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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 51 48
Rank change year-on-year -47 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,408 1,849 3,668
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.90% 5.05% 4.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.56% 23.70% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 1,467 3,090
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £94,389 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 7,588 7,803 16,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.22% 21.31% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,757 5,952 14,017
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £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 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -28 615 £90,000 +2.86% 273
North of England -50 274 £65,000 - 120
South East -70 199 £62,500 +4.17% 125
Midlands -22 149 £64,000 +6.67% 55
North West -50 134 £65,000 - 63
Yorkshire -24 127 £70,000 +6.06% 44
South West -56 103 £62,500 -3.85% 73
East Midlands -20 88 £65,000 +8.33% 24
West Midlands -21 61 £60,000 - 31
East of England -57 52 £50,000 -23.08% 47
North East -38 13 £55,000 +14.58% 13
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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 19 (1.35%) CMS
2 17 (1.21%) Confluence
3 16 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 14 (0.99%) Apache
5 10 (0.71%) IIS
6 9 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.57%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.50%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.43%) nginx
10 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.28%) Appian
10 4 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.28%) WordPress
11 3 (0.21%) CICS
11 3 (0.21%) Liferay
12 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.28%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.071%) Magento
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 653 (46.38%) AWS
2 427 (30.33%) Azure
3 182 (12.93%) Serverless
4 173 (12.29%) GCP
5 136 (9.66%) GitHub
6 126 (8.95%) SaaS
7 109 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (6.46%) Amazon S3
9 86 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (3.41%) Figma
13 47 (3.34%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (1.70%) Amazon EventBridge
17 21 (1.49%) npm
17 21 (1.49%) Power Platform
18 17 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (0.99%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.07%) Broadband
1 15 (1.07%) Internet
2 11 (0.78%) AMQP
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) LTE
4 2 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.071%) MQTT
5 1 (0.071%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (7.39%) NoSQL
3 85 (6.04%) SQL Server
4 71 (5.04%) MySQL
5 57 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 55 (3.91%) DynamoDB
6 55 (3.91%) Relational Database
7 33 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (1.56%) Redis
9 21 (1.49%) Neo4j
10 18 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.07%) DB2
12 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.85%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.78%) Power BI
14 8 (0.57%) Big Data
15 7 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.43%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 191 (13.57%) Git
2 69 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.13%) JIRA
4 31 (2.20%) Cypress.io
5 24 (1.70%) Vite
6 23 (1.63%) Selenium
7 21 (1.49%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.42%) GitLab
9 18 (1.28%) Bitbucket
10 17 (1.21%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.14%) webpack
12 14 (0.99%) Storybook
13 13 (0.92%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.64%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.64%) Gradle
15 8 (0.57%) JUnit
15 8 (0.57%) Maven
16 5 (0.36%) Balsamiq
16 5 (0.36%) ESLint
16 5 (0.36%) gulp
General
1 289 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 228 (16.19%) Finance
3 91 (6.46%) Front Office
4 76 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.84%) Banking
6 41 (2.91%) Law
6 41 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 35 (2.49%) Retail
8 28 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.49%) Marketing
10 19 (1.35%) Legal
11 13 (0.92%) Games
11 13 (0.92%) Tech for Good
12 9 (0.64%) Advertising
13 7 (0.50%) Back Office
13 7 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.50%) Multimedia
14 6 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 764 (54.26%) Developer
2 338 (24.01%) Senior
3 301 (21.38%) Software Engineer
4 281 (19.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 212 (15.06%) React Developer
6 204 (14.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 192 (13.64%) Lead
8 164 (11.65%) Senior Developer
9 95 (6.75%) Lead Developer
10 86 (6.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 84 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
12 82 (5.82%) Java Developer
13 80 (5.68%) Python Developer
14 67 (4.76%) .NET Developer
15 64 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 60 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
17 55 (3.91%) Software Developer
18 49 (3.48%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 46 (3.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 46 (3.27%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (32.46%) Node.js
2 275 (19.53%) CSS
3 273 (19.39%) HTML
4 270 (19.18%) .NET
5 200 (14.20%) AngularJS
6 165 (11.72%) REST
7 151 (10.72%) Vue
8 148 (10.51%) RESTful
9 114 (8.10%) Next.js
10 112 (7.95%) Spring
11 103 (7.32%) GraphQL
12 96 (6.82%) Spring Boot
13 89 (6.32%) .NET Core
14 85 (6.04%) Redux
15 74 (5.26%) Kafka
16 73 (5.18%) Django
16 73 (5.18%) React Native
17 59 (4.19%) ASP.NET
18 52 (3.69%) WebSockets
19 45 (3.20%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.58%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.54%) Fixed Income
3 63 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
4 60 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 56 (3.98%) Product Ownership
6 52 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.70%) Derivative
10 24 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.56%) IoT
12 19 (1.35%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.35%) Equities
13 18 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.85%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.85%) e-Learning
14 12 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.85%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.57%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.84%) Linux
2 18 (1.28%) Android
3 15 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 14 (0.99%) Windows
5 6 (0.43%) CentOS
5 6 (0.43%) Debian
5 6 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (50.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 528 (37.50%) Agile
3 508 (36.08%) Software Engineering
4 427 (30.33%) CI/CD
5 305 (21.66%) DevOps
6 257 (18.25%) Microservices
7 249 (17.68%) Mentoring
7 249 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
8 233 (16.55%) AI
9 213 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 185 (13.14%) Front End Development
11 177 (12.57%) User Experience
12 160 (11.36%) Test Automation
13 153 (10.87%) Clean Code
14 145 (10.30%) Containerisation
15 140 (9.94%) Scrum
16 126 (8.95%) Computer Science
17 122 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
18 98 (6.96%) TDD
19 87 (6.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 734 (52.13%) TypeScript
2 686 (48.72%) JavaScript
3 383 (27.20%) Python
4 333 (23.65%) Java
5 251 (17.83%) SQL
6 224 (15.91%) C#
7 73 (5.18%) PHP
8 72 (5.11%) Go
9 23 (1.63%) C
10 20 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.99%) Bash
13 13 (0.92%) Ruby
14 11 (0.78%) C++
14 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.64%) Rust
16 7 (0.50%) Bicep
17 5 (0.36%) Swift
18 4 (0.28%) R
18 4 (0.28%) RPG
Qualifications
1 137 (9.73%) Degree
2 103 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 85 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 39 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
8 12 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.21%) ISEB
11 3 (0.21%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (4.83%) QA
2 45 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
4 3 (0.21%) WCAG
5 2 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.071%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.071%) NIST
6 1 (0.071%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 235 (16.69%) Docker
2 10 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 201 (14.28%) Kubernetes
2 159 (11.29%) Terraform
3 23 (1.63%) Grafana
4 18 (1.28%) Ansible
5 13 (0.92%) Argo
6 12 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.71%) Kibana
8 9 (0.64%) Podman
9 6 (0.43%) Puppet
10 5 (0.36%) Nagios
11 4 (0.28%) Plesk
12 3 (0.21%) cPanel
12 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) Packer
13 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 74 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 34 (2.41%) Google
3 24 (1.70%) Atlassian
4 23 (1.63%) OpenAI
5 20 (1.42%) Oracle
6 14 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
7 12 (0.85%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.85%) Red Hat
8 9 (0.64%) IBM
9 7 (0.50%) Adobe
10 6 (0.43%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.43%) Foundry
10 6 (0.43%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.43%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.43%) Solace
11 5 (0.36%) Apple
11 5 (0.36%) Databricks
11 5 (0.36%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.36%) Pega
11 5 (0.36%) SAP