General Ledger Contracts 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 476 547
Rank change year-on-year +75 +71 +22
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 93 78 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.37% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 39 50
10th Percentile £404 £460 £420
25th Percentile £415 £497 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £652 £674 £628
90th Percentile £738 £805 £776
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.88
25th Percentile £20.45 £41.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £22.04 £42.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.14% +115.19% -
75th Percentile £49.03 £43.75 £20.19
90th Percentile £67.50 - £20.23
UK median hourly rate £22.04 £42.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year -48.14% +115.19% -

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 16,421 21,261 28,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.03% 57.26% 59.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 13,561 19,642
10th Percentile £281 £295 £315
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 813 1,796 948
10th Percentile £13.27 £13.00 £13.93
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% +8.99% +28.26%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.82 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £31.61 £30.25
% change year-on-year -13.38% +4.48% +26.04%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing General Ledger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for General Ledger in England

General Ledger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing General Ledger in England.

Daily rate trend for General Ledger in England

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in England

General Ledger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing General Ledger in England.

Hourly rate trend for General Ledger in England

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing General Ledger in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 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 +61 66 £450 -28.29% 127
North of England +7 7 £447 -31.23% 54
South East +53 6 - - 83
North West +9 5 £447 -22.26% 30
South West +37 4 £625 +13.64% 26
East of England +26 4 £600 - 35
Midlands +16 4 £500 -21.57% 38
East Midlands +7 4 £500 -35.48% 12
Yorkshire -1 2 £650 -23.53% 20
General Ledger
UK

General Ledger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.45%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (4.30%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.15%) CICS
3 2 (2.15%) CMS
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.30%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 36 (38.71%) Oracle Payables
2 33 (35.48%) Oracle Assets
2 33 (35.48%) Oracle General Ledger
3 29 (31.18%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (19.35%) Oracle EBS R12
4 18 (19.35%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 11 (11.83%) Oracle Receivables
5 11 (11.83%) SAP CO
5 11 (11.83%) SAP FI
5 11 (11.83%) SAP FI/CO
5 11 (11.83%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (8.60%) Oracle Cash Management
6 8 (8.60%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (5.38%) Avolution ABACUS
8 3 (3.23%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (3.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (2.15%) Sage X3
9 2 (2.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.60%) Azure
1 8 (8.60%) Power Platform
2 6 (6.45%) AWS
2 6 (6.45%) OCI
3 4 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.23%) IaaS
4 3 (3.23%) PaaS
4 3 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.08%) GCP
5 1 (1.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.08%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
2 8 (8.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (6.45%) Power BI
4 5 (5.38%) Big Data
5 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.23%) Tableau
6 2 (2.15%) DB2
6 2 (2.15%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.15%) SAP BW
6 2 (2.15%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.08%) OLTP
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.15%) Hudson
2 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.15%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.15%) Selenium
2 2 (2.15%) SOAtest
3 1 (1.08%) LSMW
3 1 (1.08%) Subversion
General
1 86 (92.47%) Finance
2 34 (36.56%) Banking
3 32 (34.41%) Social Skills
4 17 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.75%) Retail
6 7 (7.53%) Financial Institution
7 6 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Local Government
8 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.23%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.15%) Billing
10 2 (2.15%) Law
10 2 (2.15%) Legal
11 1 (1.08%) Back Office
11 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.08%) International Banking
11 1 (1.08%) Marketing
11 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (34.41%) Consultant
2 17 (18.28%) Oracle Consultant
3 10 (10.75%) SAP Consultant
4 9 (9.68%) Analyst
4 9 (9.68%) Architect
4 9 (9.68%) Oracle Financials Consultant
5 8 (8.60%) Developer
5 8 (8.60%) Functional Consultant
5 8 (8.60%) Oracle Developer
6 7 (7.53%) SAP CO Consultant
6 7 (7.53%) SAP FI Consultant
6 7 (7.53%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
7 6 (6.45%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.45%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 6 (6.45%) Senior
8 5 (5.38%) E-Business Consultant
8 5 (5.38%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
8 5 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Report Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (9.68%) XML
3 8 (8.60%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (4.30%) Middleware
4 4 (4.30%) XSLT
5 2 (2.15%) J2EE
5 2 (2.15%) JSON
5 2 (2.15%) Web Services
5 2 (2.15%) XML Messaging
6 1 (1.08%) EDI
6 1 (1.08%) REST
6 1 (1.08%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.38%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.15%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.15%) VSAM
6 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.08%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.08%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.45%) Unix
2 4 (4.30%) Linux
2 4 (4.30%) Windows
3 2 (2.15%) AIX
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (59.14%) Accounts Payable
2 26 (27.96%) Accounts Receivable
3 22 (23.66%) Migration
4 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (13.98%) Agile
6 13 (13.98%) Validation
7 12 (12.90%) Analytics
7 12 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (12.90%) Cash Management
8 11 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (10.75%) Data Migration
9 10 (10.75%) Test Scripting
10 9 (9.68%) ERP
10 9 (9.68%) Scenario Testing
11 8 (8.60%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (8.60%) ETL
12 7 (7.53%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (7.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (34.41%) SQL
2 13 (13.98%) PL/SQL
3 4 (4.30%) Java
4 2 (2.15%) COBOL
4 2 (2.15%) JCL
4 2 (2.15%) REXX
5 1 (1.08%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 14 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.83%) Degree
4 7 (7.53%) ACCA
5 5 (5.38%) CIMA
6 1 (1.08%) AAT
6 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.08%) MBA
6 1 (1.08%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) IFRS
2 6 (6.45%) GAAP
3 4 (4.30%) QA
4 3 (3.23%) IFRS 9
5 2 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.08%) Basel III
6 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.08%) IFRS 17
6 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Control-M
Vendors
1 51 (54.84%) Oracle
2 19 (20.43%) SAP
3 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.30%) Informatica
5 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.23%) Workday
6 2 (2.15%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.15%) IBM
6 2 (2.15%) IFS
6 2 (2.15%) Parasoft
6 2 (2.15%) Sage
6 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.08%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (1.08%) Adobe
7 1 (1.08%) Ariba
7 1 (1.08%) Cognos
7 1 (1.08%) Concur
7 1 (1.08%) Google
7 1 (1.08%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.08%) TSYS