MERN Stack Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 879 817 1007
Rank change year-on-year -62 +190 -143
Permanent jobs citing MERN Stack 28 130 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.47% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27 48 64
10th Percentile £52,500 £36,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £37,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £65,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +65.38% -5.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £132,500 £87,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £150,000 £95,000 £91,875
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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 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 -63 27 £107,500 +65.38% 15
London +26 18 £120,000 +41.18% 4
Work from Home +19 16 £107,500 +152.94% 10
UK excluding London -44 10 £65,000 +18.18% 11
North of England +29 6 £62,500 +28.21% 1
North West -9 5 £65,000 +33.33%
South West -25 2 £65,000 - 4
Wales +8 1 £65,000 +8.33%
Midlands -15 1 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £50,000 - 3

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 (25.00%) nginx
2 3 (10.71%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Solr
3 1 (3.57%) CMS
3 1 (3.57%) Drupal
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Azure
2 15 (53.57%) AWS
3 8 (28.57%) npm
3 8 (28.57%) Yarn
4 7 (25.00%) GCP
4 7 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (89.29%) MongoDB
2 9 (32.14%) Relational Database
3 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.71%) MySQL
6 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.57%) CouchDB
7 1 (3.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
2 8 (28.57%) Cypress.io
3 7 (25.00%) Mocha
4 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.57%) Ant
5 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) Maven
5 1 (3.57%) Mercurial
5 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Automotive
4 1 (3.57%) Back Office
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Senior
3 9 (32.14%) Senior Developer
4 7 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (21.43%) Backend Developer
5 6 (21.43%) Senior Backend Developer
6 5 (17.86%) Lead
6 5 (17.86%) React Developer
7 4 (14.29%) Azure Developer
7 4 (14.29%) MongoDB Developer
7 4 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
8 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
9 2 (7.14%) IT Manager
9 2 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
9 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
9 2 (7.14%) Reinsurance Project Manager
10 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) Lead Test Engineer
10 1 (3.57%) Senior Full Stack Developer
10 1 (3.57%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (96.43%) React
2 26 (92.86%) Node.js
3 25 (89.29%) Express.js
4 12 (42.86%) NestJS
5 10 (35.71%) AngularJS
5 10 (35.71%) GraphQL
5 10 (35.71%) MEAN Stack
6 8 (28.57%) CSS
6 8 (28.57%) HTML
6 8 (28.57%) Kafka
6 8 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (25.00%) .NET
7 7 (25.00%) gRPC
7 7 (25.00%) Jest
7 7 (25.00%) JWT
7 7 (25.00%) Mongoose
7 7 (25.00%) OAuth
7 7 (25.00%) OAuth2
7 7 (25.00%) OpenAPI
8 5 (17.86%) koa
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 7 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (17.86%) Reinsurance
3 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (7.14%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (7.14%) Animation
5 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.57%) Educational Technology
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Android
2 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.57%) Solaris
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) Microservices
3 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 8 (28.57%) DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
4 8 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 7 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (25.00%) Observability
5 7 (25.00%) SDLC
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (21.43%) Fintech
7 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.29%) Clean Code
7 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.71%) API Management
8 3 (10.71%) Asynchronous Programming
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) JavaScript
2 18 (64.29%) TypeScript
3 9 (32.14%) Java
4 7 (25.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (7.14%) Python
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
6 1 (3.57%) Ada
6 1 (3.57%) C
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) C++
6 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (53.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.00%) Grafana
2 7 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Sybase