General Ledger Contract Job Trends in England

General Ledger
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term General Ledger in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited General Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 408 413
Rank change year-on-year -61 +5 +87
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 178 115 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.41% 0.36%
As % of the General category 0.67% 0.64% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 78 70
10th Percentile £419 £404 £438
25th Percentile £502 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £653 £667 £684
90th Percentile £823 £711 £739
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 1
10th Percentile £16.83 £53.38 -
25th Percentile £17.33 £54.69 £41.25
Median hourly rate £19.69 £58.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.49% +38.24% +117.95%
75th Percentile £47.71 £62.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.88 £63.13 -
UK median hourly rate £19.69 £58.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -66.49% +38.24% +117.95%

All General Skills
England

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 general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26,565 18,003 18,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.73% 64.00% 58.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,493 11,446 11,300
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,070 803
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.69 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.37 £17.44
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.74 £70.27 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -21.88% +7.56%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

General Ledger job vacancy trend in England

General Ledger
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger in England over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in England

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing General Ledger.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing General Ledger

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing General Ledger in England over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for General Ledger in England

General Ledger
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
London -88 86 £600 - 57
Midlands -39 25 £516 -3.17% 3
South East -53 25 £545 +5.83% 10
West Midlands -34 17 £429 -25.39% 1
South West -21 16 £600 +26.32% 3
North of England -64 11 £525 +17.45% 14
East Midlands -17 8 £550 +22.22% 2
East of England -24 8 £505 -15.83%
North West -45 8 £525 +17.45% 6
Yorkshire -31 3 - - 2
General Ledger
UK

General Ledger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (3.37%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 51 (28.65%) Oracle Payables
2 46 (25.84%) Oracle Receivables
3 40 (22.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 36 (20.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (15.17%) Oracle Assets
6 24 (13.48%) Oracle ERP
7 22 (12.36%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (6.74%) NetSuite
8 12 (6.74%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (5.62%) SAP FI
10 9 (5.06%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 9 (5.06%) Oracle Financials
11 8 (4.49%) Oracle EBS R12
12 5 (2.81%) Oracle FAH
13 4 (2.25%) Oracle Internet Expenses
13 4 (2.25%) Oracle iProcurement
13 4 (2.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 4 (2.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 4 (2.25%) SAP GRC
13 4 (2.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.80%) Dynamics 365
2 15 (8.43%) OCI
3 8 (4.49%) Azure
4 7 (3.93%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.25%) AWS
6 4 (2.25%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.25%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.25%) SaaS
7 3 (1.69%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.69%) GCP
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.56%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.56%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.56%) GitHub
9 1 (0.56%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.56%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.25%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.25%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.25%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.69%) Power BI
4 3 (1.69%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) OLTP
6 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (4.49%) JIRA
2 5 (2.81%) JDeveloper
3 4 (2.25%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.12%) Hudson
5 1 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 174 (97.75%) Finance
2 63 (35.39%) Social Skills
3 36 (20.22%) Banking
4 21 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.67%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.18%) Billing
7 9 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.81%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.81%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.81%) Retail
9 4 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.25%) Local Government
9 4 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.12%) International Banking
11 2 (1.12%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (30.34%) Consultant
2 30 (16.85%) Analyst
3 25 (14.04%) Business Analyst
4 24 (13.48%) Oracle Consultant
5 22 (12.36%) Lead
6 21 (11.80%) Financial Analyst
7 18 (10.11%) Functional Consultant
8 15 (8.43%) Finance Business Analyst
9 13 (7.30%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 12 (6.74%) SAP Consultant
11 11 (6.18%) Accountant
12 10 (5.62%) Senior
13 8 (4.49%) Developer
13 8 (4.49%) Implementation Consultant
14 7 (3.93%) Architect
14 7 (3.93%) Trainer
15 6 (3.37%) Financial Accountant
15 6 (3.37%) NetSuite Consultant
15 6 (3.37%) Transformation Consultant
16 5 (2.81%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.37%) XML
3 5 (2.81%) Middleware
3 5 (2.81%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.69%) REST
5 2 (1.12%) RESTful
5 2 (1.12%) Web Services
6 1 (0.56%) Restlet
6 1 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.74%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.49%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.49%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.37%) NHS
4 6 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.81%) Derivative
5 5 (2.81%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.81%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.69%) Life Science
6 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.69%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.12%) Equities
7 2 (1.12%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (48.88%) Accounts Payable
2 83 (46.63%) Accounts Receivable
2 83 (46.63%) ERP
3 66 (37.08%) Migration
4 59 (33.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 55 (30.90%) Data Migration
6 53 (29.78%) User Acceptance Testing
7 40 (22.47%) Validation
8 30 (16.85%) Workshop Facilitation
9 28 (15.73%) Budgeting
10 26 (14.61%) System Integration Testing
11 25 (14.04%) Requirements Gathering
12 24 (13.48%) Process Improvement
13 22 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (11.80%) Analytics
14 21 (11.80%) Cash Management
15 20 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (10.67%) Data Analysis
16 19 (10.67%) Project Delivery
17 18 (10.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.73%) SQL
2 7 (3.93%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.25%) ABAP
3 4 (2.25%) C#
3 4 (2.25%) X++
4 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.12%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (17.98%) ACCA
1 32 (17.98%) CIMA
2 20 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.06%) AAT
4 9 (5.06%) Degree
5 7 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.93%) PMP
6 4 (2.25%) CCA
7 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) CCAB
8 2 (1.12%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.80%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.99%) IFRS
3 6 (3.37%) GDPR
4 4 (2.25%) GRC
5 3 (1.69%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.69%) QA
6 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.12%) GAAP
6 2 (1.12%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.12%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.56%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (41.01%) Oracle
2 52 (29.21%) Microsoft
2 52 (29.21%) SAP
3 9 (5.06%) Workday
4 7 (3.93%) Sage
5 5 (2.81%) Xero
6 4 (2.25%) Adobe
6 4 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.25%) Talend
7 3 (1.69%) IFS
8 2 (1.12%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.12%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.12%) Ariba
8 2 (1.12%) Epicor
8 2 (1.12%) Google
8 2 (1.12%) HP
8 2 (1.12%) Infor
8 2 (1.12%) Murex
8 2 (1.12%) Zuora