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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 39 42
Rank change year-on-year -52 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing React 1,341 2,414 3,262
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.18% 5.67% 4.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.84% 25.49% 21.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,122 1,542 2,894
10th Percentile £46,334 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,823 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 6,759 9,472 15,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.98% 22.23% 22.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,178 5,949 12,866
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £37,500
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% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £60,675
% change year-on-year -1.85% +9.15% -10.11%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -27 595 £90,000 +2.86% 251
North of England -46 250 £65,000 +8.33% 124
South East -73 191 £63,750 -1.92% 120
Midlands -12 134 £62,500 +4.17% 55
North West -43 118 £65,000 +8.33% 63
Yorkshire -18 116 £70,000 +4.09% 45
South West -43 103 £62,500 -5.66% 63
East Midlands -6 73 £65,000 +8.33% 25
West Midlands -18 61 £60,000 - 30
East of England -87 42 £55,000 -18.52% 32
North East -30 16 £56,750 +18.23% 16
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 19 (1.42%) Confluence
2 18 (1.34%) CMS
3 14 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.97%) Apache
5 9 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
6 8 (0.60%) nginx
7 7 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.52%) IIS
7 7 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.45%) WordPress
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.30%) Appian
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.15%) JBoss
12 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.075%) SAS
13 1 (0.075%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Shopify
2 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.075%) Magento
3 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 618 (46.09%) AWS
2 417 (31.10%) Azure
3 173 (12.90%) Serverless
4 158 (11.78%) GCP
5 147 (10.96%) GitHub
6 127 (9.47%) SaaS
7 104 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (7.31%) Amazon S3
9 71 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (3.58%) Figma
12 41 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (1.72%) Power Platform
16 21 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (1.49%) npm
18 19 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
19 16 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.89%) Internet
2 10 (0.75%) AMQP
3 4 (0.30%) Broadband
3 4 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.22%) SSL
5 2 (0.15%) DNS
5 2 (0.15%) LTE
6 1 (0.075%) Firewall
6 1 (0.075%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.075%) MQTT
6 1 (0.075%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.71%) NoSQL
3 83 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 66 (4.92%) MySQL
5 65 (4.85%) Relational Database
6 52 (3.88%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.65%) MongoDB
8 37 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.49%) Redis
10 19 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (1.42%) Neo4j
11 14 (1.04%) DB2
12 13 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.89%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.89%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (0.75%) Power BI
16 9 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.60%) Apache Arrow
18 7 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 178 (13.27%) Git
2 66 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 39 (2.91%) JIRA
4 35 (2.61%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 25 (1.86%) Vite
7 23 (1.72%) GitLab
8 22 (1.64%) webpack
9 21 (1.57%) Selenium
10 20 (1.49%) Bitbucket
11 19 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 19 (1.42%) Storybook
12 11 (0.82%) JUnit
13 10 (0.75%) Maven
14 9 (0.67%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.60%) Gradle
16 7 (0.52%) gulp
17 6 (0.45%) git-flow
18 5 (0.37%) Babel
18 5 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 300 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 207 (15.44%) Finance
3 85 (6.34%) Front Office
4 75 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (4.10%) Banking
6 45 (3.36%) Law
7 43 (3.21%) Retail
8 40 (2.98%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 22 (1.64%) Legal
10 22 (1.64%) Marketing
11 21 (1.57%) Games
12 13 (0.97%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.67%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.52%) Back Office
14 7 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 738 (55.03%) Developer
2 315 (23.49%) Senior
3 278 (20.73%) Software Engineer
4 271 (20.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 207 (15.44%) React Developer
6 177 (13.20%) Lead
7 160 (11.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 151 (11.26%) Senior Developer
9 95 (7.08%) Python Developer
10 88 (6.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 81 (6.04%) Lead Developer
12 77 (5.74%) Java Developer
13 70 (5.22%) Senior Software Engineer
14 69 (5.15%) .NET Developer
15 56 (4.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 55 (4.10%) Software Developer
17 47 (3.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
18 46 (3.43%) C# Developer
19 45 (3.36%) Lead Software Engineer
20 43 (3.21%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (29.90%) Node.js
2 292 (21.77%) .NET
3 289 (21.55%) CSS
4 281 (20.95%) HTML
5 229 (17.08%) AngularJS
6 180 (13.42%) REST
7 168 (12.53%) Vue
8 134 (9.99%) RESTful
9 109 (8.13%) Next.js
10 106 (7.90%) GraphQL
11 102 (7.61%) Spring
12 100 (7.46%) .NET Core
13 91 (6.79%) Spring Boot
14 74 (5.52%) Redux
15 67 (5.00%) ASP.NET
15 67 (5.00%) Django
15 67 (5.00%) Kafka
16 65 (4.85%) React Native
17 59 (4.40%) WebSockets
18 58 (4.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 145 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.67%) Fixed Income
3 66 (4.92%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
5 51 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 45 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (1.64%) Equities
11 20 (1.49%) IoT
12 19 (1.42%) Derivative
13 18 (1.34%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.04%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.75%) AI Agents
16 10 (0.75%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.75%) Private Cloud
17 9 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.24%) Linux
2 18 (1.34%) Android
3 15 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.82%) Windows
5 5 (0.37%) CentOS
5 5 (0.37%) Debian
5 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.075%) VMS
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (48.47%) Full-Stack Development
2 526 (39.22%) Agile
3 477 (35.57%) Software Engineering
4 419 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 272 (20.28%) DevOps
6 260 (19.39%) Microservices
7 256 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (16.26%) Mentoring
9 208 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 204 (15.21%) AI
10 204 (15.21%) User Experience
11 196 (14.62%) Front End Development
12 143 (10.66%) Clean Code
13 137 (10.22%) Containerisation
14 123 (9.17%) Test Automation
15 121 (9.02%) Computer Science
15 121 (9.02%) Scrum
16 112 (8.35%) Infrastructure as Code
17 100 (7.46%) TDD
18 87 (6.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 677 (50.48%) TypeScript
2 674 (50.26%) JavaScript
3 358 (26.70%) Python
4 319 (23.79%) Java
5 246 (18.34%) SQL
6 236 (17.60%) C#
7 71 (5.29%) PHP
8 59 (4.40%) Go
9 22 (1.64%) C
10 20 (1.49%) PowerShell
11 19 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.19%) Rust
13 12 (0.89%) Bash
13 12 (0.89%) C++
13 12 (0.89%) Ruby
14 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.37%) Bicep
15 5 (0.37%) R
15 5 (0.37%) RPG
16 3 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 142 (10.59%) Degree
2 119 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 76 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (5.37%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.22%) ISEB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.15%) PhD
14 2 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.85%) Accessibility
2 62 (4.62%) QA
3 13 (0.97%) WCAG
4 6 (0.45%) SLA
5 4 (0.30%) GDPR
5 4 (0.30%) NCSC
6 3 (0.22%) NIST
7 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.075%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.075%) SOC 2
System Software
1 220 (16.41%) Docker
2 13 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 207 (15.44%) Kubernetes
2 147 (10.96%) Terraform
3 20 (1.49%) Grafana
4 14 (1.04%) Ansible
4 14 (1.04%) Argo
5 10 (0.75%) Kibana
6 9 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) Nagios
7 5 (0.37%) Puppet
8 3 (0.22%) cPanel
8 3 (0.22%) Plesk
9 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.075%) Istio
10 1 (0.075%) Podman
Vendors
1 73 (5.44%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.24%) Google
3 27 (2.01%) Atlassian
3 27 (2.01%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.34%) Oracle
5 13 (0.97%) HubSpot
6 12 (0.89%) Red Hat
7 10 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (0.52%) Adobe
8 7 (0.52%) Foundry
8 7 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.45%) Databricks
10 5 (0.37%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.37%) IBM
10 5 (0.37%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.37%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.37%) SAP
10 5 (0.37%) Solace
11 4 (0.30%) Apple
11 4 (0.30%) Informatica