General Ledger Contract Job Trends

General Ledger
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term General Ledger in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited General Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 424 492
Rank change year-on-year -66 +68 +85
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 164 108 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 63 48
10th Percentile £388 £404 £463
25th Percentile £463 £415 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £859 £751 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -1.90% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile £16.21 - -
25th Percentile £18.22 £20.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £46.10 £22.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.14% -48.14% +115.19%
75th Percentile £85.94 £49.03 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.50 £67.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.69 £21.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.24% -50.59% +115.19%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 27,939 19,359 24,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.44% 63.27% 57.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,796 12,166 15,404
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,916 953 1,974
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.47 £12.79
25th Percentile £18.14 £16.41 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.61
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -12.99% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.50 £53.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.53 £23.55 £30.37
% change year-on-year +33.87% -22.46% +20.88%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing General Ledger relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

General Ledger job vacancy trend in the UK

General Ledger
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing General Ledger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing General Ledger

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing General Ledger.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing General Ledger

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing General Ledger over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 June 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
England -64 142 £575 +21.05% 32
UK excluding London -40 82 £515 -1.90% 25
London -84 67 £600 +33.33% 15
Work from Home -44 50 £542 +3.24% 17
South West -5 28 £600 -4.00% 4
Midlands -47 17 £481 -3.75% 4
South East -59 13 £505 - 11
West Midlands - 9 £427 - 2
East Midlands -12 8 £600 +20.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 7 - -
North of England -76 6 £525 +17.45% 3
Scotland -9 5 £463 +120.24%
East of England -25 5 £613 +2.08% 1
North West -46 4 £525 +17.45% 3
Yorkshire -52 2 - -
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

General Ledger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (5.49%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.83%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 42 (25.61%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (18.29%) Oracle Receivables
3 27 (16.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (10.37%) Oracle Assets
4 17 (10.37%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (10.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (9.15%) Oracle Cash Management
6 14 (8.54%) NetSuite
7 10 (6.10%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (6.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (5.49%) SAP FI
9 8 (4.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (3.66%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (3.66%) SAP Business One
11 4 (2.44%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 4 (2.44%) SAP CO
11 4 (2.44%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (2.44%) SAP GRC
11 4 (2.44%) Unit4 Business World
12 3 (1.83%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
2 9 (5.49%) SaaS
3 7 (4.27%) OCI
4 6 (3.66%) Azure
5 3 (1.83%) PaaS
5 3 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.22%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.22%) Intacct
6 2 (1.22%) Lucidchart
6 2 (1.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.61%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.61%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.61%) dbt
7 1 (0.61%) GitHub
7 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.44%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.83%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.83%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.83%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.22%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.61%) Metadata
6 1 (0.61%) OLTP
6 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Hudson
1 2 (1.22%) JDeveloper
1 2 (1.22%) JIRA
1 2 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (1.22%) Toad
2 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 155 (94.51%) Finance
2 48 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.59%) Banking
5 18 (10.98%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.27%) Retail
7 6 (3.66%) Military
8 5 (3.05%) Billing
8 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.83%) Legal
9 3 (1.83%) Local Government
9 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) French Language
11 1 (0.61%) Front Office
11 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (35.98%) Consultant
2 29 (17.68%) Lead
3 22 (13.41%) Analyst
3 22 (13.41%) Oracle Consultant
4 16 (9.76%) SAP Consultant
5 15 (9.15%) Business Analyst
6 14 (8.54%) Functional Consultant
7 10 (6.10%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 9 (5.49%) Accountant
8 9 (5.49%) Financial Analyst
8 9 (5.49%) Lead Consultant
9 8 (4.88%) Implementation Consultant
9 8 (4.88%) Oracle Financials Consultant
10 7 (4.27%) Senior
10 7 (4.27%) Transformation Consultant
11 6 (3.66%) NetSuite Consultant
12 5 (3.05%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 5 (3.05%) Finance Business Analyst
12 5 (3.05%) Finance Manager
12 5 (3.05%) SAP FI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.66%) Middleware
2 6 (3.66%) XML
3 5 (3.05%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.83%) Web Services
5 2 (1.22%) Express.js
5 2 (1.22%) MERN Stack
5 2 (1.22%) Node.js
5 2 (1.22%) React
6 1 (0.61%) EDI
6 1 (0.61%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.80%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.71%) Public Cloud
3 10 (6.10%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.44%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.22%) Derivative
6 2 (1.22%) Equities
6 2 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.61%) Replication
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Linux
1 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (41.46%) Accounts Payable
2 59 (35.98%) Accounts Receivable
3 56 (34.15%) ERP
4 43 (26.22%) Migration
4 43 (26.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 39 (23.78%) Validation
6 38 (23.17%) Data Migration
7 34 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (19.51%) Budgeting
9 23 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (12.20%) Cash Management
12 18 (10.98%) System Integration Testing
13 16 (9.76%) Workflow
14 15 (9.15%) Analytics
14 15 (9.15%) Procure-to-Pay
14 15 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (8.54%) Record to Report
16 13 (7.93%) AI
16 13 (7.93%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.02%) SQL
2 7 (4.27%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.44%) ABAP
4 1 (0.61%) C#
4 1 (0.61%) Python
4 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 32 (19.51%) ACCA
1 32 (19.51%) CIMA
2 13 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.49%) PMP
5 8 (4.88%) Degree
6 7 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.44%) CCA
8 3 (1.83%) AAT
8 3 (1.83%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.22%) CISM
9 2 (1.22%) CISSP
9 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.61%) CCAB
10 1 (0.61%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.61%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) IFRS
2 6 (3.66%) GDPR
3 5 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.44%) GRC
5 3 (1.83%) GAAP
6 2 (1.22%) Basel III
6 2 (1.22%) QA
6 2 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.61%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.61%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.61%) PSD2
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.22%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.61%) Control-M
2 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 60 (36.59%) Oracle
2 55 (33.54%) SAP
3 36 (21.95%) Microsoft
4 12 (7.32%) Workday
5 7 (4.27%) Sage
6 5 (3.05%) Infor
7 4 (2.44%) Talend
8 3 (1.83%) Adaptive Insights
8 3 (1.83%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.83%) Ariba
8 3 (1.83%) Epicor
8 3 (1.83%) Google
8 3 (1.83%) IFS
8 3 (1.83%) QAD
8 3 (1.83%) Zuora
9 2 (1.22%) Concur
9 2 (1.22%) Databricks
9 2 (1.22%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (1.22%) Xero
10 1 (0.61%) Murex