MEAN Stack Contracts

MEAN Stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MEAN Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MEAN Stack over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 696 779
Rank change year-on-year +132 +83 -114
Contract jobs citing MEAN Stack 18 7 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.012% 0.069%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.052% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 48
10th Percentile £288 £405 £421
25th Percentile £359 £431 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +20.00%
75th Percentile £536 £663 £614
90th Percentile £569 £745 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £463 £575
% change year-on-year -13.51% -19.57% +31.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

MEAN Stack is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,918 13,466 23,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.74% 23.26% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,178 9,815 17,345
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 155 245
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.30 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.85 £81.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -26.36% +25.24% +14.44%

MEAN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MEAN Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MEAN Stack in the UK

MEAN Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MEAN Stack.

Daily rate trend for MEAN Stack in the UK

MEAN Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MEAN Stack over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MEAN Stack in the UK

MEAN Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MEAN Stack.

Hourly rate trend for MEAN Stack in the UK

MEAN Stack
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MEAN Stack within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +108 17 £450 -10.00% 9
London +103 10 £450 -43.75% 5
Work from Home +121 6 £488 -2.50% 5
UK excluding London +58 5 £400 -13.51% 4
Midlands +24 2 £325 -29.73%
West Midlands +19 2 £325 -35.00%
North of England - 2 £463 - 1
North West - 1 £450 - 1
South West - 1 £400 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -

MEAN Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) npm
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) Azure
5 2 (11.11%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (72.22%) MongoDB
2 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) MySQL
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 2 (11.11%) Mocha
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Angular Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) AngularJS
1 15 (83.33%) Node.js
2 12 (66.67%) Express.js
3 7 (38.89%) MERN Stack
3 7 (38.89%) NestJS
3 7 (38.89%) React
4 4 (22.22%) Kafka
5 2 (11.11%) .NET
5 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 2 (11.11%) gRPC
5 2 (11.11%) Jest
5 2 (11.11%) JWT
5 2 (11.11%) Mongoose
5 2 (11.11%) OAuth
5 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
5 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
5 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.56%) CSS
6 1 (5.56%) HTML
6 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven
4 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Observability
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
7 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
7 1 (5.56%) OO
7 1 (5.56%) User Experience
7 1 (5.56%) UX Design
7 1 (5.56%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) TypeScript
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Google