Software Engineering Jobs in Merseyside

Software Engineering
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 32 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 72 85 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.56% 7.76% 7.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% 8.39% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 30 31 30
10th Percentile £39,700 £43,375 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,125 £51,576
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +50.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £62,827
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,250 £72,125
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,043 1,013 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 80.60% 92.51% 92.96%
Number of salaries quoted 719 433 695
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,353 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,288
90th Percentile £75,154 £71,250 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Merseyside

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Merseyside.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Merseyside

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Merseyside

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 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
Liverpool -4 63 £60,000 -27.27% 7
Birkenhead 0 3 £26,500 -
St Helens - 3 £85,000 -
Wirral - 1 £42,500 -
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 29 (40.28%) ArcGIS
1 29 (40.28%) GeoServer
2 2 (2.78%) JBoss
2 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.22%) Azure
2 29 (40.28%) AWS
3 9 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (9.72%) Serverless
5 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.28%) GIS
1 29 (40.28%) PostgreSQL
1 29 (40.28%) QGIS
2 3 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.17%) RDBMS
2 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.39%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Git
2 3 (4.17%) JDeveloper
3 2 (2.78%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.39%) Appium
4 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.39%) GitLab
4 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Selenium
4 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (5.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.39%) Games
3 1 (1.39%) Law
3 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (59.72%) Software Engineer
2 29 (40.28%) Senior
3 25 (34.72%) Senior Software Engineer
4 18 (25.00%) Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 6 (8.33%) ERP Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Consultant
7 4 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Junior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Lead
8 3 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Ruby Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Supply Chain Consultant
8 3 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (45.83%) React
2 32 (44.44%) .NET
3 29 (40.28%) Leaflet
3 29 (40.28%) OpenLayers
3 29 (40.28%) PostGIS
4 26 (36.11%) .NET Core
5 25 (34.72%) CSS
6 4 (5.56%) Django
6 4 (5.56%) RESTful
6 4 (5.56%) SOAP
7 3 (4.17%) Node.js
7 3 (4.17%) Spring
8 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.78%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.78%) JPA
8 2 (2.78%) JSON
8 2 (2.78%) REST
8 2 (2.78%) Web Services
8 2 (2.78%) XML
8 2 (2.78%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
1 1 (1.39%) Blockchain
1 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
1 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
1 1 (1.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (5.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.94%) Agile
2 39 (54.17%) DevOps
3 38 (52.78%) Actionable Insight
4 29 (40.28%) Web Development
5 7 (9.72%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.72%) Software Testing
6 6 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 6 (8.33%) ERP
7 5 (6.94%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (6.94%) Clean Code
7 5 (6.94%) Code Quality
7 5 (6.94%) Containerisation
7 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.94%) Microservices
7 5 (6.94%) Software Delivery
7 5 (6.94%) Unit Testing
8 4 (5.56%) CI/CD
8 4 (5.56%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 34 (47.22%) Python
3 25 (34.72%) C#
4 7 (9.72%) Java
5 5 (6.94%) Ruby
6 4 (5.56%) Bash
6 4 (5.56%) Go
7 3 (4.17%) Perl
7 3 (4.17%) SQL
7 3 (4.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.39%) C++
8 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 36 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Ansible
1 1 (1.39%) Grafana
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (40.28%) ESRI
2 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.17%) Google
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle