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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 410 433
Rank change year-on-year -70 +23 +80
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 157 107 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.60% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 72 56
10th Percentile £404 £404 £438
25th Percentile £500 £415 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £673 £694
90th Percentile £808 £762 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £16.62 £53.38 -
25th Percentile £18.22 £54.69 £41.25
Median hourly rate £30.59 £58.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.94% +38.24% +117.95%
75th Percentile £70.50 £62.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.10 £63.13 -
UK median hourly rate £30.59 £58.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -47.94% +38.24% +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 25,880 17,797 19,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.10% 64.16% 58.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,159 11,293 11,495
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
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 2,315 1,027 901
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.08 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -33.13% +30.43%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.41 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +27.27%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -76 75 £600 - 57
Midlands -30 23 £516 -6.25% 6
South East -51 20 £505 -1.94% 25
South West -22 18 £600 +26.32% 4
West Midlands -36 14 £427 -25.74% 6
East Midlands -11 9 £575 +26.37%
East of England -17 8 £505 -15.83% 4
North of England -68 6 £525 +17.45% 10
Yorkshire -39 3 - - 4
North West -56 3 £525 +17.45% 3
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 6 (3.82%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (11.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (30.57%) Oracle Payables
2 39 (24.84%) Oracle Receivables
3 31 (19.75%) Oracle General Ledger
3 31 (19.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (12.10%) Oracle Assets
5 18 (11.46%) Oracle EBS
6 16 (10.19%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (8.28%) NetSuite
8 12 (7.64%) Oracle Cash Management
9 9 (5.73%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (5.10%) SAP FI
11 6 (3.82%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (3.18%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 5 (3.18%) Oracle FAH
13 4 (2.55%) Oracle Internet Expenses
13 4 (2.55%) Oracle iProcurement
13 4 (2.55%) SAP Business One
13 4 (2.55%) SAP GRC
13 4 (2.55%) Unit4 Business World
14 3 (1.91%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.19%) Dynamics 365
2 14 (8.92%) OCI
3 8 (5.10%) Azure
4 7 (4.46%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.55%) AWS
6 4 (2.55%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.55%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.55%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.91%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.91%) GCP
7 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.91%) SaaS
8 2 (1.27%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.27%) Intacct
8 2 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.64%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.64%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.64%) dbt
9 1 (0.64%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (3.82%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.55%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.55%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.91%) Power BI
4 3 (1.91%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) OLTP
6 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.82%) JIRA
2 5 (3.18%) JDeveloper
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (2.55%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.27%) Hudson
5 1 (0.64%) Toad
General
1 152 (96.82%) Finance
2 57 (36.31%) Social Skills
3 32 (20.38%) Banking
4 19 (12.10%) Public Sector
5 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.82%) Billing
8 5 (3.18%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.18%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.18%) Retail
9 4 (2.55%) Local Government
9 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.27%) International Banking
11 2 (1.27%) Military
12 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (28.66%) Consultant
2 28 (17.83%) Analyst
3 23 (14.65%) Business Analyst
4 21 (13.38%) Lead
5 19 (12.10%) Financial Analyst
5 19 (12.10%) Oracle Consultant
6 17 (10.83%) Functional Consultant
7 13 (8.28%) Finance Business Analyst
8 12 (7.64%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 11 (7.01%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (6.37%) Senior
11 9 (5.73%) Accountant
12 8 (5.10%) Developer
13 7 (4.46%) Implementation Consultant
13 7 (4.46%) Trainer
14 6 (3.82%) NetSuite Consultant
14 6 (3.82%) Transformation Consultant
15 5 (3.18%) Change Analyst
15 5 (3.18%) Financial Accountant
15 5 (3.18%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.38%) 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 12 (7.64%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.73%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.18%) e-Learning
5 5 (3.18%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.91%) Derivative
6 3 (1.91%) Life Science
6 3 (1.91%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
7 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.27%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.64%) CESG
8 1 (0.64%) Equities
8 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
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 76 (48.41%) Accounts Payable
2 72 (45.86%) Accounts Receivable
3 67 (42.68%) ERP
4 55 (35.03%) Migration
5 51 (32.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (29.94%) Data Migration
7 46 (29.30%) User Acceptance Testing
8 34 (21.66%) Validation
9 28 (17.83%) Workshop Facilitation
10 27 (17.20%) Budgeting
11 24 (15.29%) System Integration Testing
12 22 (14.01%) Process Improvement
12 22 (14.01%) Requirements Gathering
13 19 (12.10%) Data Analysis
13 19 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (11.46%) Cash Management
14 18 (11.46%) Change Management
15 17 (10.83%) Analytics
16 16 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (10.19%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.29%) 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
Qualifications
1 28 (17.83%) ACCA
1 28 (17.83%) CIMA
2 18 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.37%) Degree
5 7 (4.46%) AAT
5 7 (4.46%) PMP
6 6 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.55%) CCA
8 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.27%) CCAB
9 2 (1.27%) CIPFA
9 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
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 16 (10.19%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.55%) IFRS
3 6 (3.82%) GDPR
4 4 (2.55%) GRC
5 3 (1.91%) QA
6 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.27%) GAAP
6 2 (1.27%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.27%) IFRS 9
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 46 (29.30%) Microsoft
2 46 (29.30%) SAP
3 8 (5.10%) Sage
3 8 (5.10%) Workday
4 5 (3.18%) Xero
5 4 (2.55%) Adobe
5 4 (2.55%) Talend
6 3 (1.91%) Google
7 2 (1.27%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.27%) Anaplan
7 2 (1.27%) CODA
7 2 (1.27%) Epicor
7 2 (1.27%) HP
7 2 (1.27%) IFS
7 2 (1.27%) Infor
7 2 (1.27%) Murex
7 2 (1.27%) QAD
7 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.27%) Zuora