Senior React Developer Job Trends

Senior React.js Developer
UK

The median Senior React.js Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 666 624
Rank change year-on-year +80 -42 +144
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior React Developer 56 41 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.077% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.083% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 47 36 101
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,875 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,500 £58,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -9.68%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -5.17%

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 53,744 49,685 53,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 92.91% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 33,208 25,763 41,197
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 12 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 12 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 +102 53 £68,750 +1.85% 11
UK excluding London +51 32 £67,500 +8.00% 11
Work from Home +56 25 £75,000 +11.11% 11
London +71 21 £75,000 -9.09% 6
South East +36 20 £61,250 -2.00% 3
Midlands +25 8 £72,500 +20.83%
East Midlands -2 6 £75,000 +42.86%
North of England +7 3 £70,000 -
West Midlands +23 2 £68,000 +11.02%
North East - 2 £70,000 -
Yorkshire -14 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 12 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 43 (76.79%) React
2 31 (55.36%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (51.79%) TypeScript
4 20 (35.71%) Python
5 18 (32.14%) .NET
5 18 (32.14%) AWS
5 18 (32.14%) C#
5 18 (32.14%) JavaScript
6 15 (26.79%) Azure
6 15 (26.79%) HTML
7 14 (25.00%) Agile
7 14 (25.00%) CSS
7 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (23.21%) GitHub
8 13 (23.21%) Scrum
8 13 (23.21%) Serverless
9 11 (19.64%) SQL
10 10 (17.86%) .NET Core
10 10 (17.86%) Clean Code
10 10 (17.86%) Git
10 10 (17.86%) QA
11 9 (16.07%) AI
11 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
11 9 (16.07%) Node.js
11 9 (16.07%) RESTful
11 9 (16.07%) Swagger
11 9 (16.07%) TDD
12 8 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 7 (12.50%) Django

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 3 (5.36%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.14%) AWS
2 15 (26.79%) Azure
3 13 (23.21%) GitHub
3 13 (23.21%) Serverless
4 8 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (5.36%) Azure App Service
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.36%) GCP
6 3 (5.36%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.36%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.71%) DynamoDB
2 6 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Git
2 6 (10.71%) JIRA
3 3 (5.36%) JMeter
3 3 (5.36%) Postman
3 3 (5.36%) Selenium
3 3 (5.36%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.36%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.79%) Storybook
General
1 11 (19.64%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Tech for Good
3 6 (10.71%) Health Technology
3 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (10.71%) Publishing
4 4 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 2 (3.57%) Games
7 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (76.79%) React
2 18 (32.14%) .NET
3 15 (26.79%) HTML
4 14 (25.00%) CSS
5 10 (17.86%) .NET Core
6 9 (16.07%) Node.js
6 9 (16.07%) RESTful
6 9 (16.07%) Swagger
7 7 (12.50%) Django
7 7 (12.50%) FastAPI
7 7 (12.50%) Flask
8 6 (10.71%) REST
9 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
10 4 (7.14%) .NET Framework
10 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET
10 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (7.14%) GraphQL
11 3 (5.36%) Nuxt
11 3 (5.36%) OpenAPI
11 3 (5.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Cybercrime
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.57%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (25.00%) Agile
2 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.21%) Scrum
4 10 (17.86%) Clean Code
5 9 (16.07%) AI
5 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.07%) TDD
6 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 7 (12.50%) Front End Development
8 6 (10.71%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (10.71%) Data Science
8 6 (10.71%) Operational Stability
8 6 (10.71%) Pair Programming
8 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.71%) Software Testing
9 4 (7.14%) DevOps
9 4 (7.14%) Kanban
9 4 (7.14%) MVC
10 3 (5.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 29 (51.79%) TypeScript
2 20 (35.71%) Python
3 18 (32.14%) C#
3 18 (32.14%) JavaScript
4 11 (19.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) QA
2 6 (10.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) Dynatrace