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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MERN Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MERN Stack over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 855 830 991
Rank change year-on-year -25 +161 -168
Permanent jobs citing MERN Stack 39 163 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.51% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 27 51 56
10th Percentile £52,500 £27,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £70,109 £35,625 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £55,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +95.45% -16.98% +1.92%
75th Percentile £140,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £92,500 £91,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +36.84% -20.83% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

MERN Stack is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,028 31,808 62,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.42% 30.35% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,726 19,512 30,385
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for MERN Stack in the UK

MERN Stack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MERN Stack over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MERN Stack in the UK

MERN Stack
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MERN Stack within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
England -7 33 £107,500 +95.45% 13
Work from Home +58 23 £107,500 +168.75% 7
UK excluding London -8 22 £65,000 +36.84% 5
London +26 17 £125,000 +66.67% 8
North of England +45 13 £57,500 +17.95%
North West +3 8 £62,500 +28.21%
Yorkshire - 5 £55,000 -
Scotland - 4 £83,577 -
Wales +8 2 £65,000 +8.33%
South West -23 2 - - 2
West Midlands +25 1 - -
Midlands +5 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.95%) nginx
2 6 (15.38%) Confluence
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Solr
3 2 (5.13%) CMS
3 2 (5.13%) Drupal
4 1 (2.56%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) Azure
2 12 (30.77%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) npm
3 8 (20.51%) Yarn
4 7 (17.95%) GCP
4 7 (17.95%) Serverless
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (97.44%) MongoDB
2 19 (48.72%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (46.15%) MySQL
4 9 (23.08%) Relational Database
5 6 (15.38%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.56%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 23 (58.97%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) Cypress.io
2 7 (17.95%) Mocha
3 4 (10.26%) JIRA
4 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.13%) webpack
5 1 (2.56%) Ant
5 1 (2.56%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.56%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.56%) Maven
5 1 (2.56%) Mercurial
5 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (46.15%) Finance
3 14 (35.90%) Banking
4 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 14 (35.90%) Full Stack Engineer
4 13 (33.33%) Senior
5 11 (28.21%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 8 (20.51%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (20.51%) Senior Developer
7 6 (15.38%) Backend Developer
7 6 (15.38%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (12.82%) Azure Developer
8 5 (12.82%) MongoDB Developer
8 5 (12.82%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (12.82%) React Developer
9 3 (7.69%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
10 2 (5.13%) IT Project Manager
10 2 (5.13%) Lead
10 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
10 2 (5.13%) Reinsurance Project Manager
11 1 (2.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (100.00%) Node.js
2 38 (97.44%) Express.js
2 38 (97.44%) React
3 24 (61.54%) MEAN Stack
4 23 (58.97%) AngularJS
4 23 (58.97%) CSS
4 23 (58.97%) HTML
5 18 (46.15%) RESTful
6 13 (33.33%) NestJS
7 10 (25.64%) .NET
8 9 (23.08%) GraphQL
8 9 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (20.51%) Kafka
10 7 (17.95%) gRPC
10 7 (17.95%) Jest
10 7 (17.95%) JWT
10 7 (17.95%) Mongoose
10 7 (17.95%) OAuth
10 7 (17.95%) OAuth2
10 7 (17.95%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (10.26%) Reinsurance
4 2 (5.13%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (5.13%) Animation
4 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Android
2 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.56%) Solaris
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (82.05%) Agile
2 26 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (58.97%) Full Stack Development
4 22 (56.41%) Software Engineering
5 14 (35.90%) API Development
6 13 (33.33%) Microservices
7 12 (30.77%) Customer Experience
8 11 (28.21%) Customer-Centricity
9 10 (25.64%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven
11 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (17.95%) Observability
11 7 (17.95%) SDLC
12 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (15.38%) DevOps
12 6 (15.38%) Fintech
13 5 (12.82%) Clean Code
14 4 (10.26%) Asynchronous Programming
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) JavaScript
2 16 (41.03%) TypeScript
3 8 (20.51%) Java
4 7 (17.95%) Kotlin
5 4 (10.26%) C#
6 3 (7.69%) SQL
6 3 (7.69%) VBA
7 1 (2.56%) C
7 1 (2.56%) C++
7 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
1 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) Grafana
2 7 (17.95%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) Sybase