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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -47 +2 -15
Permanent jobs citing React 1,240 2,641 2,337
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.38% 5.33% 5.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 24.77% 20.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 1,586 2,059
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.70% -3.21% -

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 6,200 10,662 11,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.92% 21.50% 24.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,766 6,326 9,477
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,013 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -26 575 £95,000 +11.76% 320
North of England -39 222 £65,000 +8.33% 175
South East -64 191 £62,500 -3.85% 182
Yorkshire -11 104 £65,000 +18.18% 69
North West -32 104 £65,000 +8.33% 84
Midlands -29 101 £62,500 +4.17% 85
South West -63 80 £62,500 +4.17% 62
West Midlands -33 58 £60,000 -4.00% 35
East of England -77 47 £60,000 -11.11% 51
East Midlands -22 43 £67,250 +22.27% 49
North East -30 14 £56,750 +8.10% 22
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 37 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.18%) Confluence
3 16 (1.29%) CMS
4 13 (1.05%) Headless CMS
5 11 (0.89%) Apache
6 9 (0.73%) nginx
6 9 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.48%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.40%) WordPress
9 4 (0.32%) Appian
9 4 (0.32%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) Liferay
10 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.081%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.081%) JBoss
11 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.16%) Sketch
3 2 (0.16%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.13%) Shopify
2 7 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.081%) Magento
4 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 589 (47.50%) AWS
2 405 (32.66%) Azure
3 163 (13.15%) Serverless
4 152 (12.26%) GCP
5 142 (11.45%) GitHub
6 128 (10.32%) SaaS
7 97 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
8 82 (6.61%) Amazon S3
9 69 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (3.79%) Figma
10 47 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
12 41 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (2.58%) dbt
14 30 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (1.69%) Power Platform
16 20 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 20 (1.61%) Azure Functions
16 20 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.89%) Internet
2 9 (0.73%) AMQP
2 9 (0.73%) Broadband
3 6 (0.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.16%) SSL
5 1 (0.081%) Firewall
5 1 (0.081%) MQTT
5 1 (0.081%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (8.23%) NoSQL
3 98 (7.90%) SQL Server
4 73 (5.89%) Relational Database
5 64 (5.16%) MySQL
6 60 (4.84%) DynamoDB
7 56 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
8 54 (4.35%) MongoDB
9 29 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (2.34%) Apache Arrow
9 29 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
9 29 (2.34%) Dremio
10 28 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 19 (1.53%) Redis
12 14 (1.13%) DB2
12 14 (1.13%) Neo4j
13 10 (0.81%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.81%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.81%) Power BI
14 8 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 184 (14.84%) Git
2 56 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.63%) JIRA
4 42 (3.39%) Cypress.io
5 26 (2.10%) Storybook
5 26 (2.10%) webpack
6 24 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 23 (1.85%) GitLab
8 22 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.77%) Selenium
9 17 (1.37%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.29%) Vite
11 13 (1.05%) JUnit
12 10 (0.81%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.73%) gulp
14 7 (0.56%) Babel
14 7 (0.56%) Maven
14 7 (0.56%) Mockito
15 6 (0.48%) git-flow
15 6 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 329 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 198 (15.97%) Finance
3 70 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (5.65%) Front Office
4 60 (4.84%) Law
5 52 (4.19%) Banking
5 52 (4.19%) Retail
6 45 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 34 (2.74%) Marketing
8 28 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 23 (1.85%) Health Technology
11 22 (1.77%) Games
12 18 (1.45%) Legal
13 16 (1.29%) Tech for Good
14 13 (1.05%) Publishing
15 11 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.65%) Back Office
17 7 (0.56%) Multimedia
18 6 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 703 (56.69%) Developer
2 307 (24.76%) Senior
3 262 (21.13%) Full-Stack Developer
4 245 (19.76%) Software Engineer
5 169 (13.63%) Senior Developer
6 160 (12.90%) Lead
7 152 (12.26%) React Developer
8 113 (9.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 105 (8.47%) Python Developer
10 80 (6.45%) Java Developer
11 75 (6.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 72 (5.81%) .NET Developer
13 66 (5.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 63 (5.08%) AWS Developer
15 60 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
16 57 (4.60%) Lead Developer
17 56 (4.52%) Software Developer
18 48 (3.87%) Architect
19 42 (3.39%) C# Developer
19 42 (3.39%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (30.48%) Node.js
2 307 (24.76%) .NET
3 293 (23.63%) CSS
4 282 (22.74%) HTML
5 276 (22.26%) AngularJS
6 202 (16.29%) Vue
7 187 (15.08%) REST
8 155 (12.50%) RESTful
9 109 (8.79%) GraphQL
10 105 (8.47%) Next.js
11 102 (8.23%) .NET Core
12 90 (7.26%) ASP.NET
13 84 (6.77%) Spring
14 78 (6.29%) Spring Boot
15 77 (6.21%) .NET Framework
16 62 (5.00%) React Native
17 60 (4.84%) Django
18 59 (4.76%) Jest
19 54 (4.35%) Redux
20 53 (4.27%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.21%) Mobile App
3 65 (5.24%) Fixed Income
4 52 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 51 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
6 39 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (2.58%) Equities
9 26 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.77%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.05%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.97%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.89%) IoT
17 10 (0.81%) Client/Server
17 10 (0.81%) Operational Technology
18 9 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.74%) Linux
2 22 (1.77%) Android
3 20 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.81%) Windows
5 5 (0.40%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) CentOS
6 3 (0.24%) Debian
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (46.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 559 (45.08%) Agile
3 420 (33.87%) Software Engineering
4 405 (32.66%) CI/CD
5 275 (22.18%) DevOps
6 258 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
7 245 (19.76%) Microservices
8 242 (19.52%) User Experience
9 198 (15.97%) Mentoring
10 195 (15.73%) AI
11 193 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 191 (15.40%) Front End Development
13 144 (11.61%) Clean Code
14 135 (10.89%) Scrum
15 132 (10.65%) Containerisation
16 126 (10.16%) Test Automation
17 116 (9.35%) Computer Science
17 116 (9.35%) TDD
18 103 (8.31%) UX Design
19 95 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 635 (51.21%) JavaScript
2 613 (49.44%) TypeScript
3 325 (26.21%) Python
4 287 (23.15%) Java
5 265 (21.37%) C#
6 247 (19.92%) SQL
7 61 (4.92%) PHP
8 53 (4.27%) Go
9 23 (1.85%) Kotlin
10 19 (1.53%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.45%) C
12 17 (1.37%) Rust
13 14 (1.13%) Ruby
14 12 (0.97%) C++
15 10 (0.81%) Scala
16 8 (0.65%) Bash
17 6 (0.48%) R
18 5 (0.40%) Bicep
18 5 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.40%) RPG
Qualifications
1 135 (10.89%) Degree
2 106 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 63 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 60 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.40%) MCP
12 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.24%) ISEB
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.18%) QA
2 81 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.45%) WCAG
4 11 (0.89%) SLA
5 4 (0.32%) GDPR
5 4 (0.32%) NCSC
6 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.24%) NIST
6 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.081%) Data Quality
System Software
1 207 (16.69%) Docker
2 14 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.081%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 186 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 121 (9.76%) Terraform
3 14 (1.13%) Argo
3 14 (1.13%) Grafana
4 11 (0.89%) Ansible
4 11 (0.89%) Kibana
5 4 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.24%) cPanel
6 3 (0.24%) Plesk
6 3 (0.24%) Puppet
7 2 (0.16%) Nagios
8 1 (0.081%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.081%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.081%) Istio
8 1 (0.081%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.081%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (7.02%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.10%) Google
2 26 (2.10%) OpenAI
3 23 (1.85%) Atlassian
4 20 (1.61%) Oracle
5 10 (0.81%) HubSpot
5 10 (0.81%) Red Hat
6 7 (0.56%) Apple
6 7 (0.56%) Foundry
7 6 (0.48%) Adobe
7 6 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (0.48%) MuleSoft
8 5 (0.40%) Databricks
8 5 (0.40%) IBM
8 5 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.40%) SAP
9 4 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.32%) Guidewire
9 4 (0.32%) Informatica
10 3 (0.24%) ServiceNow