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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 84 45
Rank change year-on-year -43 -39 +1
Permanent jobs citing React 1,510 1,491 2,871
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.44% 3.48% 4.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.99% 20.25% 20.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,140 981 1,696
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £51,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -3.57%

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 10,796 7,363 14,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.33% 17.18% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,750 4,867 8,714
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 15 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 15 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 -70 545 £85,000 -15.00% 948
North of England -17 334 £60,000 -7.69% 214
South East +27 271 £60,000 - 124
North West -22 192 £60,000 -7.69% 143
Midlands -29 147 £55,000 - 98
South West -25 135 £55,000 -8.33% 87
Yorkshire -1 90 £60,000 -11.76% 55
East Midlands -7 78 £50,000 -9.09% 28
West Midlands -58 69 £55,000 -4.35% 70
East of England -46 59 £58,750 -4.08% 64
North East -29 52 £65,000 +30.00% 16
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 32 (2.12%) CMS
2 27 (1.79%) Apache
3 23 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.46%) Headless CMS
5 20 (1.32%) Confluence
6 14 (0.93%) nginx
7 9 (0.60%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.46%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.40%) IIS
10 5 (0.33%) JBoss
11 4 (0.26%) Kentico
12 3 (0.20%) DNN
12 3 (0.20%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.20%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.20%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.20%) Simulink
3 2 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.73%) Magento
2 7 (0.46%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.066%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 643 (42.58%) AWS
2 580 (38.41%) Azure
3 176 (11.66%) GitHub
4 138 (9.14%) GCP
5 130 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (8.34%) Serverless
7 99 (6.56%) SaaS
8 77 (5.10%) Azure AI
9 68 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (2.85%) Anthropic Claude
12 40 (2.65%) Amazon S3
13 39 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
14 38 (2.52%) Power Platform
15 32 (2.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 31 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
18 25 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (1.66%) Vercel
19 24 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.59%) Internet
2 22 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.66%) VoIP
4 9 (0.60%) HTTP
5 8 (0.53%) AMQP
5 8 (0.53%) DNS
6 7 (0.46%) Hyperconnected
6 7 (0.46%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.33%) Firewall
7 5 (0.33%) SSL
8 4 (0.26%) LAN
8 4 (0.26%) WAN
9 3 (0.20%) Broadband
9 3 (0.20%) Intranet
9 3 (0.20%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.20%) VPN
10 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.13%) LTE
10 2 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.066%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (13.25%) MongoDB
2 175 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
3 145 (9.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 123 (8.15%) SQL Server
5 98 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
6 95 (6.29%) Relational Database
7 89 (5.89%) MySQL
8 86 (5.70%) NoSQL
9 39 (2.58%) Redis
10 34 (2.25%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (1.06%) Power BI
13 12 (0.79%) Chroma
13 12 (0.79%) Metadata
13 12 (0.79%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.66%) Big Data
14 10 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (0.53%) Neo4j
16 8 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 253 (16.75%) Git
2 78 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 72 (4.77%) GitLab
4 48 (3.18%) Cypress.io
5 43 (2.85%) JIRA
6 41 (2.72%) JUnit
7 37 (2.45%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.99%) Subversion
9 25 (1.66%) Eclipse
9 25 (1.66%) Vite
10 23 (1.52%) Maven
11 19 (1.26%) Selenium
12 18 (1.19%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.19%) Mockito
13 14 (0.93%) Storybook
14 11 (0.73%) Postman
14 11 (0.73%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.66%) TeamCity
16 7 (0.46%) NUnit
16 7 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 338 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 245 (16.23%) Finance
3 75 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (4.90%) Retail
5 66 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (3.58%) Marketing
7 53 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 46 (3.05%) Law
9 38 (2.52%) Banking
10 37 (2.45%) Legal
11 29 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.13%) Publishing
13 16 (1.06%) Legal Technology
14 15 (0.99%) Front Office
14 15 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.86%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.79%) Advertising
17 11 (0.73%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.73%) Tech for Good
18 10 (0.66%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 767 (50.79%) Developer
2 334 (22.12%) Senior
3 311 (20.60%) Software Engineer
4 243 (16.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 203 (13.44%) .NET Developer
6 189 (12.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 145 (9.60%) Senior Developer
8 143 (9.47%) Lead
9 114 (7.55%) React Developer
10 106 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 76 (5.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 76 (5.03%) Software Developer
12 59 (3.91%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 56 (3.71%) Java Developer
13 56 (3.71%) Python Engineer
14 51 (3.38%) Lead Developer
15 50 (3.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 41 (2.72%) Junior
17 40 (2.65%) Engineering Manager
18 37 (2.45%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 471 (31.19%) .NET
2 437 (28.94%) Node.js
3 250 (16.56%) REST
4 234 (15.50%) RESTful
5 230 (15.23%) ASP.NET
6 229 (15.17%) AngularJS
7 208 (13.77%) .NET Core
8 206 (13.64%) ASP.NET Core
9 199 (13.18%) CSS
10 184 (12.19%) Terraform
11 176 (11.66%) HTML
12 171 (11.32%) Next.js
13 166 (10.99%) Blazor
14 163 (10.79%) Vue
15 120 (7.95%) Spring
16 98 (6.49%) Spring Boot
17 90 (5.96%) .NET Framework
18 88 (5.83%) ASP.NET Web API
19 85 (5.63%) React Native
20 68 (4.50%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 230 (15.23%) Cloud Native
2 100 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (5.23%) Greenfield Project
4 60 (3.97%) AI Agents
4 60 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.84%) Mobile App
6 50 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
8 30 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.92%) Algorithms
10 26 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.26%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.19%) Social Media
14 17 (1.13%) iPhone
15 15 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.99%) IoT
16 14 (0.93%) Augmented Reality
17 13 (0.86%) Media Streaming
17 13 (0.86%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.64%) Linux
2 30 (1.99%) Android
3 21 (1.39%) Windows
4 16 (1.06%) Debian
4 16 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 14 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.53%) Unix
7 7 (0.46%) CentOS
8 4 (0.26%) macOS
9 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (56.16%) Full-Stack Development
2 673 (44.57%) Agile
3 578 (38.28%) CI/CD
4 574 (38.01%) Software Engineering
5 481 (31.85%) AI
6 397 (26.29%) Microservices
7 342 (22.65%) DevOps
8 311 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
9 280 (18.54%) Mentoring
10 218 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 199 (13.18%) Code Quality
12 198 (13.11%) Test Automation
13 183 (12.12%) Front End Development
14 177 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 166 (10.99%) Scrum
16 159 (10.53%) Containerisation
17 153 (10.13%) Clean Code
18 148 (9.80%) SDLC
19 145 (9.60%) Computer Science
20 131 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 786 (52.05%) TypeScript
2 739 (48.94%) JavaScript
3 482 (31.92%) C#
4 420 (27.81%) SQL
5 394 (26.09%) Python
6 262 (17.35%) Java
7 67 (4.44%) Go
8 63 (4.17%) C++
9 60 (3.97%) PHP
10 41 (2.72%) Ruby
11 31 (2.05%) Rust
12 26 (1.72%) Bash
13 25 (1.66%) Perl
14 19 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 18 (1.19%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.73%) PowerShell
17 10 (0.66%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.53%) Scala
19 7 (0.46%) Swift
20 5 (0.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 196 (12.98%) Degree
2 147 (9.74%) Security Cleared
3 120 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 98 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 29 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 29 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 10 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 10 (0.66%) MBA
7 5 (0.33%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.26%) OCP
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.20%) ICAEW
9 3 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (6.03%) Accessibility
2 83 (5.50%) QA
3 28 (1.85%) WCAG
4 13 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.73%) GDPR
6 8 (0.53%) GRC
7 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.20%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.066%) SLA
9 1 (0.066%) WAI
9 1 (0.066%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 288 (19.07%) Docker
2 7 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 223 (14.77%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.52%) Ansible
3 14 (0.93%) Grafana
4 12 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.53%) Puppet
7 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.33%) Nagios
7 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.26%) Packer
9 3 (0.20%) Argo
9 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.20%) Kibana
9 3 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.13%) Plesk
11 1 (0.066%) Consul
Vendors
1 255 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.83%) Google
3 50 (3.31%) OpenAI
4 24 (1.59%) Oracle
5 23 (1.52%) Facebook
5 23 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.19%) Databricks
7 16 (1.06%) Mistral
8 15 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 15 (0.99%) Splunk
9 13 (0.86%) Palantir
10 12 (0.79%) Foundry
10 12 (0.79%) Sony
11 10 (0.66%) Apple
11 10 (0.66%) New Relic
11 10 (0.66%) Yahoo!
12 7 (0.46%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.40%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.40%) OneLogin
13 6 (0.40%) Solace