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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 57 49
Rank change year-on-year -48 -8 -8
Permanent jobs citing React 1,445 1,811 3,763
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 4.60% 4.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.68% 22.96% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,165 1,362 3,090
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,300 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £114,500 £115,000 £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 8,173 7,887 17,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.94% 20.02% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,190 5,548 14,129
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,531 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -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 20 May 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 20 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 -31 616 £85,000 -5.56% 275
North of England -46 280 £65,000 - 109
South East -18 233 £65,000 +8.33% 118
Midlands -41 150 £62,500 +4.17% 40
North West -47 131 £62,500 -3.85% 65
Yorkshire -13 119 £67,500 - 32
South West -72 96 £60,000 -4.00% 49
East Midlands -29 82 £65,000 +13.04% 23
West Midlands -52 68 £60,000 - 17
East of England -17 58 £57,500 -8.00% 38
North East -37 30 £55,000 +10.00% 12
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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 22 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.45%) Confluence
3 15 (1.04%) CMS
4 14 (0.97%) Apache
5 11 (0.76%) IIS
6 10 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.35%) nginx
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Appian
11 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.069%) Camunda
12 1 (0.069%) Strapi
Applications
1 13 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.35%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.069%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 659 (45.61%) AWS
2 433 (29.97%) Azure
3 175 (12.11%) Serverless
4 155 (10.73%) GCP
5 128 (8.86%) GitHub
6 110 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (7.61%) SaaS
7 102 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
8 78 (5.40%) Amazon S3
9 49 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (3.04%) Figma
12 42 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (2.15%) Azure AI
15 30 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (1.73%) Power Platform
17 22 (1.52%) Amazon EventBridge
17 22 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (1.52%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.25%) Internet
2 17 (1.18%) Broadband
3 9 (0.62%) AMQP
4 6 (0.42%) HTTP
5 5 (0.35%) DNS
5 5 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
6 4 (0.28%) LTE
7 3 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) VoIP
9 1 (0.069%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.069%) Wireless
9 1 (0.069%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (6.92%) NoSQL
3 95 (6.57%) MongoDB
4 75 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 67 (4.64%) MySQL
6 50 (3.46%) DynamoDB
7 47 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 46 (3.18%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.38%) Redis
11 16 (1.11%) Neo4j
12 12 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.76%) DB2
14 10 (0.69%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.62%) Big Data
15 9 (0.62%) Power BI
16 8 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.42%) Metadata
17 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 200 (13.84%) Git
2 75 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 48 (3.32%) JIRA
4 32 (2.21%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.08%) GitLab
6 28 (1.94%) Vite
7 19 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.11%) Claude Code
8 16 (1.11%) Maven
8 16 (1.11%) Selenium
8 16 (1.11%) TeamCity
9 15 (1.04%) CircleCI
9 15 (1.04%) webpack
10 14 (0.97%) Storybook
11 13 (0.90%) JUnit
12 11 (0.76%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.62%) Gradle
14 8 (0.55%) Mockito
15 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
15 5 (0.35%) ESLint
General
1 256 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 251 (17.37%) Finance
3 83 (5.74%) Front Office
4 74 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.04%) Retail
6 43 (2.98%) Banking
7 42 (2.91%) Law
8 35 (2.42%) Public Sector
9 29 (2.01%) Legal
10 24 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 17 (1.18%) Marketing
12 16 (1.11%) Tech for Good
13 10 (0.69%) Advertising
14 9 (0.62%) Automotive
14 9 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.62%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.55%) Games
16 7 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 806 (55.78%) Developer
2 342 (23.67%) Senior
3 296 (20.48%) Software Engineer
4 292 (20.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 225 (15.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 215 (14.88%) React Developer
7 190 (13.15%) Lead
8 163 (11.28%) Senior Developer
9 105 (7.27%) Lead Developer
10 96 (6.64%) .NET Developer
10 96 (6.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 89 (6.16%) Senior Software Engineer
12 76 (5.26%) Java Developer
13 70 (4.84%) Python Developer
14 64 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
14 64 (4.43%) Software Developer
15 61 (4.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 55 (3.81%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 52 (3.60%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 47 (3.25%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (33.49%) Node.js
2 301 (20.83%) .NET
3 231 (15.99%) CSS
4 226 (15.64%) HTML
5 203 (14.05%) AngularJS
6 183 (12.66%) REST
7 167 (11.56%) RESTful
8 151 (10.45%) Vue
9 127 (8.79%) Next.js
9 127 (8.79%) Spring
10 115 (7.96%) .NET Core
11 107 (7.40%) Spring Boot
12 93 (6.44%) Redux
13 92 (6.37%) GraphQL
14 86 (5.95%) ASP.NET
14 86 (5.95%) React Native
15 73 (5.05%) ASP.NET Core
16 69 (4.78%) Kafka
17 63 (4.36%) Blazor
18 48 (3.32%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 70 (4.84%) Mobile App
3 69 (4.78%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (4.36%) Fixed Income
5 58 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.87%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.45%) Derivative
12 20 (1.38%) IoT
13 16 (1.11%) Equities
13 16 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.97%) e-Learning
15 13 (0.90%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.83%) Algorithms
17 11 (0.76%) Hedge funds
18 10 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.77%) Linux
2 17 (1.18%) Android
3 12 (0.83%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.42%) Debian
5 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.35%) CentOS
6 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.069%) Unix
7 1 (0.069%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (54.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 561 (38.82%) Agile
3 507 (35.09%) Software Engineering
4 423 (29.27%) CI/CD
5 318 (22.01%) DevOps
6 280 (19.38%) Microservices
7 276 (19.10%) AI
8 269 (18.62%) Mentoring
9 234 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
10 208 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 192 (13.29%) Front End Development
12 162 (11.21%) Test Automation
13 158 (10.93%) User Experience
14 155 (10.73%) Scrum
15 153 (10.59%) Containerisation
16 148 (10.24%) Clean Code
17 127 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
18 115 (7.96%) Computer Science
19 111 (7.68%) TDD
20 102 (7.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 769 (53.22%) TypeScript
2 664 (45.95%) JavaScript
3 366 (25.33%) Python
4 300 (20.76%) Java
5 274 (18.96%) C#
6 266 (18.41%) SQL
7 66 (4.57%) Go
8 62 (4.29%) PHP
9 19 (1.31%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.25%) Bash
11 16 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.11%) Ruby
12 15 (1.04%) C++
12 15 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.97%) C
14 9 (0.62%) Bicep
15 7 (0.48%) Rust
16 5 (0.35%) Scala
16 5 (0.35%) Swift
16 5 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (8.65%) Degree
2 112 (7.75%) Security Cleared
3 87 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (4.50%) SC Cleared
5 38 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.14%) PhD
14 1 (0.069%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.069%) HNC
14 1 (0.069%) HND
14 1 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.19%) QA
2 41 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.35%) GDPR
4 3 (0.21%) WCAG
5 2 (0.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.069%) NCSC
6 1 (0.069%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 237 (16.40%) Docker
2 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 189 (13.08%) Kubernetes
2 152 (10.52%) Terraform
3 20 (1.38%) Ansible
3 20 (1.38%) Grafana
4 13 (0.90%) Podman
5 12 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.55%) Argo
7 7 (0.48%) Kibana
8 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.35%) Nagios
9 5 (0.35%) Puppet
10 3 (0.21%) Plesk
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) Packer
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 113 (7.82%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.98%) Google
3 28 (1.94%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.59%) Oracle
5 18 (1.25%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.55%) Apple
7 8 (0.55%) HubSpot
7 8 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.48%) IBM
8 7 (0.48%) Solace
9 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.42%) Databricks
10 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.35%) Foundry
10 5 (0.35%) Pega
10 5 (0.35%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.28%) Facebook
11 4 (0.28%) Sony
11 4 (0.28%) Yahoo!