MERN Stack Jobs

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring MERN Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MERN Stack over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 883 825
Rank change year-on-year +197 -58 +174
Permanent jobs citing MERN Stack 25 27 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.026% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 0.13% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24 26 51
10th Percentile £52,875 £55,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,875 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £107,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.88% +79.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £127,500 £136,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £138,000 £150,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,208 21,249 29,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 20.80% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,664 15,856 18,240
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,350 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MERN Stack in the UK

MERN Stack
Top 11 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 28 May 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
England +158 25 £70,000 -34.88% 50
London +117 15 £100,000 -16.67% 20
UK excluding London +193 8 £60,000 -7.69% 34
Work from Home +114 8 £60,000 -44.19% 145
Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £75,000 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
South West +117 1 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Yorkshire +62 1 £100,000 +81.82% 2
North of England +36 1 £100,000 +60.00% 9
South East - 1 £55,000 - 10

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 5 (20.00%) CMS
1 5 (20.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 22 (88.00%) Azure
2 14 (56.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (32.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (20.00%) Contentful
4 5 (20.00%) Figma
4 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (32.00%) Power BI
3 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.00%) MySQL
5 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.00%) Neo4j
5 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Storybook
2 4 (16.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) Babel
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Mocha
3 2 (8.00%) webpack
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Architect
1 8 (32.00%) Lead
1 8 (32.00%) Lead Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Graduate
4 1 (4.00%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (64.00%) React
2 15 (60.00%) Express.js
2 15 (60.00%) Node.js
3 13 (52.00%) REST
4 8 (32.00%) ADO
4 8 (32.00%) Middleware
4 8 (32.00%) SOAP
4 8 (32.00%) WebSockets
5 6 (24.00%) AngularJS
5 6 (24.00%) GraphQL
5 6 (24.00%) Vue
6 5 (20.00%) CSS
6 5 (20.00%) CSS3
6 5 (20.00%) hapi
6 5 (20.00%) HTML
6 5 (20.00%) HTML5
6 5 (20.00%) Material-UI
6 5 (20.00%) MEAN Stack
6 5 (20.00%) NestJS
6 5 (20.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Agile
2 15 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (48.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (32.00%) Analytics
6 8 (32.00%) API Management
6 8 (32.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (32.00%) Capital Modelling
6 8 (32.00%) Data Architecture
6 8 (32.00%) Data Governance
6 8 (32.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (32.00%) Impact Assessments
6 8 (32.00%) Information Security
6 8 (32.00%) MVC
6 8 (32.00%) Pricing Analytics
6 8 (32.00%) Product Vision
6 8 (32.00%) Strategic Planning
7 7 (28.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) TypeScript
2 16 (64.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Databricks
2 5 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle