React.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring React skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 57 46
Rank change year-on-year -52 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing React 1,606 2,014 4,651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 4.57% 4.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.67% 23.08% 22.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 1,482 3,430
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £89,063 £96,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,088 8,725 20,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 19.78% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,685 6,094 15,739
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

React
Job Vacancy Trend

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

React job vacancy trend in the UK

React
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing React.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing React

React
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing React over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for React in the UK

React
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing React within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England -48 1,445 £70,000 - 589
UK excluding London -68 866 £62,500 +4.17% 375
Work from Home -21 719 £67,500 - 332
London -31 616 £85,000 -5.56% 275
North of England -46 280 £65,000 - 109
South East -18 233 £65,000 +8.33% 118
Midlands -41 150 £62,500 +4.17% 40
North West -47 131 £62,500 -3.85% 65
Yorkshire -13 119 £67,500 - 32
South West -72 96 £60,000 -4.00% 49
East Midlands -29 82 £65,000 +13.04% 23
West Midlands -52 68 £60,000 - 17
East of England -17 58 £57,500 -8.00% 38
Scotland -64 34 £55,000 -13.73% 11
North East -37 30 £55,000 +10.00% 12
Wales -20 18 £56,585 -19.16% 11
Northern Ireland -26 12 £62,500 +25.00% 4

React
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 22 (1.37%) CMS
1 22 (1.37%) Confluence
1 22 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.00%) Apache
3 11 (0.68%) IIS
4 10 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.37%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.31%) nginx
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.19%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Liferay
9 3 (0.19%) WordPress
10 2 (0.12%) Appian
10 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 15 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.062%) Blender
4 1 (0.062%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.31%) Shopify
2 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.062%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 748 (46.58%) AWS
2 490 (30.51%) Azure
3 215 (13.39%) Serverless
4 178 (11.08%) GCP
5 149 (9.28%) GitHub
6 137 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
7 131 (8.16%) SaaS
8 128 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (6.41%) Amazon S3
10 72 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
11 63 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
13 49 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (2.80%) Figma
15 38 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 37 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (2.12%) Azure AI
18 28 (1.74%) Power Platform
19 23 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 22 (1.37%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.49%) Internet
2 17 (1.06%) Broadband
3 9 (0.56%) AMQP
4 6 (0.37%) HTTP
5 5 (0.31%) DNS
5 5 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.25%) Intranet
6 4 (0.25%) LTE
7 3 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.12%) SSL
8 2 (0.12%) VoIP
9 1 (0.062%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.062%) Wireless
9 1 (0.062%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (7.91%) MongoDB
3 108 (6.72%) NoSQL
4 90 (5.60%) SQL Server
5 69 (4.30%) MySQL
6 52 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (3.11%) DynamoDB
8 49 (3.05%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (1.49%) Redis
11 18 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (1.00%) Neo4j
13 12 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.68%) DB2
15 10 (0.62%) Pinecone
15 10 (0.62%) Power BI
16 9 (0.56%) Big Data
17 8 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
18 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
19 6 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 219 (13.64%) Git
2 80 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 61 (3.80%) Cypress.io
4 54 (3.36%) JIRA
5 31 (1.93%) GitLab
6 28 (1.74%) Vite
7 22 (1.37%) Storybook
8 21 (1.31%) Claude Code
9 20 (1.25%) Bitbucket
10 18 (1.12%) Maven
10 18 (1.12%) webpack
11 17 (1.06%) CircleCI
12 16 (1.00%) Selenium
12 16 (1.00%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.81%) JUnit
14 12 (0.75%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.62%) Gradle
16 8 (0.50%) Mockito
17 5 (0.31%) gulp
17 5 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 275 (17.12%) Social Skills
2 267 (16.63%) Finance
3 83 (5.17%) Front Office
4 78 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.18%) Law
6 49 (3.05%) Retail
7 43 (2.68%) Banking
8 38 (2.37%) Public Sector
9 37 (2.30%) Legal
10 35 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.31%) Marketing
12 17 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.06%) Tech for Good
13 13 (0.81%) Multimedia
14 12 (0.75%) Advertising
15 9 (0.56%) Automotive
15 9 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.56%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.50%) Games
17 7 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 916 (57.04%) Developer
2 383 (23.85%) Senior
3 339 (21.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 312 (19.43%) Software Engineer
5 230 (14.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 226 (14.07%) React Developer
7 212 (13.20%) Lead
8 191 (11.89%) Senior Developer
9 117 (7.29%) Lead Developer
10 111 (6.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 109 (6.79%) .NET Developer
12 92 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 77 (4.79%) Java Developer
14 74 (4.61%) Software Developer
15 71 (4.42%) Python Developer
16 70 (4.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 64 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
18 57 (3.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 53 (3.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 48 (2.99%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (33.69%) Node.js
2 325 (20.24%) .NET
3 263 (16.38%) CSS
4 253 (15.75%) HTML
5 230 (14.32%) AngularJS
6 190 (11.83%) RESTful
7 186 (11.58%) REST
8 175 (10.90%) Vue
9 145 (9.03%) Next.js
10 132 (8.22%) Spring
11 124 (7.72%) .NET Core
12 111 (6.91%) Spring Boot
13 104 (6.48%) React Native
14 95 (5.92%) ASP.NET
14 95 (5.92%) GraphQL
15 94 (5.85%) Redux
16 80 (4.98%) ASP.NET Core
17 75 (4.67%) Kafka
18 68 (4.23%) Blazor
19 61 (3.80%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 164 (10.21%) Cloud Native
2 83 (5.17%) Mobile App
3 72 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (3.92%) Fixed Income
5 62 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
7 48 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (2.12%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 26 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.31%) Derivative
12 21 (1.31%) Onboarding
13 20 (1.25%) IoT
14 18 (1.12%) e-Learning
14 18 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.00%) Equities
16 13 (0.81%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.75%) Algorithms
18 11 (0.68%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.49%) Linux
2 19 (1.18%) Android
3 14 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.75%) Windows
5 6 (0.37%) Debian
5 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.31%) CentOS
6 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.062%) Unix
7 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 875 (54.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 620 (38.61%) Agile
3 547 (34.06%) Software Engineering
4 484 (30.14%) CI/CD
5 361 (22.48%) DevOps
6 332 (20.67%) Microservices
7 324 (20.17%) AI
8 301 (18.74%) Mentoring
9 258 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
10 232 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 226 (14.07%) Front End Development
12 190 (11.83%) Test Automation
13 179 (11.15%) Scrum
14 176 (10.96%) User Experience
15 168 (10.46%) Containerisation
16 153 (9.53%) Clean Code
17 139 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
18 128 (7.97%) Computer Science
19 115 (7.16%) Technical Leadership
20 113 (7.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 841 (52.37%) TypeScript
2 766 (47.70%) JavaScript
3 401 (24.97%) Python
4 317 (19.74%) Java
5 294 (18.31%) C#
6 291 (18.12%) SQL
7 68 (4.23%) PHP
8 66 (4.11%) Go
9 40 (2.49%) Ruby
10 19 (1.18%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.12%) Bash
12 16 (1.00%) C++
12 16 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.93%) C
14 9 (0.56%) Bicep
15 8 (0.50%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.44%) Rust
17 6 (0.37%) Dart
17 6 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 139 (8.66%) Degree
2 128 (7.97%) Security Cleared
3 100 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (4.30%) SC Cleared
5 40 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 30 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 20 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 13 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 12 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.50%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.12%) PhD
15 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.062%) HNC
15 1 (0.062%) HND
15 1 (0.062%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.04%) QA
2 59 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.44%) GRC
4 6 (0.37%) WCAG
5 5 (0.31%) GDPR
6 2 (0.12%) SLA
7 1 (0.062%) HL7
7 1 (0.062%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.062%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.062%) NCSC
7 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 264 (16.44%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 208 (12.95%) Kubernetes
2 165 (10.27%) Terraform
3 21 (1.31%) Ansible
4 20 (1.25%) Grafana
5 13 (0.81%) Podman
6 12 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.62%) Argo
8 7 (0.44%) Kibana
8 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.31%) Nagios
9 5 (0.31%) Puppet
10 3 (0.19%) Plesk
11 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.12%) Packer
11 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.062%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 140 (8.72%) Microsoft
2 45 (2.80%) Google
3 29 (1.81%) OpenAI
4 23 (1.43%) Oracle
5 18 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 15 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (0.62%) Apple
8 8 (0.50%) HubSpot
8 8 (0.50%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.44%) IBM
9 7 (0.44%) Solace
10 6 (0.37%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.37%) Databricks
10 6 (0.37%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.37%) Facebook
10 6 (0.37%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.37%) Sony
10 6 (0.37%) Yahoo!
11 5 (0.31%) Foundry
11 5 (0.31%) Pega