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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 82 48
Rank change year-on-year -38 -34 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,579 1,529 2,892
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.56% 3.54% 4.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.65% 20.02% 19.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,211 1,025 1,803
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £107,500
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 10,777 7,639 14,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.63% 17.70% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,880 5,045 9,616
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 £86,250
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 17 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 17 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 -60 577 £85,000 -15.00% 1,420
North of England -4 350 £60,000 -9.43% 303
South East +31 277 £60,000 - 186
North West -18 191 £60,000 -11.11% 207
Midlands -19 154 £55,000 - 127
South West -30 136 £55,000 -8.33% 146
Yorkshire +3 106 £63,750 -3.77% 62
East Midlands -22 80 £55,000 +10.00% 51
West Midlands -38 74 £55,000 -6.38% 76
East of England -20 69 £60,000 -4.00% 76
North East -28 53 £65,000 +18.18% 36
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 29 (1.84%) CMS
2 27 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.58%) Apache
4 19 (1.20%) Headless CMS
5 18 (1.14%) Confluence
6 11 (0.70%) nginx
7 10 (0.63%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.51%) 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%) DNN
12 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.19%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Sitefinity
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 16 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.70%) 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
1 673 (42.62%) AWS
2 585 (37.05%) Azure
3 167 (10.58%) GitHub
4 142 (8.99%) GCP
5 137 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (8.68%) Serverless
6 109 (6.90%) SaaS
7 78 (4.94%) Azure AI
8 77 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (2.98%) Anthropic Claude
11 42 (2.66%) GitHub Copilot
12 41 (2.60%) Amazon S3
13 37 (2.34%) Power Platform
14 35 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 34 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (1.65%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.46%) Internet
2 21 (1.33%) 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 6 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.38%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.32%) Firewall
7 5 (0.32%) Intranet
7 5 (0.32%) SSL
8 4 (0.25%) LAN
8 4 (0.25%) WAN
9 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.13%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) MQTT
10 1 (0.063%) Network Security
10 1 (0.063%) OpenVPN
10 1 (0.063%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (12.60%) MongoDB
2 157 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
3 144 (9.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 116 (7.35%) SQL Server
5 105 (6.65%) NoSQL
6 97 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
7 92 (5.83%) MySQL
8 81 (5.13%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.53%) DynamoDB
10 37 (2.34%) Redis
11 17 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.95%) Power BI
13 11 (0.70%) Big Data
13 11 (0.70%) 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
1 252 (15.96%) Git
2 74 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 63 (3.99%) GitLab
4 52 (3.29%) Cypress.io
5 47 (2.98%) JIRA
6 40 (2.53%) JUnit
7 39 (2.47%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.84%) Subversion
9 25 (1.58%) Eclipse
9 25 (1.58%) Vite
10 23 (1.46%) Maven
11 22 (1.39%) Selenium
12 21 (1.33%) Bitbucket
13 17 (1.08%) Mockito
14 12 (0.76%) Storybook
15 11 (0.70%) Postman
16 10 (0.63%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.57%) Visual Studio
18 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
19 7 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 334 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 260 (16.47%) Finance
3 77 (4.88%) Retail
4 67 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 64 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.29%) Law
7 52 (3.29%) Marketing
8 43 (2.72%) Banking
9 36 (2.28%) Legal
10 29 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.08%) 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 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.70%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 804 (50.92%) Developer
2 347 (21.98%) Senior
3 321 (20.33%) Software Engineer
4 264 (16.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 209 (13.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 201 (12.73%) .NET Developer
7 161 (10.20%) Lead
8 150 (9.50%) Senior Developer
9 123 (7.79%) React Developer
10 117 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 81 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 77 (4.88%) Software Developer
13 64 (4.05%) Java Developer
14 63 (3.99%) Lead Developer
15 58 (3.67%) Python Engineer
15 58 (3.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 56 (3.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 44 (2.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 41 (2.60%) Engineering Manager
19 39 (2.47%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (29.26%) .NET
2 454 (28.75%) Node.js
3 244 (15.45%) REST
4 241 (15.26%) AngularJS
5 239 (15.14%) RESTful
6 227 (14.38%) ASP.NET
7 205 (12.98%) .NET Core
7 205 (12.98%) ASP.NET Core
7 205 (12.98%) CSS
8 184 (11.65%) HTML
9 183 (11.59%) Terraform
10 175 (11.08%) Next.js
11 173 (10.96%) Vue
12 163 (10.32%) Blazor
13 126 (7.98%) Spring
14 103 (6.52%) Spring Boot
15 95 (6.02%) React Native
16 91 (5.76%) .NET Framework
17 86 (5.45%) ASP.NET Web API
18 68 (4.31%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 234 (14.82%) Cloud Native
2 99 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (4.18%) Mobile App
5 64 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.74%) AI Agents
7 57 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
8 38 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.58%) Algorithms
12 21 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.20%) Social Media
14 18 (1.14%) Onboarding
15 17 (1.08%) iPhone
16 14 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.89%) Virtual Reality
17 13 (0.82%) IoT
18 12 (0.76%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.37%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 900 (57.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 687 (43.51%) Agile
3 571 (36.16%) Software Engineering
4 566 (35.85%) CI/CD
5 473 (29.96%) AI
6 395 (25.02%) Microservices
7 371 (23.50%) DevOps
8 310 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
9 294 (18.62%) Mentoring
10 227 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 206 (13.05%) Test Automation
12 189 (11.97%) Code Quality
13 181 (11.46%) Scrum
14 180 (11.40%) Front End Development
15 172 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
16 167 (10.58%) Containerisation
17 152 (9.63%) Clean Code
18 147 (9.31%) SDLC
19 142 (8.99%) Computer Science
20 138 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 821 (51.99%) TypeScript
2 757 (47.94%) JavaScript
3 478 (30.27%) C#
4 427 (27.04%) SQL
5 397 (25.14%) Python
6 274 (17.35%) Java
7 62 (3.93%) C++
7 62 (3.93%) PHP
8 60 (3.80%) Go
9 48 (3.04%) Ruby
10 29 (1.84%) Rust
11 27 (1.71%) Bash
12 26 (1.65%) Perl
13 22 (1.39%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.76%) PowerShell
16 9 (0.57%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.51%) Scala
17 8 (0.51%) Swift
18 5 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 189 (11.97%) Degree
2 154 (9.75%) Security Cleared
3 119 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 108 (6.84%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.84%) 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
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.33%) QA
2 82 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.52%) WCAG
4 12 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.70%) GDPR
6 7 (0.44%) 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
1 277 (17.54%) Docker
2 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 213 (13.49%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.84%) Ansible
3 17 (1.08%) 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
Vendors
1 252 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.56%) Google
3 45 (2.85%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.90%) Oracle
5 24 (1.52%) Facebook
6 23 (1.46%) 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 (0.70%) Apple
11 11 (0.70%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.63%) New Relic
13 7 (0.44%) IBM
13 7 (0.44%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.38%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.38%) Atlassian