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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 436 487
Rank change year-on-year -69 +51 +81
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 160 117 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.36% 0.20%
As % of the General category 0.55% 0.57% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 69 41
10th Percentile £419 £404 £463
25th Percentile £500 £415 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £650
90th Percentile £830 £840 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.39% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £16.51 - -
25th Percentile £18.71 £20.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £19.69 £22.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.66% -48.14% +117.95%
75th Percentile £81.88 £60.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.40 £69.25 -
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 28,884 20,489 23,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.79% 62.87% 57.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,206 12,822 14,873
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,024 1,064 1,664
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.28 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.00 £25.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -27.14% +14.75%
75th Percentile £62.00 £51.31 £55.74
90th Percentile £81.18 £70.11 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -35.71% +34.62%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -51 137 £600 +17.07% 54
UK excluding London -56 79 £533 -7.39% 23
London -68 67 £625 +31.58% 30
Work from Home -59 49 £542 -9.67% 28
South West -13 28 £600 -4.00% 4
Midlands -39 13 £516 -20.67% 4
South East -63 13 £505 -40.59% 7
Northern Ireland - 9 - -
West Midlands -47 8 £429 -42.80% 1
East of England -20 6 £561 -6.46% 2
North of England -73 6 £525 +17.45% 6
East Midlands -10 5 £625 +11.11% 3
Scotland -15 3 - -
North West -48 3 £525 +17.45% 4
Yorkshire -52 3 - - 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 10 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 13 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (26.25%) Oracle Payables
2 32 (20.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 28 (17.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (13.13%) Oracle Assets
5 20 (12.50%) Oracle General Ledger
6 19 (11.88%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (9.38%) NetSuite
7 15 (9.38%) Oracle Cash Management
8 10 (6.25%) Oracle EBS R12
8 10 (6.25%) SAP FI
9 8 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (4.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 6 (3.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 6 (3.75%) SAP Business One
12 5 (3.13%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (3.13%) SAP GRC
12 5 (3.13%) Unit4 Business World
13 4 (2.50%) SAP CO
13 4 (2.50%) SAP FI/CO
14 3 (1.88%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.13%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (4.38%) Azure
2 7 (4.38%) OCI
2 7 (4.38%) SaaS
3 4 (2.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.88%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.25%) dbt
5 2 (1.25%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.25%) Intacct
5 2 (1.25%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.25%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.63%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.63%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.63%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 8 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.50%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.88%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.88%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.25%) Power BI
5 2 (1.25%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.63%) Metadata
6 1 (0.63%) OLTP
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.13%) JDeveloper
1 5 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.25%) Hudson
2 2 (1.25%) Toad
2 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.63%) ERwin
3 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 152 (95.00%) Finance
2 47 (29.38%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.38%) Banking
4 22 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.25%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.00%) Retail
7 5 (3.13%) Billing
7 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.13%) Military
8 4 (2.50%) Legal
8 4 (2.50%) Local Government
8 4 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (34.38%) Consultant
2 23 (14.38%) Lead
3 21 (13.13%) Oracle Consultant
4 17 (10.63%) Analyst
4 17 (10.63%) Functional Consultant
5 16 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
6 12 (7.50%) Business Analyst
7 11 (6.88%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 8 (5.00%) Architect
8 8 (5.00%) Developer
8 8 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
8 8 (5.00%) Implementation Consultant
8 8 (5.00%) Senior
9 7 (4.38%) Accountant
9 7 (4.38%) Oracle Financials Consultant
9 7 (4.38%) Transformation Consultant
10 6 (3.75%) Lead Consultant
10 6 (3.75%) NetSuite Consultant
11 5 (3.13%) Finance Business Analyst
11 5 (3.13%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.38%) XML
3 5 (3.13%) Middleware
3 5 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.25%) Express.js
4 2 (1.25%) MERN Stack
4 2 (1.25%) Node.js
4 2 (1.25%) React
4 2 (1.25%) Web Services
5 1 (0.63%) REST
5 1 (0.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.25%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.88%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.25%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.63%) CESG
7 1 (0.63%) Derivative
7 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.63%) Equities
7 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.63%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.63%) Replication
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.00%) Accounts Payable
2 65 (40.63%) Accounts Receivable
3 57 (35.63%) ERP
4 45 (28.13%) Migration
5 44 (27.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 38 (23.75%) Data Migration
7 35 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 35 (21.88%) Validation
8 34 (21.25%) Budgeting
9 21 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (11.88%) Cash Management
11 17 (10.63%) Process Improvement
11 17 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (10.63%) System Integration Testing
11 17 (10.63%) Workflow
12 14 (8.75%) Analytics
13 13 (8.13%) AI
13 13 (8.13%) Project Delivery
14 12 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.75%) SQL
2 9 (5.63%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.50%) ABAP
4 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.25%) C#
5 2 (1.25%) X++
6 1 (0.63%) Python
6 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (16.25%) ACCA
1 26 (16.25%) CIMA
2 14 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.00%) Degree
4 8 (5.00%) PMP
5 6 (3.75%) AAT
5 6 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.50%) CCA
7 3 (1.88%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.25%) CIPFA
8 2 (1.25%) CISM
8 2 (1.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.63%) CCAB
9 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) GDPR
2 7 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.38%) IFRS
3 5 (3.13%) GRC
4 2 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.25%) GAAP
4 2 (1.25%) QA
5 1 (0.63%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.25%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.63%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (38.75%) Oracle
2 51 (31.88%) SAP
3 40 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.63%) Sage
4 9 (5.63%) Workday
5 5 (3.13%) Infor
6 4 (2.50%) Talend
6 4 (2.50%) Xero
7 3 (1.88%) Adaptive Insights
7 3 (1.88%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.88%) Databricks
7 3 (1.88%) Epicor
7 3 (1.88%) Google
7 3 (1.88%) IFS
7 3 (1.88%) QAD
7 3 (1.88%) Zuora
8 2 (1.25%) Ariba
8 2 (1.25%) Concur
8 2 (1.25%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow