MEAN Stack Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MEAN Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MEAN 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 512 565 711
Rank change year-on-year +53 +146 +89
Contract jobs citing MEAN Stack 8 17 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.039% 0.012%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.19% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 3
10th Percentile £457 £283 £405
25th Percentile £458 £344 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £520 £530 £663
90th Percentile £525 £538 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +16.25% -13.51% -13.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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
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 6 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 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
UK excluding London +63 5 £465 +16.25% 5
England +46 5 £465 +3.33% 11
North of England +22 5 £465 +0.54%
North East - 4 £465 -
Work from Home +38 3 £520 +6.67% 9
North West +17 1 £465 +3.33%

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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Kong
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 8 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (87.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) GitLab
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (87.50%) Artifactory
2 7 (87.50%) Git
2 7 (87.50%) gulp
2 7 (87.50%) Maven
2 7 (87.50%) SonarQube
2 7 (87.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 8 (100.00%) Express.js
1 8 (100.00%) MERN Stack
1 8 (100.00%) Node.js
1 8 (100.00%) React
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (87.50%) Apache CXF
2 7 (87.50%) Dropwizard
2 7 (87.50%) Hibernate
2 7 (87.50%) JAX-RS
2 7 (87.50%) Kafka
2 7 (87.50%) Mongoose
2 7 (87.50%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (87.50%) Sequelize
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Microservices
2 7 (87.50%) Event-Driven
2 7 (87.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 7 (87.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (87.50%) Open Source
2 7 (87.50%) Operational Stability
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) API Design
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes