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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 554 633
Rank change year-on-year +7 +79 +186
DemandTrendContract jobs citing MEAN Stack 7 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.018% 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.095% 0.082% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 9
10th Percentile - £350 £396
25th Percentile £458 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £536 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% -20.63% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £600 -
90th Percentile £515 - £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £363 £400
% change year-on-year +30.34% -9.38% -33.33%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,336 8,545 11,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.38% 21.99% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,919 5,719 8,241
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £630 £655 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 205 160
10th Percentile £30.30 £23.80 £35.23
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £65.19 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.87 £74.72 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.88% -1.62%

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
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MEAN Stack

MEAN Stack
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MEAN Stack

MEAN Stack
Top 7 DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +11 6 £473 -14.09% 5
UK excluding London +9 6 £473 +30.34% 3
North of England - 6 £473 -
North East - 3 £465 -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
Work from Home +24 1 £538 +0.42% 1
North West - 1 £465 -

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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Kong
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (57.14%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Artifactory
2 4 (57.14%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) gulp
2 4 (57.14%) Maven
2 4 (57.14%) SonarQube
2 4 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Angular Developer
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 7 (100.00%) Express.js
1 7 (100.00%) Node.js
2 5 (71.43%) MERN Stack
2 5 (71.43%) React
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
3 4 (57.14%) Apache CXF
3 4 (57.14%) Dropwizard
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
3 4 (57.14%) JAX-RS
3 4 (57.14%) Kafka
3 4 (57.14%) Mongoose
3 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (57.14%) Sequelize
4 3 (42.86%) REST
4 3 (42.86%) RESTful
5 2 (28.57%) CSS
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) HTML5
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
2 6 (85.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
3 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) Open Source
3 4 (57.14%) Operational Stability
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (42.86%) User Experience
4 3 (42.86%) UX Design
5 2 (28.57%) API Development
6 1 (14.29%) API Design
6 1 (14.29%) API Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 1 (14.29%) Kanban
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes