MERN Stack Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MERN Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 693 635
Rank change year-on-year +64 -58 +187
Permanent jobs citing MERN Stack 16 20 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.037% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.17% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 46
10th Percentile £48,750 - £45,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £57,500 £51,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -17.24% +28.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £102,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £76,250 £126,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +41.18%

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 7,007 11,647 13,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 21.40% 25.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,217 6,869 10,799
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

MERN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MERN Stack job vacancy trend in the UK

MERN Stack
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MERN Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MERN Stack

MERN Stack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MERN Stack over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for MERN Stack in the UK

MERN Stack
Top 8 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 4 January 2026. 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 +92 16 £67,500 +12.50% 13
UK excluding London +57 10 £67,500 +12.50% 9
London +65 6 £62,500 -53.70% 4
South West +13 6 £62,500 - 2
North of England - 4 £67,500 - 2
North West - 3 £67,500 - 2
Work from Home +75 1 £67,500 +12.50% 3
North East - 1 £67,500 -

MERN Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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%) Dropwizard
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
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