MERN Stack Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring MERN Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 422 431
Rank change year-on-year +60 +9 +90
Permanent jobs citing MERN Stack 6 2 16
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.044% 0.013% 0.090%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.048% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 16
10th Percentile £50,000 - £70,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £127,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £135,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.70% +58.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £74,688 £142,500 £150,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +12.50% -12.73% +22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,642 4,136 4,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.20% 26.59% 27.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,903 2,543 4,291
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,014
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

MERN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MERN Stack job vacancy trend in London

MERN Stack
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MERN Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MERN Stack

MERN Stack
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MERN Stack in London over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for MERN Stack in London

MERN Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) npm
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (66.67%) Neo4j
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Mocha
1 2 (33.33%) webpack
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) C Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) Express.js
2 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 2 (33.33%) gRPC
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) Jest
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) MEAN Stack
2 2 (33.33%) Mongoose
2 2 (33.33%) NestJS
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (33.33%) Svelte
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) LLM
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Understanding
3 2 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (50.00%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes