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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 55 49
Rank change year-on-year -49 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing React 1,425 1,841 3,767
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 4.73% 4.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.04% 24.09% 22.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,148 1,410 3,097
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,375 £115,000 £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 7,898 7,642 16,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.78% 19.63% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,955 5,674 14,137
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -25 627 £87,500 - 284
North of England -48 271 £65,000 - 114
South East -47 214 £65,000 +8.33% 112
Midlands -47 147 £65,000 +8.33% 49
North West -48 134 £62,500 -3.85% 58
Yorkshire -25 115 £70,000 +3.70% 42
South West -64 98 £60,000 -4.00% 51
East Midlands -25 91 £65,000 +8.33% 26
West Midlands -58 56 £60,000 - 23
East of England -17 54 £53,750 -14.00% 29
North East -40 22 £55,000 +14.58% 14
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 21 (1.47%) Confluence
2 20 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.19%) CMS
4 13 (0.91%) Apache
5 11 (0.77%) IIS
6 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.35%) nginx
10 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.28%) Appian
10 4 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.28%) WordPress
11 3 (0.21%) CICS
11 3 (0.21%) Liferay
12 2 (0.14%) JBoss
13 1 (0.070%) Drupal
13 1 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.070%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.28%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 652 (45.75%) AWS
2 420 (29.47%) Azure
3 174 (12.21%) Serverless
4 165 (11.58%) GCP
5 132 (9.26%) GitHub
6 114 (8.00%) SaaS
7 101 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
8 97 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
9 77 (5.40%) Amazon S3
10 47 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (3.09%) Figma
13 42 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (1.82%) Power Platform
16 22 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
16 22 (1.54%) npm
17 20 (1.40%) Azure AI
18 17 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.19%) Broadband
2 16 (1.12%) Internet
3 9 (0.63%) AMQP
4 7 (0.49%) HTTP
5 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
6 4 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.21%) LTE
8 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
9 1 (0.070%) MQTT
9 1 (0.070%) VoIP
9 1 (0.070%) Wireless
9 1 (0.070%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (7.37%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.47%) MongoDB
4 76 (5.33%) SQL Server
5 65 (4.56%) MySQL
6 49 (3.44%) DynamoDB
7 45 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (1.40%) Neo4j
10 20 (1.40%) Redis
11 14 (0.98%) Pinecone
12 13 (0.91%) DB2
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.77%) Power BI
15 10 (0.70%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (0.56%) Big Data
17 6 (0.42%) Metadata
17 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 190 (13.33%) Git
2 75 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.23%) JIRA
4 33 (2.32%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.11%) Vite
6 27 (1.89%) GitLab
7 20 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 20 (1.40%) Selenium
8 18 (1.26%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.19%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.05%) webpack
11 14 (0.98%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.98%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.98%) Storybook
12 11 (0.77%) Maven
13 9 (0.63%) Gradle
14 8 (0.56%) JUnit
15 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.35%) ESLint
15 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 264 (18.53%) Social Skills
2 240 (16.84%) Finance
3 85 (5.96%) Front Office
4 75 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (3.37%) Banking
6 42 (2.95%) Law
7 39 (2.74%) Retail
8 35 (2.46%) Public Sector
9 24 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.61%) Legal
11 18 (1.26%) Investment Banking
11 18 (1.26%) Marketing
12 16 (1.12%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.63%) Advertising
13 9 (0.63%) Automotive
13 9 (0.63%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.56%) Games
15 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
15 7 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 786 (55.16%) Developer
2 344 (24.14%) Senior
3 294 (20.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 291 (20.42%) Software Engineer
5 221 (15.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 218 (15.30%) React Developer
7 191 (13.40%) Lead
8 169 (11.86%) Senior Developer
9 101 (7.09%) Lead Developer
10 91 (6.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (5.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 75 (5.26%) .NET Developer
12 75 (5.26%) Java Developer
12 75 (5.26%) Python Developer
13 68 (4.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 65 (4.56%) Lead Software Engineer
15 59 (4.14%) Software Developer
16 53 (3.72%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 49 (3.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 49 (3.44%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (34.04%) Node.js
2 273 (19.16%) .NET
3 246 (17.26%) CSS
4 243 (17.05%) HTML
5 205 (14.39%) AngularJS
6 170 (11.93%) REST
7 155 (10.88%) RESTful
8 145 (10.18%) Vue
9 123 (8.63%) Next.js
10 120 (8.42%) Spring
11 103 (7.23%) Spring Boot
12 97 (6.81%) GraphQL
13 96 (6.74%) .NET Core
14 94 (6.60%) Redux
15 82 (5.75%) React Native
16 69 (4.84%) Kafka
17 65 (4.56%) ASP.NET
18 59 (4.14%) Django
19 47 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
20 46 (3.23%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.96%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
3 67 (4.70%) Fixed Income
4 64 (4.49%) Mobile App
5 57 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 28 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.61%) Derivative
12 20 (1.40%) IoT
13 18 (1.26%) Equities
14 14 (0.98%) e-Learning
14 14 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.91%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.70%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.70%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.74%) Linux
2 15 (1.05%) Android
3 14 (0.98%) Windows
4 10 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.35%) CentOS
5 5 (0.35%) Debian
5 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (53.68%) Full-Stack Development
2 529 (37.12%) Agile
3 494 (34.67%) Software Engineering
4 419 (29.40%) CI/CD
5 308 (21.61%) DevOps
6 267 (18.74%) Microservices
7 251 (17.61%) Mentoring
8 248 (17.40%) AI
9 232 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
10 202 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 190 (13.33%) Front End Development
12 160 (11.23%) Test Automation
12 160 (11.23%) User Experience
13 155 (10.88%) Containerisation
14 149 (10.46%) Clean Code
15 145 (10.18%) Scrum
16 120 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
17 113 (7.93%) Computer Science
18 106 (7.44%) TDD
19 92 (6.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 771 (54.11%) TypeScript
2 665 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 384 (26.95%) Python
4 312 (21.89%) Java
5 252 (17.68%) SQL
6 245 (17.19%) C#
7 70 (4.91%) Go
8 66 (4.63%) PHP
9 20 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.26%) C
11 16 (1.12%) Bash
11 16 (1.12%) Ruby
12 15 (1.05%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.91%) C++
14 12 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.56%) Bicep
16 5 (0.35%) Scala
16 5 (0.35%) Swift
16 5 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 123 (8.63%) Degree
2 108 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 85 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.98%) DBS Check
7 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.14%) ISEB
12 2 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
13 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.26%) QA
2 42 (2.95%) 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
1 240 (16.84%) 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
1 197 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 150 (10.53%) Terraform
3 21 (1.47%) Grafana
4 20 (1.40%) 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 4 (0.28%) 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 95 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 38 (2.67%) Google
3 32 (2.25%) OpenAI
4 22 (1.54%) Atlassian
5 19 (1.33%) Oracle
6 15 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 9 (0.63%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.56%) IBM
10 7 (0.49%) Solace
11 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.42%) Apple
11 6 (0.42%) Databricks
12 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.35%) Foundry
12 5 (0.35%) Pega
12 5 (0.35%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.28%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.28%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.28%) Salesforce