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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 401 431
Rank change year-on-year -76 +30 +71
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 157 108 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.39% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.61% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 71 51
10th Percentile £418 £404 £438
25th Percentile £500 £415 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.46%
75th Percentile £659 £673 £696
90th Percentile £829 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £16.82 £27.30 -
25th Percentile £19.20 £36.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £39.60 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.01% +29.41% +117.95%
75th Percentile £77.81 £60.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.30 £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £39.60 £55.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.01% +29.41% +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 25,770 17,637 18,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.74% 64.46% 58.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,199 11,153 11,617
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,176 1,003 989
10th Percentile £13.68 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +41.27%
75th Percentile £57.00 £47.31 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.13 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.28
% change year-on-year +19.28% -32.54% +35.56%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -79 79 £600 +1.69% 99
South West -30 22 £600 -7.69% 2
Midlands -32 22 £516 -6.25% 9
South East -62 14 £503 -2.43% 28
West Midlands -43 13 £427 -25.74% 8
East Midlands -7 9 £575 +26.37% 1
East of England -25 8 £505 -15.83% 7
North of England -70 6 £525 +17.45% 25
Yorkshire -31 3 - - 1
North West -46 3 £525 +17.45% 17
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 7 (4.46%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (29.30%) Oracle Payables
2 37 (23.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 30 (19.11%) Oracle General Ledger
3 30 (19.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (10.83%) Oracle Assets
4 17 (10.83%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (10.19%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (9.55%) NetSuite
7 11 (7.01%) Oracle Cash Management
8 9 (5.73%) Oracle EBS R12
9 7 (4.46%) SAP FI
10 6 (3.82%) SAP Business One
11 5 (3.18%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 5 (3.18%) Oracle FAH
11 5 (3.18%) Oracle Financials
12 4 (2.55%) Oracle Internet Expenses
12 4 (2.55%) Oracle iProcurement
12 4 (2.55%) SAP GRC
12 4 (2.55%) Unit4 Business World
13 3 (1.91%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
1 12 (7.64%) OCI
2 6 (3.82%) Azure
2 6 (3.82%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.55%) AWS
3 4 (2.55%) Google Workspace
3 4 (2.55%) Power Automate
3 4 (2.55%) PowerApps
4 3 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.91%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (1.91%) GCP
4 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (1.91%) SaaS
5 2 (1.27%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.27%) Intacct
5 2 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.64%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.64%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.64%) dbt
6 1 (0.64%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (4.46%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.55%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.55%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.91%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.27%) Power BI
5 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.64%) Metadata
6 1 (0.64%) OLTP
6 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.18%) JDeveloper
1 5 (3.18%) JIRA
2 4 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (2.55%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.27%) Hudson
4 1 (0.64%) Toad
General
1 152 (96.82%) Finance
2 54 (34.39%) Social Skills
3 33 (21.02%) Banking
4 18 (11.46%) Public Sector
5 17 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.82%) Retail
7 5 (3.18%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.18%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.55%) Local Government
8 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.91%) Billing
9 3 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.27%) International Banking
10 2 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (31.21%) Consultant
2 28 (17.83%) Analyst
3 22 (14.01%) Lead
4 20 (12.74%) Business Analyst
4 20 (12.74%) Oracle Consultant
5 18 (11.46%) Financial Analyst
5 18 (11.46%) Functional Consultant
6 13 (8.28%) SAP Consultant
7 12 (7.64%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 10 (6.37%) Finance Business Analyst
9 9 (5.73%) Developer
9 9 (5.73%) Senior
10 8 (5.10%) Implementation Consultant
11 7 (4.46%) Accountant
11 7 (4.46%) NetSuite Consultant
11 7 (4.46%) Transformation Consultant
12 6 (3.82%) Lead Consultant
12 6 (3.82%) Trainer
13 5 (3.18%) Architect
13 5 (3.18%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.82%) XML
3 5 (3.18%) Middleware
3 5 (3.18%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.91%) REST
5 2 (1.27%) RESTful
5 2 (1.27%) Web Services
6 1 (0.64%) Restlet
6 1 (0.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.28%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.37%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.73%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.18%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.55%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.91%) Derivative
7 3 (1.91%) Life Science
7 3 (1.91%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.27%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.27%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.64%) CESG
9 1 (0.64%) Equities
9 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.64%) FMCG
9 1 (0.64%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.91%) Unix
2 1 (0.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (45.22%) Accounts Payable
2 67 (42.68%) Accounts Receivable
3 63 (40.13%) ERP
4 53 (33.76%) Migration
5 46 (29.30%) Data Migration
5 46 (29.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (27.39%) User Acceptance Testing
7 32 (20.38%) Validation
8 27 (17.20%) Budgeting
9 23 (14.65%) System Integration Testing
10 21 (13.38%) Workshop Facilitation
11 20 (12.74%) Process Improvement
11 20 (12.74%) Requirements Gathering
12 18 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (10.83%) Analytics
13 17 (10.83%) Change Management
13 17 (10.83%) Data Analysis
14 16 (10.19%) Cash Management
14 16 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.92%) SQL
2 7 (4.46%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.55%) C#
3 4 (2.55%) X++
4 3 (1.91%) ABAP
4 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.64%) Python
5 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (15.92%) ACCA
1 25 (15.92%) CIMA
2 16 (10.19%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.92%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.37%) Degree
5 8 (5.10%) PMP
6 6 (3.82%) AAT
6 6 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.55%) CCA
8 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.27%) CCAB
9 2 (1.27%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.19%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.92%) IFRS
3 6 (3.82%) GDPR
4 4 (2.55%) GRC
5 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.27%) GAAP
5 2 (1.27%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.27%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.27%) QA
6 1 (0.64%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.27%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.64%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (41.40%) Oracle
2 48 (30.57%) SAP
3 41 (26.11%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.10%) Sage
5 6 (3.82%) Workday
6 5 (3.18%) Xero
7 4 (2.55%) Adobe
7 4 (2.55%) Talend
8 3 (1.91%) Google
9 2 (1.27%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.27%) Anaplan
9 2 (1.27%) CODA
9 2 (1.27%) Epicor
9 2 (1.27%) HP
9 2 (1.27%) IFS
9 2 (1.27%) Infor
9 2 (1.27%) Murex
9 2 (1.27%) QAD
9 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.27%) Zuora