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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 38 31
Rank change year-on-year -64 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing React 39 106 725
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.16% 5.61% 11.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.54% 26.90% 33.46%
Number of salaries quoted 28 84 204
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £33,688 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £68,125 £91,132 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 338 394 2,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.07% 20.86% 34.22%
Number of salaries quoted 153 296 646
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,063 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,751 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,625
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -26 16 £60,000 - 5
Edinburgh -43 16 £68,750 +2.61% 8
South Lanarkshire - 4 £60,000 -
Aberdeen -14 3 £30,000 -57.75%
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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) Azure
2 14 (35.90%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) Serverless
4 5 (12.82%) SaaS
5 4 (10.26%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Storybook
General
1 6 (15.38%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Marketing
2 5 (12.82%) Multimedia
3 4 (10.26%) Local Government
4 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Senior
2 7 (17.95%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Trainee
3 5 (12.82%) Trainee Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Trainee Web Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Web Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Mobile Developer
4 4 (10.26%) React Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Mobile Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) iOS Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior iOS Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Lead Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Node.js
2 8 (20.51%) React Native
3 7 (17.95%) .NET
4 6 (15.38%) Next.js
5 5 (12.82%) AWS CDK
5 5 (12.82%) CSS
5 5 (12.82%) HTML
5 5 (12.82%) JSON
5 5 (12.82%) JSON-LD
5 5 (12.82%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (10.26%) Vue
7 3 (7.69%) .NET Core
7 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET
8 2 (5.13%) .NET Framework
8 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (5.13%) Django
8 2 (5.13%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.56%) REST
9 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Mobile App
3 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.56%) BBC
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
2 12 (30.77%) Agile
3 11 (28.21%) Test Automation
4 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 10 (25.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (23.08%) Microservices
6 6 (15.38%) OO
7 5 (12.82%) Asset Management
7 5 (12.82%) Coaching
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (12.82%) DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 5 (12.82%) Migration
7 5 (12.82%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (12.82%) SEO
7 5 (12.82%) Web Accessibility
7 5 (12.82%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) TypeScript
2 19 (48.72%) JavaScript
3 13 (33.33%) Python
4 8 (20.51%) SQL
5 7 (17.95%) Java
6 4 (10.26%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.56%) Bicep
7 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) AWS Certification
1 5 (12.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (12.82%) Azure Certification
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (10.26%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Accessibility
1 5 (12.82%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Apple
2 1 (2.56%) Facebook
2 1 (2.56%) Google
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.56%) Sony
2 1 (2.56%) Xamarin
2 1 (2.56%) Yahoo!