Chef jobs in Leicester

Live chef roles in Leicester, with Midlands salary benchmarks.

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90 live roles in Leicester

Production Chef

Leicester

£25,000–£35,000

This position involves ensuring documentation is clear and accurate, using machinery to book transformed ingredients following system processes and…

Manufacturing & Production
4 weeks ago Apply on WhatJobs

Weekend Chef-Liverpool

Leicester

Up to £15.43 per hour

Our client is one of the UK's leading specialist providers of neurorehabilitation and support for people with acquired brain injuries, neurological…

Hospitality & Catering
4 weeks ago Apply on WhatJobs

KFC Cook

Leicester

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Are you ready to join our world class team at Welcome Break, KFC, Leicester Forest East ? Look no further!

Hospitality & Catering
4 weeks ago Apply on WhatJobs

Chef

Leicester

£15-£17 Midweek

Cucumber Catering is currently recruiting experienced Care Home Chefs for ongoing agency work across the Suffolk and IP area.

Sales & Business Development
4 weeks ago Apply on WhatJobs

Chef hiring in Leicester: the numbers

  • 90 live chef roles in Leicester right now.
  • Median advertised salary for chef roles in Leicester: £30,000; the middle half of adverts pay £27,000 to £31,000 (from 8 current adverts that state an annual salary).
  • Advertisers with the most recent openings: Chartwells Schools (6), Chef Results Limited (4), Mitchells & Butlers PLC (4), Cucumber Catering (3), Grow and Thrive Limited (3).
  • Newest advert posted 14 October 2026.

Counted from the adverts on this board, refreshed hourly. Advertised pay is what employers state, not a market survey.

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Chef salary in Midlands

£27,000 – £40,000 (indicative · midpoint £33,500)

How this figure was built. No live advertised salaries back this figure yet. It is the midpoint of our curated 2026 baseline range for the role and region.

Methodology: medians reconcile live advertised UK salaries for this role and region; 25th–75th percentiles are shown only where at least 5 live salaried listings back them. They are measured or omitted, never interpolated. Rows marked indicative are anchored to our curated 2026 baseline ranges until enough live data accrues. Listings advertising an implausible annual figure (a mislabelled hourly or daily rate) are excluded rather than converted, because converting one means guessing the hours behind it.

Market view. Kitchen porters and commis chefs sit below the band (£23,000–£28,000), chefs de partie anchor it, sous chefs sit in the middle and head and executive chefs above (£45,000–£70,000). Hotels, contract catering and care homes pay less than fine dining but offer better hours; tips and live-in accommodation change the real picture.
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