MERN Stack Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 565 667
Rank change year-on-year +20 +102 +115
Contract jobs citing MERN Stack 8 15 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.036% 0.032%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 16
10th Percentile £457 £298 -
25th Percentile £458 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £514 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% +8.21% -12.04%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £650
90th Percentile £525 £645 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £325 £425
% change year-on-year +43.08% -23.53% -15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,344 9,001 12,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.54% 21.33% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,963 6,179 9,145
10th Percentile £350 £350 £382
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 269 156
10th Percentile £30.05 £22.50 £28.75
25th Percentile £39.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year - -12.35% +17.29%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.09 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.15 £59.03
% change year-on-year +7.48% -1.49% +7.33%

MERN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MERN Stack in the UK

MERN Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MERN Stack in the UK

MERN 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 MERN Stack within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 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
England +49 5 £465 -11.43% 11
UK excluding London +23 5 £465 +43.08% 7
North of England +8 5 £465 +20.00% 2
North East - 4 £465 -
Work from Home +29 3 £520 +73.33% 7
North West +3 1 £465 +20.00% 1

MERN 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%) MEAN 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