Developer Jobs in Merseyside

Developer
North West > Merseyside

The median Developer salary in Merseyside is £48,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 29 17
Rank change year-on-year +26 -12 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 231 85 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 17.71% 7.88% 10.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.72% 9.88% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 188 46 76
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,191 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £42,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -14.14% +16.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £47,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £59,375 £75,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Merseyside with a recognized job title 1,234 860 1,084
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 79.70% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 864 439 693
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,750 £25,200
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,827
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,120 £74,257
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Merseyside over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Merseyside

Developer
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 11 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 +23 192 £50,000 +14.29% 26
Wirral - 28 £40,000 - 1
Birkenhead 0 4 £67,500 +58.82% 5
Prescot -6 2 - -
Bootle -8 2 - -
Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 Merseyside region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 78 (33.77%) .NET
2 77 (33.33%) C#
3 73 (31.60%) JavaScript
4 57 (24.68%) CSS
5 56 (24.24%) Agile
6 54 (23.38%) SQL
7 53 (22.94%) Full Stack Development
8 51 (22.08%) Unit Testing
9 49 (21.21%) Azure
10 42 (18.18%) HTML
11 40 (17.32%) Clean Code
12 37 (16.02%) RESTful
13 31 (13.42%) AngularJS
14 30 (12.99%) Java
15 28 (12.12%) HTML5
16 27 (11.69%) Microsoft
17 25 (10.82%) .NET Framework
18 24 (10.39%) GitHub
18 24 (10.39%) AWS
18 24 (10.39%) Vue
19 23 (9.96%) .NET Core
19 23 (9.96%) React
19 23 (9.96%) Web Development
19 23 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
20 22 (9.52%) Blazor
21 21 (9.09%) Visual Studio
21 21 (9.09%) User Experience
21 21 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
22 20 (8.66%) CSS3
22 20 (8.66%) Use Case

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 7 (3.03%) CMS
2 3 (1.30%) Umbraco
2 3 (1.30%) WordPress
3 2 (0.87%) Drupal
3 2 (0.87%) SAS
4 1 (0.43%) concrete5
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) Mendix
Applications
1 4 (1.73%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.60%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.30%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.30%) Shopify
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.21%) Azure
2 24 (10.39%) AWS
2 24 (10.39%) GitHub
3 16 (6.93%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (4.33%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.60%) SaaS
6 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.16%) Stripe
7 4 (1.73%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.73%) Serverless
8 3 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.30%) Figma
8 3 (1.30%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.87%) GCP
9 2 (0.87%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.43%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (8.66%) SQL Server
3 19 (8.23%) MySQL
4 10 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.03%) Oracle Database 11g
5 7 (3.03%) Power BI
6 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 14 (6.06%) Bitbucket
2 14 (6.06%) PHPUnit
3 6 (2.60%) Git
4 5 (2.16%) GitLab
4 5 (2.16%) JIRA
5 2 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (7.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.93%) Finance
3 14 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 13 (5.63%) Games
5 12 (5.19%) Law
5 12 (5.19%) Legal
6 10 (4.33%) Banking
7 4 (1.73%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.30%) Advertising
8 3 (1.30%) Marketing
9 2 (0.87%) French Language
9 2 (0.87%) German Language
9 2 (0.87%) Retail
9 2 (0.87%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.43%) Police
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (33.77%) .NET
2 57 (24.68%) CSS
3 42 (18.18%) HTML
4 37 (16.02%) RESTful
5 31 (13.42%) AngularJS
6 28 (12.12%) HTML5
7 25 (10.82%) .NET Framework
8 24 (10.39%) Vue
9 23 (9.96%) .NET Core
9 23 (9.96%) React
10 22 (9.52%) Blazor
11 20 (8.66%) CSS3
12 19 (8.23%) SOAP
13 17 (7.36%) Laravel
13 17 (7.36%) Node.js
13 17 (7.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 16 (6.93%) GraphQL
15 15 (6.49%) jQuery
15 15 (6.49%) Sass
16 14 (6.06%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.90%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.16%) Augmented Reality
3 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.16%) Virtual Reality
4 4 (1.73%) Animation
4 4 (1.73%) NHS
5 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.87%) CMDB
6 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.87%) e-Health
6 2 (0.87%) Legacy Code
6 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.43%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.43%) IoT
7 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.43%) W3C
7 1 (0.43%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.87%) Linux
1 2 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (24.24%) Agile
2 53 (22.94%) Full Stack Development
3 51 (22.08%) Unit Testing
4 40 (17.32%) Clean Code
5 23 (9.96%) Web Development
6 21 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (9.09%) User Experience
7 20 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (8.66%) Use Case
8 18 (7.79%) Design Patterns
8 18 (7.79%) Software Engineering
9 17 (7.36%) Actionable Insight
9 17 (7.36%) Architectural Design
9 17 (7.36%) Code Quality
9 17 (7.36%) MVC
10 15 (6.49%) TDD
11 14 (6.06%) Architectural Patterns
12 13 (5.63%) DevOps
13 12 (5.19%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (5.19%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (33.33%) C#
2 73 (31.60%) JavaScript
3 54 (23.38%) SQL
4 30 (12.99%) Java
5 14 (6.06%) VB.NET
6 10 (4.33%) PHP
7 9 (3.90%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.16%) Python
10 4 (1.73%) Scala
11 3 (1.30%) Ruby
12 2 (0.87%) C
12 2 (0.87%) JSX
12 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 11 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.03%) QA
2 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.30%) GDPR
3 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.30%) WCAG
4 2 (0.87%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.43%) Ansible
2 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.19%) Oracle
3 5 (2.16%) PayPal
3 5 (2.16%) WorldPay
4 3 (1.30%) Facebook
4 3 (1.30%) HP
5 2 (0.87%) Progress
5 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.43%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.43%) UiPath