React Job Trends in Scotland

React.js
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring React skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 27 43
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 -23
Permanent jobs citing React 143 358 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.65% 8.19% 6.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 38.24% 31.24% 25.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26 85 153
10th Percentile £52,875 £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 374 1,146 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.78% 26.23% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 98 440 566
10th Percentile £39,200 £35,900 £39,125
25th Percentile £49,063 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,938 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing React as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for React in Scotland

React
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing React.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing React

React
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing React in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for React in Scotland

React
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing React within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Glasgow +4 83 £64,500 +3.20% 12
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 4
Edinburgh -38 12 £60,000 -14.98% 16
Renfrewshire -4 4 - - 2
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling -1 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
Fife - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
React
UK

React
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (34.27%) Confluence
2 4 (2.80%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 85 (59.44%) AWS
2 76 (53.15%) Azure
3 62 (43.36%) GCP
4 12 (8.39%) GitHub
5 8 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.90%) npm
6 7 (4.90%) SaaS
6 7 (4.90%) Yarn
7 5 (3.50%) ChatGPT
7 5 (3.50%) Serverless
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.80%) Azure AI
8 4 (2.80%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.99%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.59%) KDB
4 8 (5.59%) Kdb+
5 7 (4.90%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.80%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.80%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.10%) MySQL
9 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.70%) Big Data
10 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.70%) HBase
Development Applications
1 56 (39.16%) Maven
2 51 (35.66%) GitLab
3 50 (34.97%) JIRA
4 49 (34.27%) Bitbucket
4 49 (34.27%) Cucumber
4 49 (34.27%) Selenium
4 49 (34.27%) SonarQube
4 49 (34.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (4.90%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.90%) Git
5 7 (4.90%) Vite
5 7 (4.90%) webpack
6 6 (4.20%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.20%) JUnit
7 3 (2.10%) Gradle
8 2 (1.40%) Mockito
General
1 114 (79.72%) Finance
2 109 (76.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 79 (55.24%) Banking
4 57 (39.86%) Law
5 28 (19.58%) Marketing
6 17 (11.89%) Social Skills
7 9 (6.29%) Legal
8 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.10%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.40%) Games
12 1 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 125 (87.41%) Software Engineer
2 43 (30.07%) Java Engineer
2 43 (30.07%) Java Software Engineer
3 33 (23.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 33 (23.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 18 (12.59%) Developer
5 16 (11.19%) Java Developer
6 14 (9.79%) Lead
7 12 (8.39%) Lead Software Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Senior
8 8 (5.59%) .NET Software Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) C# Software Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) React Developer
9 6 (4.20%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Java Software Developer
11 4 (2.80%) Python Software Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (70.63%) Spring
2 84 (58.74%) Kafka
2 84 (58.74%) Spring Boot
3 65 (45.45%) HTML
4 64 (44.76%) CSS
5 57 (39.86%) Hibernate
6 56 (39.16%) JPA
7 49 (34.27%) Redux
8 46 (32.17%) AngularJS
9 17 (11.89%) RESTful
10 15 (10.49%) .NET
11 12 (8.39%) .NET Core
12 9 (6.29%) Blazor
13 8 (5.59%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (5.59%) REST
13 8 (5.59%) Vue
13 8 (5.59%) Web Services
14 7 (4.90%) Jest
15 4 (2.80%) Django
15 4 (2.80%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 50 (34.97%) Product Ownership
2 49 (34.27%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (23.08%) Algorithms
4 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.59%) Fixed Income
7 7 (4.90%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.80%) Derivative
8 4 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.40%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (93.71%) Agile
2 133 (93.01%) Software Engineering
3 108 (75.52%) CI/CD
4 105 (73.43%) SDLC
5 95 (66.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 85 (59.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 73 (51.05%) Microservices
8 71 (49.65%) DevOps
9 65 (45.45%) Front End Development
10 63 (44.06%) Containerisation
11 62 (43.36%) Clean Code
12 59 (41.26%) TDD
13 57 (39.86%) Test Automation
14 53 (37.06%) Operational Stability
15 49 (34.27%) Performance Optimisation
16 33 (23.08%) Community of Practice
16 33 (23.08%) Visualisation
17 29 (20.28%) Artificial Intelligence
18 24 (16.78%) Machine Learning
19 13 (9.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 125 (87.41%) Java
2 80 (55.94%) JavaScript
3 74 (51.75%) SQL
4 34 (23.78%) TypeScript
5 23 (16.08%) C#
6 10 (6.99%) Python
7 4 (2.80%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.40%) Go
9 1 (0.70%) Groovy
9 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (4.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (36.36%) QA
System Software
1 73 (51.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 75 (52.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.80%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (34.27%) Solace
2 20 (13.99%) Oracle
3 6 (4.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.80%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.80%) Splunk
5 2 (1.40%) Facebook
5 2 (1.40%) Google
6 1 (0.70%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.70%) Databricks
6 1 (0.70%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.70%) Ping Identity