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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 67 49
Rank change year-on-year -32 -18 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,645 1,723 3,016
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.80% 3.96% 4.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.27% 22.08% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,308 1,207 2,190
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £132,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 9,527 7,802 13,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.92% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,219 5,251 10,684
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -41 637 £85,000 -10.53% 395
North of England +2 371 £60,000 -7.69% 138
South East +27 269 £60,000 +4.35% 106
North West -20 178 £58,750 -12.96% 85
Midlands -27 158 £55,000 -4.35% 50
Yorkshire +24 138 £65,000 +18.18% 40
South West -46 121 £47,500 -20.83% 49
West Midlands -33 81 £60,000 - 29
East Midlands -21 77 £55,000 +2.33% 21
East of England -5 74 £57,500 -4.17% 30
North East -17 55 £62,500 +19.05% 15
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 28 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.58%) CMS
3 22 (1.34%) Apache
4 16 (0.97%) Confluence
5 13 (0.79%) Headless CMS
6 10 (0.61%) IIS
7 9 (0.55%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.43%) nginx
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.30%) JBoss
10 5 (0.30%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.18%) CICS
11 3 (0.18%) DNN
11 3 (0.18%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.18%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 19 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.55%) Shopify
2 7 (0.43%) Magento
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 728 (44.26%) AWS
2 582 (35.38%) Azure
3 166 (10.09%) GCP
4 151 (9.18%) GitHub
5 150 (9.12%) Serverless
6 140 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (7.36%) SaaS
8 87 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (4.50%) Azure AI
10 50 (3.04%) Amazon S3
10 50 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
11 41 (2.49%) Anthropic Claude
12 39 (2.37%) Power Platform
13 37 (2.25%) Figma
14 33 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
15 32 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 30 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.34%) Internet
2 19 (1.16%) Broadband
3 16 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.43%) VoIP
5 6 (0.36%) DNS
5 6 (0.36%) HTTP
5 6 (0.36%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.30%) AMQP
6 5 (0.30%) SSL
7 4 (0.24%) Intranet
7 4 (0.24%) LAN
7 4 (0.24%) WAN
8 3 (0.18%) Firewall
8 3 (0.18%) LTE
9 2 (0.12%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.12%) MQTT
10 1 (0.061%) Network Security
10 1 (0.061%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.061%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (12.34%) MongoDB
2 154 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (9.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 103 (6.26%) NoSQL
5 94 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 92 (5.59%) MySQL
7 70 (4.26%) Relational Database
8 49 (2.98%) DynamoDB
9 32 (1.95%) Redis
10 15 (0.91%) Power BI
11 13 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.67%) Metadata
12 11 (0.67%) Neo4j
13 10 (0.61%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.55%) Big Data
15 8 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 245 (14.89%) Git
2 76 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.59%) JIRA
4 45 (2.74%) Cypress.io
4 45 (2.74%) GitLab
5 38 (2.31%) Claude Code
6 32 (1.95%) JUnit
7 26 (1.58%) Subversion
7 26 (1.58%) Vite
8 24 (1.46%) Eclipse
9 23 (1.40%) Maven
10 22 (1.34%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.97%) Selenium
12 14 (0.85%) Mockito
13 13 (0.79%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.79%) webpack
14 12 (0.73%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.61%) Storybook
16 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.49%) Gradle
General
1 319 (19.39%) Social Skills
2 298 (18.12%) Finance
3 75 (4.56%) Retail
4 71 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (4.32%) Front Office
5 57 (3.47%) Law
6 52 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.10%) Public Sector
8 45 (2.74%) Legal
8 45 (2.74%) Marketing
9 38 (2.31%) Banking
10 24 (1.46%) Legal Technology
11 20 (1.22%) Advertising
12 19 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 16 (0.97%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
16 11 (0.67%) Health Technology
17 10 (0.61%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 898 (54.59%) Developer
2 355 (21.58%) Senior
3 340 (20.67%) Software Engineer
4 278 (16.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 232 (14.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 194 (11.79%) .NET Developer
7 185 (11.25%) Lead
8 169 (10.27%) React Developer
9 158 (9.60%) Senior Developer
10 108 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 102 (6.20%) Lead Developer
12 98 (5.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 77 (4.68%) Java Developer
14 71 (4.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 71 (4.32%) Software Developer
15 65 (3.95%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 63 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
17 62 (3.77%) Python Engineer
18 54 (3.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 46 (2.80%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 523 (31.79%) Node.js
2 439 (26.69%) .NET
3 235 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 229 (13.92%) ASP.NET
5 228 (13.86%) RESTful
6 224 (13.62%) REST
7 213 (12.95%) CSS
8 209 (12.71%) ASP.NET Core
9 199 (12.10%) HTML
10 197 (11.98%) .NET Core
11 187 (11.37%) Vue
12 168 (10.21%) Next.js
13 163 (9.91%) Blazor
14 113 (6.87%) Spring
15 97 (5.90%) Redux
16 93 (5.65%) GraphQL
17 90 (5.47%) Spring Boot
18 88 (5.35%) ASP.NET Web API
19 84 (5.11%) React Native
20 81 (4.92%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 205 (12.46%) Cloud Native
2 92 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
4 64 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 63 (3.83%) Mobile App
6 57 (3.47%) Fixed Income
6 57 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.43%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 23 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 20 (1.22%) Derivative
14 19 (1.16%) Social Media
15 18 (1.09%) Equities
16 17 (1.03%) iPhone
17 16 (0.97%) Data Structures
18 14 (0.85%) Onboarding
19 12 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.83%) Linux
2 25 (1.52%) Android
3 14 (0.85%) Windows
4 10 (0.61%) Debian
5 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.43%) Unix
7 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (56.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 736 (44.74%) Agile
3 588 (35.74%) Software Engineering
4 506 (30.76%) CI/CD
5 430 (26.14%) AI
6 388 (23.59%) DevOps
7 370 (22.49%) Microservices
8 318 (19.33%) Mentoring
9 300 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
10 207 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 195 (11.85%) Scrum
12 194 (11.79%) Front End Development
13 188 (11.43%) Test Automation
14 161 (9.79%) Clean Code
15 157 (9.54%) Code Quality
16 154 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 153 (9.30%) Containerisation
18 143 (8.69%) Computer Science
19 141 (8.57%) User Experience
20 133 (8.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 867 (52.71%) TypeScript
2 812 (49.36%) JavaScript
3 450 (27.36%) C#
4 414 (25.17%) Python
4 414 (25.17%) SQL
5 284 (17.26%) Java
6 84 (5.11%) Go
7 69 (4.19%) PHP
8 54 (3.28%) C++
9 39 (2.37%) Ruby
10 24 (1.46%) Bash
10 24 (1.46%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.34%) Perl
12 19 (1.16%) Rust
13 15 (0.91%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.85%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.36%) Bicep
16 6 (0.36%) Scala
16 6 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 178 (10.82%) Degree
2 128 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 119 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 91 (5.53%) SC Cleared
5 27 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.43%) MBA
9 6 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.12%) ICAEW
13 2 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.061%) OCP
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.061%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.08%) QA
2 70 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.97%) WCAG
4 11 (0.67%) GDPR
5 8 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.061%) NIST
9 1 (0.061%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.061%) SLA
System Software
1 260 (15.81%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 187 (11.37%) Kubernetes
2 172 (10.46%) Terraform
3 23 (1.40%) Ansible
4 17 (1.03%) Grafana
5 15 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.79%) Podman
7 9 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.36%) Kibana
8 6 (0.36%) Nagios
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.30%) Puppet
10 3 (0.18%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.18%) Plesk
11 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.061%) Argo
12 1 (0.061%) Packer
Vendors
1 241 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 65 (3.95%) Google
3 35 (2.13%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.82%) Oracle
5 19 (1.16%) Facebook
6 16 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 13 (0.79%) Apple
7 13 (0.79%) Sony
7 13 (0.79%) Splunk
8 12 (0.73%) Databricks
8 12 (0.73%) Palantir
9 11 (0.67%) Yahoo!
10 10 (0.61%) Red Hat
11 8 (0.49%) New Relic
12 7 (0.43%) Solace
13 6 (0.36%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.36%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.36%) Foundry
14 5 (0.30%) IBM
14 5 (0.30%) OneLogin