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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -49 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,368 2,071 3,545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.01% 5.59% 4.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.11% 25.56% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 1,513 3,042
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £48,750
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 £93,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £124,500 £111,250 £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 7,158 8,104 16,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.53% 21.89% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,448 5,962 13,788
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,075 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -27 600 £90,000 +2.86% 276
North of England -51 259 £65,000 +8.33% 126
South East -79 193 £60,000 -2.04% 136
Midlands -13 143 £62,500 +4.17% 67
Yorkshire -19 125 £70,000 +6.06% 50
North West -48 120 £65,000 - 63
South West -42 101 £62,500 -3.85% 81
East Midlands -17 81 £65,000 +8.33% 32
West Midlands -17 62 £60,000 - 35
East of England -87 45 £50,000 -25.93% 50
North East -35 14 £55,000 +12.24% 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 22 (1.61%) CMS
2 17 (1.24%) Confluence
3 13 (0.95%) Apache
4 10 (0.73%) IIS
4 10 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 9 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.37%) WordPress
9 4 (0.29%) Appian
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) CICS
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.073%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Shopify
2 4 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.073%) Magento
4 1 (0.073%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.073%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 626 (45.76%) AWS
2 424 (30.99%) Azure
3 172 (12.57%) GCP
3 172 (12.57%) Serverless
4 141 (10.31%) GitHub
5 130 (9.50%) SaaS
6 101 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
7 93 (6.80%) Amazon S3
8 77 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
10 51 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (3.44%) Figma
12 41 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (1.61%) npm
16 21 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
17 19 (1.39%) Power Platform
18 18 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 16 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.17%) Internet
2 14 (1.02%) Broadband
3 10 (0.73%) AMQP
4 3 (0.22%) HTTP
4 3 (0.22%) SSL
5 2 (0.15%) DNS
5 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.15%) LTE
6 1 (0.073%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (7.53%) NoSQL
3 90 (6.58%) SQL Server
4 70 (5.12%) MySQL
5 62 (4.53%) Relational Database
6 55 (4.02%) MongoDB
7 52 (3.80%) DynamoDB
8 35 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (1.46%) Redis
11 19 (1.39%) Neo4j
12 14 (1.02%) DB2
13 12 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.88%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.80%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.80%) Power BI
15 9 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 190 (13.89%) Git
2 66 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.00%) JIRA
4 31 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 24 (1.75%) Vite
6 23 (1.68%) TeamCity
7 21 (1.54%) Selenium
7 21 (1.54%) webpack
8 20 (1.46%) GitLab
9 17 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.10%) Storybook
12 13 (0.95%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.80%) JUnit
14 9 (0.66%) Gradle
14 9 (0.66%) Maven
15 7 (0.51%) gulp
16 5 (0.37%) Babel
16 5 (0.37%) git-flow
16 5 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 298 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 218 (15.94%) Finance
3 93 (6.80%) Front Office
4 80 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.80%) Banking
6 44 (3.22%) Law
7 38 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.63%) Retail
9 33 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.68%) Legal
10 23 (1.68%) Marketing
11 20 (1.46%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.10%) Games
13 13 (0.95%) Tech for Good
14 9 (0.66%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.58%) Multimedia
16 7 (0.51%) Advertising
16 7 (0.51%) Back Office
16 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 765 (55.92%) Developer
2 323 (23.61%) Senior
3 282 (20.61%) Full-Stack Developer
3 282 (20.61%) Software Engineer
4 213 (15.57%) React Developer
5 184 (13.45%) Lead
6 176 (12.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 160 (11.70%) Senior Developer
8 90 (6.58%) Lead Developer
9 86 (6.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 86 (6.29%) Python Developer
10 81 (5.92%) Java Developer
11 74 (5.41%) .NET Developer
12 69 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
13 61 (4.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 56 (4.09%) Software Developer
15 54 (3.95%) Lead Software Engineer
16 46 (3.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 44 (3.22%) Full-Stack Python Developer
18 43 (3.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (32.02%) Node.js
2 293 (21.42%) .NET
3 289 (21.13%) CSS
4 283 (20.69%) HTML
5 208 (15.20%) AngularJS
6 168 (12.28%) REST
7 156 (11.40%) Vue
8 140 (10.23%) RESTful
9 108 (7.89%) Next.js
10 106 (7.75%) GraphQL
11 102 (7.46%) .NET Core
12 96 (7.02%) Spring
13 84 (6.14%) Spring Boot
14 81 (5.92%) Redux
15 74 (5.41%) Django
16 71 (5.19%) Kafka
17 68 (4.97%) React Native
18 67 (4.90%) ASP.NET
19 56 (4.09%) .NET Framework
19 56 (4.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 80 (5.85%) Fixed Income
3 59 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
4 56 (4.09%) Mobile App
5 53 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.83%) Derivative
9 25 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (1.61%) IoT
11 21 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.39%) Equities
14 13 (0.95%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.88%) AI Agents
16 11 (0.80%) Public Cloud
17 10 (0.73%) Virtual Team
18 8 (0.58%) Blog
18 8 (0.58%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.92%) Linux
2 17 (1.24%) Android
3 14 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 14 (1.02%) Windows
4 5 (0.37%) CentOS
4 5 (0.37%) Debian
4 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.073%) VMS
6 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (50.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 534 (39.04%) Agile
3 492 (35.96%) Software Engineering
4 423 (30.92%) CI/CD
5 279 (20.39%) DevOps
6 251 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
7 248 (18.13%) Microservices
8 238 (17.40%) Mentoring
9 221 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 215 (15.72%) AI
11 190 (13.89%) User Experience
12 186 (13.60%) Front End Development
13 149 (10.89%) Clean Code
14 145 (10.60%) Test Automation
15 139 (10.16%) Containerisation
16 133 (9.72%) Scrum
17 131 (9.58%) Computer Science
18 117 (8.55%) Infrastructure as Code
19 94 (6.87%) TDD
20 82 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 694 (50.73%) TypeScript
2 685 (50.07%) JavaScript
3 373 (27.27%) Python
4 322 (23.54%) Java
5 251 (18.35%) SQL
6 239 (17.47%) C#
7 71 (5.19%) Go
8 68 (4.97%) PHP
9 22 (1.61%) C
10 18 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.24%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.02%) Bash
12 14 (1.02%) Rust
13 12 (0.88%) Ruby
14 11 (0.80%) C++
15 10 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.44%) Bicep
17 5 (0.37%) R
17 5 (0.37%) RPG
18 4 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 145 (10.60%) Degree
2 102 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 84 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 56 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.22%) ISEB
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.15%) PhD
16 1 (0.073%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.46%) QA
2 51 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.44%) WCAG
4 5 (0.37%) SLA
5 4 (0.29%) GDPR
5 4 (0.29%) NCSC
6 3 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.073%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 223 (16.30%) Docker
2 10 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 191 (13.96%) Kubernetes
2 150 (10.96%) Terraform
3 20 (1.46%) Grafana
4 13 (0.95%) Ansible
4 13 (0.95%) Argo
5 9 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.58%) Kibana
7 7 (0.51%) Podman
8 5 (0.37%) Nagios
8 5 (0.37%) Puppet
9 3 (0.22%) cPanel
9 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (5.63%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.56%) Google
3 25 (1.83%) Atlassian
4 24 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 19 (1.39%) Oracle
6 13 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
6 13 (0.95%) HubSpot
7 12 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.51%) Adobe
8 7 (0.51%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.44%) Foundry
9 6 (0.44%) Solace
10 5 (0.37%) Apple
10 5 (0.37%) Databricks
10 5 (0.37%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.37%) IBM
10 5 (0.37%) Pega
10 5 (0.37%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.37%) SAP
11 4 (0.29%) Informatica