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 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 412 442
Rank change year-on-year -75 +30 +66
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 154 102 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.57% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 67 45
10th Percentile £419 £404 £409
25th Percentile £500 £415 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £663 £674 £700
90th Percentile £828 £794 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £563
% change year-on-year - +2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £16.82 - -
25th Percentile £19.20 £20.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £39.60 £22.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.65% -48.14% +117.95%
75th Percentile £77.81 £57.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.30 £61.25 -
UK median hourly rate £39.60 £22.04 £42.50
% change year-on-year +79.65% -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 25,393 17,843 19,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.31% 64.33% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,118 11,345 12,177
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
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 2,037 987 1,139
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.36 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.63 £16.36 £17.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +25.25% -28.87% +28.58%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -83 77 £600 +1.69% 19
South West -20 25 £600 -4.00% 2
Midlands -35 18 £550 +6.80% 2
South East -61 15 £503 -2.43% 17
East Midlands -10 9 £575 +21.05% 1
West Midlands -45 9 £430 -26.27% 1
East of England -12 8 £505 -8.18% 3
North of England -59 6 £525 +17.45% 12
Yorkshire -38 3 - - 2
North West -43 3 £525 +17.45% 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 8 (5.19%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 16 (10.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 44 (28.57%) Oracle Payables
2 34 (22.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (18.83%) Oracle General Ledger
4 26 (16.88%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (11.69%) Oracle Assets
6 17 (11.04%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (9.74%) NetSuite
7 15 (9.74%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (7.79%) Oracle Cash Management
9 9 (5.84%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (4.55%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 7 (4.55%) SAP FI
11 6 (3.90%) SAP Business One
12 4 (2.60%) Oracle FAH
12 4 (2.60%) SAP GRC
12 4 (2.60%) Unit4 Business World
13 3 (1.95%) Oracle Financials
13 3 (1.95%) Oracle Internet Expenses
13 3 (1.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 3 (1.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
1 11 (7.14%) OCI
2 6 (3.90%) Azure
3 5 (3.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.60%) AWS
4 4 (2.60%) Google Workspace
4 4 (2.60%) Power Automate
4 4 (2.60%) PowerApps
4 4 (2.60%) SaaS
5 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.95%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (1.95%) GCP
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (1.30%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.30%) Intacct
6 2 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.65%) dbt
7 1 (0.65%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.60%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.60%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.60%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.95%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.30%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.65%) Metadata
6 1 (0.65%) OLTP
6 1 (0.65%) Power BI
6 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.25%) JDeveloper
2 4 (2.60%) JIRA
2 4 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (2.60%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.30%) Hudson
4 1 (0.65%) Toad
General
1 148 (96.10%) Finance
2 51 (33.12%) Social Skills
3 30 (19.48%) Banking
4 17 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.90%) Retail
6 5 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.60%) Local Government
7 4 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.95%) Billing
8 3 (1.95%) Military
8 3 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.30%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 50 (32.47%) Consultant
2 22 (14.29%) Lead
3 21 (13.64%) Oracle Consultant
4 18 (11.69%) Analyst
4 18 (11.69%) Functional Consultant
5 14 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 13 (8.44%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 13 (8.44%) SAP Consultant
7 10 (6.49%) Developer
8 9 (5.84%) Financial Analyst
8 9 (5.84%) Senior
9 8 (5.19%) Implementation Consultant
10 7 (4.55%) Accountant
10 7 (4.55%) NetSuite Consultant
10 7 (4.55%) Transformation Consultant
11 6 (3.90%) Finance Manager
11 6 (3.90%) Lead Consultant
11 6 (3.90%) Trainer
12 5 (3.25%) Architect
12 5 (3.25%) Oracle Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.55%) XML
3 5 (3.25%) Middleware
3 5 (3.25%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.95%) REST
5 2 (1.30%) RESTful
5 2 (1.30%) Web Services
6 1 (0.65%) Restlet
6 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 12 (7.79%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.84%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.25%) e-Learning
4 5 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.60%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.95%) Life Science
6 3 (1.95%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.30%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.65%) CESG
8 1 (0.65%) Derivative
8 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.65%) Equities
8 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.65%) FMCG
8 1 (0.65%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.95%) Unix
2 1 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (44.16%) Accounts Payable
2 63 (40.91%) Accounts Receivable
3 60 (38.96%) ERP
4 49 (31.82%) Migration
5 44 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 42 (27.27%) Data Migration
6 42 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (20.78%) Validation
8 29 (18.83%) Budgeting
9 21 (13.64%) System Integration Testing
10 18 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (11.69%) Process Improvement
10 18 (11.69%) Workshop Facilitation
11 17 (11.04%) Analytics
11 17 (11.04%) Cash Management
12 16 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (10.39%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (10.39%) Workflow
13 15 (9.74%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.94%) SQL
2 7 (4.55%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.60%) C#
3 4 (2.60%) X++
4 3 (1.95%) ABAP
4 3 (1.95%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.65%) Python
5 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (16.23%) ACCA
1 25 (16.23%) CIMA
2 17 (11.04%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.84%) Degree
4 9 (5.84%) PMP
5 6 (3.90%) AAT
6 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.60%) CCA
8 3 (1.95%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.30%) CIPFA
9 2 (1.30%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.65%) CCAB
10 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.79%) Data Quality
1 12 (7.79%) IFRS
2 6 (3.90%) GDPR
3 4 (2.60%) GRC
4 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.30%) GAAP
4 2 (1.30%) QA
5 1 (0.65%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.65%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.65%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.30%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.65%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (40.91%) Oracle
2 45 (29.22%) SAP
3 39 (25.32%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.19%) Sage
5 6 (3.90%) Workday
6 5 (3.25%) Xero
7 4 (2.60%) Adobe
7 4 (2.60%) Talend
8 3 (1.95%) Google
9 2 (1.30%) Adaptive Insights
9 2 (1.30%) Anaplan
9 2 (1.30%) Epicor
9 2 (1.30%) HP
9 2 (1.30%) IFS
9 2 (1.30%) Infor
9 2 (1.30%) Murex
9 2 (1.30%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (1.30%) QAD
9 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.30%) Zuora