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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 82 48
Rank change year-on-year -34 -34 -4
Permanent jobs citing React 1,557 1,529 2,892
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 3.54% 4.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.58% 20.02% 19.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,198 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 £86,000 £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 10,676 7,639 14,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.61% 17.70% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,826 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 16 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 16 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 -61 564 £85,000 -15.00% 1,434
North of England -18 346 £60,000 -9.43% 293
South East +32 274 £60,000 - 191
North West -15 187 £60,000 -11.11% 205
Midlands -11 153 £55,000 - 124
South West -27 135 £55,000 -8.33% 139
Yorkshire +10 106 £63,750 -3.77% 56
East Midlands -12 79 £55,000 +10.00% 51
West Midlands -42 74 £55,000 -6.38% 73
East of England -21 69 £60,000 -4.00% 77
North East -27 53 £65,000 +18.18% 34
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 27 (1.73%) CMS
2 26 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.61%) Apache
4 18 (1.16%) Confluence
5 17 (1.09%) Headless CMS
6 10 (0.64%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.58%) nginx
8 8 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.51%) IIS
9 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.32%) JBoss
11 4 (0.26%) Kentico
11 4 (0.26%) 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 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.064%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.71%) Magento
2 8 (0.51%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 666 (42.77%) AWS
2 575 (36.93%) Azure
3 166 (10.66%) GitHub
4 139 (8.93%) GCP
5 137 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
6 133 (8.54%) Serverless
7 107 (6.87%) SaaS
8 77 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
9 75 (4.82%) Azure AI
10 57 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (3.02%) Anthropic Claude
12 42 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
13 40 (2.57%) Amazon S3
14 36 (2.31%) Power Platform
15 35 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 34 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
18 26 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (1.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.48%) Internet
2 21 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.64%) VoIP
4 9 (0.58%) Broadband
4 9 (0.58%) DNS
4 9 (0.58%) HTTP
5 8 (0.51%) AMQP
6 6 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.39%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.32%) Firewall
7 5 (0.32%) Intranet
7 5 (0.32%) SSL
8 4 (0.26%) LAN
8 4 (0.26%) WAN
9 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.13%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) MQTT
10 1 (0.064%) Network Security
10 1 (0.064%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.064%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (12.72%) MongoDB
2 153 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
3 144 (9.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 110 (7.06%) SQL Server
5 102 (6.55%) NoSQL
6 97 (6.23%) Elasticsearch
7 91 (5.84%) MySQL
8 79 (5.07%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.57%) DynamoDB
10 36 (2.31%) Redis
11 16 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.96%) Power BI
13 11 (0.71%) Big Data
13 11 (0.71%) Metadata
14 10 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.64%) Neo4j
15 9 (0.58%) Chroma
15 9 (0.58%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 248 (15.93%) Git
2 72 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 62 (3.98%) GitLab
4 52 (3.34%) Cypress.io
5 47 (3.02%) JIRA
6 40 (2.57%) JUnit
7 39 (2.50%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.86%) Subversion
9 25 (1.61%) Eclipse
10 23 (1.48%) Maven
10 23 (1.48%) Vite
11 22 (1.41%) Selenium
12 21 (1.35%) Bitbucket
13 17 (1.09%) Mockito
14 11 (0.71%) Storybook
15 10 (0.64%) Postman
15 10 (0.64%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.58%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
18 7 (0.45%) NUnit
General
1 329 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 255 (16.38%) Finance
3 77 (4.95%) Retail
4 64 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 64 (4.11%) Public Sector
5 62 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (3.34%) Law
7 51 (3.28%) Marketing
8 42 (2.70%) Banking
9 36 (2.31%) Legal
10 28 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.03%) Front Office
12 16 (1.03%) Legal Technology
13 15 (0.96%) Advertising
14 13 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.71%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.71%) Publishing
15 11 (0.71%) Tech for Good
16 10 (0.64%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 797 (51.19%) Developer
2 338 (21.71%) Senior
3 314 (20.17%) Software Engineer
4 262 (16.83%) Full-Stack Developer
5 207 (13.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 201 (12.91%) .NET Developer
7 159 (10.21%) Lead
8 147 (9.44%) Senior Developer
9 123 (7.90%) React Developer
10 115 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 81 (5.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 75 (4.82%) Software Developer
13 64 (4.11%) Java Developer
14 63 (4.05%) Lead Developer
15 57 (3.66%) Python Engineer
15 57 (3.66%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 55 (3.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 44 (2.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 41 (2.63%) Engineering Manager
19 38 (2.44%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (29.22%) .NET
2 450 (28.90%) Node.js
3 238 (15.29%) AngularJS
4 236 (15.16%) RESTful
5 235 (15.09%) REST
6 227 (14.58%) ASP.NET
7 205 (13.17%) .NET Core
7 205 (13.17%) ASP.NET Core
8 201 (12.91%) CSS
9 181 (11.62%) HTML
10 179 (11.50%) Terraform
11 173 (11.11%) Next.js
11 173 (11.11%) Vue
12 163 (10.47%) Blazor
13 122 (7.84%) Spring
14 100 (6.42%) Spring Boot
15 91 (5.84%) React Native
16 90 (5.78%) .NET Framework
17 86 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web API
18 68 (4.37%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 230 (14.77%) Cloud Native
2 97 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
4 65 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 63 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 57 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
7 55 (3.53%) AI Agents
8 38 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.93%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 21 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.22%) Social Media
14 18 (1.16%) Onboarding
15 17 (1.09%) iPhone
16 14 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
16 14 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.90%) Virtual Reality
17 13 (0.83%) IoT
18 12 (0.77%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.37%) Linux
2 29 (1.86%) Android
3 17 (1.09%) Windows
4 16 (1.03%) Debian
4 16 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 14 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.51%) Unix
7 7 (0.45%) CentOS
8 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (57.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 680 (43.67%) Agile
3 557 (35.77%) Software Engineering
4 553 (35.52%) CI/CD
5 460 (29.54%) AI
6 389 (24.98%) Microservices
7 363 (23.31%) DevOps
8 302 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 289 (18.56%) Mentoring
10 222 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 202 (12.97%) Test Automation
12 185 (11.88%) Code Quality
13 179 (11.50%) Front End Development
13 179 (11.50%) Scrum
14 169 (10.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 164 (10.53%) Containerisation
16 150 (9.63%) Clean Code
17 144 (9.25%) SDLC
18 141 (9.06%) Computer Science
19 133 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 810 (52.02%) TypeScript
2 747 (47.98%) JavaScript
3 471 (30.25%) C#
4 421 (27.04%) SQL
5 391 (25.11%) Python
6 269 (17.28%) Java
7 62 (3.98%) PHP
8 61 (3.92%) C++
9 60 (3.85%) Go
10 48 (3.08%) Ruby
11 28 (1.80%) Rust
12 26 (1.67%) Bash
12 26 (1.67%) Perl
13 22 (1.41%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.77%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.51%) Scala
16 8 (0.51%) Swift
16 8 (0.51%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 187 (12.01%) Degree
2 152 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 118 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 107 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 30 (1.93%) DV Cleared
6 28 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.64%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.64%) MBA
8 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.19%) OCP
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.13%) PhD
12 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.064%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.064%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.42%) QA
2 81 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.54%) WCAG
4 12 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.64%) GDPR
7 7 (0.45%) GRC
8 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.19%) NIST
10 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.064%) SLA
System Software
1 270 (17.34%) Docker
2 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.064%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 205 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.86%) Ansible
3 17 (1.09%) Grafana
4 15 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Puppet
7 6 (0.39%) Podman
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Nagios
9 4 (0.26%) Kibana
10 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
10 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.064%) Consul
Vendors
1 246 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.62%) Google
3 45 (2.89%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.93%) Oracle
5 24 (1.54%) Facebook
6 23 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 15 (0.96%) Databricks
7 15 (0.96%) Red Hat
7 15 (0.96%) Splunk
8 13 (0.83%) Mistral
8 13 (0.83%) Palantir
8 13 (0.83%) Sony
9 11 (0.71%) Apple
9 11 (0.71%) Yahoo!
10 10 (0.64%) New Relic
11 9 (0.58%) Foundry
12 7 (0.45%) IBM
12 7 (0.45%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.39%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.39%) Solace