Developer Contracts in Merseyside

Developer
North West > Merseyside

The median Developer daily rate in Merseyside is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 1 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +21 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 18 44 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.71% 19.30% 7.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.25% 20.28% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 21
10th Percentile £424 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £377 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £625 £494 £538
90th Percentile £655 £550 £610
North West median daily rate £500 £470 £480
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.06% +1.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Merseyside with a recognized job title 160 217 330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 95.18% 96.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 117 242
10th Percentile £143 £151 £236
25th Percentile £203 £230 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% +10.47%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £550
90th Percentile £630 £588 £686
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 32 13
10th Percentile £13.28 - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £10.09
Median hourly rate £17.44 £19.97 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +21.96% +9.13%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.80 £18.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £43.09 £23.75
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Merseyside.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Merseyside.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Liverpool -8 18 £550 +22.22% 59
Developer
North West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Merseyside region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) Siebel
3 6 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Oracle
3 6 (33.33%) Linux
3 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
5 4 (22.22%) SDLC
5 4 (22.22%) Siebel EIM
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Banking
5 4 (22.22%) SOAP
5 4 (22.22%) Web Services
5 4 (22.22%) JMS
5 4 (22.22%) EAI
5 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 4 (22.22%) Finance
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Java
6 3 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 3 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
7 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (11.11%) RxJS
7 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering

Developer Skill Set
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 2 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.56%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Siebel EIM
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) JMS
1 4 (22.22%) SOAP
1 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) CSS3
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) HTML5
2 2 (11.11%) Middleware
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.11%) React
2 2 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (11.11%) RxJS
2 2 (11.11%) Sass
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.56%) Next.js
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.56%) React Native
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Solaris
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 4 (22.22%) EAI
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) SDLC
3 3 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 3 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (11.11%) Change Management
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Microservices
4 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (11.11%) Scrum
4 2 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Workflow
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Siebel
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle