Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Liverpool

Senior Software Engineer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Liverpool is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 61 82
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 3 25 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Liverpool 1.12% 2.35% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 2.45% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £60,000
75th Percentile £68,750 - £62,500
90th Percentile £69,500 - -
Merseyside median annual salary £65,000 - £60,000

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 239 1,021 792
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.18% 95.87% 83.72%
Number of salaries quoted 163 687 402
10th Percentile £30,450 £25,750 £28,525
25th Percentile £31,750 £34,750 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £64,500 £57,500 £60,874
90th Percentile £79,500 £77,500 £71,185
Merseyside median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -7.78% -2.75%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Liverpool

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Liverpool

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Liverpool.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Liverpool

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management

Senior Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft