When you say "up around 40 jobs", do you keep a historical graph on these stats? It would be an interesting read!
I'm very pragmatic about frameworks. Yes, React might be technically better than Angular 2, but it has to be better at putting food on the table. It probably will be.
In the meantime, there are a lot of Angular 1 projects that will need migrating to Ang 2.
React as a term is understandably a bit polluted though.