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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 29 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 18 73 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.14% 5.60% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 6.93% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10 31 28
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £48,013
25th Percentile £59,063 £50,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -27.27% +50.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £77,375 £95,000 £95,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +8.11%

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 413 1,053 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 94.94% 80.75% 92.65%
Number of salaries quoted 178 724 428
10th Percentile £27,125 £26,250 £27,175
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £77,500 £70,795
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

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 8 May 2025.

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 8 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 -4 9 £67,500 +12.50% 24
Wirral +10 2 £55,000 +29.41%
St Helens -2 2 - -
Prescot - 2 - -
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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) dbt
4 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) GitLab
2 6 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 6 (33.33%) JIRA
2 6 (33.33%) Maven
2 6 (33.33%) Selenium
2 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 6 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
2 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Software Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) React
2 7 (38.89%) Kafka
3 6 (33.33%) CSS
3 6 (33.33%) HTML
3 6 (33.33%) JPA
3 6 (33.33%) Redux
3 6 (33.33%) Spring
3 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 5 (27.78%) .NET
4 5 (27.78%) RESTful
5 3 (16.67%) CSS3
5 3 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 3 (16.67%) HTML5
5 3 (16.67%) Jest
5 3 (16.67%) REST
5 3 (16.67%) Sass
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.56%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Signage
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
4 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (38.89%) SDLC
5 6 (33.33%) Front End Development
5 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 6 (33.33%) Microservices
5 6 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (22.22%) TDD
7 3 (16.67%) Analytics
7 3 (16.67%) Clean Code
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
7 3 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (16.67%) User Experience
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) C#
4 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 3 (16.67%) Python
6 2 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Solace
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft