General Ledger Contracts

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 505 613
Rank change year-on-year +79 +108 +64
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 93 95 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the General category 0.50% 0.37% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 49 52
10th Percentile £399 £489 £420
25th Percentile £415 £525 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £630 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +26.00% -12.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £619
90th Percentile £788 £730 £873
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.45 - -
Median hourly rate £22.04 - -
75th Percentile £28.03 - -
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 - -

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing General Ledger over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Top 15 Contract 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 April 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
England +65 81 £500 -16.67% 66
London +36 57 £475 -22.45% 39
Work from Home +38 39 £563 -4.26% 33
UK excluding London +61 25 £500 -16.67% 25
Midlands +29 6 £513 -33.87% 4
North of England +27 5 £447 -23.91% 10
South West +46 4 £625 - 2
East of England +34 4 £600 +14.29% 1
North West +13 4 £447 - 7
South East +40 3 - - 7
East Midlands +12 3 £500 -35.48%
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire +13 1 £650 +10.64% 2
Scotland - 1 £210 - 1

General Ledger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (5.38%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (4.30%) CMS
2 4 (4.30%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.15%) CICS
3 2 (2.15%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.45%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 22 (23.66%) Oracle Payables
2 21 (22.58%) Oracle General Ledger
3 20 (21.51%) Oracle Assets
4 15 (16.13%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (16.13%) SAP CO
4 15 (16.13%) SAP FI
4 15 (16.13%) SAP FI/CO
4 15 (16.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (12.90%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 11 (11.83%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (9.68%) Oracle Cash Management
7 9 (9.68%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (4.30%) Sage X3
9 3 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (3.23%) Oracle iProcurement
10 2 (2.15%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (2.15%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 2 (2.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (2.15%) PeopleSoft Financials
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.68%) Azure
2 8 (8.60%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (7.53%) OCI
4 4 (4.30%) AWS
5 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.08%) GCP
6 1 (1.08%) GitHub
6 1 (1.08%) IBM Blueworks
6 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.08%) SaaS
6 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.08%) Vertex AI
6 1 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.75%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (5.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.30%) Power BI
4 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.15%) DB2
5 2 (2.15%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.15%) SAP BW
5 2 (2.15%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.15%) Tableau
6 1 (1.08%) Big Data
6 1 (1.08%) OLTP
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.15%) Selenium
2 2 (2.15%) SOAtest
3 1 (1.08%) Hudson
3 1 (1.08%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) LSMW
3 1 (1.08%) Subversion
General
1 79 (84.95%) Finance
2 28 (30.11%) Social Skills
3 26 (27.96%) Banking
4 19 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.68%) Retail
6 8 (8.60%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.30%) Local Government
7 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.23%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.15%) Back Office
9 2 (2.15%) Billing
9 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.15%) Marketing
10 1 (1.08%) Front Office
10 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.08%) Legal
10 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (31.18%) Consultant
2 15 (16.13%) SAP Consultant
3 11 (11.83%) SAP CO Consultant
3 11 (11.83%) SAP FI Consultant
3 11 (11.83%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
4 9 (9.68%) Architect
4 9 (9.68%) Functional Consultant
4 9 (9.68%) Senior
5 8 (8.60%) Analyst
5 8 (8.60%) Oracle Consultant
6 7 (7.53%) Developer
6 7 (7.53%) Oracle Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.45%) Lead
7 6 (6.45%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 5 (5.38%) Accountant
9 4 (4.30%) Report Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Technical Consultant
10 3 (3.23%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (7.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (7.53%) XML
3 4 (4.30%) XSLT
4 2 (2.15%) J2EE
4 2 (2.15%) JSON
4 2 (2.15%) Web Services
5 1 (1.08%) EDI
5 1 (1.08%) Flash
5 1 (1.08%) REST
5 1 (1.08%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Mainframe
2 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.30%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) VSAM
5 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.08%) EFT
5 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.08%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Unix
2 6 (6.45%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Windows
3 4 (4.30%) AIX
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.39%) Accounts Payable
2 26 (27.96%) Accounts Receivable
3 22 (23.66%) Migration
4 20 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.20%) Cash Management
6 15 (16.13%) Agile
7 14 (15.05%) Analytics
8 13 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (11.83%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (8.60%) Data Migration
10 8 (8.60%) Test Scripting
10 8 (8.60%) Workshop Facilitation
11 7 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (7.53%) Profit Centre Accounting
11 7 (7.53%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (7.53%) Scenario Testing
11 7 (7.53%) Validation
11 7 (7.53%) Workflow
12 6 (6.45%) ETL
12 6 (6.45%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.66%) SQL
2 10 (10.75%) PL/SQL
3 4 (4.30%) Java
4 2 (2.15%) C
4 2 (2.15%) COBOL
4 2 (2.15%) JCL
4 2 (2.15%) REXX
5 1 (1.08%) ABAP
5 1 (1.08%) PeopleCode
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.28%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.83%) Degree
4 5 (5.38%) ACCA
5 3 (3.23%) CIMA
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.08%) AAT
7 1 (1.08%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.08%) MBA
7 1 (1.08%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) IFRS
2 4 (4.30%) QA
3 3 (3.23%) GAAP
3 3 (3.23%) IFRS 17
3 3 (3.23%) IFRS 9
4 2 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.08%) Basel III
5 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.08%) SEPA
Vendors
1 38 (40.86%) Oracle
2 23 (24.73%) SAP
3 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.30%) Sage
5 2 (2.15%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.15%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.15%) Informatica
5 2 (2.15%) Parasoft
5 2 (2.15%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.08%) Adobe
6 1 (1.08%) Ariba
6 1 (1.08%) Cognos
6 1 (1.08%) Concur
6 1 (1.08%) Google
6 1 (1.08%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.08%) IFS
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) TSYS
6 1 (1.08%) Workday
6 1 (1.08%) Zuora