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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 402 476
Rank change year-on-year -60 +74 +65
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 138 95 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.38% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.58% 0.59% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 58 37
10th Percentile £388 £404 £458
25th Percentile £463 £415 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £630
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -24.60% +26.00%
75th Percentile £675 £668 £693
90th Percentile £863 £742 £823
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £630
% change year-on-year +15.00% -20.63% +26.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £15.90 - -
25th Percentile £17.73 £20.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 £22.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +228.95% -48.14% +115.19%
75th Percentile £90.00 £49.03 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.60 £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £22.04 £42.50
% change year-on-year +228.95% -48.14% +115.19%

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 23,658 16,017 21,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.76% 64.32% 57.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,411 10,325 13,753
10th Percentile £313 £282 £285
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -2.62% -2.91%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 774 1,850
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.38 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.93 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.00 £28.18 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +17.10% -11.85% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.83
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.58% -8.20% -0.13%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -70 70 £600 +29.73% 19
South West -4 28 £600 -4.00% 7
Midlands -49 13 £550 +10.00% 6
South East -55 13 £505 - 13
East Midlands -13 8 £600 +20.00% 1
East of England -33 5 £613 +6.52% 1
West Midlands - 5 £429 - 5
North West -45 3 - - 3
North of England -79 3 - - 6
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 9 (6.52%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 38 (27.54%) Oracle Payables
2 28 (20.29%) Oracle Receivables
3 21 (15.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (12.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (10.87%) Oracle Assets
6 14 (10.14%) NetSuite
6 14 (10.14%) Oracle Cash Management
6 14 (10.14%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (9.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (7.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (7.25%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (4.35%) SAP Business One
11 5 (3.62%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (3.62%) Oracle FAH
12 4 (2.90%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 4 (2.90%) Unit4 Business World
13 3 (2.17%) Dynamics AX
13 3 (2.17%) Dynamics GP
13 3 (2.17%) Dynamics SL
13 3 (2.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.80%) OCI
1 8 (5.80%) SaaS
2 7 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (4.35%) Azure
4 4 (2.90%) PaaS
4 4 (2.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.45%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.45%) IaaS
5 2 (1.45%) Intacct
5 2 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.72%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.72%) AWS
6 1 (0.72%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.72%) dbt
6 1 (0.72%) GitHub
6 1 (0.72%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.62%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.17%) Power BI
3 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.17%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.45%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.45%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.45%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.72%) Metadata
5 1 (0.72%) OLTP
5 1 (0.72%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (2.17%) JIRA
2 2 (1.45%) Hudson
2 2 (1.45%) JDeveloper
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.45%) Toad
3 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (94.93%) Finance
2 34 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.22%) Banking
4 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.62%) Military
7 3 (2.17%) Billing
7 3 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Retail
8 2 (1.45%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.45%) Legal
8 2 (1.45%) Local Government
8 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.72%) French Language
9 1 (0.72%) Front Office
9 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (32.61%) Consultant
2 28 (20.29%) Lead
3 19 (13.77%) Oracle Consultant
4 16 (11.59%) Analyst
5 12 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) Functional Consultant
7 10 (7.25%) Accountant
8 9 (6.52%) Lead Consultant
8 9 (6.52%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (5.80%) Implementation Consultant
9 8 (5.80%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 7 (5.07%) Oracle Financials Consultant
10 7 (5.07%) Senior
10 7 (5.07%) Transformation Consultant
11 6 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
11 6 (4.35%) NetSuite Consultant
12 5 (3.62%) Finance Manager
12 5 (3.62%) Implementation Analyst
12 5 (3.62%) Technical Consultant
12 5 (3.62%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.07%) Middleware
2 7 (5.07%) XML
3 3 (2.17%) Web Services
4 2 (1.45%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.45%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.72%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.94%) Onboarding
2 12 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.52%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.90%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.17%) Derivative
6 2 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.45%) Equities
6 2 (1.45%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.45%) Linux
1 2 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (36.96%) Accounts Payable
2 47 (34.06%) ERP
3 44 (31.88%) Accounts Receivable
4 42 (30.43%) Migration
5 39 (28.26%) Data Migration
6 37 (26.81%) User Acceptance Testing
7 36 (26.09%) Validation
8 30 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (17.39%) Budgeting
10 23 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (13.04%) Cash Management
11 18 (13.04%) Procure-to-Pay
12 17 (12.32%) System Integration Testing
13 16 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (10.87%) Analytics
14 15 (10.87%) Workflow
15 14 (10.14%) Record to Report
16 13 (9.42%) Budgeting and Forecasting
16 13 (9.42%) Financial Modelling
17 12 (8.70%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.67%) SQL
2 9 (6.52%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.45%) ABAP
4 1 (0.72%) C#
4 1 (0.72%) Python
4 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (24.64%) ACCA
1 34 (24.64%) CIMA
2 11 (7.97%) PMP
3 10 (7.25%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.62%) Degree
6 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.17%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.45%) CCA
7 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.72%) AAT
8 1 (0.72%) CCAB
8 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.72%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.80%) IFRS
2 5 (3.62%) Basel III
2 5 (3.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.62%) GAAP
2 5 (3.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.17%) GDPR
3 3 (2.17%) IFRS 9
4 2 (1.45%) GRC
4 2 (1.45%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.45%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) PSD2
5 1 (0.72%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.45%) CEMLI
1 2 (1.45%) Control-M
2 1 (0.72%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 54 (39.13%) Oracle
2 45 (32.61%) SAP
3 29 (21.01%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.42%) Workday
5 6 (4.35%) Sage
6 4 (2.90%) Talend
7 3 (2.17%) Adaptive Insights
7 3 (2.17%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.17%) Epicor
7 3 (2.17%) Google
7 3 (2.17%) IFS
7 3 (2.17%) Infor
7 3 (2.17%) Informatica
7 3 (2.17%) QAD
7 3 (2.17%) Zuora
8 2 (1.45%) Ariba
8 2 (1.45%) Concur
8 2 (1.45%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.72%) CODA
9 1 (0.72%) IBM