General Ledger Contracts in Cheshire

General Ledger
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term General Ledger in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited General Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 57 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.89% 0.20% -
As % of the General category 1.28% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £432 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £498 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
North West median daily rate £447 - -

All General Skills
Cheshire

General Ledger falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 313 313 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 69.71% 62.10% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 200 205
10th Percentile £325 £276 £219
25th Percentile £388 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £566
90th Percentile £688 £627 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 19
10th Percentile £19.00 £16.57 £14.65
25th Percentile £27.20 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.58 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.22% -19.52% +45.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.25 £33.95
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £36.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing General Ledger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for General Ledger in Cheshire

General Ledger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing General Ledger in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for General Ledger in Cheshire

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in Cheshire

General Ledger
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing General Ledger within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 2 £447 -
Macclesfield +15 1 £395 -
Wilmslow - 1 £618 -
General Ledger
North West

General Ledger
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 2 (50.00%) CICS
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SOAtest
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
1 2 (50.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Ab Initio
2 2 (50.00%) Informatica
2 2 (50.00%) Parasoft