GAAP Contracts in London

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring GAAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GAAP over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 378 466
Rank change year-on-year +41 +88 +113
Contract jobs citing GAAP 7 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.057% 0.086% 0.055%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.35% 0.61% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 6
10th Percentile £418 £430 £406
25th Percentile £572 £473 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £630 £508
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +24.14% -7.73%
75th Percentile £679 £650 £618
90th Percentile £692 £700 £650
England median daily rate £500 £630 £515
% change year-on-year -20.63% +22.33% -28.97%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

GAAP falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,978 2,442 3,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.13% 13.99% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,313 1,725 2,460
10th Percentile £321 £350 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £798
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 63 37
10th Percentile £20.75 £12.90 £20.40
25th Percentile £22.51 £17.94 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £24.18 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% -8.75% -40.45%
75th Percentile £47.00 £46.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.36 £56.75 £81.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £42.50
% change year-on-year +44.96% -44.00% +53.26%

GAAP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GAAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GAAP in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GAAP in London.

Daily rate trend for GAAP in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GAAP in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GAAP in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GAAP in London.

Hourly rate trend for GAAP in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GAAP within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Central London +11 2 - - 4
GAAP
England

GAAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Bank Analyzer
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) IaaS
1 3 (42.86%) PaaS
1 3 (42.86%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 4 (57.14%) General Ledger
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) International Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Head of Technology
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Finance Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (28.57%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
1 3 (42.86%) ETL
1 3 (42.86%) Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) BPEL
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
2 2 (28.57%) RAD
2 2 (28.57%) Revenue Recognition
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) UML
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team Management
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ACCA
1 1 (14.29%) CIMA
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) IFRS
2 2 (28.57%) IFRS 9
3 1 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Informatica
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Alteryx
3 1 (14.29%) Ariba
3 1 (14.29%) Hyperion
3 1 (14.29%) PeopleSoft