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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 392 435
Rank change year-on-year -93 +43 +79
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 157 110 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.62% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 73 52
10th Percentile £418 £404 £438
25th Percentile £500 £415 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £673 £694
90th Percentile £828 £761 £773
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £16.82 £27.30 -
25th Percentile £19.20 £36.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £39.60 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.01% +29.41% +117.95%
75th Percentile £77.81 £60.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.30 £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £39.60 £55.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.01% +29.41% +117.95%

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 25,743 17,881 19,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.83% 64.40% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,164 11,322 11,616
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,195 1,012 979
10th Percentile £13.71 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £17.44
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -34.68% +40.00%
75th Percentile £57.74 £47.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.48 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £36.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -30.14% +30.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -83 79 £600 +0.84% 104
Midlands -31 22 £516 -6.25% 10
South West -29 21 £600 +6.67% 3
South East -65 15 £505 -1.94% 29
West Midlands -43 13 £427 -25.74% 8
East Midlands -6 9 £575 +26.37% 2
East of England -18 8 £505 -15.83% 5
North of England -76 6 £525 +17.45% 25
Yorkshire -44 3 - - 1
North West -45 3 £525 +17.45% 17
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 (4.46%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (29.30%) Oracle Payables
2 37 (23.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 31 (19.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 30 (19.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 17 (10.83%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (10.83%) Oracle EBS
6 16 (10.19%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (9.55%) NetSuite
8 11 (7.01%) Oracle Cash Management
9 9 (5.73%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (4.46%) SAP FI
11 6 (3.82%) SAP Business One
12 5 (3.18%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 5 (3.18%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (3.18%) Oracle Financials
13 4 (2.55%) Oracle Internet Expenses
13 4 (2.55%) Oracle iProcurement
13 4 (2.55%) SAP GRC
13 4 (2.55%) Unit4 Business World
14 3 (1.91%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
1 12 (7.64%) OCI
2 6 (3.82%) Azure
2 6 (3.82%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.55%) AWS
3 4 (2.55%) Google Workspace
3 4 (2.55%) Power Automate
3 4 (2.55%) PowerApps
4 3 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.91%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (1.91%) GCP
4 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (1.91%) SaaS
5 2 (1.27%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.27%) Intacct
5 2 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.64%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.64%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.64%) dbt
6 1 (0.64%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (4.46%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.55%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.55%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.91%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.27%) Power BI
5 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.64%) Metadata
6 1 (0.64%) OLTP
6 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.18%) JDeveloper
1 5 (3.18%) JIRA
2 4 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (2.55%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.27%) Hudson
4 1 (0.64%) Toad
General
1 152 (96.82%) Finance
2 55 (35.03%) Social Skills
3 33 (21.02%) Banking
4 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.46%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.82%) Retail
6 5 (3.18%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.18%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.55%) Local Government
7 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.91%) Billing
8 3 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.27%) International Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (31.21%) Consultant
2 29 (18.47%) Analyst
3 22 (14.01%) Lead
4 21 (13.38%) Business Analyst
5 20 (12.74%) Oracle Consultant
6 18 (11.46%) Financial Analyst
6 18 (11.46%) Functional Consultant
7 13 (8.28%) SAP Consultant
8 12 (7.64%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 10 (6.37%) Finance Business Analyst
10 9 (5.73%) Developer
10 9 (5.73%) Senior
11 8 (5.10%) Implementation Consultant
12 7 (4.46%) Accountant
12 7 (4.46%) NetSuite Consultant
12 7 (4.46%) Transformation Consultant
13 6 (3.82%) Lead Consultant
13 6 (3.82%) Trainer
14 5 (3.18%) Architect
14 5 (3.18%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.82%) XML
3 5 (3.18%) Middleware
3 5 (3.18%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.91%) REST
5 2 (1.27%) RESTful
5 2 (1.27%) Web Services
6 1 (0.64%) Restlet
6 1 (0.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.92%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.73%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.73%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.18%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.55%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.91%) Derivative
6 3 (1.91%) Life Science
6 3 (1.91%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.27%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.27%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.64%) CESG
8 1 (0.64%) Equities
8 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.64%) FMCG
8 1 (0.64%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.91%) Unix
2 1 (0.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (45.22%) Accounts Payable
2 67 (42.68%) Accounts Receivable
3 64 (40.76%) ERP
4 53 (33.76%) Migration
5 47 (29.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (29.30%) Data Migration
7 43 (27.39%) User Acceptance Testing
8 33 (21.02%) Validation
9 26 (16.56%) Budgeting
10 23 (14.65%) System Integration Testing
11 22 (14.01%) Workshop Facilitation
12 21 (13.38%) Requirements Gathering
13 20 (12.74%) Process Improvement
14 17 (10.83%) Analytics
14 17 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (10.83%) Change Management
14 17 (10.83%) Data Analysis
15 16 (10.19%) Cash Management
15 16 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.92%) SQL
2 7 (4.46%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.55%) C#
3 4 (2.55%) X++
4 3 (1.91%) ABAP
4 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.64%) Python
5 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (15.92%) ACCA
1 25 (15.92%) CIMA
2 16 (10.19%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.92%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.37%) Degree
5 8 (5.10%) PMP
6 6 (3.82%) AAT
6 6 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.55%) CCA
8 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.27%) CCAB
9 2 (1.27%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.83%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.92%) IFRS
3 6 (3.82%) GDPR
4 4 (2.55%) GRC
5 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.27%) GAAP
5 2 (1.27%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.27%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.27%) QA
6 1 (0.64%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.27%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.64%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (41.40%) Oracle
2 49 (31.21%) SAP
3 41 (26.11%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.10%) Sage
5 6 (3.82%) Workday
6 5 (3.18%) Xero
7 4 (2.55%) Adobe
7 4 (2.55%) Talend
8 3 (1.91%) Google
9 2 (1.27%) Adaptive Insights
9 2 (1.27%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.27%) Anaplan
9 2 (1.27%) CODA
9 2 (1.27%) Epicor
9 2 (1.27%) HP
9 2 (1.27%) Infor
9 2 (1.27%) Murex
9 2 (1.27%) QAD
9 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.27%) Zuora