Languages & Frameworks · Skill guide
React is the most-named frontend framework in job postings, and JDs increasingly pair it with specific co-keywords — TypeScript, Next.js, state management, and testing — that determine whether a 'React' resume ranks or sinks.
It appears in 12% of 2,367 engineering postings in our 15 August 2026 snapshot . Densest in Software Engineer (19%) .
Job descriptions rarely ask for React alone — these co-terms appear in the same postings and are screened together. Cover the ones you've genuinely used.
Public ATS boards (Arbeitnow, Greenhouse, Ashby, Google Careers, Lever, RemoteOK, Remotive). Not LinkedIn or Indeed. Percentages are share of postings that already mention React.
A skill in a list is a claim; a skill in a bullet with an outcome is evidence. Patterns to adapt with your real numbers:
“Architected a React + TypeScript design-system layer of 80 components adopted across 5 products, halving new-feature UI time”
“Cut initial bundle 55% and LCP from 3.8s to 1.6s with route-level code splitting, memoization, and image optimization”
Put "React" in your skills section in its exact form, then prove it in at least one experience bullet with context and an outcome — a skill that appears only in a list reads as padding to recruiters. React is the most-named frontend framework in job postings, and JDs increasingly pair it with specific co-keywords — TypeScript, Next.js, state management, and testing — that determine whether a 'React' resume ranks or sinks.
Job descriptions that ask for React typically also screen for: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, AWS, Machine Learning. Include the ones you've genuinely used — co-keyword coverage is how ATS ranking separates real practitioners from list-padders.
List it only if you could answer interview questions about it comfortably. A safer honest framing for light experience is grouping it under a "familiar with" tier, separate from your core skills — inflated skill claims surface fast in technical interviews.
Paste a job description that requires it — RoleTuner shows whether your resume surfaces React and its co-keywords the way an ATS reads them, free.