Lead Jobs in Cheshire

Leader
North West > Cheshire

The median Leader salary in Cheshire is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 57 17
Rank change year-on-year +11 -40 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead 60 36 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.92% 3.88% 10.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.04% 4.34% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 43 28 30
10th Percentile - £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £68,125 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,485 829 982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.24% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,116 477 530
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,250 £24,963
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,074 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £88,750 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead in Cheshire.

Salary trend for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Warrington -6 30 £40,000 -5.88% 11
Northwich - 11 £75,000 -
Chester +8 10 £62,500 -10.71% 8
Knutsford -12 1 - -
Wilmslow - 1 £62,500 - 1
Lead
North West

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Lead 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 Cheshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 15 (25.00%) Information Security
1 15 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) Customer Engagement
2 14 (23.33%) CRISC
2 14 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (23.33%) CISA
2 14 (23.33%) CISM
2 14 (23.33%) GDPR
2 14 (23.33%) GRC
3 10 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 8 (13.33%) ERP
4 8 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 8 (13.33%) AWS
5 7 (11.67%) Finance
5 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (11.67%) C#
5 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
6 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (10.00%) SAP
7 5 (8.33%) QA
7 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
7 5 (8.33%) Azure
8 4 (6.67%) Data Engineering
8 4 (6.67%) Business Transformation
8 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.67%) Risk Register

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 10 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) Apache
2 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
3 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP IBP
1 3 (5.00%) SAP PP
1 3 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.67%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.33%) AWS
2 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.33%) Azure
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.33%) SaaS
6 2 (3.33%) Serverless
7 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.67%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) Intranet
3 2 (3.33%) IP Telephony
3 2 (3.33%) NAS
3 2 (3.33%) SAN
3 2 (3.33%) VoIP
4 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.67%) Selenium
1 1 (1.67%) TestCafe
General
1 8 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 7 (11.67%) Finance
2 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (6.67%) Retail
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Police
6 2 (3.33%) Back Office
7 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Publishing
7 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) .NET
2 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (5.00%) JSON
2 3 (5.00%) RESTful
2 3 (5.00%) SAP TM
2 3 (5.00%) Web Services
2 3 (5.00%) WinForms
2 3 (5.00%) WPF
2 3 (5.00%) XML
3 2 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (3.33%) EDI
3 2 (3.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) FMCG
1 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) Life Science
3 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
1 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 15 (25.00%) Information Security
2 14 (23.33%) Customer Engagement
3 8 (13.33%) ERP
4 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (6.67%) Business Transformation
5 4 (6.67%) CAPA
5 4 (6.67%) Change Control
5 4 (6.67%) Data Engineering
5 4 (6.67%) Logistics
5 4 (6.67%) QMS
5 4 (6.67%) Quality Management
5 4 (6.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (6.67%) Risk Register
5 4 (6.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (6.67%) Supplier Management
6 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (5.00%) GAP Analysis
6 3 (5.00%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) C#
2 3 (5.00%) Python
2 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (5.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (3.33%) SQL
4 1 (1.67%) C++
4 1 (1.67%) Java
4 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.67%) PHP
4 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) CISA
2 14 (23.33%) CISM
2 14 (23.33%) CRISC
3 3 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.67%) CCNA
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (23.33%) GDPR
1 14 (23.33%) GRC
1 14 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.33%) QA
3 3 (5.00%) PMO
4 2 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) SAP
3 2 (3.33%) Cisco
3 2 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.67%) Aruba
4 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.67%) F5
4 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.67%) McAfee