MERN Stack Contracts

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MERN Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 553 663 738
Rank change year-on-year +110 +75 -61
Contract jobs citing MERN Stack 22 19 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.034% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.15% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 70
10th Percentile £363 £413 £458
25th Percentile £425 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.78% +11.34%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £642
90th Percentile £675 £676 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +14.29%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MERN Stack in the UK

MERN Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MERN Stack over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MERN Stack in the UK

MERN Stack
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +90 20 £525 - 15
London +104 12 £600 -2.04% 4
UK excluding London +33 8 £425 -19.05% 11
Work from Home +113 5 £413 -2.94% 10
North of England +19 5 £450 -14.29% 1
North West - 4 £450 -
Wales - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire +10 1 £400 -23.81% 1
South East - 1 £375 - 2

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 3 (13.64%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (13.64%) npm
4 3 (13.64%) Yarn
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Cypress.io
2 3 (13.64%) Mocha
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (22.73%) Marketing
5 3 (13.64%) Banking
5 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
2 13 (59.09%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior
4 5 (22.73%) MongoDB Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Node.js Developer
4 5 (22.73%) React Developer
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Developer
5 4 (18.18%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior JavaScript Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Designer
7 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
7 1 (4.55%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Reinsurance Project Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (100.00%) React
2 21 (95.45%) Express.js
3 20 (90.91%) Node.js
4 9 (40.91%) HTML
5 8 (36.36%) CSS
5 8 (36.36%) NestJS
6 6 (27.27%) AngularJS
6 6 (27.27%) MEAN Stack
7 5 (22.73%) Kafka
7 5 (22.73%) koa
8 4 (18.18%) Vue
9 3 (13.64%) GraphQL
9 3 (13.64%) gRPC
9 3 (13.64%) Jest
9 3 (13.64%) JWT
9 3 (13.64%) Mongoose
9 3 (13.64%) OAuth
9 3 (13.64%) OAuth2
9 3 (13.64%) OpenAPI
9 3 (13.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Full Stack Development
2 13 (59.09%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (31.82%) Microservices
5 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
5 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven
5 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Observability
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.64%) SDLC
8 2 (9.09%) API Design
8 2 (9.09%) API Integration
8 2 (9.09%) Backlog Refinement
8 2 (9.09%) Case Management
8 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
8 2 (9.09%) DevOps
8 2 (9.09%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) JavaScript
2 8 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 6 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) Kotlin
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Grafana
2 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) SAP