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 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 403 457
Rank change year-on-year -11 +54 +130
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 125 102 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.65% 0.58% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 63 63
10th Percentile £400 £440 £413
25th Percentile £500 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.58%
75th Percentile £669 £690 £650
90th Percentile £819 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £600 £580 £594
% change year-on-year +3.45% -2.32% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £55.63 - -
25th Percentile £56.56 - -
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £18.00
75th Percentile £61.56 - -
90th Percentile £62.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £29.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +102.59% +61.11% -

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 19,350 17,553 21,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.27% 61.72% 59.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,251 10,624 14,724
10th Percentile £281 £300 £280
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £755
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 605 1,026
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.94 £18.50 £16.69
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.35 £70.28
UK median hourly rate £23.54 £27.39 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.05% -15.74% +30.00%

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 28 December 2025.

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
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 28 December 2025. 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 +3 69 £600 -4.00% 32
South East +5 27 £595 +15.53% 37
Midlands -37 14 £495 -8.33% 19
East Midlands -15 7 £360 -43.75% 7
West Midlands -28 7 £515 -4.63% 11
North of England -46 6 £500 -13.04% 23
Yorkshire -41 5 £500 -9.09% 13
East of England -21 4 £600 +254.51% 24
South West -5 3 £475 +11.76% 11
North West -27 1 - - 8
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 5 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.40%) Confluence
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 52 (41.60%) Oracle Payables
2 49 (39.20%) Oracle General Ledger
3 39 (31.20%) Oracle Assets
4 37 (29.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 31 (24.80%) Oracle EBS
6 25 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
7 23 (18.40%) Oracle Cash Management
8 18 (14.40%) Oracle Financials
9 15 (12.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 12 (9.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 10 (8.00%) Oracle AGIS
12 9 (7.20%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 8 (6.40%) Oracle FAH
14 7 (5.60%) SAP S/4HANA
15 6 (4.80%) Oracle ERP
16 3 (2.40%) SAP ERP
16 3 (2.40%) SAP R/3
17 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
17 2 (1.60%) SAP FI
18 1 (0.80%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.40%) Power Platform
2 12 (9.60%) Azure
3 11 (8.80%) OCI
4 9 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (7.20%) SaaS
5 7 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.60%) PaaS
7 2 (1.60%) Slack
8 1 (0.80%) dbt
8 1 (0.80%) GitHub
8 1 (0.80%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.80%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.40%) Power BI
2 12 (9.60%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (5.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.40%) SAP BW
6 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.80%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.20%) JIRA
2 4 (3.20%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.40%) Hudson
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle APEX
General
1 117 (93.60%) Finance
2 46 (36.80%) Social Skills
3 25 (20.00%) Banking
4 21 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.80%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (6.40%) Billing
8 7 (5.60%) Law
8 7 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.20%) Legal
9 4 (3.20%) Publishing
10 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.60%) Back Office
11 2 (1.60%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.80%) Advertising
12 1 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.80%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (28.80%) Consultant
2 24 (19.20%) Analyst
3 23 (18.40%) Functional Consultant
3 23 (18.40%) Oracle Consultant
4 18 (14.40%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 15 (12.00%) Developer
6 14 (11.20%) Business Analyst
6 14 (11.20%) Oracle Financials Consultant
6 14 (11.20%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
7 12 (9.60%) Financial Analyst
7 12 (9.60%) Lead
8 11 (8.80%) Oracle Developer
9 10 (8.00%) Oracle Analyst
9 10 (8.00%) Senior
10 7 (5.60%) Accountant
10 7 (5.60%) Architect
11 6 (4.80%) Oracle Financials Analyst
11 6 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.80%) Senior Business Analyst
12 5 (4.00%) Financial Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.20%) Middleware
3 3 (2.40%) ADO
3 3 (2.40%) REST
4 2 (1.60%) SOAP
4 2 (1.60%) XML
4 2 (1.60%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.80%) EDI
5 1 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.40%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.60%) e-Learning
4 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.80%) AS400
5 1 (0.80%) Derivative
5 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.80%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.80%) PMI
5 1 (0.80%) Tandem
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Unix
2 1 (0.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (46.40%) Accounts Payable
2 46 (36.80%) Accounts Receivable
3 37 (29.60%) ERP
3 37 (29.60%) User Acceptance Testing
4 36 (28.80%) Migration
5 26 (20.80%) Cash Management
6 19 (15.20%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (15.20%) Data Migration
7 18 (14.40%) Agile
8 17 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.80%) Procure-to-Pay
9 16 (12.80%) Workshop Facilitation
10 15 (12.00%) Validation
11 14 (11.20%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (10.40%) Process Improvement
12 13 (10.40%) System Integration Testing
13 12 (9.60%) Change Management
14 11 (8.80%) Decision-Making
14 11 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (8.80%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.20%) SQL
2 15 (12.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (3.20%) X++
4 3 (2.40%) ABAP
5 2 (1.60%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.60%) ACCA
2 17 (13.60%) CIMA
2 17 (13.60%) Degree
3 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.40%) CCA
4 3 (2.40%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (2.40%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.40%) PMP
5 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.60%) IFRS
3 6 (4.80%) GAAP
3 6 (4.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (4.00%) IFRS 9
4 5 (4.00%) QA
5 4 (3.20%) Basel III
5 4 (3.20%) PMO
5 4 (3.20%) SLA
6 2 (1.60%) GDPR
7 1 (0.80%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 1 (0.80%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.80%) Control-M
Vendors
1 68 (54.40%) Oracle
2 18 (14.40%) SAP
3 9 (7.20%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.80%) Workday
5 4 (3.20%) Xero
6 3 (2.40%) IFS
6 3 (2.40%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (1.60%) Ariba
7 2 (1.60%) Databricks
7 2 (1.60%) Informatica
7 2 (1.60%) Murex
8 1 (0.80%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.80%) Aderant
8 1 (0.80%) Adobe
8 1 (0.80%) CODA
8 1 (0.80%) eFront
8 1 (0.80%) IBM
8 1 (0.80%) Misys
8 1 (0.80%) Tagetik
8 1 (0.80%) Temenos