Software Developer Jobs in Merseyside

Software Developer
North West > Merseyside

The median Software Developer salary in Merseyside is £41,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 101 55
Rank change year-on-year +47 -46 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 42 1 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.86% 0.10% 4.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.00% 0.12% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38 1 20
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 £52,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £55,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +69.23% -18.75%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 - £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

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 1,399 816 1,113
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.11% 83.18% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 402 690
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,775 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,519
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Merseyside

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in Merseyside

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in Merseyside over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in Merseyside

Software Developer
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 Developer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 - 42 £41,250 - 2
Software Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 26 (61.90%) .NET
2 25 (59.52%) C#
3 19 (45.24%) JavaScript
4 18 (42.86%) SQL
5 16 (38.10%) GitHub
5 16 (38.10%) Clean Code
5 16 (38.10%) Unit Testing
5 16 (38.10%) RESTful
6 15 (35.71%) Use Case
7 13 (30.95%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (28.57%) CSS
9 11 (26.19%) MySQL
9 11 (26.19%) Vue
9 11 (26.19%) Design Patterns
10 10 (23.81%) Agile
10 10 (23.81%) Java
10 10 (23.81%) Sass
11 9 (21.43%) AngularJS
11 9 (21.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 9 (21.43%) User Experience
11 9 (21.43%) React
11 9 (21.43%) Azure
11 9 (21.43%) PHPUnit
11 9 (21.43%) Laravel
11 9 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (21.43%) Bitbucket
11 9 (21.43%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (19.05%) SOAP
13 7 (16.67%) Visual Studio

Software Developer 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 (2.38%) Mendix
1 1 (2.38%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) GitHub
2 9 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (2.38%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) MySQL
2 9 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Bitbucket
1 9 (21.43%) PHPUnit
2 7 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 3 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.38%) Banking
2 1 (2.38%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (61.90%) .NET
2 16 (38.10%) RESTful
3 12 (28.57%) CSS
4 11 (26.19%) Vue
5 10 (23.81%) Sass
6 9 (21.43%) AngularJS
6 9 (21.43%) Laravel
6 9 (21.43%) React
6 9 (21.43%) Tailwind CSS
6 9 (21.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 8 (19.05%) SOAP
8 7 (16.67%) .NET Framework
8 7 (16.67%) GraphQL
9 5 (11.90%) .NET Core
9 5 (11.90%) LINQ
9 5 (11.90%) WPF
10 2 (4.76%) EJB
10 2 (4.76%) JavaBeans
10 2 (4.76%) Spring
11 1 (2.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) e-Health
1 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Clean Code
1 16 (38.10%) Unit Testing
2 15 (35.71%) Use Case
3 13 (30.95%) Full Stack Development
4 11 (26.19%) Design Patterns
5 10 (23.81%) Agile
6 9 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (21.43%) User Experience
7 7 (16.67%) Architectural Design
7 7 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (16.67%) Code Quality
8 6 (14.29%) Software Testing
9 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (4.76%) Data Privacy
10 2 (4.76%) E-Procurement
10 2 (4.76%) Kanban
10 2 (4.76%) SDLC
10 2 (4.76%) Web Development
11 1 (2.38%) MVC
11 1 (2.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) C#
2 19 (45.24%) JavaScript
3 18 (42.86%) SQL
4 10 (23.81%) Java
5 7 (16.67%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle