MERN Stack Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring MERN Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MERN Stack 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.29% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £358 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

MERN Stack falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 127 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.06% 20.62% 23.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 97 125
10th Percentile £354 £404 £359
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -0.84% -0.21%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £610
90th Percentile £655 £556 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile £64.80 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -8.94%

MERN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MERN Stack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

MERN Stack job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

MERN Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Express.js
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript