MERN Stack Contract Job Trends in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring MERN Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MERN Stack 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.24% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £322 - -
25th Percentile £332 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £354 - -
90th Percentile £356 - -
UK median daily rate £495 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -7.99% +2.48% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 314 367 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.87% 22.18% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 259 302
10th Percentile £320 £324 £341
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -2.63% -0.94%
75th Percentile £575 £528 £579
90th Percentile £638 £575 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £35.63 - £33.58
25th Percentile £41.40 - £44.94
Median hourly rate £61.36 - £53.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.69%
75th Percentile £64.00 - £57.50
90th Percentile £64.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

MERN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

MERN Stack job vacancy trend in Scotland

MERN Stack
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Glasgow - 4 £350 -
MERN Stack
UK

MERN Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Django
1 4 (100.00%) Express.js
1 4 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 4 (100.00%) Flask
1 4 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (100.00%) NestJS
1 4 (100.00%) Node.js
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) Redux
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Application Security
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes