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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -43 -4 -7
Permanent jobs citing React 1,426 1,771 3,741
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.82% 4.73% 4.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.38% 23.11% 22.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 1,442 3,084
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £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 £93,188 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £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 7,760 7,662 16,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.92% 20.46% 20.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,868 5,885 14,104
10th Percentile £38,025 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -28 621 £90,000 +2.86% 256
North of England -40 275 £65,000 - 80
South East -61 202 £65,000 +8.33% 107
Midlands -23 154 £65,000 +8.33% 50
North West -31 132 £62,500 -3.85% 42
Yorkshire -21 128 £70,000 +3.70% 25
South West -55 102 £60,000 -5.88% 50
East Midlands -21 90 £65,000 +8.33% 21
West Midlands -31 64 £60,000 - 29
East of England -40 57 £50,000 -23.08% 25
North East -54 15 £55,000 +14.58% 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 19 (1.33%) CMS
1 19 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.19%) Confluence
3 12 (0.84%) Apache
4 10 (0.70%) IIS
5 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.35%) nginx
8 5 (0.35%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.35%) WordPress
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.070%) Sketch
4 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.35%) Shopify
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.070%) Magento
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 667 (46.77%) AWS
2 417 (29.24%) Azure
3 182 (12.76%) Serverless
4 169 (11.85%) GCP
5 133 (9.33%) GitHub
6 120 (8.42%) SaaS
7 106 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
9 87 (6.10%) Amazon S3
10 50 (3.51%) Figma
11 49 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
13 47 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
14 37 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (1.75%) Amazon EventBridge
17 24 (1.68%) Power Platform
18 21 (1.47%) npm
19 15 (1.05%) Amazon Cognito
19 15 (1.05%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.33%) Broadband
2 14 (0.98%) Internet
3 9 (0.63%) AMQP
4 7 (0.49%) HTTP
5 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) Intranet
7 3 (0.21%) LTE
8 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.070%) MQTT
9 1 (0.070%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (7.71%) NoSQL
3 81 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 66 (4.63%) MySQL
5 61 (4.28%) MongoDB
6 53 (3.72%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.44%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (1.61%) Neo4j
10 20 (1.40%) Redis
11 19 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.98%) DB2
12 14 (0.98%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.77%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.70%) Power BI
16 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.49%) Big Data
18 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
18 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 193 (13.53%) Git
2 71 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.09%) JIRA
4 33 (2.31%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.82%) Vite
6 23 (1.61%) GitLab
7 21 (1.47%) Selenium
8 19 (1.33%) TeamCity
9 18 (1.26%) Bitbucket
10 17 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 16 (1.12%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.05%) webpack
13 14 (0.98%) Storybook
14 10 (0.70%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.70%) Maven
15 9 (0.63%) Gradle
16 7 (0.49%) JUnit
17 5 (0.35%) Balsamiq
17 5 (0.35%) ESLint
17 5 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 280 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 234 (16.41%) Finance
3 89 (6.24%) Front Office
4 76 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.65%) Banking
6 42 (2.95%) Law
7 38 (2.66%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.52%) Retail
9 28 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.54%) Legal
11 21 (1.47%) Investment Banking
12 20 (1.40%) Marketing
13 13 (0.91%) Tech for Good
14 10 (0.70%) Games
15 9 (0.63%) Advertising
16 7 (0.49%) Automotive
16 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.49%) Multimedia
17 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 776 (54.42%) Developer
2 346 (24.26%) Senior
3 299 (20.97%) Software Engineer
4 287 (20.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 220 (15.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 214 (15.01%) React Developer
7 197 (13.81%) Lead
8 167 (11.71%) Senior Developer
9 101 (7.08%) Lead Developer
10 87 (6.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 86 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 81 (5.68%) Java Developer
13 79 (5.54%) Python Developer
14 65 (4.56%) .NET Developer
14 65 (4.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 62 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
16 54 (3.79%) Software Developer
17 53 (3.72%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 50 (3.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 49 (3.44%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (33.17%) Node.js
2 262 (18.37%) CSS
3 260 (18.23%) HTML
4 259 (18.16%) .NET
5 205 (14.38%) AngularJS
6 164 (11.50%) REST
7 152 (10.66%) Vue
8 149 (10.45%) RESTful
9 118 (8.27%) Next.js
10 116 (8.13%) Spring
11 104 (7.29%) GraphQL
12 97 (6.80%) Spring Boot
13 89 (6.24%) Redux
14 87 (6.10%) .NET Core
15 76 (5.33%) React Native
16 71 (4.98%) Django
17 70 (4.91%) Kafka
18 51 (3.58%) ASP.NET
19 48 (3.37%) WebSockets
20 45 (3.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 152 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.19%) Fixed Income
3 67 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
4 59 (4.14%) Mobile App
5 58 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (1.61%) Derivative
11 21 (1.47%) IoT
12 19 (1.33%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.26%) Equities
14 15 (1.05%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.98%) e-Learning
16 12 (0.84%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.84%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.70%) Algorithms
18 8 (0.56%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.59%) Linux
2 15 (1.05%) Android
3 12 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 12 (0.84%) Windows
4 5 (0.35%) CentOS
4 5 (0.35%) Debian
4 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (52.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 523 (36.68%) Agile
3 505 (35.41%) Software Engineering
4 427 (29.94%) CI/CD
5 308 (21.60%) DevOps
6 260 (18.23%) Microservices
7 254 (17.81%) Mentoring
8 247 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
9 232 (16.27%) AI
10 218 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 186 (13.04%) Front End Development
12 170 (11.92%) User Experience
13 165 (11.57%) Test Automation
14 156 (10.94%) Clean Code
15 154 (10.80%) Containerisation
16 143 (10.03%) Scrum
17 129 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
18 118 (8.27%) Computer Science
19 98 (6.87%) TDD
20 91 (6.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 759 (53.23%) TypeScript
2 683 (47.90%) JavaScript
3 383 (26.86%) Python
4 326 (22.86%) Java
5 250 (17.53%) SQL
6 226 (15.85%) C#
7 74 (5.19%) PHP
8 71 (4.98%) Go
9 24 (1.68%) C
10 18 (1.26%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.05%) Bash
12 15 (1.05%) Ruby
13 11 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.70%) C++
15 8 (0.56%) Bicep
16 5 (0.35%) Rust
16 5 (0.35%) Scala
16 5 (0.35%) Swift
17 4 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 128 (8.98%) Degree
2 104 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 83 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.14%) ISEB
14 2 (0.14%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.14%) PhD
15 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.26%) QA
2 44 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.28%) GDPR
3 4 (0.28%) SLA
4 3 (0.21%) WCAG
5 1 (0.070%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.070%) NCSC
5 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 246 (17.25%) Docker
2 10 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 200 (14.03%) Kubernetes
2 161 (11.29%) Terraform
3 22 (1.54%) Grafana
4 20 (1.40%) Ansible
5 13 (0.91%) Argo
5 13 (0.91%) Podman
5 13 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.49%) Kibana
7 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.35%) Nagios
8 5 (0.35%) Puppet
9 4 (0.28%) Plesk
10 3 (0.21%) cPanel
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) Packer
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 79 (5.54%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.52%) Google
3 27 (1.89%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.61%) Atlassian
5 18 (1.26%) Oracle
6 14 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 9 (0.63%) IBM
10 7 (0.49%) Adobe
11 6 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.42%) Databricks
11 6 (0.42%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.42%) Solace
12 5 (0.35%) Apple
12 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.35%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.35%) Pega
12 5 (0.35%) SaltStack
12 5 (0.35%) SAP