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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 397 496
Rank change year-on-year -23 +99 +60
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 117 120 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.39% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.65% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 75 54
10th Percentile £418 £455 £416
25th Percentile £515 £514 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% +25.00%
75th Percentile £669 £681 £675
90th Percentile £744 £733 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £53.00 - £18.15
25th Percentile £53.75 £41.25 £18.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +117.95% -
75th Percentile £60.63 £43.75 £20.13
90th Percentile £62.50 - £20.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.75 £19.50
% change year-on-year +53.85% +83.33% -

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,174 18,473 23,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 62.95% 60.38% 59.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,187 11,117 15,696
10th Percentile £275 £300 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £770
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,236 678 1,038
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.00 £17.47
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.69 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.79% -5.58% +26.41%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.75 £59.88
90th Percentile £72.00 £71.63 £70.65
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £28.00 £31.76
% change year-on-year -14.29% -11.84% +27.04%

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 1 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 1 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 +15 66 £613 -2.00% 22
South East +6 24 £600 +20.00% 24
Midlands -33 12 £515 -3.29% 4
East Midlands -6 6 £405 -36.72% 2
West Midlands -27 6 £545 +2.35% 2
East of England -13 5 £600 +541.71% 1
North of England -54 5 £513 -10.87% 2
Yorkshire -37 3 £500 -28.57%
South West -2 2 £475 -
North West -27 2 £525 -8.70% 2
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 7 (5.98%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.71%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 50 (42.74%) Oracle Payables
2 47 (40.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 40 (34.19%) Oracle Assets
4 34 (29.06%) Oracle EBS
5 32 (27.35%) Oracle Receivables
6 28 (23.93%) Oracle EBS R12
7 20 (17.09%) Oracle Cash Management
8 17 (14.53%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (9.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 10 (8.55%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 9 (7.69%) Oracle AGIS
11 9 (7.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (4.27%) Oracle ERP
12 5 (4.27%) Oracle FAH
13 3 (2.56%) SAP ERP
13 3 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
14 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
14 2 (1.71%) SAP R/3
15 1 (0.85%) Endur
15 1 (0.85%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.55%) Azure
1 10 (8.55%) Dynamics 365
1 10 (8.55%) Power Platform
2 8 (6.84%) SaaS
3 6 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (5.13%) OCI
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.71%) Slack
5 1 (0.85%) AWS
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.85%) dbt
5 1 (0.85%) GitHub
5 1 (0.85%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.85%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.55%) Oracle Reports
1 10 (8.55%) Power BI
2 7 (5.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.56%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.85%) Big Data
6 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.13%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.42%) Hudson
2 4 (3.42%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.56%) JIRA
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle APEX
General
1 109 (93.16%) Finance
2 43 (36.75%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.24%) Banking
5 14 (11.97%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.69%) Billing
6 9 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (6.84%) Law
7 8 (6.84%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.13%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.42%) Publishing
10 3 (2.56%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.71%) Back Office
11 2 (1.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.85%) Advertising
12 1 (0.85%) Local Government
12 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (33.33%) Consultant
2 26 (22.22%) Oracle Consultant
3 21 (17.95%) Functional Consultant
4 20 (17.09%) Analyst
5 17 (14.53%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 16 (13.68%) Oracle Financials Consultant
7 14 (11.97%) Business Analyst
7 14 (11.97%) Developer
7 14 (11.97%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
8 10 (8.55%) Oracle Developer
9 9 (7.69%) Lead
10 8 (6.84%) Senior
11 7 (5.98%) Architect
11 7 (5.98%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (5.98%) Oracle Analyst
12 5 (4.27%) Accountant
12 5 (4.27%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.42%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 4 (3.42%) Financial Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (17.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.56%) REST
3 2 (1.71%) ADO
3 2 (1.71%) Middleware
3 2 (1.71%) SOAP
4 1 (0.85%) EDI
4 1 (0.85%) Web Services
4 1 (0.85%) XML
4 1 (0.85%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.27%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.71%) e-Learning
4 2 (1.71%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.85%) AS400
5 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.85%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.85%) PMI
5 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.85%) Tandem
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (46.15%) Accounts Payable
2 41 (35.04%) Accounts Receivable
3 31 (26.50%) ERP
3 31 (26.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 30 (25.64%) Migration
5 23 (19.66%) Cash Management
6 18 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (14.53%) Data Migration
8 15 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (11.97%) Workshop Facilitation
10 13 (11.11%) Agile
11 12 (10.26%) Change Management
11 12 (10.26%) Procure-to-Pay
11 12 (10.26%) Requirements Gathering
11 12 (10.26%) Validation
12 11 (9.40%) System Integration Testing
13 9 (7.69%) Business Analysis
13 9 (7.69%) Logistics
13 9 (7.69%) Process Improvement
13 9 (7.69%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.08%) SQL
2 12 (10.26%) PL/SQL
3 4 (3.42%) X++
4 3 (2.56%) ABAP
5 2 (1.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.11%) ACCA
2 13 (11.11%) CIMA
3 12 (10.26%) Degree
4 11 (9.40%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) CCA
6 2 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.71%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.27%) QA
3 4 (3.42%) IFRS
3 4 (3.42%) PMO
3 4 (3.42%) SLA
4 3 (2.56%) GAAP
5 2 (1.71%) GDPR
5 2 (1.71%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.85%) Basel III
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) PowerHA
Vendors
1 63 (53.85%) Oracle
2 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.55%) SAP
4 4 (3.42%) IFS
4 4 (3.42%) Workday
4 4 (3.42%) Xero
5 3 (2.56%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (1.71%) Databricks
6 2 (1.71%) Murex
7 1 (0.85%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (0.85%) Aderant
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) eFront
7 1 (0.85%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.85%) Misys
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) Tagetik
7 1 (0.85%) Temenos