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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 40 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -11
Permanent jobs citing React 136 150 164
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.07% 4.60% 6.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.69% 21.93% 26.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23 67 141
10th Percentile £46,500 £42,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,375 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £80,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% +3.70%

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 392 684 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.63% 20.99% 25.75%
Number of salaries quoted 90 376 515
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £38,850
25th Percentile £46,563 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -3.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,938 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,050 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

React
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

React job vacancy trend 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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +8 73 £67,500 +12.50% 5
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 3
Edinburgh -38 15 £63,750 -4.14% 18
Renfrewshire -12 4 - - 1
North Lanarkshire -15 4 - -
Stirling -4 3 - -
West Lothian +6 2 - - 3
Fife - 2 - - 3
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 & Capabilities in Scotland 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 49 (36.03%) Confluence
2 4 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 83 (61.03%) AWS
2 75 (55.15%) Azure
3 59 (43.38%) GCP
4 11 (8.09%) GitHub
5 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (5.15%) npm
5 7 (5.15%) Yarn
6 6 (4.41%) SaaS
6 6 (4.41%) Serverless
7 5 (3.68%) ChatGPT
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.94%) Azure AI
8 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.88%) KDB
2 8 (5.88%) Kdb+
3 7 (5.15%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.68%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.94%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (2.94%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.74%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.74%) Big Data
7 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.74%) HBase
7 1 (0.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (39.71%) Maven
2 50 (36.76%) JIRA
3 49 (36.03%) Bitbucket
3 49 (36.03%) Cucumber
3 49 (36.03%) GitLab
3 49 (36.03%) Selenium
3 49 (36.03%) SonarQube
3 49 (36.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (5.15%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.15%) Vite
4 7 (5.15%) webpack
5 5 (3.68%) Git
6 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.74%) Gradle
7 1 (0.74%) JUnit
7 1 (0.74%) Storybook
General
1 110 (80.88%) Finance
2 107 (78.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 79 (58.09%) Banking
4 57 (41.91%) Law
5 29 (21.32%) Marketing
6 15 (11.03%) Social Skills
7 9 (6.62%) Legal
8 5 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.94%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.94%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 125 (91.91%) Software Engineer
2 44 (32.35%) Java Engineer
2 44 (32.35%) Java Software Engineer
3 33 (24.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 33 (24.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 14 (10.29%) Lead
5 12 (8.82%) Lead Software Engineer
6 9 (6.62%) Developer
7 7 (5.15%) .NET Software Engineer
7 7 (5.15%) C# Software Engineer
7 7 (5.15%) Java Developer
7 7 (5.15%) Senior
8 6 (4.41%) React Developer
8 6 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Software Developer
9 5 (3.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 5 (3.68%) Java Software Developer
10 4 (2.94%) Lead Java Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (70.59%) Spring
2 86 (63.24%) Spring Boot
3 78 (57.35%) Kafka
4 64 (47.06%) HTML
5 61 (44.85%) CSS
6 55 (40.44%) Hibernate
7 54 (39.71%) JPA
8 49 (36.03%) Redux
9 41 (30.15%) AngularJS
10 14 (10.29%) RESTful
11 12 (8.82%) .NET
12 10 (7.35%) .NET Core
13 9 (6.62%) Web Services
14 8 (5.88%) Blazor
14 8 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
15 7 (5.15%) Jest
15 7 (5.15%) Vue
16 5 (3.68%) Django
16 5 (3.68%) REST
17 4 (2.94%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 50 (36.76%) Product Ownership
2 49 (36.03%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (22.79%) Algorithms
4 13 (9.56%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.88%) Fixed Income
6 7 (5.15%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.94%) Derivative
7 4 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (97.06%) Software Engineering
2 124 (91.18%) Agile
3 103 (75.74%) CI/CD
4 102 (75.00%) SDLC
5 92 (67.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 82 (60.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (49.26%) DevOps
8 66 (48.53%) Microservices
9 62 (45.59%) Clean Code
10 60 (44.12%) Containerisation
10 60 (44.12%) Front End Development
10 60 (44.12%) TDD
11 58 (42.65%) Test Automation
12 51 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
13 50 (36.76%) Operational Stability
14 31 (22.79%) Community of Practice
14 31 (22.79%) Visualisation
15 27 (19.85%) AI
16 21 (15.44%) Machine Learning
17 12 (8.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 117 (86.03%) Java
2 77 (56.62%) JavaScript
3 71 (52.21%) SQL
4 29 (21.32%) TypeScript
5 19 (13.97%) C#
6 11 (8.09%) Python
7 4 (2.94%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.47%) Go
9 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (4.41%) Degree
2 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (36.03%) QA
2 3 (2.21%) NCSC
2 3 (2.21%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (48.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 70 (51.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (36.03%) Solace
2 15 (11.03%) Oracle
3 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.47%) Facebook
4 2 (1.47%) Google
5 1 (0.74%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.74%) Databricks
5 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.74%) Splunk