React Developer Job Trends

React.js Developer
UK

The median React.js Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 516 433
Rank change year-on-year +30 -83 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a React Developer 277 166 562
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.34% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.38% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 246 139 520
10th Percentile £51,875 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £112,625 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £132,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,640 44,062 96,051
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.87% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 63,517 25,939 68,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

React Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'React Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

React Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

React Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for React Developer job vacancies in the UK

React Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing React Developer over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for React Developer in the UK

React Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing React Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 July 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
England +41 274 £75,000 +7.14% 28
London +16 149 £95,000 - 9
UK excluding London +17 125 £60,000 +4.35% 22
Work from Home +17 113 £75,000 +3.45% 17
South East +12 49 £60,000 -9.43% 3
North of England -9 42 £60,000 - 13
Midlands -25 23 £60,000 +14.29% 6
North West 0 16 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Yorkshire -17 15 £65,000 +66.67% 8
West Midlands -13 14 £62,500 +13.64% 3
North East -40 11 £100,000 +29.03%
East Midlands -27 9 £57,500 +27.78% 3
South West -57 7 £60,000 +12.68%
East of England -12 3 £70,000 +21.74%
Wales - 1 £75,000 -

React Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 July 2026, React Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring React Developer in the job title.

1 178 (64.26%) React
2 123 (44.40%) TypeScript
3 104 (37.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 80 (28.88%) JavaScript
5 76 (27.44%) AWS
6 70 (25.27%) Azure
7 58 (20.94%) Agile
8 56 (20.22%) React Native
9 49 (17.69%) Node.js
10 46 (16.61%) Front End Development
11 44 (15.88%) Python
12 41 (14.80%) .NET
13 40 (14.44%) RESTful
14 39 (14.08%) Software Engineering
15 38 (13.72%) C#
16 37 (13.36%) Java
17 33 (11.91%) CI/CD
17 33 (11.91%) GraphQL
17 33 (11.91%) Redux
18 32 (11.55%) Mobile Development
19 30 (10.83%) GCP
20 29 (10.47%) Clean Code
20 29 (10.47%) HTML
21 28 (10.11%) AI
22 27 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
22 27 (9.75%) CSS
23 26 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
24 25 (9.03%) Mentoring
24 25 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
25 24 (8.66%) Apple iOS

React Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (1.44%) Confluence
2 2 (0.72%) CMS
2 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Drupal
3 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 76 (27.44%) AWS
2 70 (25.27%) Azure
3 30 (10.83%) GCP
4 17 (6.14%) Serverless
5 16 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (5.78%) GitHub
6 15 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (5.42%) SaaS
7 8 (2.89%) Amazon S3
8 7 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.81%) Figma
10 4 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (0.72%) Azure App Service
12 2 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.72%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.61%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.72%) Redis
4 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.14%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.05%) Git
3 5 (1.81%) JIRA
4 4 (1.44%) Maven
5 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.08%) GitLab
5 3 (1.08%) Storybook
6 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.36%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.36%) fastlane
7 1 (0.36%) Mocha
7 1 (0.36%) RSpec
7 1 (0.36%) Vite
7 1 (0.36%) Xcode
General
1 47 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.64%) Finance
3 29 (10.47%) Front Office
4 10 (3.61%) Health Technology
4 10 (3.61%) Tech for Good
5 7 (2.53%) Law
6 5 (1.81%) Publishing
6 5 (1.81%) Retail
7 4 (1.44%) Banking
7 4 (1.44%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.08%) Games
8 3 (1.08%) Legal
9 2 (0.72%) Aviation
9 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.72%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (64.26%) React
2 56 (20.22%) React Native
3 49 (17.69%) Node.js
4 41 (14.80%) .NET
5 40 (14.44%) RESTful
6 33 (11.91%) GraphQL
6 33 (11.91%) Redux
7 29 (10.47%) HTML
8 27 (9.75%) CSS
9 16 (5.78%) REST
10 15 (5.42%) Kafka
10 15 (5.42%) WebSockets
11 11 (3.97%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.25%) Spring
13 8 (2.89%) .NET Core
13 8 (2.89%) Jest
14 6 (2.17%) Blazor
14 6 (2.17%) Spring Boot
14 6 (2.17%) Swagger
15 5 (1.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.11%) Fixed Income
2 17 (6.14%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.25%) Derivative
6 8 (2.89%) Equities
6 8 (2.89%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.72%) IoT
11 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.36%) Energy Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.66%) Apple iOS
2 23 (8.30%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (37.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 58 (20.94%) Agile
3 46 (16.61%) Front End Development
4 39 (14.08%) Software Engineering
5 33 (11.91%) CI/CD
6 32 (11.55%) Mobile Development
7 29 (10.47%) Clean Code
8 28 (10.11%) AI
9 27 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (9.03%) Mentoring
11 25 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (8.66%) Investment Management
13 21 (7.58%) User Experience
14 20 (7.22%) Data Visualisation
14 20 (7.22%) Visualisation
15 19 (6.86%) E-Commerce
15 19 (6.86%) Fintech
16 17 (6.14%) Computer Science
17 16 (5.78%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (44.40%) TypeScript
2 80 (28.88%) JavaScript
3 44 (15.88%) Python
4 38 (13.72%) C#
5 37 (13.36%) Java
6 11 (3.97%) SQL
7 8 (2.89%) Go
8 2 (0.72%) Bash
8 2 (0.72%) Bicep
8 2 (0.72%) Groovy
8 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.36%) PHP
9 1 (0.36%) Ruby
9 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (7.22%) Degree
2 16 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.97%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.69%) QA
2 6 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (5.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.25%) Terraform
2 6 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.72%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.36%) Grafana
4 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (1.81%) Google
1 5 (1.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
2 2 (0.72%) Oracle
3 1 (0.36%) OneLogin
3 1 (0.36%) OpenAI