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 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 437 458
Rank change year-on-year -55 +21 +89
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 183 121 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.58% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 78 57
10th Percentile £419 £404 £438
25th Percentile £500 £415 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £795 £786 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £16.82 £27.30 -
25th Percentile £19.20 £36.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £39.60 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.01% +29.41% +117.95%
75th Percentile £77.81 £60.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.30 £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.69 £21.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.24% -50.59% +117.95%

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 30,205 20,961 22,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.56% 63.68% 57.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,737 12,993 13,480
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £497
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.45% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,464 1,199 1,134
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.69
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.98 £25.15 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% -32.74% +35.96%
75th Percentile £53.87 £49.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.50 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +40.55% -43.08% +44.23%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -61 159 £575 - 95
UK excluding London -43 87 £510 -5.12% 48
London -81 81 £600 +3.00% 55
Work from Home -39 69 £525 -12.50% 44
South West -23 22 £600 -7.69% 1
Midlands -31 22 £516 -6.25% 6
South East -60 14 £503 -2.43% 23
West Midlands -38 13 £427 -25.74% 6
East Midlands -12 9 £575 +26.37%
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 1
East of England -17 8 £505 -15.83% 4
North of England -69 6 £525 +17.45% 11
Scotland -21 5 £555 +164.29% 2
Yorkshire -38 3 - - 1
North West -57 3 £525 +17.45% 2
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 7 (3.83%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 48 (26.23%) Oracle Payables
2 39 (21.31%) Oracle Receivables
3 34 (18.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 33 (18.03%) SAP S/4HANA
5 20 (10.93%) Oracle Assets
5 20 (10.93%) Oracle EBS
6 16 (8.74%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (8.20%) NetSuite
8 13 (7.10%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (5.46%) SAP FI
10 9 (4.92%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (3.28%) Oracle FAH
11 6 (3.28%) SAP Business One
12 5 (2.73%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 5 (2.73%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (2.73%) SAP CO
12 5 (2.73%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (2.73%) SAP GRC
13 4 (2.19%) Oracle iProcurement
13 4 (2.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
1 14 (7.65%) OCI
2 9 (4.92%) Azure
3 7 (3.83%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.73%) SaaS
5 4 (2.19%) AWS
5 4 (2.19%) Google Workspace
5 4 (2.19%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.19%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (1.64%) dbt
6 3 (1.64%) GCP
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (1.09%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.09%) Intacct
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (3.83%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (3.28%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.19%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (2.19%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.64%) Power BI
5 3 (1.64%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.09%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.09%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.55%) Metadata
7 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.55%) OLTP
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.73%) JDeveloper
1 5 (2.73%) JIRA
2 4 (2.19%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (2.19%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.09%) ERwin
3 2 (1.09%) Hudson
4 1 (0.55%) Toad
General
1 176 (96.17%) Finance
2 63 (34.43%) Social Skills
3 35 (19.13%) Banking
4 21 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.92%) Retail
7 6 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.73%) Billing
8 5 (2.73%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Local Government
10 3 (1.64%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.64%) Legal
10 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (31.15%) Consultant
2 29 (15.85%) Analyst
3 27 (14.75%) Lead
4 23 (12.57%) Oracle Consultant
5 22 (12.02%) Functional Consultant
6 21 (11.48%) Business Analyst
7 19 (10.38%) Financial Analyst
8 15 (8.20%) SAP Consultant
9 14 (7.65%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 11 (6.01%) Finance Business Analyst
11 9 (4.92%) Architect
11 9 (4.92%) Developer
11 9 (4.92%) Senior
12 8 (4.37%) Implementation Consultant
13 7 (3.83%) Accountant
13 7 (3.83%) NetSuite Consultant
13 7 (3.83%) Transformation Consultant
14 6 (3.28%) Finance Manager
14 6 (3.28%) Lead Consultant
14 6 (3.28%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.37%) XML
3 6 (3.28%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (2.73%) Middleware
4 5 (2.73%) REST
5 4 (2.19%) Web Services
6 3 (1.64%) SOAP
7 2 (1.09%) JSON
7 2 (1.09%) RESTful
7 2 (1.09%) Spring
7 2 (1.09%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.55%) Express.js
8 1 (0.55%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.55%) Node.js
8 1 (0.55%) React
8 1 (0.55%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.20%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.46%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.92%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.73%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.19%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.64%) Derivative
7 3 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.64%) Life Science
7 3 (1.64%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.09%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.09%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.55%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.64%) Unix
2 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.17%) Accounts Payable
2 75 (40.98%) Accounts Receivable
3 68 (37.16%) ERP
4 63 (34.43%) Migration
5 58 (31.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (28.96%) Data Migration
7 51 (27.87%) User Acceptance Testing
8 34 (18.58%) Validation
9 31 (16.94%) Budgeting
10 25 (13.66%) System Integration Testing
10 25 (13.66%) Workshop Facilitation
11 23 (12.57%) Requirements Gathering
12 22 (12.02%) Process Improvement
13 21 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (10.38%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (10.38%) Cash Management
15 18 (9.84%) Analytics
16 17 (9.29%) Change Management
16 17 (9.29%) Data Analysis
16 17 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.85%) SQL
2 9 (4.92%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.19%) C#
3 4 (2.19%) X++
4 3 (1.64%) ABAP
4 3 (1.64%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.09%) Java
6 1 (0.55%) Python
6 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (13.66%) ACCA
1 25 (13.66%) CIMA
2 19 (10.38%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.46%) Degree
5 8 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.37%) PMP
6 6 (3.28%) AAT
7 5 (2.73%) CCA
8 4 (2.19%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.64%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.09%) CCAB
10 2 (1.09%) CIPFA
11 1 (0.55%) CISM
11 1 (0.55%) CISSP
11 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.65%) IFRS
3 7 (3.83%) GDPR
4 5 (2.73%) GRC
5 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.09%) GAAP
5 2 (1.09%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.09%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.09%) QA
5 2 (1.09%) SEPA
6 1 (0.55%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.09%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.55%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (42.08%) Oracle
2 55 (30.05%) SAP
3 46 (25.14%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.37%) Sage
4 8 (4.37%) Workday
5 5 (2.73%) Xero
6 4 (2.19%) Adobe
6 4 (2.19%) Talend
7 3 (1.64%) Ariba
7 3 (1.64%) Databricks
7 3 (1.64%) Google
7 3 (1.64%) Infor
8 2 (1.09%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (1.09%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.09%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.09%) CODA
8 2 (1.09%) Epicor
8 2 (1.09%) QAD
8 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.09%) Zuora