Senior Software Engineer Job Trends in Merseyside

Senior Software Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Merseyside is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 2 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.33% 0.87% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.98% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £62,125 £67,000 -
25th Percentile £63,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - -
75th Percentile £68,438 - -
90th Percentile £69,375 - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +18.18%

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 536 615 406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.44% 89.00% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 300 397 276
10th Percentile £27,990 £30,650 £30,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £49,375
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -4.81% +6.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,375
90th Percentile £73,875 £75,250 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Senior Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 29 November 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 +5 2 £66,250 -5.36%
Senior Software Engineer
North West

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Merseyside region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform