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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 42 44
Rank change year-on-year -48 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing React 1,334 2,347 3,344
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.15% 5.63% 4.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.76% 25.47% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 1,511 2,964
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £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 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £123,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 6,750 9,216 15,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.89% 22.12% 22.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,164 5,882 13,153
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,551
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.67% -8.81%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -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 2 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 2 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 -27 592 £92,500 +5.71% 298
North of England -46 248 £65,000 +8.33% 174
South East -78 190 £62,500 -3.85% 213
Midlands -15 133 £62,500 +4.17% 102
Yorkshire -16 117 £70,000 +3.70% 70
North West -46 116 £65,000 +8.33% 84
South West -47 102 £62,500 -7.41% 118
East Midlands -11 73 £65,000 +8.33% 53
West Midlands -22 60 £60,000 - 46
East of England -89 43 £52,500 -22.22% 100
North East -31 15 £55,000 +14.58% 20
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 (1.42%) Confluence
2 18 (1.35%) CMS
3 14 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.97%) Apache
5 9 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
6 8 (0.60%) nginx
7 7 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.52%) IIS
7 7 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.45%) WordPress
9 4 (0.30%) Appian
9 4 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.075%) Camunda
12 1 (0.075%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Shopify
2 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.075%) Magento
3 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 612 (45.88%) AWS
2 412 (30.88%) Azure
3 171 (12.82%) Serverless
4 157 (11.77%) GCP
5 145 (10.87%) GitHub
6 128 (9.60%) SaaS
7 102 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
8 96 (7.20%) Amazon S3
9 70 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (3.52%) Figma
12 41 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 28 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (1.72%) Power Platform
16 21 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (1.50%) npm
18 19 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
19 15 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.90%) Internet
2 10 (0.75%) AMQP
3 4 (0.30%) Broadband
3 4 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.22%) SSL
5 2 (0.15%) DNS
5 2 (0.15%) LTE
6 1 (0.075%) Firewall
6 1 (0.075%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.075%) MQTT
6 1 (0.075%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (6.60%) NoSQL
3 82 (6.15%) SQL Server
4 67 (5.02%) MySQL
5 64 (4.80%) Relational Database
6 51 (3.82%) DynamoDB
7 48 (3.60%) MongoDB
8 37 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.50%) Redis
10 19 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (1.42%) Neo4j
11 14 (1.05%) DB2
12 13 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.90%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.90%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (0.75%) Power BI
16 9 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.60%) Apache Arrow
18 7 (0.52%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 175 (13.12%) Git
2 65 (4.87%) Jenkins
3 38 (2.85%) JIRA
4 33 (2.47%) Cypress.io
5 26 (1.95%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.72%) Vite
7 22 (1.65%) GitLab
8 21 (1.57%) Selenium
8 21 (1.57%) webpack
9 19 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 18 (1.35%) Storybook
11 11 (0.82%) JUnit
12 9 (0.67%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.67%) Maven
13 8 (0.60%) Gradle
14 7 (0.52%) gulp
15 6 (0.45%) git-flow
16 5 (0.37%) Babel
16 5 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 299 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 206 (15.44%) Finance
3 85 (6.37%) Front Office
4 76 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (4.12%) Banking
6 43 (3.22%) Retail
7 42 (3.15%) Law
8 38 (2.85%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.65%) Investment Banking
10 22 (1.65%) Marketing
11 21 (1.57%) Games
11 21 (1.57%) Legal
12 13 (0.97%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.67%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.52%) Back Office
14 7 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 730 (54.72%) Developer
2 313 (23.46%) Senior
3 277 (20.76%) Software Engineer
4 268 (20.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 205 (15.37%) React Developer
6 175 (13.12%) Lead
7 162 (12.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 149 (11.17%) Senior Developer
9 93 (6.97%) Python Developer
10 84 (6.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 80 (6.00%) Lead Developer
12 77 (5.77%) Java Developer
13 70 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
14 69 (5.17%) .NET Developer
15 55 (4.12%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 53 (3.97%) Software Developer
17 45 (3.37%) C# Developer
17 45 (3.37%) Full-Stack Python Developer
17 45 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
18 43 (3.22%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (30.13%) Node.js
2 290 (21.74%) .NET
3 286 (21.44%) CSS
4 278 (20.84%) HTML
5 227 (17.02%) AngularJS
6 176 (13.19%) REST
7 169 (12.67%) Vue
8 134 (10.04%) RESTful
9 109 (8.17%) Next.js
10 105 (7.87%) GraphQL
11 99 (7.42%) .NET Core
11 99 (7.42%) Spring
12 88 (6.60%) Spring Boot
13 73 (5.47%) Redux
14 67 (5.02%) ASP.NET
14 67 (5.02%) Kafka
15 66 (4.95%) Django
16 65 (4.87%) React Native
17 59 (4.42%) WebSockets
18 56 (4.20%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 143 (10.72%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.70%) Fixed Income
3 66 (4.95%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
5 50 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 45 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (1.65%) Equities
11 20 (1.50%) IoT
12 19 (1.42%) Derivative
13 18 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.05%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.82%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.75%) AI Agents
16 10 (0.75%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.75%) Private Cloud
17 9 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.25%) Linux
2 17 (1.27%) Android
3 14 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.82%) Windows
5 5 (0.37%) CentOS
5 5 (0.37%) Debian
5 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.075%) VMS
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (48.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 519 (38.91%) Agile
3 474 (35.53%) Software Engineering
4 412 (30.88%) CI/CD
5 267 (20.01%) DevOps
6 257 (19.27%) Microservices
7 251 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
8 217 (16.27%) Mentoring
9 204 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 200 (14.99%) AI
11 198 (14.84%) User Experience
12 191 (14.32%) Front End Development
13 140 (10.49%) Clean Code
14 135 (10.12%) Containerisation
15 122 (9.15%) Computer Science
15 122 (9.15%) Test Automation
16 119 (8.92%) Scrum
17 111 (8.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 97 (7.27%) TDD
19 86 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 674 (50.52%) TypeScript
2 667 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 358 (26.84%) Python
4 317 (23.76%) Java
5 245 (18.37%) SQL
6 236 (17.69%) C#
7 71 (5.32%) PHP
8 59 (4.42%) Go
9 22 (1.65%) C
10 20 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.20%) Rust
13 12 (0.90%) Bash
13 12 (0.90%) C++
13 12 (0.90%) Ruby
14 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.37%) Bicep
15 5 (0.37%) R
15 5 (0.37%) RPG
16 3 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 141 (10.57%) Degree
2 117 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 76 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 70 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.22%) ISEB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.15%) PhD
14 2 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.57%) Accessibility
2 60 (4.50%) QA
3 12 (0.90%) WCAG
4 6 (0.45%) SLA
5 4 (0.30%) GDPR
5 4 (0.30%) NCSC
6 3 (0.22%) NIST
7 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.075%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.075%) SOC 2
System Software
1 218 (16.34%) Docker
2 13 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 205 (15.37%) Kubernetes
2 147 (11.02%) Terraform
3 20 (1.50%) Grafana
4 14 (1.05%) Ansible
4 14 (1.05%) Argo
5 10 (0.75%) Kibana
6 9 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) Nagios
7 5 (0.37%) Puppet
8 3 (0.22%) cPanel
8 3 (0.22%) Plesk
9 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.075%) Istio
10 1 (0.075%) Podman
Vendors
1 71 (5.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.25%) Google
3 27 (2.02%) Atlassian
3 27 (2.02%) OpenAI
4 17 (1.27%) Oracle
5 13 (0.97%) HubSpot
6 12 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 10 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (0.52%) Adobe
8 7 (0.52%) Foundry
8 7 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.45%) Databricks
10 5 (0.37%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.37%) IBM
10 5 (0.37%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.37%) SAP
10 5 (0.37%) Solace
11 4 (0.30%) Apple
11 4 (0.30%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.30%) Informatica