MERN Stack Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring MERN Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 - 161
Rank change year-on-year - - +151
Permanent jobs citing MERN Stack 2 0 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.038% - 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% - 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £59,000
25th Percentile £61,250 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £73,750
90th Percentile - - £76,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £51,250 £63,500
% change year-on-year +31.71% -19.29% +5.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 505 1,092 958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.59% 17.66% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 417 672 742
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,875 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,909 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,013 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £86,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

MERN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

MERN Stack job vacancy trend in the North West

MERN Stack
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing MERN Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing MERN Stack

MERN Stack
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MERN Stack within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Manchester - 2 £67,500 - 1
MERN Stack
England

MERN Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) Neo4j
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) C Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes