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 14 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 411 486
Rank change year-on-year -61 +75 +114
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 154 106 97
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the General category 0.60% 0.58% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 49
10th Percentile £313 £404 £413
25th Percentile £458 £415 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £475 £630
Median % change year-on-year +21.58% -24.60% +26.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £645
90th Percentile £825 £763 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 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 £36.37 £28.03 -
90th Percentile £47.55 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.73 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year -29.08% - -

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 25,541 18,360 24,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.70% 63.35% 58.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,612 11,672 15,642
10th Percentile £308 £289 £275
25th Percentile £409 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.75% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,634 780 1,929
10th Percentile £13.95 £14.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.31 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.30 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.48% -10.82%
75th Percentile £60.72 £56.00 £52.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.16 £24.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +14.92% -14.04% -1.72%

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 14 May 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 14 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Top 15 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 14 May 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 -59 134 £590 +24.21% 45
UK excluding London -60 71 £500 -4.76% 34
London -56 66 £613 +36.11% 19
Work from Home -29 51 £550 +7.32% 27
South West -15 21 £500 -20.00% 3
South East -40 21 £578 - 14
Midlands -56 11 £450 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -28 7 £550 -3.51% 1
North of England -65 7 - - 6
Scotland +10 6 £450 +114.29% 1
East of England -34 4 £606 +1.04% 4
Yorkshire -52 4 - - 2
West Midlands -54 4 £347 -34.00%
North West -37 3 - - 3
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

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 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.95%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (1.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 50 (32.47%) Oracle Payables
2 39 (25.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 30 (19.48%) Oracle General Ledger
4 27 (17.53%) Oracle Assets
5 25 (16.23%) Oracle EBS
6 24 (15.58%) Oracle Cash Management
7 21 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
8 20 (12.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 14 (9.09%) Oracle EBS R12
10 10 (6.49%) NetSuite
10 10 (6.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 7 (4.55%) Oracle FAH
11 7 (4.55%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (4.55%) SAP FI
12 6 (3.90%) Oracle AGIS
12 6 (3.90%) SAP Business One
13 5 (3.25%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 4 (2.60%) SAP CO
14 4 (2.60%) SAP FI/CO
15 3 (1.95%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.44%) OCI
2 9 (5.84%) Dynamics 365
2 9 (5.84%) SaaS
3 7 (4.55%) Azure
3 7 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.60%) PaaS
5 3 (1.95%) Lucidchart
6 2 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.30%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.30%) IaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.65%) dbt
7 1 (0.65%) Intacct
7 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 7 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (3.90%) Power BI
3 5 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.30%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.65%) Metadata
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.30%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) Hudson
3 1 (0.65%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.65%) Toad
3 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 146 (94.81%) Finance
2 39 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 27 (17.53%) Banking
4 25 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.90%) Legal
7 5 (3.25%) Military
7 5 (3.25%) Retail
8 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.95%) Billing
9 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.30%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.30%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.30%) Local Government
11 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.65%) French Language
Job Titles
1 50 (32.47%) Consultant
2 26 (16.88%) Analyst
2 26 (16.88%) Lead
3 25 (16.23%) Oracle Consultant
4 21 (13.64%) Functional Consultant
5 16 (10.39%) Business Analyst
5 16 (10.39%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 12 (7.79%) Accountant
6 12 (7.79%) Oracle Financials Consultant
7 11 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
7 11 (7.14%) Senior
8 8 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (5.19%) Senior Business Analyst
9 7 (4.55%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
9 7 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (3.90%) Architect
10 6 (3.90%) Finance Manager
10 6 (3.90%) Lead Consultant
11 5 (3.25%) Finance Business Analyst
11 5 (3.25%) Functional Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (5.84%) Middleware
3 6 (3.90%) XML
4 2 (1.30%) Express.js
4 2 (1.30%) MERN Stack
4 2 (1.30%) Node.js
4 2 (1.30%) React
4 2 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.30%) Web Services
4 2 (1.30%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.65%) ADO
5 1 (0.65%) EDI
5 1 (0.65%) REST
5 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.49%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.25%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.60%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.95%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.30%) Derivative
6 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) AS400
7 1 (0.65%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.65%) Equities
7 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.65%) Replication
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.30%) Linux
1 2 (1.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (41.56%) Accounts Payable
2 54 (35.06%) Accounts Receivable
3 48 (31.17%) ERP
4 39 (25.32%) Migration
4 39 (25.32%) User Acceptance Testing
5 32 (20.78%) Validation
6 27 (17.53%) Budgeting
6 27 (17.53%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (16.88%) Cash Management
8 25 (16.23%) Procure-to-Pay
9 24 (15.58%) Data Migration
10 23 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (10.39%) Process Improvement
13 15 (9.74%) Agile
14 14 (9.09%) AI
14 14 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
15 13 (8.44%) Financial Modelling
15 13 (8.44%) Record to Report
15 13 (8.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.23%) SQL
2 9 (5.84%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.65%) ABAP
3 1 (0.65%) C#
3 1 (0.65%) Python
3 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.65%) X++
Qualifications
1 30 (19.48%) ACCA
1 30 (19.48%) CIMA
2 17 (11.04%) Degree
3 10 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.19%) PMP
4 8 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.95%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.30%) CISM
8 2 (1.30%) CISSP
8 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.65%) CCA
9 1 (0.65%) MBA
9 1 (0.65%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 7 (4.55%) GAAP
1 7 (4.55%) IFRS
1 7 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (3.90%) Basel III
3 5 (3.25%) IFRS 9
4 4 (2.60%) QA
5 2 (1.30%) GDPR
5 2 (1.30%) GRC
5 2 (1.30%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.65%) PSD2
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.30%) Control-M
2 1 (0.65%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 69 (44.81%) Oracle
2 45 (29.22%) SAP
3 22 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 16 (10.39%) Workday
5 5 (3.25%) Infor
6 4 (2.60%) Ariba
6 4 (2.60%) IFS
6 4 (2.60%) Sage
7 3 (1.95%) Adaptive Insights
7 3 (1.95%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.95%) Epicor
7 3 (1.95%) Informatica
7 3 (1.95%) QAD
7 3 (1.95%) Talend
7 3 (1.95%) Zuora
8 2 (1.30%) CODA
8 2 (1.30%) Databricks
8 2 (1.30%) Google
8 2 (1.30%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.65%) Misys