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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 42 42
Rank change year-on-year -46 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,277 2,595 2,976
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.31% 5.46% 5.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 25.18% 21.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,058 1,554 2,666
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.11% -6.64%

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 6,386 10,305 14,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.57% 21.67% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,872 6,040 11,896
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -29 567 £92,500 +8.82% 314
North of England -35 233 £65,000 +8.33% 223
South East -68 188 £65,000 +3.17% 381
Midlands -15 124 £62,500 +4.17% 101
North West -33 116 £65,000 +6.12% 120
Yorkshire -21 102 £65,000 -3.70% 73
South West -59 94 £62,500 +4.17% 123
West Midlands -14 63 £60,000 -4.00% 38
East Midlands +1 61 £65,000 +8.33% 60
East of England -79 46 £60,000 -11.11% 159
North East -39 15 £58,500 +11.43% 30
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 28 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (1.64%) Confluence
3 18 (1.41%) CMS
4 12 (0.94%) Apache
5 9 (0.70%) nginx
5 9 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.63%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.39%) IIS
10 4 (0.31%) Appian
10 4 (0.31%) WordPress
11 3 (0.23%) Liferay
11 3 (0.23%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.078%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.078%) JBoss
13 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.078%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Shopify
2 7 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.078%) Magento
4 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 594 (46.52%) AWS
2 402 (31.48%) Azure
3 171 (13.39%) Serverless
4 149 (11.67%) GitHub
5 141 (11.04%) GCP
6 133 (10.42%) SaaS
7 104 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
8 90 (7.05%) Amazon S3
9 72 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (3.29%) Figma
13 40 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (1.80%) dbt
17 20 (1.57%) Azure Functions
18 19 (1.49%) Power Platform
19 18 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 18 (1.41%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.94%) Internet
2 10 (0.78%) AMQP
3 7 (0.55%) Broadband
4 4 (0.31%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) DNS
5 2 (0.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.078%) Firewall
6 1 (0.078%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.078%) LTE
6 1 (0.078%) MQTT
6 1 (0.078%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 92 (7.20%) SQL Server
4 72 (5.64%) Relational Database
5 65 (5.09%) MySQL
6 59 (4.62%) DynamoDB
7 54 (4.23%) MongoDB
8 53 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (1.57%) Apache Arrow
10 20 (1.57%) Apache Iceberg
10 20 (1.57%) Dremio
10 20 (1.57%) Redis
11 18 (1.41%) Neo4j
12 14 (1.10%) DB2
13 12 (0.94%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.94%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 164 (12.84%) Git
2 62 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.90%) Cypress.io
4 36 (2.82%) JIRA
5 24 (1.88%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.80%) GitLab
6 23 (1.80%) Selenium
6 23 (1.80%) Storybook
6 23 (1.80%) Vite
7 21 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.57%) webpack
9 19 (1.49%) Cucumber
10 13 (1.02%) JUnit
11 9 (0.70%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.63%) gulp
12 8 (0.63%) Maven
13 7 (0.55%) Mockito
14 6 (0.47%) git-flow
15 5 (0.39%) Babel
15 5 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 313 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 188 (14.72%) Finance
3 75 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (4.46%) Front Office
5 56 (4.39%) Banking
6 48 (3.76%) Retail
7 44 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.13%) Law
9 34 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.72%) Marketing
12 20 (1.57%) Games
13 19 (1.49%) Tech for Good
14 18 (1.41%) Health Technology
15 14 (1.10%) Legal
16 9 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.70%) Publishing
17 8 (0.63%) Back Office
18 6 (0.47%) Multimedia
19 5 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 693 (54.27%) Developer
2 309 (24.20%) Senior
3 259 (20.28%) Software Engineer
4 246 (19.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 171 (13.39%) React Developer
6 159 (12.45%) Lead
7 148 (11.59%) Senior Developer
8 135 (10.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 102 (7.99%) Python Developer
10 78 (6.11%) .NET Developer
10 78 (6.11%) Java Developer
11 77 (6.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 72 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
13 56 (4.39%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.39%) Software Developer
14 55 (4.31%) AWS Developer
15 47 (3.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 46 (3.60%) C# Developer
17 43 (3.37%) Architect
17 43 (3.37%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (28.74%) Node.js
2 302 (23.65%) .NET
3 279 (21.85%) CSS
4 272 (21.30%) AngularJS
5 269 (21.06%) HTML
6 196 (15.35%) Vue
7 194 (15.19%) REST
8 139 (10.88%) RESTful
9 106 (8.30%) .NET Core
10 100 (7.83%) Next.js
11 97 (7.60%) Spring
12 88 (6.89%) GraphQL
12 88 (6.89%) Spring Boot
13 79 (6.19%) ASP.NET
14 66 (5.17%) .NET Framework
15 65 (5.09%) Django
15 65 (5.09%) React Native
16 57 (4.46%) WebSockets
17 52 (4.07%) Jest
18 50 (3.92%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 142 (11.12%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.03%) Mobile App
3 55 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.92%) Fixed Income
5 49 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 40 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.80%) Equities
11 20 (1.57%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.49%) IoT
13 18 (1.41%) Onboarding
14 17 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.86%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.78%) AI Agents
17 10 (0.78%) Client/Server
17 10 (0.78%) Operational Technology
18 9 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.51%) Linux
2 21 (1.64%) Android
3 17 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.86%) Windows
5 5 (0.39%) CentOS
5 5 (0.39%) Debian
5 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.31%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.078%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (46.99%) Full-Stack Development
2 523 (40.96%) Agile
3 442 (34.61%) Software Engineering
4 413 (32.34%) CI/CD
5 263 (20.60%) DevOps
6 261 (20.44%) Microservices
7 251 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (16.91%) User Experience
9 209 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 203 (15.90%) AI
11 197 (15.43%) Mentoring
12 189 (14.80%) Front End Development
13 139 (10.88%) Clean Code
14 132 (10.34%) Scrum
15 130 (10.18%) Containerisation
16 123 (9.63%) Computer Science
17 121 (9.48%) TDD
18 113 (8.85%) Test Automation
19 103 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
20 96 (7.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 634 (49.65%) JavaScript
2 618 (48.39%) TypeScript
3 336 (26.31%) Python
4 300 (23.49%) Java
5 254 (19.89%) SQL
6 253 (19.81%) C#
7 69 (5.40%) PHP
8 45 (3.52%) Go
9 25 (1.96%) Kotlin
10 22 (1.72%) C
11 21 (1.64%) PowerShell
12 17 (1.33%) Rust
13 13 (1.02%) Ruby
14 12 (0.94%) C++
14 12 (0.94%) Scala
15 9 (0.70%) Bash
16 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.47%) R
17 5 (0.39%) RPG
18 4 (0.31%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 141 (11.04%) Degree
2 120 (9.40%) Security Cleared
3 68 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 46 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.39%) MCP
12 4 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.23%) ISEB
13 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.64%) QA
2 67 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.25%) WCAG
4 11 (0.86%) SLA
5 4 (0.31%) GDPR
5 4 (0.31%) NCSC
6 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.23%) NIST
6 3 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.078%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.078%) Data Quality
System Software
1 207 (16.21%) Docker
2 13 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.078%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 197 (15.43%) Kubernetes
2 138 (10.81%) Terraform
3 15 (1.17%) Grafana
4 14 (1.10%) Argo
5 13 (1.02%) Ansible
6 9 (0.70%) Kibana
7 5 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.39%) Puppet
8 3 (0.23%) cPanel
8 3 (0.23%) Nagios
8 3 (0.23%) Plesk
9 1 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.078%) Istio
9 1 (0.078%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (6.34%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.19%) OpenAI
3 27 (2.11%) Atlassian
3 27 (2.11%) Google
4 19 (1.49%) Oracle
5 13 (1.02%) HubSpot
6 12 (0.94%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.55%) Adobe
8 7 (0.55%) Foundry
9 6 (0.47%) Databricks
9 6 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.39%) IBM
10 5 (0.39%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.39%) SAP
11 4 (0.31%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.31%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.31%) Informatica
11 4 (0.31%) Palo Alto