React Job Trends in Northern Ireland

React.js
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring React skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -31
Permanent jobs citing React 12 11 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 2.26% 2.81% 2.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.22% 12.36% 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £69,329 £48,750 £45,375
25th Percentile - £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £56,875
90th Percentile - £81,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 54 89 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 10.17% 22.70% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 34 24 76
10th Percentile £55,375 £46,713 £38,250
25th Percentile £63,141 £50,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £91,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

React job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

React
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing React.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing React

React
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing React in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for React in Northern Ireland

React
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing React within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
County Antrim +3 12 £80,000 +20.75% 20
React
UK

React
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Functions
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Node.js
2 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
2 5 (41.67%) Next.js
3 4 (33.33%) Django
3 4 (33.33%) Vue
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) LangChain
4 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (50.00%) AI
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) LLM
3 5 (41.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 5 (41.67%) User Experience
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 4 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (8.33%) ITSM
6 1 (8.33%) Migration
6 1 (8.33%) Service Management
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 8 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 4 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes