MERN Stack Contracts in England

MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MERN Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MERN Stack over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 520 632
Rank change year-on-year +42 +112 +77
Contract jobs citing MERN Stack 7 22 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.059% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.29% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 20
10th Percentile £457 £425 £413
25th Percentile £458 £450 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £559 £675 £641
90th Percentile £643 - £658
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +2.93%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

MERN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MERN Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MERN Stack in England

MERN Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MERN Stack in England

MERN Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MERN Stack in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MERN Stack in England

MERN 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 MERN Stack within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 of England +19 5 £465 +3.33%
North East - 4 £465 -
London +25 2 £638 -1.92% 12
North West +14 1 £465 +3.33%
MERN Stack
UK

MERN Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Kong
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (71.43%) MySQL
2 5 (71.43%) NoSQL
2 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) Artifactory
2 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 5 (71.43%) gulp
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Maven
2 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
2 5 (71.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Private Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) MongoDB Developer
4 1 (14.29%) React Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Express.js
1 7 (100.00%) Node.js
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
2 5 (71.43%) Apache CXF
2 5 (71.43%) Dropwizard
2 5 (71.43%) Hibernate
2 5 (71.43%) JAX-RS
2 5 (71.43%) Kafka
2 5 (71.43%) MEAN Stack
2 5 (71.43%) Mongoose
2 5 (71.43%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (71.43%) Sequelize
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) koa
3 1 (14.29%) NestJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
1 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) Open Source
1 5 (71.43%) Operational Stability
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform