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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 41 31
Rank change year-on-year -60 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing React 43 146 285
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.56% 5.53% 9.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.48% 24.21% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 29 77 173
10th Percentile £27,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,312 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £81,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £74,830 £68,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.04% +0.74% -3.57%

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 319 603 966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.58% 22.84% 31.48%
Number of salaries quoted 123 348 524
10th Percentile - £33,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.57% +3.32%
75th Percentile £73,125 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 8 January 2026.

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 8 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
Glasgow +6 21 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Edinburgh -58 20 £75,000 +25.00% 18
Aberdeen +1 2 £30,000 -57.75% 20
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Azure
2 16 (37.21%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Serverless
4 5 (11.63%) GCP
4 5 (11.63%) GitHub
4 5 (11.63%) SaaS
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.33%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.33%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Storybook
General
1 8 (18.60%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Marketing
3 5 (11.63%) Multimedia
3 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Tech for Good
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Developer
2 10 (23.26%) Software Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Senior
4 6 (13.95%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 6 (13.95%) React Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Trainee
5 5 (11.63%) Trainee Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Trainee Web Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Web Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Mobile Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Mobile Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) CSS
1 8 (18.60%) HTML
1 8 (18.60%) Next.js
2 7 (16.28%) .NET
2 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
3 6 (13.95%) JSON
3 6 (13.95%) JSON-LD
3 6 (13.95%) Node.js
3 6 (13.95%) Spring Boot
4 5 (11.63%) RESTful
4 5 (11.63%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (9.30%) React Native
6 3 (6.98%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.98%) Blazor
6 3 (6.98%) Django
6 3 (6.98%) Kafka
6 3 (6.98%) Spring
7 2 (4.65%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.65%) Vue
8 1 (2.33%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Software Engineering
2 13 (30.23%) Agile
3 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.93%) OO
5 8 (18.60%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (18.60%) DevOps
5 8 (18.60%) Microservices
5 8 (18.60%) Web Development
6 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (16.28%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
7 6 (13.95%) Asset Management
7 6 (13.95%) Coaching
7 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
7 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.95%) SEO
7 6 (13.95%) Web Accessibility
8 5 (11.63%) Application Security
8 5 (11.63%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) TypeScript
2 12 (27.91%) Java
2 12 (27.91%) JavaScript
3 11 (25.58%) Python
4 7 (16.28%) C#
4 7 (16.28%) SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
1 5 (11.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Accessibility
1 6 (13.95%) WCAG
2 3 (6.98%) NCSC
2 3 (6.98%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.33%) Xamarin