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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 602 749
Rank change year-on-year -63 +147 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior React Developer 54 43 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 47 42 113
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £64,375 £57,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +5.77% -18.75%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -14.29%

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 81,853 37,403 89,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 89.35% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 52,380 23,534 66,447
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 24 April 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 24 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
England -55 54 £75,000 +9.09% 8
UK excluding London -63 32 £67,500 - 3
London +1 22 £80,000 -3.03% 6
South East -31 17 £61,250 -9.26% 2
Work from Home -26 12 £75,000 +11.11% 4
Midlands -35 7 £75,000 +25.00%
East Midlands - 6 £75,000 -
South West -53 5 £75,000 -6.25%
North East -34 2 £70,000 +27.27%
North of England -65 2 £70,000 -
West Midlands -20 1 £70,000 +16.67%
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 35 (64.81%) React
2 32 (59.26%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (48.15%) JavaScript
4 23 (42.59%) TypeScript
5 21 (38.89%) AWS
6 20 (37.04%) Azure
7 19 (35.19%) HTML
8 17 (31.48%) CSS
8 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (27.78%) C#
10 14 (25.93%) .NET
11 13 (24.07%) CI/CD
11 13 (24.07%) Clean Code
12 12 (22.22%) Degree
12 12 (22.22%) GitHub
13 11 (20.37%) Agile
13 11 (20.37%) Node.js
14 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (18.52%) Python
15 9 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
15 9 (16.67%) Computer Science
15 9 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (16.67%) Customer Experience
15 9 (16.67%) E-Commerce
15 9 (16.67%) GCP
15 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
15 9 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
16 8 (14.81%) AI
17 6 (11.11%) .NET Core

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 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) AWS
2 20 (37.04%) Azure
3 12 (22.22%) GitHub
4 9 (16.67%) GCP
4 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.56%) SaaS
5 3 (5.56%) Serverless
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.70%) Figma
7 1 (1.85%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.85%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.26%) Git
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.70%) Games
4 2 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Publishing
5 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (64.81%) React
2 19 (35.19%) HTML
3 17 (31.48%) CSS
4 14 (25.93%) .NET
5 11 (20.37%) Node.js
6 6 (11.11%) .NET Core
7 4 (7.41%) .NET Framework
7 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.41%) ASP.NET
7 4 (7.41%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (7.41%) REST
8 3 (5.56%) Django
8 3 (5.56%) FastAPI
8 3 (5.56%) Flask
8 3 (5.56%) React Native
9 2 (3.70%) RESTful
9 2 (3.70%) Spring
10 1 (1.85%) Kafka
10 1 (1.85%) Swagger
10 1 (1.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (12.96%) Cybercrime
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Derivative
4 1 (1.85%) Energy Derivatives
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (24.07%) CI/CD
3 13 (24.07%) Clean Code
4 11 (20.37%) Agile
5 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 9 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 9 (16.67%) Customer Experience
6 9 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 9 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
7 8 (14.81%) AI
8 5 (9.26%) User Experience
9 4 (7.41%) Front End Development
9 4 (7.41%) MVC
9 4 (7.41%) Software Engineering
10 3 (5.56%) Mentoring
10 3 (5.56%) Mobile Development
10 3 (5.56%) UX Design
11 2 (3.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 23 (42.59%) TypeScript
3 15 (27.78%) C#
4 10 (18.52%) Python
5 6 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (3.70%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) Bicep
7 1 (1.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Degree
2 9 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Grafana
1 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.85%) Google