Senior Backend Developer Jobs in Liverpool

Senior Backend Developer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in Liverpool is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 87 -
Rank change year-on-year +46 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Liverpool 0.37% 0.089% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.092% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £41,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 253 1,085 769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 96.27% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 157 748 371
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,175 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £46,250 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -3.65% +1.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Merseyside median annual salary £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% -

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in Liverpool

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Liverpool

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

Salary trend for Senior Backend Developer in Liverpool

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Senior Backend 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 Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Memcached
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) PayPal
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway

Senior Backend 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) LEMP Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Memcached
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Order Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) PayPal