Junior Jobs in Merseyside

Junior
North West > Merseyside

The median Junior salary in Merseyside is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 81 98
Rank change year-on-year +25 +17 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 7 14 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.56% 1.07% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.12% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 4
10th Percentile - £24,400 £36,975
25th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £26,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -33.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £33,750 £28,750 £42,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £45,000 £27,500 £29,750
% change year-on-year +63.64% -7.56% -15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

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

Permanent vacancies in Merseyside with a recognized job title 368 1,245 856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.78% 94.82% 79.93%
Number of salaries quoted 192 873 428
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% -2.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,125 £77,500 £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in Merseyside

Junior
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Junior in Merseyside

Junior
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool +33 1 £32,500 +23.81% 17
Junior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Proxmox
2 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Customer Experience
2 6 (85.71%) Customer Service
2 6 (85.71%) WAN
2 6 (85.71%) VPN
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) MPLS
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) ITIL
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (85.71%) Hyper-V
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Private Cloud
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS

Junior 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) MPLS
1 6 (85.71%) VPN
1 6 (85.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Customer Experience
2 6 (85.71%) Customer Service
2 6 (85.71%) ITIL
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Hyper-V
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks