MERN Stack Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring MERN Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 659 599
Rank change year-on-year +66 -60 +200
Permanent jobs citing MERN Stack 16 14 72
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.031% 0.028% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.13% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 39
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £54,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -10.45% +11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £76,250 - £142,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +24.44%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,220 10,716 11,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.93% 21.56% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,793 6,372 9,541
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

MERN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

MERN Stack job vacancy trend in England

MERN Stack
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MERN Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MERN Stack

MERN Stack
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MERN Stack in England over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for MERN Stack in England

MERN Stack
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MERN Stack within the England region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +47 6 £62,500 - 3
South West +19 6 £62,500 - 2
North of England - 4 £67,500 - 2
North West - 3 £67,500 - 2
North East - 1 £67,500 -
MERN Stack
UK

MERN Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (87.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) npm
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (81.25%) Neo4j
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Cypress.io
2 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) Mocha
3 2 (12.50%) webpack
4 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (6.25%) GitLab
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Maven
4 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) C Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) React
2 15 (93.75%) AngularJS
3 3 (18.75%) CSS
3 3 (18.75%) HTML
3 3 (18.75%) Mongoose
3 3 (18.75%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) Express.js
4 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (12.50%) gRPC
4 2 (12.50%) Jest
4 2 (12.50%) Kafka
4 2 (12.50%) MEAN Stack
4 2 (12.50%) NestJS
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 2 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (12.50%) Svelte
5 1 (6.25%) JAX-RS
5 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (81.25%) Software Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) AI
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (12.50%) LLM
3 2 (12.50%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) Natural Language Understanding
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (6.25%) BDD
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Front End Development
4 1 (6.25%) Pair Programming
4 1 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
1 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (93.75%) Python
2 15 (93.75%) TypeScript
3 12 (75.00%) C
4 1 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) DV Cleared
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 15 (93.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft