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 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 422 497
Rank change year-on-year -73 +75 +88
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 150 100 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.35% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.55% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 42
10th Percentile £313 £404 £419
25th Percentile £480 £414 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £475 £630
Median % change year-on-year +22.63% -24.60% +26.00%
75th Percentile £666 £652 £649
90th Percentile £863 £769 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £488 £600
% change year-on-year +7.18% -18.75% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £15.29 - -
25th Percentile £16.21 £20.45 -
Median hourly rate £17.73 £22.04 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.56% - -
75th Percentile £45.74 £23.63 -
90th Percentile £62.55 £55.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.72 £21.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.40% - -

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 26,375 18,250 24,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.90% 63.30% 57.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,948 11,525 15,454
10th Percentile £313 £281 £274
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,760 826 1,977
10th Percentile £13.71 £13.41 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.54 £27.97 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -7.26% -6.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £54.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £24.34 £28.50
% change year-on-year +23.25% -14.60% +1.53%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -73 130 £600 +26.32% 54
UK excluding London -59 68 £523 +7.18% 34
London -68 67 £600 +29.73% 28
Work from Home -40 45 £550 +10.00% 26
South West -9 27 £600 -4.00% 2
South East -53 13 £471 - 11
Midlands -54 11 £550 +10.00% 5
East Midlands -21 8 £600 +20.00% 1
Scotland -4 6 £450 +114.29% 1
North of England -73 5 - - 9
North West -29 3 - - 5
East of England -33 3 £613 +2.08% 4
West Midlands - 3 £268 - 4
Yorkshire -60 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 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 8 (5.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 43 (28.67%) Oracle Payables
2 31 (20.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 24 (16.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (13.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 17 (11.33%) Oracle Assets
6 15 (10.00%) Oracle Cash Management
7 14 (9.33%) NetSuite
7 14 (9.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (7.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (5.33%) SAP FI
11 6 (4.00%) Oracle FAH
11 6 (4.00%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (4.00%) SAP Business One
12 5 (3.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 4 (2.67%) SAP CO
13 4 (2.67%) SAP FI/CO
14 3 (2.00%) Dynamics AX
14 3 (2.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.33%) OCI
2 10 (6.67%) SaaS
3 9 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (4.67%) Azure
5 6 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.67%) PaaS
7 3 (2.00%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.33%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.33%) IaaS
8 2 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.67%) AWS
9 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.67%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.67%) dbt
9 1 (0.67%) GitHub
9 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.33%) Power BI
4 3 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.00%) SAP HANA
4 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.33%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.67%) Metadata
6 1 (0.67%) OLTP
6 1 (0.67%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Hudson
1 2 (1.33%) JDeveloper
1 2 (1.33%) JIRA
1 2 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.67%) Toad
2 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 141 (94.00%) Finance
2 40 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.33%) Banking
4 25 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.00%) Military
6 6 (4.00%) Retail
7 5 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.33%) Legal
8 4 (2.67%) Billing
9 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.33%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.67%) French Language
11 1 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 51 (34.00%) Consultant
2 31 (20.67%) Lead
3 22 (14.67%) Analyst
4 21 (14.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 15 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 14 (9.33%) Functional Consultant
7 11 (7.33%) Accountant
7 11 (7.33%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 9 (6.00%) Financial Analyst
8 9 (6.00%) Lead Consultant
8 9 (6.00%) SAP Consultant
8 9 (6.00%) Senior
9 8 (5.33%) Implementation Consultant
10 7 (4.67%) Oracle Financials Consultant
11 6 (4.00%) NetSuite Consultant
11 6 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.00%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (4.00%) Transformation Consultant
12 5 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 5 (3.33%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (5.33%) Middleware
3 7 (4.67%) XML
4 3 (2.00%) Web Services
5 2 (1.33%) Express.js
5 2 (1.33%) MERN Stack
5 2 (1.33%) Node.js
5 2 (1.33%) React
5 2 (1.33%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.33%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Onboarding
2 12 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.67%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.00%) Derivative
5 3 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.33%) Equities
6 2 (1.33%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.67%) Replication
7 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.33%) Linux
1 2 (1.33%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.00%) Accounts Payable
2 50 (33.33%) ERP
3 43 (28.67%) Accounts Receivable
4 40 (26.67%) Migration
5 37 (24.67%) Validation
6 34 (22.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 31 (20.67%) Budgeting
7 31 (20.67%) Data Migration
8 24 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (12.67%) Procure-to-Pay
11 17 (11.33%) Cash Management
11 17 (11.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (10.67%) Process Improvement
12 16 (10.67%) Workflow
13 15 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
14 14 (9.33%) Agile
14 14 (9.33%) AI
14 14 (9.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.33%) SQL
2 9 (6.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.67%) ABAP
3 1 (0.67%) C#
3 1 (0.67%) Python
3 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 35 (23.33%) ACCA
1 35 (23.33%) CIMA
2 13 (8.67%) Degree
3 11 (7.33%) PMP
4 10 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 9 (6.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.00%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.33%) CISM
8 2 (1.33%) CISSP
8 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.67%) CCA
9 1 (0.67%) MBA
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.00%) IFRS
2 6 (4.00%) GAAP
2 6 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.33%) Basel III
3 5 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.67%) IFRS 9
5 3 (2.00%) GDPR
6 2 (1.33%) GRC
6 2 (1.33%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.33%) QA
7 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.67%) PSD2
7 1 (0.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.33%) Control-M
2 1 (0.67%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 64 (42.67%) Oracle
2 48 (32.00%) SAP
3 30 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 16 (10.67%) Workday
5 5 (3.33%) Infor
6 4 (2.67%) Ariba
6 4 (2.67%) Sage
6 4 (2.67%) Talend
7 3 (2.00%) Adaptive Insights
7 3 (2.00%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.00%) Epicor
7 3 (2.00%) Google
7 3 (2.00%) IFS
7 3 (2.00%) Informatica
7 3 (2.00%) QAD
7 3 (2.00%) Zuora
8 2 (1.33%) CODA
8 2 (1.33%) Databricks
8 2 (1.33%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.67%) JD Edwards