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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 82 48
Rank change year-on-year -38 -34 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,544 1,514 2,851
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.54% 3.52% 4.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.56% 20.01% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,194 1,009 1,796
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £106,250
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 10,607 7,568 14,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.56% 17.61% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,809 4,981 9,643
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -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 September 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 September 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 -60 559 £85,000 -15.00% 1,411
North of England -6 341 £60,000 -11.11% 304
South East +41 275 £60,000 - 178
North West -18 183 £60,000 -11.11% 205
Midlands -27 151 £55,000 - 127
South West -33 132 £55,000 -8.33% 134
Yorkshire -2 106 £63,750 -5.56% 68
East Midlands -9 78 £55,000 +10.00% 50
West Midlands -42 73 £55,000 -2.22% 77
East of England -16 69 £60,000 -4.00% 80
North East -25 52 £65,000 +33.33% 33
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 26 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.62%) Apache
3 24 (1.55%) CMS
4 16 (1.04%) Confluence
5 15 (0.97%) Headless CMS
6 9 (0.58%) IIS
7 8 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.52%) nginx
7 8 (0.52%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.32%) JBoss
10 4 (0.26%) WordPress
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.19%) DNN
11 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Kentico
11 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 16 (1.04%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.065%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (0.65%) Magento
2 8 (0.52%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 666 (43.13%) AWS
2 568 (36.79%) Azure
3 165 (10.69%) GitHub
4 142 (9.20%) GCP
5 134 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
6 133 (8.61%) Serverless
7 106 (6.87%) SaaS
8 78 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
9 75 (4.86%) Azure AI
10 58 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (3.04%) Anthropic Claude
12 41 (2.66%) Amazon S3
12 41 (2.66%) GitHub Copilot
13 36 (2.33%) Power Platform
14 35 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 34 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (1.75%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.49%) Internet
2 21 (1.36%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.65%) Broadband
3 10 (0.65%) VoIP
4 9 (0.58%) DNS
4 9 (0.58%) HTTP
5 8 (0.52%) AMQP
6 6 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.39%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.32%) Firewall
7 5 (0.32%) Intranet
7 5 (0.32%) SSL
8 4 (0.26%) LAN
8 4 (0.26%) WAN
9 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.13%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) MQTT
10 1 (0.065%) Network Security
10 1 (0.065%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.065%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (12.69%) MongoDB
2 151 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
3 144 (9.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 105 (6.80%) SQL Server
5 102 (6.61%) NoSQL
6 95 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
7 91 (5.89%) MySQL
8 77 (4.99%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.66%) DynamoDB
10 35 (2.27%) Redis
11 15 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.97%) Power BI
12 11 (0.71%) Big Data
12 11 (0.71%) Metadata
13 10 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.65%) Neo4j
14 8 (0.52%) Chroma
14 8 (0.52%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.52%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 243 (15.74%) Git
2 72 (4.66%) Jenkins
3 61 (3.95%) GitLab
4 52 (3.37%) Cypress.io
5 46 (2.98%) JIRA
6 40 (2.59%) JUnit
7 38 (2.46%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.88%) Subversion
9 25 (1.62%) Eclipse
10 23 (1.49%) Maven
10 23 (1.49%) Selenium
11 21 (1.36%) Bitbucket
12 20 (1.30%) Vite
13 17 (1.10%) Mockito
14 10 (0.65%) Postman
14 10 (0.65%) Storybook
14 10 (0.65%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.58%) Visual Studio
16 8 (0.52%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.45%) CircleCI
General
1 329 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 250 (16.19%) Finance
3 76 (4.92%) Retail
4 64 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 62 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (3.37%) Law
8 51 (3.30%) Marketing
9 42 (2.72%) Banking
10 36 (2.33%) Legal
11 26 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.04%) Front Office
13 16 (1.04%) Legal Technology
14 15 (0.97%) Advertising
15 13 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.71%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.71%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.65%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 782 (50.65%) Developer
2 335 (21.70%) Senior
3 314 (20.34%) Software Engineer
4 255 (16.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 210 (13.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 196 (12.69%) .NET Developer
7 159 (10.30%) Lead
8 143 (9.26%) Senior Developer
9 122 (7.90%) React Developer
10 114 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 79 (5.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 74 (4.79%) Software Developer
13 64 (4.15%) Java Developer
14 63 (4.08%) Lead Developer
15 59 (3.82%) Python Engineer
15 59 (3.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 56 (3.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 42 (2.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 41 (2.66%) Engineering Manager
19 39 (2.53%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (29.15%) Node.js
2 447 (28.95%) .NET
3 237 (15.35%) AngularJS
4 231 (14.96%) RESTful
5 229 (14.83%) REST
6 227 (14.70%) ASP.NET
7 205 (13.28%) ASP.NET Core
8 202 (13.08%) .NET Core
9 197 (12.76%) CSS
10 180 (11.66%) Terraform
11 178 (11.53%) HTML
12 171 (11.08%) Vue
13 166 (10.75%) Next.js
14 163 (10.56%) Blazor
15 121 (7.84%) Spring
16 99 (6.41%) Spring Boot
17 90 (5.83%) React Native
18 86 (5.57%) .NET Framework
18 86 (5.57%) ASP.NET Web API
19 68 (4.40%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 231 (14.96%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
4 64 (4.15%) Mobile App
4 64 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 59 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (3.50%) AI Agents
7 38 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.94%) Virtual Team
10 26 (1.68%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.23%) Social Media
13 17 (1.10%) iPhone
14 16 (1.04%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.91%) Augmented Reality
15 14 (0.91%) Virtual Reality
16 13 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 12 (0.78%) e-Learning
17 12 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.40%) Linux
2 29 (1.88%) Android
3 16 (1.04%) Debian
3 16 (1.04%) Ubuntu
3 16 (1.04%) Windows
4 14 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.45%) CentOS
6 7 (0.45%) Unix
7 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 879 (56.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 682 (44.17%) Agile
3 553 (35.82%) Software Engineering
4 543 (35.17%) CI/CD
5 453 (29.34%) AI
6 384 (24.87%) Microservices
7 361 (23.38%) DevOps
8 303 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
9 290 (18.78%) Mentoring
10 225 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 197 (12.76%) Test Automation
12 181 (11.72%) Code Quality
12 181 (11.72%) Scrum
13 171 (11.08%) Front End Development
14 167 (10.82%) Infrastructure as Code
15 164 (10.62%) Containerisation
16 150 (9.72%) Clean Code
17 142 (9.20%) SDLC
18 140 (9.07%) Computer Science
19 132 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 803 (52.01%) TypeScript
2 740 (47.93%) JavaScript
3 464 (30.05%) C#
4 413 (26.75%) SQL
5 384 (24.87%) Python
6 265 (17.16%) Java
7 61 (3.95%) C++
7 61 (3.95%) PHP
8 60 (3.89%) Go
9 48 (3.11%) Ruby
10 28 (1.81%) Rust
11 26 (1.68%) Bash
11 26 (1.68%) Perl
12 22 (1.42%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.04%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.84%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.52%) Scala
15 8 (0.52%) Swift
15 8 (0.52%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 186 (12.05%) Degree
2 151 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 117 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 106 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 30 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.65%) MBA
9 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.19%) OCP
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.13%) PhD
14 1 (0.065%) HNC
14 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.065%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.61%) QA
2 81 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.55%) WCAG
4 12 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.65%) GDPR
6 9 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.45%) GRC
8 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.19%) NIST
10 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.065%) SLA
System Software
1 269 (17.42%) Docker
2 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.065%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 202 (13.08%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.88%) Ansible
3 17 (1.10%) Grafana
4 14 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.52%) Puppet
7 7 (0.45%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
9 4 (0.26%) Kibana
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
10 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.065%) Consul
Vendors
1 242 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.66%) Google
3 44 (2.85%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.94%) Oracle
5 24 (1.55%) Facebook
6 23 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 15 (0.97%) Databricks
7 15 (0.97%) Red Hat
7 15 (0.97%) Splunk
8 13 (0.84%) Palantir
8 13 (0.84%) Sony
9 12 (0.78%) Mistral
10 11 (0.71%) Apple
10 11 (0.71%) Yahoo!
11 10 (0.65%) New Relic
12 9 (0.58%) Foundry
13 7 (0.45%) IBM
13 7 (0.45%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.39%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.39%) OneLogin