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 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 402 475
Rank change year-on-year -65 +73 +48
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 140 100 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.36% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.57% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 62 36
10th Percentile £418 £404 £456
25th Percentile £493 £415 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -10.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £673 £667
90th Percentile £843 £831 £831
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £16.51 - -
25th Percentile £18.71 £20.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £19.69 £22.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.66% -48.14% +117.95%
75th Percentile £81.88 £60.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.40 £69.25 -
UK median hourly rate £19.69 £22.04 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.66% -48.14% +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 24,776 17,460 20,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.20% 63.66% 57.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,869 11,169 13,155
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.21% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £760 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,821 906 1,551
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.36 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.28 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -24.98% +16.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.16 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £25.75 £34.23
% change year-on-year +27.40% -24.77% +12.16%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -74 67 £625 +31.58% 19
South West -11 29 £600 -4.00% 4
Midlands -34 14 £481 -25.96% 4
South East -62 13 £505 -40.59% 6
West Midlands -54 9 £427 -43.07% 1
North of England -75 7 £525 +17.45% 3
East of England -13 6 £561 -6.46% 1
East Midlands -11 5 £625 +11.11% 3
North West -49 4 £525 +17.45% 2
Yorkshire -51 3 - - 1
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 10 (7.14%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (28.57%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (21.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 24 (17.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (13.57%) Oracle General Ledger
5 18 (12.86%) Oracle Assets
6 16 (11.43%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (10.71%) NetSuite
8 13 (9.29%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (7.14%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (5.71%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (5.00%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 6 (4.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 6 (4.29%) SAP Business One
13 5 (3.57%) Oracle FAH
13 5 (3.57%) SAP FI
13 5 (3.57%) Unit4 Business World
14 3 (2.14%) Infor CloudSuite
14 3 (2.14%) Oracle Internet Expenses
14 3 (2.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 3 (2.14%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.43%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (4.29%) OCI
3 5 (3.57%) SaaS
4 4 (2.86%) Azure
5 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.43%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.43%) Intacct
6 2 (1.43%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.43%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.71%) AWS
7 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.71%) GitHub
7 1 (0.71%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.71%) iPaaS
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.71%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 8 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.86%) SAP BW
4 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.14%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.43%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.71%) Metadata
6 1 (0.71%) OLTP
6 1 (0.71%) Power BI
6 1 (0.71%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.57%) JDeveloper
1 5 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.43%) Hudson
2 2 (1.43%) Toad
2 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 134 (95.71%) Finance
2 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.43%) Banking
4 16 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.57%) Retail
7 4 (2.86%) Local Government
7 4 (2.86%) Military
7 4 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Billing
8 3 (2.14%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.71%) Front Office
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (32.14%) Consultant
2 19 (13.57%) Lead
2 19 (13.57%) Oracle Consultant
3 16 (11.43%) Analyst
4 15 (10.71%) Functional Consultant
5 12 (8.57%) Business Analyst
5 12 (8.57%) SAP Consultant
6 10 (7.14%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 8 (5.71%) Developer
7 8 (5.71%) Financial Analyst
7 8 (5.71%) Implementation Consultant
7 8 (5.71%) Senior
8 7 (5.00%) Accountant
8 7 (5.00%) Transformation Consultant
9 6 (4.29%) Lead Consultant
9 6 (4.29%) NetSuite Consultant
9 6 (4.29%) Oracle Financials Consultant
10 5 (3.57%) Finance Business Analyst
10 5 (3.57%) Finance Manager
10 5 (3.57%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.00%) XML
3 5 (3.57%) Middleware
4 3 (2.14%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.43%) Web Services
6 1 (0.71%) REST
6 1 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.43%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.14%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.71%) Derivative
6 1 (0.71%) Equities
6 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.71%) FMCG
6 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.71%) Life Science
6 1 (0.71%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.86%) Accounts Payable
2 53 (37.86%) Accounts Receivable
3 51 (36.43%) ERP
4 41 (29.29%) Migration
5 38 (27.14%) User Acceptance Testing
6 35 (25.00%) Data Migration
7 32 (22.86%) Validation
8 31 (22.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (19.29%) Budgeting
10 21 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (12.14%) Workflow
12 16 (11.43%) Cash Management
12 16 (11.43%) System Integration Testing
13 15 (10.71%) Process Improvement
14 13 (9.29%) Analytics
14 13 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 12 (8.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
16 11 (7.86%) Change Management
16 11 (7.86%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.00%) SQL
2 9 (6.43%) PL/SQL
3 3 (2.14%) ABAP
3 3 (2.14%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.43%) C#
4 2 (1.43%) X++
5 1 (0.71%) Python
5 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (19.29%) ACCA
1 27 (19.29%) CIMA
2 12 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.71%) PMP
5 6 (4.29%) AAT
6 5 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.57%) Degree
7 3 (2.14%) CCA
7 3 (2.14%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.43%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.71%) CCAB
9 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 7 (5.00%) IFRS
2 6 (4.29%) GDPR
3 3 (2.14%) GRC
4 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.43%) GAAP
4 2 (1.43%) QA
5 1 (0.71%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.43%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.71%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (38.57%) Oracle
2 44 (31.43%) SAP
3 32 (22.86%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.43%) Sage
5 8 (5.71%) Workday
6 4 (2.86%) Talend
6 4 (2.86%) Xero
7 3 (2.14%) Adaptive Insights
7 3 (2.14%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.14%) Epicor
7 3 (2.14%) Google
7 3 (2.14%) IFS
7 3 (2.14%) Infor
7 3 (2.14%) QAD
7 3 (2.14%) Zuora
8 2 (1.43%) Concur
8 2 (1.43%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.71%) Adobe
9 1 (0.71%) CODA
9 1 (0.71%) Murex