General Ledger Contracts in the UK excluding London

General Ledger
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term General Ledger in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited General Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 382 431
Rank change year-on-year +72 +49 +17
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 26 17 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.082% 0.13%
As % of the General category 0.33% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 21
10th Percentile £278 £325 £415
25th Percentile £447 £481 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -8.88%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £638
90th Percentile £655 £761 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £630 £500
% change year-on-year -20.63% +26.00% -12.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £21.75 - -
25th Percentile £22.88 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £27.38 - -
90th Percentile £28.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.04 - -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,944 11,365 13,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.23% 54.72% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 6,491 9,285
10th Percentile £213 £205 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £597 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 1,652 782
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%
75th Percentile £55.76 £52.84 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £69.95
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing General Ledger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for General Ledger in the UK excluding London

General Ledger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing General Ledger in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for General Ledger in the UK excluding London

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK excluding London

General Ledger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing General Ledger in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for General Ledger in the UK excluding London

General Ledger
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Midlands +27 6 £513 -33.87% 5
North of England +18 5 £447 -23.91% 13
South West +47 4 £625 - 3
South East +45 4 - - 17
East of England +31 4 £600 +14.29% 1
North West +19 4 £447 - 9
East Midlands +12 3 £500 -35.48%
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire +6 1 £650 +10.64% 3
Scotland - 1 £210 - 1
General Ledger
UK

General Ledger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (7.69%) CICS
1 2 (7.69%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (11.54%) SAP CO
2 3 (11.54%) SAP FI
2 3 (11.54%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (7.69%) Avolution ABACUS
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (3.85%) iTrent
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Big Data
1 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.69%) DB2
1 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
1 2 (7.69%) SOAtest
2 1 (3.85%) Hudson
General
1 24 (92.31%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
4 6 (23.08%) Retail
5 4 (15.38%) Banking
6 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (7.69%) Retail Banking
8 1 (3.85%) Back Office
8 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Consultant
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Finance Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Report Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Test Architect
6 1 (3.85%) SAP Financial Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) J2EE
1 2 (7.69%) JSON
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (7.69%) Web Services
1 2 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (3.85%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.69%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (7.69%) VSAM
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Migration
2 8 (30.77%) Accounts Payable
2 8 (30.77%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (26.92%) Accounts Receivable
3 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) Microservices
4 4 (15.38%) Scrum
4 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
5 3 (11.54%) ETL
5 3 (11.54%) Project Management
5 3 (11.54%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Security Management
5 3 (11.54%) User Stories
6 2 (7.69%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) COBOL
1 2 (7.69%) Java
1 2 (7.69%) JCL
1 2 (7.69%) REXX
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) ACCA
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) CIMA
4 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.85%) MBA
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) IFRS
2 2 (7.69%) GAAP
2 2 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) Basel III
3 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) IFRS 17
3 1 (3.85%) IFRS 9
3 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Oracle
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (23.08%) SAP
4 2 (7.69%) Ab Initio
4 2 (7.69%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.69%) Informatica
4 2 (7.69%) Parasoft
4 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe
5 1 (3.85%) Ariba
5 1 (3.85%) Cognos
5 1 (3.85%) IFS