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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 395 458
Rank change year-on-year -79 +63 +95
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 125 88 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.36% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.54% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 53 35
10th Percentile £313 £404 £433
25th Percentile £463 £415 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £630
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -24.60% +26.00%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £700
90th Percentile £863 £750 £840
UK median daily rate £575 £494 £630
% change year-on-year +16.46% -21.63% +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 22,978 15,739 21,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.39% 64.32% 57.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,039 10,135 13,766
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -1.66% -2.93%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £650
90th Percentile £745 £770 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,585 736 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.30 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.23 £27.85 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -11.59% +2.78%
75th Percentile £63.38 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £27.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.82% -7.67% -6.25%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -72 65 £600 +29.73% 21
South West +1 27 £600 -4.00% 3
Midlands -55 12 £550 +10.00% 5
South East -64 11 £471 - 12
East Midlands -23 8 £600 +20.00% 1
West Midlands - 4 £347 - 4
East of England -26 3 £613 +6.52% 2
North West -38 3 - - 3
North of England -76 3 - - 7
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 (6.40%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 35 (28.00%) Oracle Payables
2 27 (21.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (16.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (12.00%) Oracle General Ledger
5 14 (11.20%) NetSuite
6 13 (10.40%) Oracle Assets
6 13 (10.40%) Oracle Cash Management
6 13 (10.40%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (10.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (8.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 8 (6.40%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (4.80%) Oracle FAH
9 6 (4.80%) SAP Business One
10 4 (3.20%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (2.40%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (2.40%) Dynamics GP
11 3 (2.40%) Dynamics SL
11 3 (2.40%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 3 (2.40%) Sage X3
11 3 (2.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.20%) OCI
2 8 (6.40%) SaaS
3 6 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (4.00%) Azure
5 4 (3.20%) PaaS
5 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.60%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.60%) IaaS
6 2 (1.60%) Intacct
7 1 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.80%) AWS
7 1 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.80%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.80%) dbt
7 1 (0.80%) GitHub
7 1 (0.80%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.80%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.40%) Power BI
3 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.80%) Metadata
5 1 (0.80%) OLTP
5 1 (0.80%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.80%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Hudson
1 2 (1.60%) JDeveloper
1 2 (1.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.80%) Toad
2 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (94.40%) Finance
2 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.60%) Banking
4 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.00%) Military
7 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.40%) Retail
8 2 (1.60%) Billing
8 2 (1.60%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.60%) Legal
8 2 (1.60%) Local Government
8 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) French Language
9 1 (0.80%) Front Office
9 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (32.80%) Consultant
2 28 (22.40%) Lead
3 18 (14.40%) Oracle Consultant
4 15 (12.00%) Analyst
5 12 (9.60%) Functional Consultant
6 11 (8.80%) Business Analyst
7 10 (8.00%) Accountant
8 9 (7.20%) Lead Consultant
8 9 (7.20%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 8 (6.40%) Implementation Consultant
10 7 (5.60%) Financial Analyst
10 7 (5.60%) Senior
11 6 (4.80%) NetSuite Consultant
11 6 (4.80%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (4.80%) Transformation Consultant
12 5 (4.00%) Finance Business Analyst
12 5 (4.00%) Implementation Analyst
12 5 (4.00%) Oracle Financials Consultant
12 5 (4.00%) Workday Consultant
13 4 (3.20%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.60%) Middleware
2 7 (5.60%) XML
3 3 (2.40%) Web Services
4 2 (1.60%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.80%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.60%) Onboarding
2 13 (10.40%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.60%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.20%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.40%) Derivative
6 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.60%) Equities
6 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.80%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Linux
1 2 (1.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.60%) ERP
2 41 (32.80%) Accounts Payable
3 38 (30.40%) Migration
4 35 (28.00%) Accounts Receivable
5 33 (26.40%) Data Migration
5 33 (26.40%) Validation
6 32 (25.60%) User Acceptance Testing
7 25 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (19.20%) Budgeting
9 22 (17.60%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (14.40%) Procure-to-Pay
11 15 (12.00%) Cash Management
11 15 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (11.20%) System Integration Testing
12 14 (11.20%) Workflow
13 13 (10.40%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 13 (10.40%) Financial Modelling
13 13 (10.40%) Record to Report
14 12 (9.60%) Process Improvement
14 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.60%) SQL
2 8 (6.40%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.80%) C#
3 1 (0.80%) Python
3 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.80%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (27.20%) ACCA
1 34 (27.20%) CIMA
2 11 (8.80%) PMP
3 8 (6.40%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.00%) Degree
6 3 (2.40%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.40%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.80%) CCAB
8 1 (0.80%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) IFRS
2 5 (4.00%) Basel III
2 5 (4.00%) GAAP
2 5 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.40%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.60%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.60%) QA
6 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.80%) PSD2
6 1 (0.80%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.60%) Control-M
2 1 (0.80%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 51 (40.80%) Oracle
2 39 (31.20%) SAP
3 26 (20.80%) Microsoft
4 13 (10.40%) Workday
5 5 (4.00%) Sage
6 4 (3.20%) Talend
7 3 (2.40%) Adaptive Insights
7 3 (2.40%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.40%) Ariba
7 3 (2.40%) Epicor
7 3 (2.40%) Google
7 3 (2.40%) IFS
7 3 (2.40%) Infor
7 3 (2.40%) Informatica
7 3 (2.40%) QAD
7 3 (2.40%) Zuora
8 2 (1.60%) CODA
8 2 (1.60%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.80%) Charles River
9 1 (0.80%) IBM