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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 396 478
Rank change year-on-year -73 +82 +80
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 130 87 73
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.36% 0.20%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.57% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 52 31
10th Percentile £313 £404 £413
25th Percentile £493 £414 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £630
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -24.60% +26.00%
75th Percentile £675 £652 £700
90th Percentile £863 £736 £788
UK median daily rate £583 £475 £630
% change year-on-year +22.63% -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 22,717 15,386 21,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.37% 64.14% 57.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,897 9,907 13,546
10th Percentile £312 £281 £280
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 £740 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,567 708 1,811
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £28.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.68% -2.88%
75th Percentile £63.19 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.54 £27.97 £30.16
% change year-on-year +9.19% -7.26% -6.91%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -68 67 £600 +29.73% 28
South West -9 27 £600 -4.00% 2
South East -53 13 £471 - 11
Midlands -54 11 £550 +10.00% 5
East Midlands -21 8 £600 +20.00% 1
North of England -73 5 - - 9
North West -29 3 - - 5
East of England -33 3 £613 +2.08% 3
West Midlands - 3 £268 - 4
Yorkshire -60 2 - - 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 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 30 (23.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 21 (16.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (15.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 17 (13.08%) Oracle EBS
6 16 (12.31%) Oracle Assets
7 14 (10.77%) NetSuite
7 14 (10.77%) Oracle Cash Management
7 14 (10.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (8.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (7.69%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (4.62%) Oracle FAH
10 6 (4.62%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (4.62%) SAP Business One
11 5 (3.85%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 3 (2.31%) Dynamics AX
12 3 (2.31%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (2.31%) Dynamics SL
12 3 (2.31%) Sage X3
12 3 (2.31%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.46%) OCI
2 8 (6.15%) SaaS
3 6 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (4.62%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.85%) Azure
5 4 (3.08%) PaaS
6 2 (1.54%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.54%) IaaS
6 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.77%) AWS
7 1 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.77%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.77%) dbt
7 1 (0.77%) GitHub
7 1 (0.77%) Intacct
7 1 (0.77%) Power Automate
7 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 30 (23.08%) 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 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Legal
7 3 (2.31%) Retail
8 2 (1.54%) Billing
8 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.77%) French Language
9 1 (0.77%) Front Office
9 1 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (32.31%) Consultant
2 27 (20.77%) Lead
3 19 (14.62%) Oracle Consultant
4 18 (13.85%) Analyst
5 13 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
6 12 (9.23%) Business Analyst
7 11 (8.46%) Accountant
8 10 (7.69%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 9 (6.92%) Financial Analyst
9 9 (6.92%) Lead Consultant
9 9 (6.92%) Senior
10 8 (6.15%) Implementation Consultant
11 6 (4.62%) NetSuite 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
11 6 (4.62%) Transformation Consultant
12 5 (3.85%) Finance Business Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.46%) 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%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.92%) Onboarding
2 12 (9.23%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.62%) 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%) ERP
2 41 (31.54%) Accounts Payable
3 40 (30.77%) Migration
4 34 (26.15%) Validation
5 33 (25.38%) Accounts Receivable
5 33 (25.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 31 (23.85%) Data Migration
7 24 (18.46%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (17.69%) Budgeting
9 19 (14.62%) Procure-to-Pay
10 16 (12.31%) Cash Management
10 16 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.31%) Workflow
11 15 (11.54%) Process Improvement
12 14 (10.77%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (10.77%) System Integration Testing
13 13 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 13 (10.00%) Record to Report
13 13 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.46%) 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 35 (26.92%) ACCA
1 35 (26.92%) CIMA
2 11 (8.46%) PMP
3 10 (7.69%) Degree
4 8 (6.15%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.31%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.77%) MBA
8 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
3 5 (3.85%) 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%) GDPR
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 25 (19.23%) 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