Software Engineering Jobs in Merseyside

Software Engineering
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 33 56 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.15% 8.96% 10.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 9.40% 11.66%
Number of salaries quoted 27 8 35
10th Percentile £43,000 £34,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,563 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -31.25% +45.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £59,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 533 596 986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 83.15% 95.36% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 296 261 557
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,039 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £49,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +4.21% +15.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,125 £77,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £51,369 £55,000 £53,121
% change year-on-year -6.60% +3.54% +6.24%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Merseyside

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Merseyside

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Merseyside over the 6 months to 4 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Merseyside

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 December 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 -5 27 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Birkenhead - 3 £40,000 -
Prescot - 1 £54,000 -
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
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 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (6.06%) AWS
2 2 (6.06%) ChatGPT
3 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.03%) Big Data
2 1 (3.03%) Couchbase
2 1 (3.03%) Flink
2 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.03%) HBase
2 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Pentaho
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 7 (21.21%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Software Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Lead
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Backend Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) C Software Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Data Science Leader
6 3 (9.09%) Embedded C Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Embedded C++ Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Optimisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Compact Framework
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) CSS3
4 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) HTML5
4 1 (3.03%) jQuery
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) Next.js
4 1 (3.03%) PySpark
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) WCF
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (3.03%) FMCG
1 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
2 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
2 5 (15.15%) Statistics
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Vision
3 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
3 4 (12.12%) Data Science
3 4 (12.12%) Machine Learning
3 4 (12.12%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (12.12%) SDLC
3 4 (12.12%) Software Testing
3 4 (12.12%) Statistical Modelling
4 3 (9.09%) Workflow
5 2 (6.06%) Agile
5 2 (6.06%) API Integration
5 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (6.06%) ETL
5 2 (6.06%) MVC
5 2 (6.06%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) C
1 7 (21.21%) C++
1 7 (21.21%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) C#
2 4 (12.12%) Embedded C
2 4 (12.12%) Embedded C++
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle
1 1 (3.03%) Talend
1 1 (3.03%) Xamarin