The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term General Ledger in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited General Ledger over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Manchester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
General Ledger
Rank 72 81 70
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -11
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 2 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.218% 0.230% 0.296%
As % of the General category 0.606% 0.667% 0.718%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £394 £395
% change year-on-year
+7.93% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 - £17.50
All of the General Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
330 450 418
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 35.91% 34.48% 41.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 206 166
Average daily rate £353 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £257 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 19
Average hourly rate £14.50 £17.75 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.30% -1.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
General Ledger
North West

General Ledger
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing General Ledger across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Manchester General Ledger Jobs Demand Trend

General Ledger
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing General Ledger across the Manchester region.

Manchester General Ledger Daily Rate Trend

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing General Ledger across the Manchester region.

Manchester General Ledger Hourly Rate Trend

General Ledger
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing General Ledger also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited General Ledger.

1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) TOAD
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) E-business
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (25.00%) Grid Computing
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) OLAP
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) AIX
4 1 (25.00%) SAS

General Ledger
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing General Ledger also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited General Ledger. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) TOAD
2 1 (25.00%) OLAP
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Functional Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications Functional Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) E-business
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft