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 25 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 420 501
Rank change year-on-year -62 +81 +117
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 144 99 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.58% 0.54% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 57 56
10th Percentile £360 £383 £431
25th Percentile £438 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £568 £628
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -9.56% +21.84%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £825 £694 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% +22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.04 -
Median % change year-on-year +149.55% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +120.00% - -

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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,883 18,301 25,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.69% 62.93% 58.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,522 11,737 16,463
10th Percentile £300 £300 £265
25th Percentile £405 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,539 684 1,820
10th Percentile £13.72 £15.00 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £15.28
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -25.71%
75th Percentile £57.38 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.80% +12.00% -19.70%

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 25 March 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
Top 14 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 25 March 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 -68 127 £600 +5.73% 33
London -56 68 £650 +13.79% 23
UK excluding London -65 59 £550 +4.76% 20
Work from Home -24 48 £610 +3.30% 18
South East -28 22 £600 - 11
South West -12 12 - - 1
Midlands -65 11 £423 -19.52% 1
East Midlands -28 8 £450 -10.00%
North of England -63 7 £500 -14.35% 2
Scotland +15 6 £450 +114.29% 3
Yorkshire -55 5 £500 -9.09% 1
West Midlands -53 3 £268 -48.95% 1
North West -35 2 - - 1
East of England -37 1 £600 -

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 5 (3.47%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.08%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (1.39%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 54 (37.50%) Oracle Payables
2 43 (29.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 43 (29.86%) Oracle Receivables
3 35 (24.31%) Oracle Assets
4 28 (19.44%) Oracle Cash Management
5 24 (16.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (14.58%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (9.72%) Oracle EBS R12
7 14 (9.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 11 (7.64%) SAP S/4HANA
9 10 (6.94%) Oracle AGIS
10 9 (6.25%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (4.86%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (3.47%) SAP FI
13 4 (2.78%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 4 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
14 2 (1.39%) SAP Business One
14 2 (1.39%) SAP CO
14 2 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
14 2 (1.39%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.81%) SaaS
2 15 (10.42%) OCI
3 11 (7.64%) Azure
3 11 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (6.94%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.47%) PaaS
7 4 (2.78%) Lucidchart
7 4 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.39%) IaaS
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.69%) dbt
9 1 (0.69%) GitHub
9 1 (0.69%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.94%) Power BI
2 8 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 7 (4.86%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.69%) Metadata
7 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.08%) JIRA
2 3 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.69%) Hudson
3 1 (0.69%) Toad
General
1 136 (94.44%) Finance
2 50 (34.72%) Social Skills
3 28 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (16.67%) Banking
5 15 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.17%) Law
8 4 (2.78%) Billing
8 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.78%) Legal
8 4 (2.78%) Military
8 4 (2.78%) Publishing
9 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.39%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.69%) French Language
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (33.33%) Consultant
2 26 (18.06%) Analyst
3 25 (17.36%) Oracle Consultant
4 22 (15.28%) Functional Consultant
5 16 (11.11%) Lead
5 16 (11.11%) Oracle Financials Consultant
5 16 (11.11%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 15 (10.42%) Business Analyst
7 12 (8.33%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
8 11 (7.64%) Financial Analyst
9 10 (6.94%) Developer
10 9 (6.25%) Senior
11 8 (5.56%) Accountant
11 8 (5.56%) Architect
12 6 (4.17%) Oracle Analyst
12 6 (4.17%) Oracle Architect
12 6 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
12 6 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
12 6 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (24.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.47%) Middleware
2 5 (3.47%) XML
3 2 (1.39%) ADO
3 2 (1.39%) REST
3 2 (1.39%) SOAP
3 2 (1.39%) Web Services
3 2 (1.39%) XML Messaging
4 1 (0.69%) EDI
4 1 (0.69%) Express.js
4 1 (0.69%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.69%) Node.js
4 1 (0.69%) React
4 1 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.72%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.86%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.47%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.39%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (1.39%) Derivative
5 2 (1.39%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.69%) AS400
6 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.69%) Equities
6 1 (0.69%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.69%) PMI
6 1 (0.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.39%) Linux
1 2 (1.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (45.14%) Accounts Payable
2 56 (38.89%) Accounts Receivable
3 41 (28.47%) ERP
4 37 (25.69%) Migration
5 36 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 32 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (22.22%) Cash Management
7 29 (20.14%) Procure-to-Pay
8 26 (18.06%) Validation
9 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (13.19%) Budgeting
10 19 (13.19%) Data Migration
11 18 (12.50%) Agile
12 17 (11.81%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 15 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (9.03%) Decision-Making
14 13 (9.03%) Financial Modelling
14 13 (9.03%) Project Management
14 13 (9.03%) Record to Report
15 12 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.75%) SQL
2 12 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.78%) X++
4 1 (0.69%) ABAP
4 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (17.36%) ACCA
1 25 (17.36%) CIMA
2 17 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.42%) Degree
4 11 (7.64%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.47%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.47%) PMP
6 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.69%) CISM
7 1 (0.69%) CISSP
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.69%) MBA
7 1 (0.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 8 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (4.17%) Basel III
2 6 (4.17%) GAAP
2 6 (4.17%) IFRS
3 5 (3.47%) IFRS 9
3 5 (3.47%) QA
4 3 (2.08%) SLA
5 2 (1.39%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) GRC
6 1 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.39%) Control-M
2 1 (0.69%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 69 (47.92%) Oracle
2 35 (24.31%) SAP
3 14 (9.72%) Workday
4 10 (6.94%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.78%) Xero
6 3 (2.08%) Ariba
6 3 (2.08%) Informatica
7 2 (1.39%) CODA
7 2 (1.39%) IFS
7 2 (1.39%) Infor
7 2 (1.39%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.69%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.69%) Adobe
8 1 (0.69%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.69%) Concur
8 1 (0.69%) Databricks
8 1 (0.69%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.69%) Misys
8 1 (0.69%) Temenos
8 1 (0.69%) Zuora