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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 82 48
Rank change year-on-year -38 -34 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,583 1,535 2,898
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 3.55% 4.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.62% 20.05% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,217 1,034 1,812
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £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 10,827 7,655 14,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.57% 17.72% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,913 5,073 9,652
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 £87,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 19 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 19 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 -57 578 £85,000 -15.00% 1,195
North of England -18 350 £60,000 -7.69% 252
South East +40 280 £60,000 - 182
North West -11 192 £60,000 -11.11% 164
Midlands -22 153 £55,000 - 112
South West -26 137 £55,000 -8.33% 128
Yorkshire +2 105 £62,500 -7.41% 56
East Midlands -16 79 £53,750 -2.27% 43
West Midlands -46 74 £55,000 -6.38% 69
East of England -16 69 £60,000 -4.00% 59
North East -35 53 £65,000 +30.00% 34
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 (1.90%) CMS
2 27 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.64%) Apache
4 20 (1.26%) Headless CMS
5 18 (1.14%) Confluence
6 11 (0.69%) nginx
7 10 (0.63%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.51%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.44%) IIS
9 7 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.32%) JBoss
11 4 (0.25%) Kentico
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.063%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.69%) Magento
2 8 (0.51%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 675 (42.64%) AWS
2 585 (36.96%) Azure
3 169 (10.68%) GitHub
4 141 (8.91%) GCP
5 138 (8.72%) Serverless
6 135 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
7 107 (6.76%) SaaS
8 78 (4.93%) Azure AI
9 77 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (2.97%) Anthropic Claude
12 42 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
13 41 (2.59%) Amazon S3
14 37 (2.34%) Power Platform
15 35 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 34 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
18 27 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (1.64%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.45%) Internet
2 22 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.63%) VoIP
4 9 (0.57%) Broadband
4 9 (0.57%) DNS
4 9 (0.57%) HTTP
5 8 (0.51%) AMQP
6 7 (0.44%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.32%) Firewall
8 5 (0.32%) Intranet
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
9 4 (0.25%) LAN
9 4 (0.25%) WAN
10 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.13%) LTE
10 2 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.063%) OpenVPN
11 1 (0.063%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.063%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (12.57%) MongoDB
2 158 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
3 144 (9.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 116 (7.33%) SQL Server
5 104 (6.57%) NoSQL
6 97 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
7 92 (5.81%) MySQL
8 83 (5.24%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.53%) DynamoDB
10 37 (2.34%) Redis
11 17 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.95%) Power BI
13 11 (0.69%) Big Data
13 11 (0.69%) Metadata
14 10 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.63%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.57%) Chroma
15 9 (0.57%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 253 (15.98%) Git
2 75 (4.74%) Jenkins
3 64 (4.04%) GitLab
4 53 (3.35%) Cypress.io
5 47 (2.97%) JIRA
6 41 (2.59%) JUnit
7 39 (2.46%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.83%) Subversion
9 25 (1.58%) Eclipse
9 25 (1.58%) Vite
10 23 (1.45%) Maven
10 23 (1.45%) Selenium
11 21 (1.33%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.14%) Mockito
13 12 (0.76%) Storybook
14 11 (0.69%) Postman
15 10 (0.63%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.63%) Visual Studio
16 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 337 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 259 (16.36%) Finance
3 77 (4.86%) Retail
4 66 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 52 (3.28%) Marketing
7 51 (3.22%) Law
8 42 (2.65%) Banking
9 36 (2.27%) Legal
10 29 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.01%) Front Office
12 16 (1.01%) Legal Technology
13 15 (0.95%) Advertising
14 13 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.76%) Publishing
16 11 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.69%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 804 (50.79%) Developer
2 347 (21.92%) Senior
3 325 (20.53%) Software Engineer
4 263 (16.61%) Full-Stack Developer
5 209 (13.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 200 (12.63%) .NET Developer
7 162 (10.23%) Lead
8 150 (9.48%) Senior Developer
9 123 (7.77%) React Developer
10 117 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 81 (5.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 77 (4.86%) Software Developer
13 64 (4.04%) Java Developer
14 62 (3.92%) Lead Developer
15 58 (3.66%) Python Engineer
15 58 (3.66%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 56 (3.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 44 (2.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 41 (2.59%) Java Engineer
19 40 (2.53%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (29.19%) .NET
2 454 (28.68%) Node.js
3 246 (15.54%) REST
4 242 (15.29%) AngularJS
5 240 (15.16%) RESTful
6 226 (14.28%) ASP.NET
7 206 (13.01%) CSS
8 205 (12.95%) .NET Core
9 204 (12.89%) ASP.NET Core
10 185 (11.69%) HTML
11 182 (11.50%) Terraform
12 175 (11.05%) Next.js
13 174 (10.99%) Vue
14 163 (10.30%) Blazor
15 127 (8.02%) Spring
16 103 (6.51%) Spring Boot
17 94 (5.94%) React Native
18 91 (5.75%) .NET Framework
19 86 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
20 68 (4.30%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 236 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 100 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (5.18%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 64 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.73%) AI Agents
7 57 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.64%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.39%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.20%) Social Media
14 18 (1.14%) Onboarding
15 17 (1.07%) iPhone
16 14 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
17 13 (0.82%) IoT
18 12 (0.76%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.42%) Linux
2 30 (1.90%) Android
3 19 (1.20%) Windows
4 16 (1.01%) Debian
4 16 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 15 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.51%) Unix
7 7 (0.44%) CentOS
8 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 899 (56.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 688 (43.46%) Agile
3 576 (36.39%) Software Engineering
4 573 (36.20%) CI/CD
5 473 (29.88%) AI
6 393 (24.83%) Microservices
7 368 (23.25%) DevOps
8 312 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
9 292 (18.45%) Mentoring
10 229 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 205 (12.95%) Test Automation
12 192 (12.13%) Code Quality
13 181 (11.43%) Front End Development
13 181 (11.43%) Scrum
14 173 (10.93%) Infrastructure as Code
15 167 (10.55%) Containerisation
16 154 (9.73%) Clean Code
17 149 (9.41%) SDLC
18 143 (9.03%) Computer Science
19 138 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 823 (51.99%) TypeScript
2 760 (48.01%) JavaScript
3 477 (30.13%) C#
4 429 (27.10%) SQL
5 399 (25.21%) Python
6 277 (17.50%) Java
7 64 (4.04%) C++
8 63 (3.98%) PHP
9 62 (3.92%) Go
10 48 (3.03%) Ruby
11 29 (1.83%) Rust
12 26 (1.64%) Bash
12 26 (1.64%) Perl
13 22 (1.39%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.07%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.69%) PowerShell
16 9 (0.57%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.51%) Scala
17 8 (0.51%) Swift
18 5 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 193 (12.19%) Degree
2 156 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 121 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 108 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.63%) MBA
8 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.19%) OCP
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.19%) PhD
11 3 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.063%) HNC
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.32%) QA
2 83 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.58%) WCAG
4 13 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.69%) GDPR
6 8 (0.51%) GRC
7 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.063%) SLA
System Software
1 279 (17.62%) Docker
2 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 212 (13.39%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.83%) Ansible
3 17 (1.07%) Grafana
4 15 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Puppet
7 6 (0.38%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Kibana
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
9 4 (0.25%) Argo
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
10 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.063%) Consul
12 1 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 251 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.55%) Google
3 45 (2.84%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.90%) Oracle
5 24 (1.52%) Facebook
6 23 (1.45%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.01%) Databricks
8 15 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 15 (0.95%) Splunk
9 13 (0.82%) Mistral
9 13 (0.82%) Palantir
9 13 (0.82%) Sony
10 12 (0.76%) Foundry
11 11 (0.69%) Apple
11 11 (0.69%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.63%) New Relic
13 8 (0.51%) IBM
14 7 (0.44%) SaltStack
15 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
15 6 (0.38%) Solace