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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 863 831 1017
Rank change year-on-year -32 +186 -172
Permanent jobs citing MERN Stack 27 146 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.49% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 26 51 58
10th Percentile £55,000 £27,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £71,875 £36,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +79.17% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £140,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -

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 21,101 29,987 65,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.24% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,749 18,481 29,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,588 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MERN Stack in the UK

MERN Stack
Top 9 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 18 May 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 -27 26 £107,500 +65.38% 17
London +9 19 £125,000 +56.25% 5
Work from Home +43 14 £107,500 +152.94% 14
UK excluding London -45 8 £65,000 +18.18% 13
North of England +45 5 £60,000 +23.08% 2
North West -3 4 £62,500 +28.21% 1
South West -26 2 £65,000 - 6
Wales +6 1 £65,000 +8.33%
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 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 (25.93%) nginx
2 3 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Solr
3 1 (3.70%) CMS
3 1 (3.70%) Drupal
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) Azure
2 13 (48.15%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) npm
3 8 (29.63%) Yarn
4 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 7 (25.93%) Serverless
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.70%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (92.59%) MongoDB
2 9 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (11.11%) MySQL
6 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.70%) CouchDB
7 1 (3.70%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Cypress.io
3 7 (25.93%) Mocha
4 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.70%) Ant
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
5 1 (3.70%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) Maven
5 1 (3.70%) Mercurial
5 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Marketing
4 4 (14.81%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Back Office
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 10 (37.04%) Senior
3 8 (29.63%) Full Stack Developer
3 8 (29.63%) Senior Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Backend Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior Backend Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Azure Developer
5 5 (18.52%) MongoDB Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Node.js Developer
5 5 (18.52%) React Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Lead
7 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) IT Manager
8 2 (7.41%) IT Project Manager
8 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
8 2 (7.41%) Reinsurance Project Manager
9 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Lead Test Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (96.30%) React
2 25 (92.59%) Express.js
2 25 (92.59%) Node.js
3 13 (48.15%) NestJS
4 10 (37.04%) AngularJS
4 10 (37.04%) MEAN Stack
5 9 (33.33%) GraphQL
6 8 (29.63%) CSS
6 8 (29.63%) HTML
6 8 (29.63%) Kafka
6 8 (29.63%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (25.93%) .NET
7 7 (25.93%) gRPC
7 7 (25.93%) Jest
7 7 (25.93%) JWT
7 7 (25.93%) Mongoose
7 7 (25.93%) OAuth
7 7 (25.93%) OAuth2
7 7 (25.93%) OpenAPI
8 6 (22.22%) koa
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Product Ownership
2 6 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (18.52%) Reinsurance
4 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (7.41%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (7.41%) Animation
5 2 (7.41%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.70%) Educational Technology
6 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Android
2 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Solaris
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Microservices
2 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
4 9 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
5 8 (29.63%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (25.93%) DevOps
6 7 (25.93%) Event-Driven
6 7 (25.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (25.93%) Observability
6 7 (25.93%) SDLC
7 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (22.22%) Fintech
8 5 (18.52%) Clean Code
9 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
10 3 (11.11%) API Management
10 3 (11.11%) Asynchronous Programming
10 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 18 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 9 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) Kotlin
4 2 (7.41%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) C
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Grafana
2 7 (25.93%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Sybase