Senior React Developer Job Trends

Senior React.js Developer
UK

The median Senior React.js Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 667 641
Rank change year-on-year +64 -26 +122
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior React Developer 55 41 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.078% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.084% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 46 36 115
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £58,750 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -9.68%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% -7.14%

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 56,939 48,731 63,682
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 92.28% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 35,361 25,094 49,715
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,663 £29,452
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -5.66%

Senior React Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior React Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior React Developer
Salary Trend

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

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

Senior React Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior React Developer over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior React Developer in the UK

Senior React Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior React Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +79 52 £75,000 +11.11% 16
UK excluding London +45 31 £67,500 +8.00% 12
London +54 21 £77,500 -6.06% 6
Work from Home +56 20 £75,000 +11.11% 6
South East +36 20 £61,250 -2.00% 7
Midlands +17 7 £75,000 +25.00%
East Midlands +2 6 £75,000 +42.86%
North of England +1 3 £70,000 - 1
North East - 2 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands +26 1 £70,000 +14.29%
Yorkshire -22 1 £80,000 +14.29%
East of England - 1 £80,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 January 2026, Senior 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 Senior React Developer in the job title.

1 41 (74.55%) React
2 31 (56.36%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (50.91%) TypeScript
4 18 (32.73%) AWS
4 18 (32.73%) JavaScript
4 18 (32.73%) Python
5 16 (29.09%) .NET
5 16 (29.09%) C#
5 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (27.27%) HTML
7 14 (25.45%) Azure
7 14 (25.45%) GitHub
8 13 (23.64%) CSS
9 12 (21.82%) Agile
10 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 11 (20.00%) Clean Code
11 10 (18.18%) Scrum
12 9 (16.36%) AI
12 9 (16.36%) Git
12 9 (16.36%) Node.js
12 9 (16.36%) Serverless
12 9 (16.36%) SQL
13 8 (14.55%) .NET Core
13 8 (14.55%) Degree
14 7 (12.73%) Django
14 7 (12.73%) FastAPI
14 7 (12.73%) Flask
14 7 (12.73%) Front End Development
14 7 (12.73%) TDD
15 6 (10.91%) AWS Lambda

Senior 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 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.73%) AWS
2 14 (25.45%) Azure
2 14 (25.45%) GitHub
3 9 (16.36%) Serverless
4 6 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.64%) Azure App Service
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.27%) DynamoDB
2 4 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.64%) JMeter
3 2 (3.64%) Postman
3 2 (3.64%) Selenium
3 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.82%) Storybook
General
1 12 (21.82%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Tech for Good
3 6 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Health Technology
4 4 (7.27%) Publishing
5 2 (3.64%) Games
5 2 (3.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (74.55%) React
2 16 (29.09%) .NET
3 15 (27.27%) HTML
4 13 (23.64%) CSS
5 9 (16.36%) Node.js
6 8 (14.55%) .NET Core
7 7 (12.73%) Django
7 7 (12.73%) FastAPI
7 7 (12.73%) Flask
8 6 (10.91%) RESTful
8 6 (10.91%) Swagger
9 5 (9.09%) REST
10 4 (7.27%) .NET Framework
10 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
10 4 (7.27%) ASP.NET
10 4 (7.27%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
11 2 (3.64%) Nuxt
11 2 (3.64%) OpenAPI
11 2 (3.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Cybercrime
2 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.64%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (56.36%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (21.82%) Agile
4 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 10 (18.18%) Scrum
6 9 (16.36%) AI
7 7 (12.73%) Front End Development
7 7 (12.73%) TDD
8 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.91%) Software Engineering
9 4 (7.27%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.27%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (7.27%) Data Science
9 4 (7.27%) MVC
9 4 (7.27%) Operational Stability
9 4 (7.27%) Pair Programming
9 4 (7.27%) Software Testing
10 3 (5.45%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) TypeScript
2 18 (32.73%) JavaScript
2 18 (32.73%) Python
3 16 (29.09%) C#
4 9 (16.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 5 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.64%) Dynatrace