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 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 674 611
Rank change year-on-year +84 -63 +153
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior React Developer 55 39 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.072% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.077% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 47 34 99
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,625 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,750 £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 £79,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% -

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 53,448 50,590 50,228
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.97% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,896 26,513 38,772
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,738 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,261
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 4 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 4 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 +111 52 £67,500 - 8
UK excluding London +72 32 £67,500 +8.00% 8
Work from Home +79 25 £75,000 +11.11% 8
London +73 20 £71,000 -15.22% 3
South East +33 20 £61,250 -2.00% 2
Midlands +25 8 £72,500 +20.83%
East Midlands +5 6 £75,000 +42.86%
North of England +17 3 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands +30 2 £68,000 +11.02%
North East - 2 £70,000 - 1
Yorkshire -9 1 £80,000 +14.29%
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 (78.18%) React
2 30 (54.55%) TypeScript
3 29 (52.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (34.55%) JavaScript
5 18 (32.73%) .NET
5 18 (32.73%) AWS
5 18 (32.73%) C#
5 18 (32.73%) Python
6 15 (27.27%) Azure
6 15 (27.27%) HTML
7 14 (25.45%) Agile
7 14 (25.45%) CSS
8 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (23.64%) Scrum
8 13 (23.64%) Serverless
9 12 (21.82%) GitHub
10 11 (20.00%) Git
10 11 (20.00%) SQL
11 10 (18.18%) .NET Core
11 10 (18.18%) Clean Code
11 10 (18.18%) QA
11 10 (18.18%) RESTful
12 9 (16.36%) CI/CD
12 9 (16.36%) Node.js
12 9 (16.36%) Swagger
12 9 (16.36%) TDD
13 8 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (14.55%) Mentoring
14 7 (12.73%) AI
14 7 (12.73%) Front End Development

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 (5.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.73%) AWS
2 15 (27.27%) Azure
3 13 (23.64%) Serverless
4 12 (21.82%) GitHub
5 8 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.45%) Azure App Service
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.45%) GCP
7 3 (5.45%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.45%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.91%) DynamoDB
2 6 (10.91%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) JIRA
3 3 (5.45%) JMeter
3 3 (5.45%) Postman
3 3 (5.45%) Selenium
3 3 (5.45%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.82%) Storybook
General
1 11 (20.00%) Finance
2 9 (16.36%) Tech for Good
3 6 (10.91%) Health Technology
3 6 (10.91%) Publishing
4 5 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.27%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Retail
7 2 (3.64%) Games
8 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (78.18%) React
2 18 (32.73%) .NET
3 15 (27.27%) HTML
4 14 (25.45%) CSS
5 10 (18.18%) .NET Core
5 10 (18.18%) RESTful
6 9 (16.36%) Node.js
6 9 (16.36%) Swagger
7 6 (10.91%) Django
7 6 (10.91%) FastAPI
7 6 (10.91%) Flask
7 6 (10.91%) REST
8 5 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 4 (7.27%) .NET Framework
9 4 (7.27%) ASP.NET
9 4 (7.27%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (7.27%) GraphQL
10 3 (5.45%) Nuxt
10 3 (5.45%) OpenAPI
10 3 (5.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Cybercrime
2 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Android
1 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (25.45%) Agile
3 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.64%) Scrum
4 10 (18.18%) Clean Code
5 9 (16.36%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.36%) TDD
6 8 (14.55%) Mentoring
7 7 (12.73%) AI
7 7 (12.73%) Front End Development
8 6 (10.91%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (10.91%) Data Science
8 6 (10.91%) Operational Stability
8 6 (10.91%) Pair Programming
8 6 (10.91%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.91%) Software Testing
9 4 (7.27%) DevOps
9 4 (7.27%) Kanban
9 4 (7.27%) MVC
10 3 (5.45%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (54.55%) TypeScript
2 19 (34.55%) JavaScript
3 18 (32.73%) C#
3 18 (32.73%) Python
4 11 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (1.82%) Java
5 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.82%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) QA
2 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Dynatrace