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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 73 49
Rank change year-on-year -35 -24 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,644 1,657 2,938
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.75% 3.78% 4.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.09% 21.84% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 1,147 2,079
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,500 £108,750
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 9,619 7,587 13,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.22% 17.33% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,193 5,059 10,211
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,115
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 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 13 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 13 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 -45 632 £85,000 -10.53% 1,012
North of England -1 362 £60,000 -7.69% 224
South East +53 273 £60,000 +4.35% 138
North West -20 181 £57,500 -14.81% 144
Midlands -26 156 £57,500 - 91
South West -20 133 £47,500 -20.83% 101
Yorkshire +31 126 £65,000 +15.56% 50
West Midlands -37 79 £60,000 - 53
East Midlands -20 77 £55,000 +4.76% 38
East of England -8 75 £56,250 -10.00% 45
North East -20 55 £63,750 +18.60% 32
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 30 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.52%) CMS
3 23 (1.40%) Apache
4 15 (0.91%) Confluence
5 13 (0.79%) Headless CMS
6 10 (0.61%) IIS
7 9 (0.55%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.43%) nginx
8 7 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.36%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.36%) WordPress
10 5 (0.30%) JBoss
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%) Kentico
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 8 (0.49%) Magento
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 723 (43.98%) AWS
2 587 (35.71%) Azure
3 165 (10.04%) GCP
4 162 (9.85%) GitHub
5 145 (8.82%) Serverless
6 141 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (7.24%) SaaS
8 87 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
9 79 (4.81%) Azure AI
10 57 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (2.86%) Amazon S3
12 42 (2.55%) Anthropic Claude
13 39 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (2.37%) Power Platform
14 37 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
15 36 (2.19%) Figma
16 33 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 32 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
18 30 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
19 29 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.46%) Internet
2 21 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.16%) Broadband
4 9 (0.55%) DNS
4 9 (0.55%) HTTP
4 9 (0.55%) VoIP
5 7 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.36%) AMQP
6 6 (0.36%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.30%) Firewall
7 5 (0.30%) SSL
8 4 (0.24%) Intranet
8 4 (0.24%) LAN
8 4 (0.24%) WAN
9 2 (0.12%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.12%) LTE
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 (12.35%) MongoDB
2 156 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (9.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 110 (6.69%) NoSQL
5 106 (6.45%) SQL Server
6 94 (5.72%) MySQL
7 93 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
8 75 (4.56%) Relational Database
9 48 (2.92%) DynamoDB
10 33 (2.01%) Redis
11 16 (0.97%) Power BI
12 13 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.67%) Metadata
13 11 (0.67%) Neo4j
14 9 (0.55%) Big Data
14 9 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.55%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 254 (15.45%) Git
2 79 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 54 (3.28%) JIRA
4 50 (3.04%) Cypress.io
5 48 (2.92%) GitLab
6 39 (2.37%) JUnit
7 37 (2.25%) Claude Code
8 28 (1.70%) Subversion
9 27 (1.64%) Eclipse
10 24 (1.46%) Vite
11 22 (1.34%) Maven
12 21 (1.28%) Bitbucket
13 19 (1.16%) Selenium
14 16 (0.97%) Mockito
15 13 (0.79%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.73%) TeamCity
17 11 (0.67%) Storybook
18 10 (0.61%) webpack
19 9 (0.55%) SonarQube
19 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 334 (20.32%) Social Skills
2 300 (18.25%) Finance
3 76 (4.62%) Retail
4 70 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 63 (3.83%) Law
7 61 (3.71%) Public Sector
8 56 (3.41%) Front Office
9 51 (3.10%) Marketing
10 49 (2.98%) Legal
11 41 (2.49%) Banking
12 25 (1.52%) Legal Technology
13 21 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 16 (0.97%) Advertising
14 16 (0.97%) Investment Banking
15 14 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.67%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.67%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.61%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 886 (53.89%) Developer
2 356 (21.65%) Senior
3 342 (20.80%) Software Engineer
4 276 (16.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 226 (13.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 195 (11.86%) .NET Developer
7 185 (11.25%) Lead
8 159 (9.67%) Senior Developer
9 157 (9.55%) React Developer
10 111 (6.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 95 (5.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 94 (5.72%) Lead Developer
13 76 (4.62%) Java Developer
14 73 (4.44%) Software Developer
15 66 (4.01%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 63 (3.83%) Python Engineer
17 62 (3.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 57 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
19 51 (3.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
20 43 (2.62%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 520 (31.63%) Node.js
2 453 (27.55%) .NET
3 243 (14.78%) AngularJS
4 236 (14.36%) RESTful
5 232 (14.11%) ASP.NET
6 230 (13.99%) REST
7 216 (13.14%) CSS
8 210 (12.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 206 (12.53%) .NET Core
10 201 (12.23%) HTML
11 185 (11.25%) Vue
12 170 (10.34%) Next.js
13 165 (10.04%) Blazor
14 110 (6.69%) Spring
15 91 (5.54%) GraphQL
15 91 (5.54%) React Native
16 89 (5.41%) Spring Boot
17 87 (5.29%) ASP.NET Web API
17 87 (5.29%) Redux
18 86 (5.23%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 220 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 94 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 63 (3.83%) Mobile App
6 62 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (2.98%) AI Agents
8 45 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
9 43 (2.62%) Fixed Income
10 31 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.64%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.16%) Social Media
15 17 (1.03%) iPhone
16 16 (0.97%) Derivative
17 14 (0.85%) Augmented Reality
17 14 (0.85%) Equities
17 14 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.14%) Linux
2 29 (1.76%) Android
3 15 (0.91%) Windows
4 13 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.67%) Debian
6 10 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.43%) Unix
8 6 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (56.87%) Full-Stack Development
2 731 (44.46%) Agile
3 595 (36.19%) Software Engineering
4 528 (32.12%) CI/CD
5 444 (27.01%) AI
6 387 (23.54%) DevOps
7 375 (22.81%) Microservices
8 321 (19.53%) Mentoring
9 311 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
10 218 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 195 (11.86%) Test Automation
12 194 (11.80%) Scrum
13 193 (11.74%) Front End Development
14 169 (10.28%) Clean Code
15 168 (10.22%) Code Quality
16 163 (9.91%) Containerisation
16 163 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
17 143 (8.70%) Computer Science
18 140 (8.52%) SDLC
19 138 (8.39%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 861 (52.37%) TypeScript
2 809 (49.21%) JavaScript
3 469 (28.53%) C#
4 419 (25.49%) SQL
5 415 (25.24%) Python
6 282 (17.15%) Java
7 85 (5.17%) Go
8 67 (4.08%) PHP
9 60 (3.65%) C++
10 47 (2.86%) Ruby
11 25 (1.52%) Bash
11 25 (1.52%) Perl
12 24 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 22 (1.34%) Rust
14 18 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.85%) PowerShell
16 9 (0.55%) Swift
17 8 (0.49%) Scala
18 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
19 5 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 188 (11.44%) Degree
2 136 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 119 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 96 (5.84%) SC Cleared
5 28 (1.70%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 16 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.61%) MBA
9 7 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.18%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.18%) OCP
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.061%) PhD
13 1 (0.061%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.08%) QA
2 74 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.09%) WCAG
4 10 (0.61%) GDPR
5 8 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.18%) NIST
7 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.061%) GRC
9 1 (0.061%) SLA
System Software
1 262 (15.94%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.30%) Firmware
3 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 184 (11.19%) Kubernetes
2 180 (10.95%) Terraform
3 23 (1.40%) Ansible
4 17 (1.03%) Grafana
5 16 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.73%) Podman
7 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.36%) Nagios
8 6 (0.36%) Puppet
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.30%) Kibana
10 3 (0.18%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.18%) Plesk
11 2 (0.12%) Argo
12 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 244 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.44%) Google
3 45 (2.74%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.82%) Oracle
5 24 (1.46%) Facebook
6 23 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 15 (0.91%) Splunk
8 14 (0.85%) Databricks
9 13 (0.79%) Apple
9 13 (0.79%) Red Hat
9 13 (0.79%) Sony
10 12 (0.73%) Palantir
11 11 (0.67%) New Relic
11 11 (0.67%) Yahoo!
12 8 (0.49%) Foundry
13 6 (0.36%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.36%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.36%) IBM
13 6 (0.36%) OneLogin
13 6 (0.36%) Solace