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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 59 48
Rank change year-on-year -44 -11 -9
Permanent jobs citing React 1,487 1,686 3,752
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 4.42% 4.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.64% 22.63% 21.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,237 3,071
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,755 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +10.39% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,625 £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 8,431 7,450 17,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.14% 19.54% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,414 5,085 14,222
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,057
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 28 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 28 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 -32 615 £85,000 -8.11% 266
North of England -33 301 £62,500 -3.85% 105
South East +5 240 £60,000 - 109
Midlands -29 157 £62,500 +4.17% 40
North West -42 141 £60,000 -7.69% 65
Yorkshire -11 123 £68,750 +1.85% 25
South West -58 99 £60,000 -4.00% 32
East Midlands -25 84 £65,000 +18.18% 24
West Midlands -41 73 £60,000 - 16
East of England -15 63 £55,000 -12.00% 31
North East -32 37 £55,000 +4.76% 15
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 23 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.21%) Confluence
3 17 (1.14%) Apache
4 14 (0.94%) CMS
5 12 (0.81%) IIS
6 10 (0.67%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.27%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) CICS
9 3 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Liferay
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.20%) WordPress
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.067%) Drupal
11 1 (0.067%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.067%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Shopify
2 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.067%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 673 (45.26%) AWS
2 459 (30.87%) Azure
3 176 (11.84%) Serverless
4 156 (10.49%) GCP
5 126 (8.47%) GitHub
6 117 (7.87%) SaaS
7 115 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
8 103 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (5.18%) Amazon S3
10 49 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
13 42 (2.82%) Figma
14 36 (2.42%) Azure AI
15 35 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.88%) Power Platform
18 23 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 22 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
20 21 (1.41%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.21%) Broadband
2 15 (1.01%) Internet
3 10 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.54%) AMQP
5 5 (0.34%) HTTP
5 5 (0.34%) VoIP
6 4 (0.27%) DNS
6 4 (0.27%) Intranet
6 4 (0.27%) LTE
6 4 (0.27%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.13%) LAN
8 2 (0.13%) SSL
8 2 (0.13%) WAN
9 1 (0.067%) MQTT
9 1 (0.067%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (6.99%) MongoDB
3 103 (6.93%) NoSQL
4 79 (5.31%) SQL Server
5 70 (4.71%) MySQL
6 57 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (3.36%) DynamoDB
8 49 (3.30%) Relational Database
9 46 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.34%) Redis
11 16 (1.08%) Neo4j
12 12 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.74%) Power BI
14 9 (0.61%) Big Data
14 9 (0.61%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.54%) DB2
16 7 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.47%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 208 (13.99%) Git
2 74 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.36%) JIRA
4 34 (2.29%) Cypress.io
5 33 (2.22%) GitLab
6 28 (1.88%) Vite
7 20 (1.34%) Claude Code
8 19 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 19 (1.28%) Maven
9 16 (1.08%) JUnit
10 15 (1.01%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.01%) Selenium
11 14 (0.94%) Storybook
11 14 (0.94%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.81%) webpack
13 10 (0.67%) Mockito
14 9 (0.61%) Gradle
15 8 (0.54%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.54%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 272 (18.29%) Social Skills
2 261 (17.55%) Finance
3 83 (5.58%) Front Office
4 80 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.30%) Retail
6 44 (2.96%) Law
7 43 (2.89%) Banking
8 37 (2.49%) Public Sector
9 34 (2.29%) Legal
10 28 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.41%) Marketing
12 17 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.14%) Tech for Good
13 10 (0.67%) Advertising
13 10 (0.67%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.61%) Automotive
14 9 (0.61%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 827 (55.62%) Developer
2 341 (22.93%) Senior
3 309 (20.78%) Software Engineer
4 284 (19.10%) Full-Stack Developer
5 223 (15.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 211 (14.19%) React Developer
7 195 (13.11%) Lead
8 165 (11.10%) Senior Developer
9 108 (7.26%) .NET Developer
9 108 (7.26%) Lead Developer
10 97 (6.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 90 (6.05%) Senior Software Engineer
12 82 (5.51%) Java Developer
13 70 (4.71%) Software Developer
14 67 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
15 62 (4.17%) Python Developer
16 61 (4.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 56 (3.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 52 (3.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 47 (3.16%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (33.15%) Node.js
2 324 (21.79%) .NET
3 234 (15.74%) CSS
4 224 (15.06%) HTML
5 215 (14.46%) AngularJS
6 195 (13.11%) REST
7 173 (11.63%) RESTful
8 159 (10.69%) Vue
9 132 (8.88%) Next.js
10 131 (8.81%) Spring
11 128 (8.61%) .NET Core
12 107 (7.20%) Spring Boot
13 101 (6.79%) ASP.NET
14 93 (6.25%) Redux
15 89 (5.99%) GraphQL
16 87 (5.85%) ASP.NET Core
17 85 (5.72%) React Native
18 75 (5.04%) Blazor
19 70 (4.71%) Kafka
20 51 (3.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.75%) Cloud Native
2 69 (4.64%) Mobile App
3 63 (4.24%) Fixed Income
3 63 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
4 57 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
6 45 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
7 44 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.02%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.41%) Derivative
12 18 (1.21%) IoT
13 17 (1.14%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.08%) Equities
15 14 (0.94%) e-Learning
16 13 (0.87%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.87%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.81%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.43%) Linux
2 16 (1.08%) Android
2 16 (1.08%) Windows
3 9 (0.61%) Debian
4 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.34%) CentOS
5 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (53.87%) Full-Stack Development
2 593 (39.88%) Agile
3 520 (34.97%) Software Engineering
4 444 (29.86%) CI/CD
5 332 (22.33%) DevOps
6 306 (20.58%) AI
7 289 (19.44%) Microservices
8 283 (19.03%) Mentoring
9 250 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
10 213 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 196 (13.18%) Front End Development
12 167 (11.23%) Scrum
13 164 (11.03%) Containerisation
14 162 (10.89%) Test Automation
15 156 (10.49%) User Experience
16 149 (10.02%) Clean Code
17 134 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
18 124 (8.34%) Computer Science
19 115 (7.73%) TDD
20 105 (7.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 778 (52.32%) TypeScript
2 696 (46.81%) JavaScript
3 374 (25.15%) Python
4 303 (20.38%) Java
5 299 (20.11%) C#
6 292 (19.64%) SQL
7 70 (4.71%) Go
8 67 (4.51%) PHP
9 23 (1.55%) C++
10 22 (1.48%) Bash
10 22 (1.48%) Ruby
11 20 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 20 (1.34%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.94%) C
12 14 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.61%) Bicep
13 9 (0.61%) Rust
14 7 (0.47%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.40%) Perl
16 5 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 138 (9.28%) Degree
2 118 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (4.57%) SC Cleared
5 39 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 13 (0.87%) DBS Check
7 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.13%) PhD
11 1 (0.067%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.067%) HNC
11 1 (0.067%) HND
11 1 (0.067%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.067%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.25%) QA
2 44 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.47%) GDPR
4 5 (0.34%) WCAG
5 1 (0.067%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.067%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.067%) SLA
5 1 (0.067%) SOC 2
System Software
1 250 (16.81%) Docker
2 9 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 196 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 156 (10.49%) Terraform
3 20 (1.34%) Ansible
3 20 (1.34%) Grafana
4 13 (0.87%) Podman
4 13 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.54%) Argo
6 6 (0.40%) Kibana
6 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.34%) Nagios
7 5 (0.34%) Puppet
8 3 (0.20%) Plesk
9 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.13%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.13%) Packer
9 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 129 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.89%) Google
3 28 (1.88%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.75%) Oracle
5 16 (1.08%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.54%) Solace
8 7 (0.47%) Apple
8 7 (0.47%) Databricks
8 7 (0.47%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.40%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.40%) IBM
10 5 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.34%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir
11 4 (0.27%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.27%) Sony
11 4 (0.27%) Yahoo!