General Ledger Contract Job Trends in the North West

General Ledger
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term General Ledger in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited General Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 107 138
Rank change year-on-year -16 +31 +35
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 4 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.42% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.30% 0.74% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile £404 £488 £412
25th Percentile £432 £538 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% +24.32% -5.13%
75th Percentile £470 £613 £491
90th Percentile £510 £656 £496
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +38.24% +117.95% -

All General Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,329 1,345 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 61.44% 57.06% 54.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 740 1,037
10th Percentile £268 £292 £255
25th Percentile £376 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £683 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.28% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 79 103
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.73
25th Percentile £15.34 £18.02 £16.70
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +59.09% +3.21%
75th Percentile £48.56 £46.84 £38.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £61.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% +27.12% +18.00%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing General Ledger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for General Ledger in the North West

General Ledger
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing General Ledger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing General Ledger

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger in the North West over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in the North West

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing General Ledger.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing General Ledger

General Ledger
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Cheshire -11 3 £447 - 1
Lancashire - 1 £525 - 2
General Ledger
England

General Ledger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
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%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
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
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 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (25.00%) Post-Production
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
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
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft