React Job Trends in Edinburgh

React.js
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring React skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 21 15
Rank change year-on-year -62 -6 +12
Permanent jobs citing React 21 108 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.91% 9.78% 13.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.59% 32.43% 39.45%
Number of salaries quoted 14 65 141
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,563 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,915 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.86% -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,367 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £58,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.64% -2.08% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 219 333 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.87% 30.16% 34.36%
Number of salaries quoted 70 189 323
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,261
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £53,098
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.36% +4.22%
75th Percentile £78,670 £79,648 £77,607
90th Percentile £80,375 £93,778 £94,550
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

React job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing React.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing React

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing React in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for React in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) Serverless
3 5 (23.81%) AWS
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) SaaS
6 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Storybook
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
1 6 (28.57%) Marketing
2 4 (19.05%) Tech for Good
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Product Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Next.js
2 6 (28.57%) JSON
2 6 (28.57%) JSON-LD
3 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 4 (19.05%) Node.js
5 3 (14.29%) .NET
5 3 (14.29%) CSS
5 3 (14.29%) Django
5 3 (14.29%) HTML
5 3 (14.29%) Kafka
6 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
6 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
7 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
7 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
7 1 (4.76%) NestJS
7 1 (4.76%) RESTful
7 1 (4.76%) Vue
7 1 (4.76%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Software Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 6 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Coaching
3 6 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (28.57%) OO
3 6 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (28.57%) SEO
3 6 (28.57%) Web Accessibility
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) Application Security
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) OWASP
5 3 (14.29%) Security Testing
5 3 (14.29%) TDD
6 2 (9.52%) Front End Development
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) TypeScript
2 7 (33.33%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 6 (28.57%) WCAG
2 3 (14.29%) NCSC
2 3 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Xamarin