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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 392 452
Rank change year-on-year -19 +60 +127
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 124 100 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.37% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.66% 0.60% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 62 63
10th Percentile £360 £439 £413
25th Percentile £466 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £580 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.28% +18.09%
75th Percentile £648 £690 £647
90th Percentile £719 £738 £723
UK median daily rate £590 £585 £600
% change year-on-year +0.85% -2.50% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £18.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +89.66% +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 18,920 16,713 21,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.79% 62.04% 59.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,007 10,092 14,440
10th Percentile £284 £296 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 548 1,084
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.80 £18.60 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.33 £30.00 £30.66
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% -2.16% +19.26%
75th Percentile £46.00 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.29 £74.91 £70.05
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.39 £30.48
% change year-on-year -16.01% -10.14% +21.90%

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 11 January 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
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 11 January 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 +3 68 £600 -4.00% 10
South East +11 26 £590 +14.56% 9
Midlands -38 12 £463 -14.35% 3
East Midlands -16 7 £360 -43.75% 3
North of England -45 6 £500 -13.04% 3
West Midlands -33 5 £515 -4.63%
Yorkshire -42 5 £500 -9.09% 2
East of England -17 4 £600 +254.51% 3
South West -17 4 £475 +11.76%
North West -29 1 - - 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 7 (5.65%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.42%) Confluence
4 2 (1.61%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 52 (41.94%) Oracle Payables
2 49 (39.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 39 (31.45%) Oracle Assets
4 37 (29.84%) Oracle Receivables
5 29 (23.39%) Oracle EBS
6 24 (19.35%) Oracle EBS R12
7 23 (18.55%) Oracle Cash Management
8 18 (14.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 17 (13.71%) Oracle Financials
10 14 (11.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 10 (8.06%) Oracle AGIS
12 9 (7.26%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 8 (6.45%) Oracle FAH
13 8 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
14 6 (4.84%) Oracle ERP
15 3 (2.42%) SAP ERP
15 3 (2.42%) SAP R/3
16 2 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
16 2 (1.61%) SAP FI
17 1 (0.81%) Misys Equation
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.68%) OCI
1 12 (9.68%) Power Platform
2 10 (8.06%) Azure
3 9 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (7.26%) SaaS
4 7 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.42%) PaaS
7 2 (1.61%) IaaS
7 2 (1.61%) Slack
8 1 (0.81%) dbt
8 1 (0.81%) GitHub
8 1 (0.81%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.68%) Power BI
2 10 (8.06%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (6.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.42%) SAP BW
6 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (4.03%) JIRA
3 4 (3.23%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.42%) Hudson
5 2 (1.61%) Oracle APEX
General
1 115 (92.74%) Finance
2 46 (37.10%) Social Skills
3 26 (20.97%) Banking
4 18 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.26%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.65%) Billing
9 6 (4.84%) Law
10 4 (3.23%) Publishing
11 3 (2.42%) Legal
11 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.61%) Back Office
12 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.61%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.81%) Advertising
13 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.81%) Local Government
13 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (28.23%) Consultant
2 24 (19.35%) Analyst
3 23 (18.55%) Functional Consultant
3 23 (18.55%) Oracle Consultant
4 18 (14.52%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 15 (12.10%) Developer
6 14 (11.29%) Oracle Financials Consultant
6 14 (11.29%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
7 13 (10.48%) Business Analyst
8 12 (9.68%) Financial Analyst
8 12 (9.68%) Lead
9 11 (8.87%) Oracle Developer
10 10 (8.06%) Oracle Analyst
10 10 (8.06%) Senior
11 9 (7.26%) Accountant
12 6 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (4.84%) Senior Business Analyst
13 5 (4.03%) Financial Controller
13 5 (4.03%) Oracle Financials Analyst
13 5 (4.03%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.03%) Middleware
3 4 (3.23%) XML
4 3 (2.42%) ADO
4 3 (2.42%) REST
4 3 (2.42%) XML Messaging
5 2 (1.61%) SOAP
6 1 (0.81%) EDI
6 1 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.26%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.61%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) AS400
6 1 (0.81%) Derivative
6 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.81%) PMI
6 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.81%) Tandem
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.23%) Unix
2 2 (1.61%) Linux
2 2 (1.61%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (47.58%) Accounts Payable
2 47 (37.90%) Accounts Receivable
3 39 (31.45%) ERP
4 36 (29.03%) Migration
5 34 (27.42%) User Acceptance Testing
6 26 (20.97%) Cash Management
7 21 (16.94%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (16.13%) Agile
9 19 (15.32%) Data Migration
10 18 (14.52%) Procure-to-Pay
11 16 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
12 15 (12.10%) Validation
13 14 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (11.29%) Requirements Gathering
14 11 (8.87%) Analytics
14 11 (8.87%) Change Management
14 11 (8.87%) Decision-Making
14 11 (8.87%) Process Improvement
14 11 (8.87%) System Integration Testing
14 11 (8.87%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.58%) SQL
2 14 (11.29%) PL/SQL
3 4 (3.23%) X++
4 3 (2.42%) ABAP
5 2 (1.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (15.32%) ACCA
1 19 (15.32%) CIMA
1 19 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.71%) Degree
3 12 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.23%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.23%) PMP
5 3 (2.42%) CCA
5 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.42%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.65%) GAAP
2 7 (5.65%) IFRS
3 6 (4.84%) Basel III
3 6 (4.84%) IFRS 9
4 5 (4.03%) QA
5 4 (3.23%) PMO
5 4 (3.23%) SLA
6 2 (1.61%) GDPR
6 2 (1.61%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.61%) Control-M
Vendors
1 68 (54.84%) Oracle
2 22 (17.74%) SAP
3 7 (5.65%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.65%) Workday
4 4 (3.23%) Xero
5 3 (2.42%) Ariba
5 3 (2.42%) IFS
5 3 (2.42%) Informatica
5 3 (2.42%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (1.61%) Murex
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) CODA
7 1 (0.81%) eFront
7 1 (0.81%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.81%) Misys
7 1 (0.81%) Temenos