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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 409 423
Rank change year-on-year -59 +14 +81
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 161 105 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the General category 0.62% 0.59% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 71 56
10th Percentile £384 £404 £438
25th Percentile £493 £415 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +2.04%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £694
90th Percentile £798 £763 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -7.56% +8.18% -
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 26,112 17,927 19,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.09% 64.16% 58.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,307 11,369 11,549
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
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 2,307 1,031 924
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +32.46%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.47 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.35% -28.14% +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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -75 77 £600 - 70
Midlands -32 23 £516 -6.25% 9
South West -21 21 £600 +26.32% 4
South East -63 19 £503 -2.43% 25
West Midlands -36 14 £427 -25.74% 9
East Midlands -11 9 £575 +26.37%
East of England -30 8 £505 -15.83% 5
North of England -71 6 £525 +17.45% 16
Yorkshire -40 3 - - 4
North West -45 3 £525 +17.45% 9
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 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (11.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 49 (30.43%) Oracle Payables
2 40 (24.84%) Oracle Receivables
3 32 (19.88%) Oracle General Ledger
4 31 (19.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 19 (11.80%) Oracle Assets
6 18 (11.18%) Oracle EBS
7 16 (9.94%) Oracle ERP
8 15 (9.32%) NetSuite
9 12 (7.45%) Oracle Cash Management
10 9 (5.59%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (4.35%) SAP FI
12 6 (3.73%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (3.11%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 5 (3.11%) Oracle FAH
14 4 (2.48%) Oracle Internet Expenses
14 4 (2.48%) Oracle iProcurement
14 4 (2.48%) SAP Business One
14 4 (2.48%) SAP GRC
14 4 (2.48%) Unit4 Business World
15 3 (1.86%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.94%) Dynamics 365
2 14 (8.70%) OCI
3 8 (4.97%) Azure
4 7 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.48%) AWS
6 4 (2.48%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.48%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.48%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.86%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.86%) GCP
7 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.86%) SaaS
8 2 (1.24%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.24%) Intacct
8 2 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.62%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.62%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.62%) dbt
9 1 (0.62%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (3.73%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.48%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.48%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.48%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.86%) Power BI
4 3 (1.86%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.24%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.62%) OLTP
6 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.73%) JIRA
2 5 (3.11%) JDeveloper
3 4 (2.48%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (2.48%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.24%) Hudson
5 1 (0.62%) Toad
General
1 156 (96.89%) Finance
2 57 (35.40%) Social Skills
3 33 (20.50%) Banking
4 20 (12.42%) Public Sector
5 19 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Billing
7 6 (3.73%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.73%) Retail
8 5 (3.11%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.48%) Local Government
9 4 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.24%) International Banking
11 2 (1.24%) Military
12 1 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (28.57%) Consultant
2 29 (18.01%) Analyst
3 24 (14.91%) Business Analyst
3 24 (14.91%) Lead
4 20 (12.42%) Oracle Consultant
5 19 (11.80%) Financial Analyst
6 17 (10.56%) Functional Consultant
7 13 (8.07%) Finance Business Analyst
8 12 (7.45%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 11 (6.83%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (6.21%) Senior
11 8 (4.97%) Accountant
11 8 (4.97%) Developer
11 8 (4.97%) Implementation Consultant
12 7 (4.35%) NetSuite Consultant
12 7 (4.35%) Trainer
12 7 (4.35%) Transformation Consultant
13 6 (3.73%) Lead Consultant
14 5 (3.11%) Architect
14 5 (3.11%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.73%) XML
3 5 (3.11%) Middleware
3 5 (3.11%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.86%) REST
5 2 (1.24%) RESTful
5 2 (1.24%) Web Services
6 1 (0.62%) Restlet
6 1 (0.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.07%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.59%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.97%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.11%) e-Learning
5 5 (3.11%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.86%) Derivative
6 3 (1.86%) Life Science
6 3 (1.86%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.24%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.24%) NHS
7 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.24%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.62%) CESG
8 1 (0.62%) Equities
8 1 (0.62%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.62%) FMCG
8 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.86%) Unix
2 1 (0.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (47.20%) Accounts Payable
2 72 (44.72%) Accounts Receivable
3 67 (41.61%) ERP
4 55 (34.16%) Migration
5 51 (31.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (29.19%) Data Migration
7 46 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
8 34 (21.12%) Validation
9 28 (17.39%) Budgeting
9 28 (17.39%) Workshop Facilitation
10 25 (15.53%) System Integration Testing
11 23 (14.29%) Process Improvement
11 23 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
12 20 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (11.80%) Change Management
13 19 (11.80%) Data Analysis
14 18 (11.18%) Analytics
14 18 (11.18%) Cash Management
15 17 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.56%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.91%) SQL
2 7 (4.35%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.48%) C#
3 4 (2.48%) X++
4 3 (1.86%) ABAP
4 3 (1.86%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.62%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (17.39%) ACCA
1 28 (17.39%) CIMA
2 18 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.32%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.83%) Degree
5 8 (4.97%) PMP
6 7 (4.35%) AAT
7 6 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.48%) CCA
9 3 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.24%) CCAB
10 2 (1.24%) CIPFA
11 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.32%) IFRS
3 6 (3.73%) GDPR
4 4 (2.48%) GRC
5 3 (1.86%) QA
6 2 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.24%) GAAP
6 2 (1.24%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.24%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.62%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.24%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.62%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (41.61%) Oracle
2 48 (29.81%) Microsoft
3 46 (28.57%) SAP
4 8 (4.97%) Sage
4 8 (4.97%) Workday
5 5 (3.11%) Xero
6 4 (2.48%) Adobe
6 4 (2.48%) Talend
7 3 (1.86%) Google
8 2 (1.24%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (1.24%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.24%) CODA
8 2 (1.24%) Epicor
8 2 (1.24%) HP
8 2 (1.24%) IFS
8 2 (1.24%) Infor
8 2 (1.24%) Murex
8 2 (1.24%) QAD
8 2 (1.24%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.24%) Zuora