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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 58 49
Rank change year-on-year -46 -9 -9
Permanent jobs citing React 1,453 1,713 3,756
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 4.47% 4.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.60% 22.76% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,170 1,259 3,076
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +9.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £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 8,258 7,525 17,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 19.65% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,265 5,150 14,199
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,625 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,359 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +10.60% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -29 621 £85,000 -5.56% 187
North of England -33 287 £65,000 - 94
South East +1 230 £65,000 +8.33% 100
Midlands -38 151 £62,500 +4.17% 31
North West -48 133 £62,500 -3.85% 50
Yorkshire -10 119 £67,500 - 30
South West -66 93 £60,000 -4.00% 33
East Midlands -29 80 £65,000 +18.18% 18
West Midlands -43 71 £60,000 - 13
East of England -7 60 £57,500 -8.00% 32
North East -30 35 £55,000 +4.76% 14
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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 23 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.38%) Confluence
3 16 (1.10%) Apache
4 14 (0.96%) CMS
5 12 (0.83%) IIS
6 10 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Appian
11 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 1 (0.069%) Camunda
12 1 (0.069%) Strapi
Applications
1 13 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Shopify
2 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.069%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 665 (45.77%) AWS
2 438 (30.14%) Azure
3 174 (11.98%) Serverless
4 156 (10.74%) GCP
5 128 (8.81%) GitHub
6 110 (7.57%) SaaS
7 108 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
8 101 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 49 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (2.96%) Figma
13 41 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (2.06%) Azure AI
16 27 (1.86%) Power Platform
17 22 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (1.51%) npm
18 21 (1.45%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.17%) Broadband
1 17 (1.17%) Internet
2 9 (0.62%) AMQP
3 7 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.34%) HTTP
5 4 (0.28%) DNS
5 4 (0.28%) Intranet
5 4 (0.28%) LTE
6 3 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
6 3 (0.21%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.14%) SSL
7 2 (0.14%) VoIP
8 1 (0.069%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.069%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (6.95%) NoSQL
3 96 (6.61%) MongoDB
4 76 (5.23%) SQL Server
5 68 (4.68%) MySQL
6 50 (3.44%) DynamoDB
7 48 (3.30%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.38%) Redis
11 16 (1.10%) Neo4j
12 12 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.69%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.69%) Power BI
14 9 (0.62%) Big Data
14 9 (0.62%) DB2
15 8 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.41%) Metadata
16 6 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 200 (13.76%) Git
2 75 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 48 (3.30%) JIRA
4 33 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 32 (2.20%) GitLab
6 28 (1.93%) Vite
7 19 (1.31%) Claude Code
8 18 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.24%) Maven
9 16 (1.10%) Selenium
10 15 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.03%) JUnit
10 15 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.03%) webpack
11 14 (0.96%) Storybook
12 10 (0.69%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.69%) Mockito
13 9 (0.62%) Gradle
14 6 (0.41%) MLflow
15 5 (0.34%) Balsamiq
General
1 264 (18.17%) Social Skills
2 253 (17.41%) Finance
3 84 (5.78%) Front Office
4 76 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.03%) Retail
6 43 (2.96%) Banking
6 43 (2.96%) Law
7 37 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 30 (2.06%) Legal
9 27 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.17%) Investment Banking
10 17 (1.17%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.10%) Marketing
12 10 (0.69%) Advertising
13 9 (0.62%) Automotive
13 9 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.62%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.48%) Games
14 7 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 802 (55.20%) Developer
2 342 (23.54%) Senior
3 304 (20.92%) Software Engineer
4 287 (19.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 225 (15.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 213 (14.66%) React Developer
7 192 (13.21%) Lead
8 163 (11.22%) Senior Developer
9 106 (7.30%) Lead Developer
10 95 (6.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 94 (6.47%) .NET Developer
12 89 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 77 (5.30%) Java Developer
14 66 (4.54%) Lead Software Engineer
15 65 (4.47%) Python Developer
16 64 (4.40%) Software Developer
17 61 (4.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 56 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 53 (3.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 47 (3.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (33.31%) Node.js
2 305 (20.99%) .NET
3 236 (16.24%) CSS
4 226 (15.55%) HTML
5 213 (14.66%) AngularJS
6 187 (12.87%) REST
7 166 (11.42%) RESTful
8 156 (10.74%) Vue
9 130 (8.95%) Spring
10 129 (8.88%) Next.js
11 115 (7.91%) .NET Core
12 107 (7.36%) Spring Boot
13 93 (6.40%) Redux
14 90 (6.19%) GraphQL
15 89 (6.13%) ASP.NET
16 84 (5.78%) React Native
17 75 (5.16%) ASP.NET Core
18 69 (4.75%) Kafka
19 64 (4.40%) Blazor
20 48 (3.30%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.68%) Mobile App
3 66 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (4.34%) Fixed Income
5 58 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
7 47 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.45%) Derivative
12 18 (1.24%) IoT
13 16 (1.10%) Equities
14 15 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.96%) e-Learning
16 13 (0.89%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.83%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.83%) Hedge funds
18 11 (0.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.03%) Linux
2 16 (1.10%) Android
3 14 (0.96%) Windows
4 9 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.41%) Debian
5 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.34%) CentOS
6 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.069%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (53.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 567 (39.02%) Agile
3 515 (35.44%) Software Engineering
4 429 (29.53%) CI/CD
5 321 (22.09%) DevOps
6 289 (19.89%) AI
7 281 (19.34%) Microservices
8 274 (18.86%) Mentoring
9 241 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
10 211 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 192 (13.21%) Front End Development
12 163 (11.22%) Test Automation
13 161 (11.08%) Containerisation
13 161 (11.08%) User Experience
14 159 (10.94%) Scrum
15 147 (10.12%) Clean Code
16 128 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
17 120 (8.26%) Computer Science
18 113 (7.78%) TDD
19 103 (7.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 767 (52.79%) TypeScript
2 666 (45.84%) JavaScript
3 370 (25.46%) Python
4 303 (20.85%) Java
5 279 (19.20%) C#
6 270 (18.58%) SQL
7 68 (4.68%) Go
8 58 (3.99%) PHP
9 20 (1.38%) Bash
10 19 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.31%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.24%) Ruby
12 17 (1.17%) C++
13 14 (0.96%) C
13 14 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.62%) Bicep
15 8 (0.55%) Rust
16 5 (0.34%) Scala
16 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 132 (9.08%) Degree
2 116 (7.98%) Security Cleared
3 92 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (4.68%) SC Cleared
5 38 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.34%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
13 1 (0.069%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.069%) HNC
13 1 (0.069%) HND
13 1 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.069%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.30%) QA
2 45 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.34%) GDPR
3 5 (0.34%) WCAG
4 2 (0.14%) SLA
5 1 (0.069%) NCSC
5 1 (0.069%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 246 (16.93%) Docker
2 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 192 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 152 (10.46%) Terraform
3 21 (1.45%) Ansible
3 21 (1.45%) Grafana
4 13 (0.89%) Podman
4 13 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.55%) Argo
6 7 (0.48%) Kibana
7 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.34%) Nagios
8 5 (0.34%) Puppet
9 3 (0.21%) Plesk
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 113 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.96%) Google
3 28 (1.93%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.79%) Oracle
5 17 (1.17%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.55%) Apple
7 8 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.48%) IBM
8 7 (0.48%) Solace
9 6 (0.41%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.41%) Databricks
10 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.34%) Pega
10 5 (0.34%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.28%) Facebook
11 4 (0.28%) Foundry
11 4 (0.28%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.28%) Splunk