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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 57 49
Rank change year-on-year -49 -8 -10
Permanent jobs citing React 1,495 1,734 3,799
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.80% 4.48% 4.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.64% 22.59% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,206 1,264 3,089
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £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 8,476 7,677 17,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.19% 19.84% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,450 5,235 14,276
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 30 May 2026.

Salary histogram for React in England

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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 30 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 -33 619 £85,000 -5.56% 99
North of England -41 304 £65,000 - 81
South East +1 236 £60,000 - 95
Midlands -32 157 £62,500 +4.17% 35
North West -39 142 £60,000 -7.69% 47
Yorkshire -6 125 £67,500 - 24
South West -57 102 £58,750 -6.00% 27
East Midlands -17 84 £65,000 +18.18% 21
West Midlands -45 73 £60,000 - 14
East of England -8 62 £57,500 -8.00% 24
North East -30 37 £55,000 +4.76% 10
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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 23 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.20%) Confluence
3 17 (1.14%) Apache
4 14 (0.94%) CMS
5 12 (0.80%) IIS
6 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.27%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) CICS
9 3 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Liferay
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.20%) WordPress
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.067%) Drupal
11 1 (0.067%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.067%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Shopify
2 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.067%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 672 (44.95%) AWS
2 464 (31.04%) Azure
3 175 (11.71%) Serverless
4 160 (10.70%) GCP
5 127 (8.49%) GitHub
6 117 (7.83%) SaaS
7 115 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 103 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
9 75 (5.02%) Amazon S3
10 48 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (2.81%) Figma
13 40 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (2.41%) Azure AI
15 34 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (1.94%) Power Platform
18 23 (1.54%) Anthropic Claude
18 23 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 21 (1.40%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.27%) Broadband
2 13 (0.87%) Internet
3 10 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.54%) AMQP
5 5 (0.33%) HTTP
5 5 (0.33%) VoIP
6 4 (0.27%) DNS
6 4 (0.27%) Intranet
6 4 (0.27%) LTE
6 4 (0.27%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.13%) LAN
8 2 (0.13%) SSL
8 2 (0.13%) WAN
9 1 (0.067%) MQTT
9 1 (0.067%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (7.09%) MongoDB
3 103 (6.89%) NoSQL
4 79 (5.28%) SQL Server
5 72 (4.82%) MySQL
6 57 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (3.34%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.28%) DynamoDB
9 46 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.34%) Redis
11 16 (1.07%) Neo4j
12 12 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.80%) Power BI
13 9 (0.60%) Big Data
13 9 (0.60%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.54%) DB2
14 8 (0.54%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 209 (13.98%) Git
2 73 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 52 (3.48%) JIRA
4 35 (2.34%) Cypress.io
5 34 (2.27%) GitLab
6 28 (1.87%) Vite
7 21 (1.40%) Claude Code
8 19 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 19 (1.27%) Maven
9 16 (1.07%) JUnit
9 16 (1.07%) Selenium
10 15 (1.00%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.94%) Storybook
11 14 (0.94%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.80%) webpack
13 10 (0.67%) Mockito
14 9 (0.60%) Eclipse
14 9 (0.60%) Gradle
14 9 (0.60%) Subversion
15 8 (0.54%) Cucumber
General
1 274 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 269 (17.99%) Finance
3 83 (5.55%) Front Office
4 80 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (3.21%) Retail
6 45 (3.01%) Law
7 43 (2.88%) Banking
8 37 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.34%) Legal
10 29 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.47%) Marketing
12 17 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.07%) Tech for Good
14 12 (0.80%) Advertising
15 10 (0.67%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.67%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.60%) Automotive
16 9 (0.60%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 823 (55.05%) Developer
2 343 (22.94%) Senior
3 316 (21.14%) Software Engineer
4 281 (18.80%) Full-Stack Developer
5 225 (15.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 209 (13.98%) React Developer
7 194 (12.98%) Lead
8 164 (10.97%) Senior Developer
9 108 (7.22%) Lead Developer
10 107 (7.16%) .NET Developer
11 98 (6.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 91 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 80 (5.35%) Java Developer
14 70 (4.68%) Software Developer
15 67 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
16 61 (4.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 60 (4.01%) Python Developer
18 59 (3.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 54 (3.61%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
20 48 (3.21%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 490 (32.78%) Node.js
2 324 (21.67%) .NET
3 234 (15.65%) CSS
4 224 (14.98%) HTML
5 218 (14.58%) AngularJS
6 194 (12.98%) REST
7 174 (11.64%) RESTful
8 160 (10.70%) Vue
9 134 (8.96%) Next.js
10 130 (8.70%) .NET Core
10 130 (8.70%) Spring
11 105 (7.02%) Spring Boot
12 100 (6.69%) ASP.NET
13 93 (6.22%) Redux
14 89 (5.95%) GraphQL
15 86 (5.75%) ASP.NET Core
16 84 (5.62%) React Native
17 74 (4.95%) Blazor
18 68 (4.55%) Kafka
19 52 (3.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 148 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 63 (4.21%) Fixed Income
4 61 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
5 57 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
8 44 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.01%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 26 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.40%) Derivative
13 16 (1.07%) e-Learning
13 16 (1.07%) Equities
13 16 (1.07%) IoT
13 16 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.87%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.87%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.80%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.41%) Linux
2 16 (1.07%) Android
2 16 (1.07%) Windows
3 9 (0.60%) Debian
4 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.33%) CentOS
5 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (53.91%) Full-Stack Development
2 597 (39.93%) Agile
3 527 (35.25%) Software Engineering
4 448 (29.97%) CI/CD
5 336 (22.47%) DevOps
6 311 (20.80%) AI
7 290 (19.40%) Microservices
8 287 (19.20%) Mentoring
9 252 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
10 215 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 198 (13.24%) Front End Development
12 169 (11.30%) Scrum
13 164 (10.97%) Test Automation
14 163 (10.90%) Containerisation
15 158 (10.57%) User Experience
16 148 (9.90%) Clean Code
17 134 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
18 126 (8.43%) Computer Science
19 115 (7.69%) TDD
20 107 (7.16%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 781 (52.24%) TypeScript
2 697 (46.62%) JavaScript
3 375 (25.08%) Python
4 303 (20.27%) C#
4 303 (20.27%) Java
5 297 (19.87%) SQL
6 72 (4.82%) Go
7 65 (4.35%) PHP
8 25 (1.67%) C++
9 24 (1.61%) Ruby
10 22 (1.47%) Bash
11 20 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 20 (1.34%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.94%) C
12 14 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.67%) Rust
14 9 (0.60%) Bicep
15 7 (0.47%) Perl
15 7 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 141 (9.43%) Degree
2 119 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 100 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 39 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.34%) AWS Certification
7 13 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.40%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.13%) PhD
13 1 (0.067%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.067%) HNC
13 1 (0.067%) HND
13 1 (0.067%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.067%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.42%) QA
2 46 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.54%) GDPR
4 5 (0.33%) WCAG
5 2 (0.13%) SLA
6 1 (0.067%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.067%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.067%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.067%) SOC 2
System Software
1 251 (16.79%) Docker
2 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 196 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 157 (10.50%) Terraform
3 21 (1.40%) Ansible
4 20 (1.34%) Grafana
5 13 (0.87%) Podman
5 13 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.54%) Argo
7 6 (0.40%) Kibana
7 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.33%) Nagios
8 5 (0.33%) Puppet
9 3 (0.20%) Plesk
10 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.13%) Packer
10 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 130 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.94%) Google
3 28 (1.87%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.74%) Oracle
5 16 (1.07%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.54%) Solace
8 7 (0.47%) Apple
8 7 (0.47%) Databricks
8 7 (0.47%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.40%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.40%) IBM
10 5 (0.33%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.33%) Palantir
10 5 (0.33%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.27%) Foundry
11 4 (0.27%) Pega
11 4 (0.27%) Splunk