Developer Jobs in Liverpool

Developer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Developer salary in Liverpool is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 4 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 40 204 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Liverpool 15.04% 18.33% 6.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.13% 19.05% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 35 166 24
10th Percentile - £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £37,746
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £50,000 £43,125
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +15.94% -11.99%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £50,063
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £58,775
Merseyside median annual salary £32,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -35.00% +17.65% -13.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Liverpool with a recognized job title 248 1,071 777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 96.23% 84.36%
Number of salaries quoted 155 734 377
10th Percentile £26,850 £26,000 £28,650
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Merseyside median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Liverpool

Developer
Salary Trend in Liverpool

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Liverpool.

Salary trend for Developer in Liverpool

Developer
Salary Histogram in Liverpool

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Liverpool over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Liverpool

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Developer 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 permanent job ads across the Liverpool region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 28 (70.00%) SQL
2 23 (57.50%) C#
3 22 (55.00%) SQL Server
3 22 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (50.00%) HTML5
4 20 (50.00%) CSS
4 20 (50.00%) HTML
5 19 (47.50%) Web Development
5 19 (47.50%) Degree
5 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
5 19 (47.50%) Accessibility
5 19 (47.50%) Clean Code
6 18 (45.00%) Customer Requirements
6 18 (45.00%) GDPR
6 18 (45.00%) WCAG
6 18 (45.00%) jQuery
6 18 (45.00%) Umbraco
6 18 (45.00%) CMS
6 18 (45.00%) Content Management
6 18 (45.00%) HP
6 18 (45.00%) NHS
6 18 (45.00%) Intranet
7 13 (32.50%) Azure
8 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
9 9 (22.50%) .NET
10 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
11 7 (17.50%) MVC
11 7 (17.50%) T-SQL
11 7 (17.50%) Agile
11 7 (17.50%) Power Platform

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 18 (45.00%) CMS
1 18 (45.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (45.00%) Intranet
2 3 (7.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (55.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Babel
1 2 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (50.00%) CSS
1 20 (50.00%) HTML
1 20 (50.00%) HTML5
2 18 (45.00%) jQuery
3 9 (22.50%) .NET
4 6 (15.00%) RESTful
5 4 (10.00%) React
5 4 (10.00%) REST
6 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (5.00%) Blazor
7 2 (5.00%) JSON
8 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
8 1 (2.50%) DOM
8 1 (2.50%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (2.50%) Immutable.js
8 1 (2.50%) JWT
8 1 (2.50%) Node.js
8 1 (2.50%) Redux
8 1 (2.50%) Spring
8 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (45.00%) NHS
2 4 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (47.50%) Clean Code
2 19 (47.50%) Web Development
3 18 (45.00%) Content Management
3 18 (45.00%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 7 (17.50%) MVC
5 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Analytics
7 4 (10.00%) API Development
7 4 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 3 (7.50%) Data Management
8 3 (7.50%) Data Migration
8 3 (7.50%) Data Transformation
8 3 (7.50%) ETL
8 3 (7.50%) Low Latency
8 3 (7.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (70.00%) SQL
2 23 (57.50%) C#
3 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.50%) T-SQL
5 3 (7.50%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) Java
7 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (47.50%) Accessibility
2 18 (45.00%) GDPR
2 18 (45.00%) WCAG
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) HP
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft