Lead Developer Jobs in Cheshire

Lead Developer
North West > Cheshire

The median Lead Developer salary in Cheshire is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 89 72
Rank change year-on-year -5 -17 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 4 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.42% 0.95% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.00% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -8.46% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 -
90th Percentile - £75,000 -
North West median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +20.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 719 1,708 656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.45% 95.79% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 337 1,230 450
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,500 £25,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £67,188
90th Percentile £63,750 £67,625 £90,125
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Cheshire

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Lead Developer in Cheshire

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in Cheshire

Lead Developer
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 Developer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Warrington +30 2 £70,000 +17.65% 1
Crewe - 2 £55,000 -
Lead Developer
North West

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Lead 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 Cheshire region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Power BI
3 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) RAD

Lead Developer 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft