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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -50 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,419 1,742 3,762
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.75% 4.53% 4.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.12% 23.10% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,147 1,419 3,082
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,200 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,125 £53,896 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 7,833 7,540 16,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.68% 19.62% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,918 5,744 14,092
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +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 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 5 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 5 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 -26 622 £87,500 - 306
North of England -42 273 £65,000 - 89
South East -48 210 £65,000 +8.33% 117
Midlands -35 147 £65,000 +8.33% 42
North West -36 136 £62,500 -3.85% 45
Yorkshire -35 117 £70,000 +3.70% 31
South West -64 97 £60,000 -4.00% 49
East Midlands -28 90 £65,000 +8.33% 18
West Midlands -50 57 £60,000 - 24
East of England -2 55 £52,500 -16.00% 31
North East -38 20 £55,000 +14.58% 13
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 20 (1.41%) Confluence
1 20 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.27%) CMS
3 11 (0.78%) Apache
3 11 (0.78%) IIS
4 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.35%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.35%) nginx
8 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.28%) Appian
8 4 (0.28%) WordPress
9 3 (0.21%) CICS
9 3 (0.21%) Liferay
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.070%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.21%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 650 (45.81%) AWS
2 407 (28.68%) Azure
3 174 (12.26%) Serverless
4 166 (11.70%) GCP
5 131 (9.23%) GitHub
6 116 (8.17%) SaaS
7 102 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (5.57%) Amazon S3
10 47 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (3.17%) Figma
13 44 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (1.83%) Power Platform
16 23 (1.62%) Amazon EventBridge
17 22 (1.55%) npm
18 17 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
19 16 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.20%) Broadband
2 15 (1.06%) Internet
3 9 (0.63%) AMQP
4 7 (0.49%) HTTP
5 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
7 3 (0.21%) LTE
8 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.070%) MQTT
9 1 (0.070%) VoIP
9 1 (0.070%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (7.61%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 65 (4.58%) MongoDB
5 64 (4.51%) MySQL
6 50 (3.52%) DynamoDB
7 45 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 31 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.41%) Neo4j
9 20 (1.41%) Redis
10 19 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (0.99%) Pinecone
12 13 (0.92%) DB2
13 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.78%) Power BI
15 10 (0.70%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.49%) Big Data
18 6 (0.42%) Metadata
18 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 190 (13.39%) Git
2 74 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.24%) JIRA
4 32 (2.26%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.11%) Vite
6 27 (1.90%) GitLab
7 20 (1.41%) Selenium
8 19 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.27%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.20%) CircleCI
11 15 (1.06%) webpack
12 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.99%) Storybook
13 13 (0.92%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.70%) Gradle
14 10 (0.70%) Maven
15 7 (0.49%) JUnit
16 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
16 5 (0.35%) ESLint
16 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 261 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 229 (16.14%) Finance
3 88 (6.20%) Front Office
4 74 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.45%) Banking
6 42 (2.96%) Law
7 38 (2.68%) Retail
8 35 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 25 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.48%) Legal
11 19 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 19 (1.34%) Marketing
12 15 (1.06%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.63%) Advertising
13 9 (0.63%) Games
14 8 (0.56%) Automotive
14 8 (0.56%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 778 (54.83%) Developer
2 343 (24.17%) Senior
3 294 (20.72%) Full-Stack Developer
4 289 (20.37%) Software Engineer
5 221 (15.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 220 (15.50%) React Developer
7 190 (13.39%) Lead
8 167 (11.77%) Senior Developer
9 100 (7.05%) Lead Developer
10 90 (6.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 83 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 78 (5.50%) Java Developer
13 75 (5.29%) Python Developer
14 67 (4.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 65 (4.58%) .NET Developer
16 63 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
17 57 (4.02%) Software Developer
18 53 (3.74%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 49 (3.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 49 (3.45%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (34.04%) Node.js
2 259 (18.25%) .NET
3 247 (17.41%) CSS
4 245 (17.27%) HTML
5 202 (14.24%) AngularJS
6 166 (11.70%) REST
7 154 (10.85%) RESTful
8 144 (10.15%) Vue
9 124 (8.74%) Next.js
10 118 (8.32%) Spring
11 102 (7.19%) Spring Boot
12 98 (6.91%) GraphQL
13 92 (6.48%) Redux
14 86 (6.06%) .NET Core
15 78 (5.50%) React Native
16 67 (4.72%) Kafka
17 63 (4.44%) Django
18 53 (3.74%) ASP.NET
19 45 (3.17%) Web Services
20 44 (3.10%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 70 (4.93%) Fixed Income
3 66 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 60 (4.23%) Mobile App
5 58 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 53 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 26 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.62%) Derivative
12 20 (1.41%) IoT
13 18 (1.27%) Equities
14 14 (0.99%) e-Learning
14 14 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.70%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.70%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.68%) Linux
2 14 (0.99%) Android
3 13 (0.92%) Windows
4 11 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.35%) CentOS
5 5 (0.35%) Debian
5 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (53.07%) Full-Stack Development
2 514 (36.22%) Agile
3 489 (34.46%) Software Engineering
4 422 (29.74%) CI/CD
5 307 (21.63%) DevOps
6 258 (18.18%) Microservices
7 243 (17.12%) Mentoring
8 237 (16.70%) AI
9 231 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
10 204 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 189 (13.32%) Front End Development
12 162 (11.42%) User Experience
13 157 (11.06%) Test Automation
14 153 (10.78%) Containerisation
15 152 (10.71%) Clean Code
16 140 (9.87%) Scrum
17 121 (8.53%) Infrastructure as Code
18 112 (7.89%) Computer Science
19 102 (7.19%) TDD
20 89 (6.27%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 768 (54.12%) TypeScript
2 653 (46.02%) JavaScript
3 384 (27.06%) Python
4 313 (22.06%) Java
5 244 (17.20%) SQL
6 230 (16.21%) C#
7 71 (5.00%) Go
7 71 (5.00%) PHP
8 20 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.27%) C
10 16 (1.13%) Bash
10 16 (1.13%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.06%) Ruby
12 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.70%) C++
14 8 (0.56%) Bicep
15 5 (0.35%) Scala
15 5 (0.35%) Swift
15 5 (0.35%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 122 (8.60%) Degree
2 107 (7.54%) Security Cleared
3 83 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 58 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.62%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.99%) DBS Check
7 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.14%) ISEB
12 2 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
13 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.29%) QA
2 41 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.070%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.070%) NCSC
5 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.070%) WCAG
System Software
1 236 (16.63%) Docker
2 10 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 194 (13.67%) Kubernetes
2 153 (10.78%) Terraform
3 21 (1.48%) Grafana
4 20 (1.41%) Ansible
5 13 (0.92%) Argo
5 13 (0.92%) Podman
5 13 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.49%) Kibana
7 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.35%) Nagios
8 5 (0.35%) Puppet
9 4 (0.28%) Plesk
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.14%) cPanel
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 82 (5.78%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.54%) Google
3 32 (2.26%) OpenAI
4 22 (1.55%) Atlassian
5 17 (1.20%) Oracle
6 15 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.56%) IBM
10 7 (0.49%) Solace
11 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.42%) Apple
11 6 (0.42%) Databricks
12 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.35%) Foundry
12 5 (0.35%) Pega
12 5 (0.35%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.28%) Adobe
13 4 (0.28%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.28%) Palo Alto