI
6 396 (25.21%) Microservices
7 353 (22.47%) DevOps
8 318 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
9 288 (18.33%) Mentoring
10 234 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 201 (12.79%) Code Quality
12 199 (12.67%) Test Automation
13 184 (11.71%) Front End Development
14 181 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 181 (11.52%) Scrum
15 172 (10.95%) Containerisation
16 158 (10.06%) Clean Code
17 148 (9.42%) SDLC
18 147 (9.36%) Computer Science
19 134 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 824 (52.45%) TypeScript
2 751 (47.80%) JavaScript
3 479 (30.49%) C#
4 427 (27.18%) SQL
5 402 (25.59%) Python
6 272 (17.31%) Java
7 64 (4.07%) C++
7 64 (4.07%) PHP
8 63 (4.01%) Go
9 45 (2.86%) Ruby
10 31 (1.97%) Rust
11 27 (1.72%) Bash
12 26 (1.65%) Perl
13 19 (1.21%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.70%) PowerShell
16 10 (0.64%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.51%) Scala
18 7 (0.45%) Swift
19 6 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 199 (12.67%) Degree
2 153 (9.74%) Security Cleared
3 125 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 103 (6.56%) SC Cleared
5 33 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.64%) MBA
8 9 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.19%) OCP
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.13%) PhD
14 1 (0.064%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.98%) QA
2 86 (5.47%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.65%) WCAG
4 13 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.70%) GDPR
6 8 (0.51%) GRC
7 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.064%) SLA
System Software
1 294 (18.71%) Docker
2 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 225 (14.32%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.65%) Ansible
3 16 (1.02%) Grafana
4 14 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Puppet
7 6 (0.38%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
8 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.25%) Argo
9 4 (0.25%) Packer
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Kibana
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.064%) Consul
Vendors
1 250 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.77%) Google
3 50 (3.18%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.65%) Oracle
5 23 (1.46%) Facebook
5 23 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.15%) Databricks
7 17 (1.08%) Mistral
8 15 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 15 (0.95%) Splunk
9 13 (0.83%) Palantir
10 12 (0.76%) Foundry
10 12 (0.76%) Sony
11 10 (0.64%) Apple
11 10 (0.64%) New Relic
11 10 (0.64%) Yahoo!
12 7 (0.45%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.38%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.38%) OneLogin
13 6 (0.38%) Solace