React Job Trends in the UK excluding London

React.js
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring React skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 93 47
Rank change year-on-year -25 -46 +1
Permanent jobs citing React 1,052 1,070 3,164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.47% 3.17% 4.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.15% 20.92% 23.74%
Number of salaries quoted 890 626 2,094
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,135 5,114 13,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.57% 15.13% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,935 3,236 9,821
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -10.45%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing React relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

React job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

React
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing React.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing React

React
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing React in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for React in the UK excluding London

React
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing React within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
North of England +6 359 £62,500 -3.85% 96
South East +25 255 £60,000 +4.35% 88
North West -20 177 £60,000 -9.43% 52
Midlands -21 151 £60,000 +4.35% 32
Yorkshire +17 130 £65,000 -3.70% 35
South West -40 115 £55,000 -8.33% 27
East Midlands -26 79 £60,000 +11.63% 16
East of England 0 72 £55,000 -8.33% 20
West Midlands -44 72 £60,000 - 16
Wales -8 60 £60,000 -11.11% 21
North East -21 52 £62,500 +16.28% 11
Scotland -56 44 £52,500 -22.22% 13
Northern Ireland -55 6 £60,000 +9.09% 14
React
UK

React
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (2.28%) CMS
2 15 (1.43%) Apache
2 15 (1.43%) Confluence
3 12 (1.14%) IIS
4 11 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.86%) Headless CMS
6 6 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.29%) nginx
8 3 (0.29%) WordPress
9 2 (0.19%) CICS
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.095%) JBoss
10 1 (0.095%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.095%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (1.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Shopify
2 5 (0.48%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 475 (45.15%) AWS
2 438 (41.63%) Azure
3 133 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
4 124 (11.79%) Serverless
5 89 (8.46%) GCP
5 89 (8.46%) GitHub
6 82 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (7.70%) Azure AI
8 68 (6.46%) SaaS
9 51 (4.85%) Amazon S3
10 31 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 20 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (1.71%) Power Platform
16 17 (1.62%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (1.62%) Google Play
17 16 (1.52%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.09%) Internet
2 11 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.67%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.57%) VoIP
5 5 (0.48%) AMQP
5 5 (0.48%) Wireshark
6 4 (0.38%) LAN
6 4 (0.38%) WAN
7 3 (0.29%) Broadband
7 3 (0.29%) MQTT
8 2 (0.19%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.19%) Intranet
9 1 (0.095%) DNS
9 1 (0.095%) Firewall
9 1 (0.095%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.095%) Network Security
9 1 (0.095%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (17.02%) MongoDB
2 158 (15.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 89 (8.46%) Elasticsearch
4 84 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (6.08%) NoSQL
6 59 (5.61%) SQL Server
7 50 (4.75%) MySQL
8 49 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 34 (3.23%) DynamoDB
10 16 (1.52%) Redis
11 13 (1.24%) Power BI
12 10 (0.95%) Neo4j
13 9 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.86%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.48%) Big Data
14 5 (0.48%) Metadata
14 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.38%) Cloudera CDH
15 4 (0.38%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 169 (16.06%) Git
2 55 (5.23%) JIRA
3 38 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.76%) JUnit
5 27 (2.57%) GitLab
6 23 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.90%) Eclipse
8 19 (1.81%) Subversion
9 17 (1.62%) Maven
10 14 (1.33%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.86%) Mockito
12 8 (0.76%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.57%) Selenium
14 5 (0.48%) IntelliJ
14 5 (0.48%) Postman
14 5 (0.48%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.48%) Vite
15 4 (0.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 168 (15.97%) Social Skills
2 89 (8.46%) Finance
3 55 (5.23%) Retail
4 43 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (3.42%) Marketing
6 33 (3.14%) Public Sector
7 18 (1.71%) Banking
8 17 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.62%) Law
9 12 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 10 (0.95%) Legal
11 9 (0.86%) Automotive
11 9 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.67%) Local Government
13 6 (0.57%) Advertising
14 5 (0.48%) Agriculture
14 5 (0.48%) Multimedia
14 5 (0.48%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 639 (60.74%) Developer
2 208 (19.77%) Senior
3 205 (19.49%) Full-Stack Developer
4 193 (18.35%) Software Engineer
5 188 (17.87%) .NET Developer
6 107 (10.17%) Lead
7 106 (10.08%) Senior Developer
8 100 (9.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 83 (7.89%) React Developer
10 64 (6.08%) Software Developer
11 60 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
12 54 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 51 (4.85%) Java Developer
14 46 (4.37%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 35 (3.33%) Lead Developer
16 32 (3.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 28 (2.66%) Web Developer
18 24 (2.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 23 (2.19%) Junior
20 22 (2.09%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (33.46%) Node.js
2 319 (30.32%) .NET
3 211 (20.06%) ASP.NET
4 204 (19.39%) ASP.NET Core
5 191 (18.16%) .NET Core
6 186 (17.68%) RESTful
7 172 (16.35%) AngularJS
8 165 (15.68%) Blazor
9 147 (13.97%) REST
10 136 (12.93%) CSS
11 132 (12.55%) HTML
12 124 (11.79%) Vue
13 89 (8.46%) Next.js
14 86 (8.17%) ASP.NET Web API
15 84 (7.98%) Spring
16 80 (7.60%) ML.NET
17 68 (6.46%) Spring Boot
18 51 (4.85%) .NET Framework
19 50 (4.75%) Web Services
20 44 (4.18%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 114 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
3 55 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 51 (4.85%) Mobile App
5 45 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
6 42 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.62%) BBC
8 17 (1.62%) iPhone
8 17 (1.62%) Social Media
9 16 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.33%) Mainframe
11 13 (1.24%) e-Learning
12 12 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.14%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.14%) Social Network
13 11 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.95%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.67%) IoT
16 6 (0.57%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.23%) Linux
2 19 (1.81%) Android
3 14 (1.33%) Windows
4 10 (0.95%) Debian
5 9 (0.86%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.67%) Unix
7 4 (0.38%) AIX
7 4 (0.38%) CentOS
7 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (59.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 494 (46.96%) Agile
3 325 (30.89%) Software Engineering
4 308 (29.28%) CI/CD
5 290 (27.57%) DevOps
6 255 (24.24%) Microservices
7 238 (22.62%) AI
8 193 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
9 187 (17.78%) Mentoring
10 163 (15.49%) Scrum
11 132 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (11.88%) Front End Development
13 117 (11.12%) Test Automation
14 107 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
15 106 (10.08%) Clean Code
16 105 (9.98%) Containerisation
17 103 (9.79%) Machine Learning
17 103 (9.79%) TDD
18 92 (8.75%) Code Quality
19 89 (8.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 585 (55.61%) JavaScript
2 478 (45.44%) TypeScript
3 344 (32.70%) C#
4 339 (32.22%) SQL
5 191 (18.16%) Python
6 182 (17.30%) Java
7 58 (5.51%) PHP
8 35 (3.33%) Ruby
9 32 (3.04%) C++
10 25 (2.38%) Go
11 20 (1.90%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.81%) Bash
13 18 (1.71%) Perl
14 14 (1.33%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.76%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.67%) C
17 6 (0.57%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.57%) Rust
18 4 (0.38%) Groovy
19 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 88 (8.37%) Degree
2 73 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 19 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 10 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.76%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.29%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.095%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.095%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.095%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.94%) QA
2 32 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.71%) WCAG
4 8 (0.76%) GDPR
5 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.095%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 184 (17.49%) Docker
2 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 131 (12.45%) Kubernetes
2 103 (9.79%) Terraform
3 18 (1.71%) Ansible
4 5 (0.48%) Grafana
4 5 (0.48%) Kibana
4 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.38%) Podman
5 4 (0.38%) Puppet
6 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.29%) Nagios
6 3 (0.29%) Plesk
7 2 (0.19%) Packer
7 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 204 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.47%) Google
3 23 (2.19%) Oracle
4 17 (1.62%) Apple
4 17 (1.62%) Facebook
4 17 (1.62%) Sony
4 17 (1.62%) Yahoo!
5 11 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 10 (0.95%) OneLogin
7 9 (0.86%) Okta
7 9 (0.86%) Ping Identity
8 7 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.67%) Splunk
9 6 (0.57%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.48%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.48%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.48%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.38%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.38%) IBM