MEAN Stack Contract Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring MEAN Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 495 528
Rank change year-on-year -143 +33 +65
Contract jobs citing MEAN Stack 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% 0.022% 0.015%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.041% 0.086% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile - £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £473 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.34% -21.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile - £495 -
90th Percentile - £500 -
UK median daily rate £400 £473 £568
% change year-on-year -15.34% -16.80% -15.87%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

MEAN 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,810 6,989 8,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.17% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,442 4,764 5,468
10th Percentile £375 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £673
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 163 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £66.66 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.18% -13.56% -2.99%

MEAN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

MEAN Stack job vacancy trend in England

MEAN Stack
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MEAN Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MEAN Stack

MEAN Stack
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MEAN Stack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MEAN Stack

MEAN Stack
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North East -38 4 £400 -13.98% 3
North of England -78 4 £400 -15.34% 3
MEAN Stack
UK

MEAN Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 4 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Kong
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) DocumentDB
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Angular Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) Express.js
1 4 (100.00%) Jest
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) Node.js
1 4 (100.00%) Nunjucks
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 4 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 4 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Confluent
1 4 (100.00%) Dynatrace