Trainee Job Trends in Merseyside

Trainee
North West > Merseyside

The median Trainee salary in Merseyside is £30,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 64 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Trainee 5 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.89% 0.12% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.12% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £27,350 - -
25th Percentile £28,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 - -
75th Percentile £32,750 - -
90th Percentile £40,100 - -
North West median annual salary £26,000 £42,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year -38.82% +70.00% -7.83%

All DemandTrendPermanent 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 528 827 489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 96.27% 87.01%
Number of salaries quoted 248 581 356
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.71% -0.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,375 £80,497 £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Trainee
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Trainee in Merseyside

Trainee
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for Trainee job vacancies in Merseyside.

Salary distribution trend for Trainee job vacancies in Merseyside

Trainee
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Trainee in Merseyside over the 6 months to 4 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Trainee in Merseyside

Trainee
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Trainee within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 September 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 +11 5 £30,500 - 14
Trainee
North West

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

For the 6 months to 4 September 2025, Trainee 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 Trainee in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Multimedia
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (20.00%) CEH
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis

Trainee 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft