General Ledger Contract Job Trends 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 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% 0.39% -
As % of the General category 0.43% 0.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
North West median daily rate £447 £575 £463
% change year-on-year -22.26% +24.32% -7.50%

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 460 357 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 66.38% 69.73% 72.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 224 185
10th Percentile £292 £356 £265
25th Percentile £362 £405 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.66% -3.62% +23.53%
75th Percentile £537 £576 £575
90th Percentile £688 £674 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -5.76% -4.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 30
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.36 £15.90
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £18.14
Median hourly rate £20.86 £24.18 £25.03
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -3.38% +55.72%
75th Percentile £37.89 £35.00 £35.02
90th Percentile £64.83 £52.00 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £22.53
% change year-on-year -28.14% +55.35% -8.34%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing General Ledger relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

General Ledger job vacancy trend in Cheshire

General Ledger
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing General Ledger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing General Ledger

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 28 October 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 -
General Ledger
North West

General Ledger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CICS
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SOAtest
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Parasoft