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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 49 52
Rank change year-on-year -73 +3 -16
Permanent jobs citing React 707 1,739 1,550
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.69% 4.65% 5.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.36% 24.09% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 576 978 1,265
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -

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 3,850 7,219 7,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.18% 19.29% 23.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,948 4,080 5,701
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -42 223 £65,000 +8.33% 1,024
South East -69 190 £62,500 -3.85% 1,039
Yorkshire -11 105 £65,000 +18.18% 430
North West -36 104 £65,000 +8.33% 516
Midlands -25 101 £62,500 +4.17% 790
South West -65 80 £62,500 +4.17% 472
West Midlands -20 58 £60,000 -4.00% 391
East of England -76 47 £60,000 -11.11% 655
East Midlands -21 43 £67,250 +22.27% 351
Scotland -59 43 £65,000 +8.33% 233
Wales -7 18 £67,500 +5.88% 125
North East -31 14 £56,750 +8.10% 78
Northern Ireland -7 9 £80,000 +33.33% 67
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 13 (1.84%) CMS
2 10 (1.41%) Apache
3 8 (1.13%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.99%) Confluence
4 7 (0.99%) Headless CMS
5 6 (0.85%) nginx
6 3 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.42%) IIS
6 3 (0.42%) WordPress
7 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.28%) Sketch
2 2 (0.28%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.42%) Shopify
3 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 325 (45.97%) AWS
2 274 (38.76%) Azure
3 108 (15.28%) Serverless
4 82 (11.60%) GitHub
5 80 (11.32%) SaaS
6 61 (8.63%) Amazon S3
7 60 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (8.35%) GCP
9 56 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (2.12%) Amazon EventBridge
17 14 (1.98%) Azure Functions
17 14 (1.98%) Entra ID
18 13 (1.84%) AWS Step Functions
18 13 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.70%) Internet
2 5 (0.71%) AMQP
3 4 (0.57%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) DNS
4 2 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) MQTT
5 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.49%) SQL Server
2 55 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (6.79%) MySQL
4 41 (5.80%) Relational Database
5 36 (5.09%) DynamoDB
5 36 (5.09%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.12%) Redis
9 10 (1.41%) Neo4j
10 7 (0.99%) Power BI
11 5 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.57%) Big Data
12 4 (0.57%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.42%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 104 (14.71%) Git
2 20 (2.83%) Storybook
3 19 (2.69%) JIRA
4 18 (2.55%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.12%) GitLab
6 14 (1.98%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.70%) JUnit
8 7 (0.99%) Babel
8 7 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.85%) git-flow
9 6 (0.85%) Maven
9 6 (0.85%) Mockito
10 5 (0.71%) webpack
11 4 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.57%) rollup.js
12 3 (0.42%) Postman
13 2 (0.28%) Android Studio
13 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 169 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 93 (13.15%) Finance
3 46 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (5.23%) Marketing
5 31 (4.38%) Law
6 28 (3.96%) Public Sector
7 24 (3.39%) Retail
8 16 (2.26%) Games
9 9 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.99%) Banking
10 7 (0.99%) Multimedia
10 7 (0.99%) Tech for Good
11 6 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.71%) Legal
12 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Back Office
15 2 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 425 (60.11%) Developer
2 180 (25.46%) Senior
3 146 (20.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 133 (18.81%) Software Engineer
5 112 (15.84%) Senior Developer
6 85 (12.02%) Lead
7 80 (11.32%) React Developer
8 54 (7.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 48 (6.79%) .NET Developer
10 46 (6.51%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (6.22%) Python Developer
12 40 (5.66%) Software Developer
13 35 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 34 (4.81%) Java Developer
15 33 (4.67%) Lead Developer
16 30 (4.24%) C# Developer
16 30 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 27 (3.82%) Web Developer
18 26 (3.68%) Architect
19 25 (3.54%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (28.85%) .NET
2 195 (27.58%) CSS
3 193 (27.30%) HTML
4 171 (24.19%) Node.js
5 155 (21.92%) AngularJS
6 101 (14.29%) Vue
7 97 (13.72%) REST
8 85 (12.02%) RESTful
9 65 (9.19%) Next.js
10 58 (8.20%) .NET Core
10 58 (8.20%) Spring Boot
11 55 (7.78%) ASP.NET
11 55 (7.78%) Django
12 54 (7.64%) Spring
13 36 (5.09%) Jest
14 34 (4.81%) .NET Framework
15 33 (4.67%) Blazor
16 32 (4.53%) Kafka
16 32 (4.53%) Laravel
17 30 (4.24%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 85 (12.02%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.80%) Mobile App
3 38 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (5.23%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.41%) Operational Technology
10 9 (1.27%) IoT
11 8 (1.13%) Cybercrime
11 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.85%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.71%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.71%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.57%) Video\Live Streaming
15 3 (0.42%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.11%) Linux
2 10 (1.41%) Android
2 10 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.71%) Windows
4 3 (0.42%) CentOS
4 3 (0.42%) Debian
4 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (43.42%) Agile
2 284 (40.17%) Full-Stack Development
3 259 (36.63%) Software Engineering
4 245 (34.65%) CI/CD
5 182 (25.74%) DevOps
6 155 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
7 152 (21.50%) Microservices
8 147 (20.79%) Mentoring
9 131 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 114 (16.12%) Front End Development
11 111 (15.70%) User Experience
12 90 (12.73%) Clean Code
13 77 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 74 (10.47%) Scrum
15 71 (10.04%) Containerisation
16 67 (9.48%) AI
17 58 (8.20%) Test Automation
18 57 (8.06%) Design Patterns
18 57 (8.06%) TDD
18 57 (8.06%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 349 (49.36%) JavaScript
2 277 (39.18%) TypeScript
3 176 (24.89%) C#
4 160 (22.63%) Python
5 140 (19.80%) Java
6 132 (18.67%) SQL
7 47 (6.65%) PHP
8 20 (2.83%) Go
9 14 (1.98%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.84%) C
11 8 (1.13%) C++
12 7 (0.99%) Bash
12 7 (0.99%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.71%) Scala
14 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.28%) Bicep
15 2 (0.28%) Ruby
16 1 (0.14%) Perl
16 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 52 (7.36%) Degree
3 37 (5.23%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.83%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.14%) CCNA
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.07%) QA
2 34 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.70%) WCAG
4 7 (0.99%) NCSC
5 6 (0.85%) NIST
6 3 (0.42%) GDPR
6 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 124 (17.54%) Docker
2 12 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 107 (15.13%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.46%) Terraform
3 11 (1.56%) Grafana
4 8 (1.13%) Kibana
5 6 (0.85%) Ansible
6 3 (0.42%) cPanel
6 3 (0.42%) Plesk
6 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.42%) Puppet
7 2 (0.28%) Nagios
8 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.14%) Argo
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (6.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (1.98%) Oracle
3 10 (1.41%) Google
3 10 (1.41%) HubSpot
4 9 (1.27%) Atlassian
5 5 (0.71%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.71%) Red Hat
5 5 (0.71%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.57%) Adobe
7 3 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (0.42%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.42%) Informatica
7 3 (0.42%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.42%) SaltStack
7 3 (0.42%) SAP
7 3 (0.42%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.28%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.28%) ESRI
8 2 (0.28%) Foundry
8 2 (0.28%) Splunk