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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 388 463
Rank change year-on-year -82 +75 +101
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 130 87 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.36% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.57% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 52 34
10th Percentile £313 £404 £391
25th Percentile £481 £414 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £652 £650
90th Percentile £863 £736 £718
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £630
% change year-on-year +21.05% -24.60% +26.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £15.29 - -
25th Percentile £16.21 £20.45 -
Median hourly rate £17.73 £22.04 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.56% - -
75th Percentile £45.74 £23.63 -
90th Percentile £62.55 £55.95 -
UK median hourly rate £17.73 £22.04 -
% change year-on-year -19.56% - -

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 22,705 15,358 21,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.29% 64.19% 57.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,918 9,924 13,665
10th Percentile £313 £285 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,555 691 1,804
10th Percentile £14.18 £13.35 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £27.50 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -9.14% -5.18%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.03 £75.00 £66.92
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.41%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -71 66 £600 +29.73% 14
South West -8 26 £550 -12.00% 1
South East -43 14 £475 - 7
Midlands -50 12 £550 +10.00% 5
East Midlands -21 9 £575 +15.00%
North of England -73 5 - - 6
East of England -29 3 £613 +2.08% 1
North West -33 3 - - 2
West Midlands - 3 £268 - 5
Yorkshire -54 2 - - 3
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 (6.15%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 39 (30.00%) Oracle Payables
2 31 (23.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 22 (16.92%) Oracle General Ledger
4 21 (16.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (13.85%) Oracle Assets
6 17 (13.08%) Oracle EBS
7 16 (12.31%) Oracle Cash Management
8 14 (10.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 13 (10.00%) NetSuite
10 11 (8.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 10 (7.69%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (4.62%) Oracle FAH
12 6 (4.62%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (4.62%) SAP Business One
13 5 (3.85%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 3 (2.31%) Dynamics AX
14 3 (2.31%) Dynamics GP
14 3 (2.31%) Dynamics SL
14 3 (2.31%) Oracle ERP
14 3 (2.31%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.46%) OCI
2 8 (6.15%) SaaS
3 6 (4.62%) Azure
3 6 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (4.62%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.08%) PaaS
5 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.54%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.54%) IaaS
5 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.77%) AWS
6 1 (0.77%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.77%) dbt
6 1 (0.77%) GitHub
6 1 (0.77%) Intacct
6 1 (0.77%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.77%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.85%) Power BI
4 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.54%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.77%) Metadata
6 1 (0.77%) OLTP
6 1 (0.77%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.77%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Hudson
1 2 (1.54%) JDeveloper
1 2 (1.54%) JIRA
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.77%) Toad
2 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (94.62%) Finance
2 31 (23.85%) Social Skills
3 26 (20.00%) Banking
4 18 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.85%) Military
7 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.31%) Legal
8 3 (2.31%) Retail
9 2 (1.54%) Billing
9 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.54%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.77%) French Language
10 1 (0.77%) Front Office
10 1 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (32.31%) Consultant
2 26 (20.00%) Lead
3 19 (14.62%) Analyst
3 19 (14.62%) Oracle Consultant
4 14 (10.77%) Functional Consultant
5 12 (9.23%) Business Analyst
6 11 (8.46%) Accountant
7 10 (7.69%) Financial Analyst
7 10 (7.69%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 9 (6.92%) Senior
9 8 (6.15%) Lead Consultant
10 7 (5.38%) Implementation Consultant
11 6 (4.62%) Oracle Financials Consultant
11 6 (4.62%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.62%) Senior Business Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Functional Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Implementation Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Oracle Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (6.15%) Middleware
3 7 (5.38%) XML
4 3 (2.31%) Web Services
5 2 (1.54%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.77%) ADO
6 1 (0.77%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.92%) Onboarding
2 12 (9.23%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.08%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.31%) Derivative
6 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.54%) Equities
6 2 (1.54%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.77%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.77%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Linux
1 2 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.31%) Accounts Payable
1 42 (32.31%) ERP
2 40 (30.77%) Migration
3 35 (26.92%) User Acceptance Testing
4 34 (26.15%) Accounts Receivable
4 34 (26.15%) Validation
5 31 (23.85%) Data Migration
6 24 (18.46%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (16.92%) Budgeting
9 19 (14.62%) Procure-to-Pay
10 17 (13.08%) Cash Management
11 16 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (12.31%) System Integration Testing
12 15 (11.54%) Process Improvement
12 15 (11.54%) Workflow
13 14 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 13 (10.00%) Financial Modelling
14 13 (10.00%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.69%) SQL
2 9 (6.92%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.77%) C#
3 1 (0.77%) Python
3 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.77%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (26.15%) ACCA
1 34 (26.15%) CIMA
2 10 (7.69%) Degree
2 10 (7.69%) PMP
3 8 (6.15%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.31%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.77%) MBA
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) IFRS
2 6 (4.62%) GAAP
2 6 (4.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.85%) Basel III
4 4 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.08%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.54%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.54%) QA
6 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.77%) PSD2
6 1 (0.77%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.54%) Control-M
2 1 (0.77%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 55 (42.31%) Oracle
2 40 (30.77%) SAP
3 24 (18.46%) Microsoft
4 13 (10.00%) Workday
5 4 (3.08%) Sage
5 4 (3.08%) Talend
6 3 (2.31%) Adaptive Insights
6 3 (2.31%) Anaplan
6 3 (2.31%) Ariba
6 3 (2.31%) Epicor
6 3 (2.31%) Google
6 3 (2.31%) IFS
6 3 (2.31%) Infor
6 3 (2.31%) Informatica
6 3 (2.31%) QAD
6 3 (2.31%) Zuora
7 2 (1.54%) CODA
7 2 (1.54%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.77%) Charles River
8 1 (0.77%) IBM