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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 427 504
Rank change year-on-year +25 +77 +43
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 110 101 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.53% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 45
10th Percentile £404 £438 £416
25th Percentile £415 £475 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £638
90th Percentile £761 £770 £718
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £528
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.17% +12.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £27.30 - £18.15
25th Percentile £36.75 £41.25 £18.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +117.95% -
75th Percentile £60.63 £43.75 £20.13
90th Percentile £62.50 - £20.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,920 19,188 24,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.49% 58.26% 59.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 11,708 17,206
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £777
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,012 979 979
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.44 £16.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.93%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.30 £58.67
90th Percentile £71.48 £71.50 £71.26
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +12.24%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +44 73 £595 -5.81% 21
South East +20 12 £515 +3.00% 19
Midlands -13 10 £550 +1.85% 1
North of England -28 6 £447 -22.26% 5
East Midlands +2 5 £455 -41.29% 1
West Midlands -11 5 £575 +6.48%
South West +24 4 £563 +9.76% 1
East of England +6 4 £600 +541.71% 3
North West -21 4 £447 -22.26% 3
Yorkshire -17 2 £650 -23.53% 2
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 11 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.82%) CICS
2 2 (1.82%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.82%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.91%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.73%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (41.82%) Oracle Payables
2 44 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
2 44 (40.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 41 (37.27%) Oracle Assets
4 31 (28.18%) Oracle EBS R12
5 24 (21.82%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 19 (17.27%) Oracle Financials
7 12 (10.91%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (6.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 7 (6.36%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (4.55%) Avolution ABACUS
9 5 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (3.64%) Oracle FAH
10 4 (3.64%) SAP CO
10 4 (3.64%) SAP FI
10 4 (3.64%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (2.73%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (2.73%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (2.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (2.73%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.00%) Azure
2 7 (6.36%) OCI
3 6 (5.45%) AWS
4 5 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.55%) SaaS
5 3 (2.73%) IaaS
5 3 (2.73%) PaaS
6 2 (1.82%) Slack
7 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.91%) GCP
7 1 (0.91%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.91%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 11 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (4.55%) Big Data
2 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.64%) Power BI
3 4 (3.64%) SAP BW
3 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.82%) DB2
5 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.91%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.91%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.64%) JIRA
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.73%) Hudson
4 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.82%) Selenium
4 2 (1.82%) SOAtest
General
1 103 (93.64%) Finance
2 41 (37.27%) Social Skills
3 37 (33.64%) Banking
4 16 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.27%) Financial Institution
5 8 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.36%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.55%) Billing
9 4 (3.64%) Retail
10 3 (2.73%) Back Office
10 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.82%) Law
11 2 (1.82%) Legal
11 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.91%) Advertising
12 1 (0.91%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (33.64%) Consultant
2 22 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 16 (14.55%) Analyst
4 14 (12.73%) Functional Consultant
5 13 (11.82%) Oracle Financials Consultant
6 12 (10.91%) Business Analyst
7 11 (10.00%) Architect
7 11 (10.00%) Developer
7 11 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
7 11 (10.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 9 (8.18%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
8 9 (8.18%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (7.27%) Lead
10 7 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.45%) E-Business Consultant
11 6 (5.45%) Oracle Analyst
12 5 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
12 5 (4.55%) Senior
13 4 (3.64%) Cloud Consultant
14 3 (2.73%) IFS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.55%) XML
3 4 (3.64%) Middleware
4 3 (2.73%) XML Messaging
5 2 (1.82%) J2EE
5 2 (1.82%) JSON
5 2 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.82%) Web Services
6 1 (0.91%) ADO
6 1 (0.91%) EDI
6 1 (0.91%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.45%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.82%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.82%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.82%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.82%) VSAM
7 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.91%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.09%) Unix
2 3 (2.73%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Windows
3 1 (0.91%) AIX
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.00%) Accounts Payable
2 28 (25.45%) Migration
3 24 (21.82%) Accounts Receivable
4 23 (20.91%) ERP
5 22 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (15.45%) Validation
7 16 (14.55%) Data Migration
8 15 (13.64%) Test Scripting
9 14 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (11.82%) Agile
10 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (10.91%) Change Management
11 12 (10.91%) Requirements Gathering
11 12 (10.91%) Workflow
11 12 (10.91%) Workshop Facilitation
12 10 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
13 9 (8.18%) Analytics
13 9 (8.18%) ETL
13 9 (8.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.36%) SQL
2 15 (13.64%) PL/SQL
3 6 (5.45%) Java
4 4 (3.64%) ABAP
5 2 (1.82%) COBOL
5 2 (1.82%) JCL
5 2 (1.82%) REXX
Qualifications
1 15 (13.64%) Degree
2 13 (11.82%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.45%) ACCA
4 6 (5.45%) CIMA
5 3 (2.73%) CCA
6 2 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.91%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) IFRS
2 5 (4.55%) GAAP
2 5 (4.55%) QA
3 4 (3.64%) IFRS 9
4 3 (2.73%) PMO
5 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.82%) SLA
6 1 (0.91%) Basel III
6 1 (0.91%) GDPR
6 1 (0.91%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (1.82%) Control-M
Vendors
1 66 (60.00%) Oracle
2 16 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.73%) SAP
4 5 (4.55%) Workday
5 4 (3.64%) Informatica
6 3 (2.73%) IFS
6 3 (2.73%) PeopleSoft
6 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.82%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.82%) Databricks
7 2 (1.82%) IBM
7 2 (1.82%) Murex
7 2 (1.82%) Parasoft
7 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.91%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.91%) Aderant
8 1 (0.91%) Adobe
8 1 (0.91%) Ariba
8 1 (0.91%) eFront
8 1 (0.91%) Sage