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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 436 515
Rank change year-on-year -64 +79 +55
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 164 116 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the General category 0.56% 0.57% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 68 40
10th Percentile £419 £404 £461
25th Percentile £500 £415 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -4.44% +7.14%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £652
90th Percentile £826 £779 £796
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.22%
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% +115.19%
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% +115.19%

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 29,030 20,484 24,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.87% 62.93% 57.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,339 12,845 15,110
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £488
% change year-on-year +6.61% -3.94% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,028 1,056 1,756
10th Percentile £14.02 £13.30 £13.12
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.00 £26.21 £33.97
Median % change year-on-year +25.91% -22.83% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £51.93 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £71.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +46.67% -31.95% +26.01%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -79 140 £600 +20.00% 34
UK excluding London -57 83 £518 -10.00% 18
London -62 67 £625 +31.58% 19
Work from Home -57 51 £530 -11.75% 17
South West -13 29 £600 -4.00% 4
Midlands -45 14 £481 -25.96% 4
South East -49 13 £505 -40.59% 6
West Midlands -52 9 £427 -43.07% 1
Northern Ireland - 9 - -
North of England -79 7 £525 +17.45% 3
East of England -17 6 £561 -6.46% 1
East Midlands -10 5 £625 +11.11% 3
Scotland -9 4 £475 +126.19%
North West -52 4 £525 +17.45% 2
Yorkshire -41 3 - - 1
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 (6.10%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 13 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (26.22%) Oracle Payables
2 32 (19.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 27 (16.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (12.80%) Oracle Assets
5 20 (12.20%) Oracle General Ledger
6 19 (11.59%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (9.15%) NetSuite
7 15 (9.15%) Oracle Cash Management
8 10 (6.10%) Oracle EBS R12
9 9 (5.49%) SAP FI
10 8 (4.88%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (4.27%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 6 (3.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 6 (3.66%) SAP Business One
13 5 (3.05%) Oracle FAH
13 5 (3.05%) SAP GRC
13 5 (3.05%) Unit4 Business World
14 4 (2.44%) SAP CO
14 4 (2.44%) SAP FI/CO
15 3 (1.83%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.93%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (4.88%) SaaS
3 7 (4.27%) Azure
3 7 (4.27%) OCI
4 4 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.22%) dbt
6 2 (1.22%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.22%) Intacct
6 2 (1.22%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.22%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.61%) AWS
7 1 (0.61%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.61%) iPaaS
7 1 (0.61%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 8 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.44%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.44%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.83%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.83%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.83%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.22%) Power BI
5 2 (1.22%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Metadata
6 1 (0.61%) OLTP
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.05%) JDeveloper
1 5 (3.05%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.22%) Hudson
2 2 (1.22%) Toad
2 2 (1.22%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.61%) ERwin
3 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 156 (95.12%) Finance
2 49 (29.88%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.02%) Banking
4 18 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.88%) Retail
6 5 (3.05%) Billing
6 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.05%) Military
7 4 (2.44%) Legal
7 4 (2.44%) Local Government
7 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (32.93%) Consultant
2 23 (14.02%) Lead
3 21 (12.80%) Oracle Consultant
4 20 (12.20%) Analyst
5 17 (10.37%) Functional Consultant
6 15 (9.15%) Business Analyst
6 15 (9.15%) SAP Consultant
7 11 (6.71%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 9 (5.49%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (4.88%) Architect
9 8 (4.88%) Developer
9 8 (4.88%) Implementation Consultant
9 8 (4.88%) Senior
10 7 (4.27%) Accountant
10 7 (4.27%) Oracle Financials Consultant
10 7 (4.27%) Transformation Consultant
11 6 (3.66%) Finance Business Analyst
11 6 (3.66%) Lead Consultant
11 6 (3.66%) NetSuite Consultant
12 5 (3.05%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.27%) XML
3 5 (3.05%) Middleware
3 5 (3.05%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.22%) Express.js
4 2 (1.22%) MERN Stack
4 2 (1.22%) Node.js
4 2 (1.22%) React
4 2 (1.22%) Web Services
5 1 (0.61%) REST
5 1 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.59%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.71%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.88%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.83%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.22%) Derivative
6 2 (1.22%) Equities
6 2 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.61%) CESG
7 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.61%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.61%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.61%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.61%) Life Science
7 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.83%) Unix
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (43.90%) Accounts Payable
2 64 (39.02%) Accounts Receivable
3 60 (36.59%) ERP
4 46 (28.05%) Migration
4 46 (28.05%) User Acceptance Testing
5 38 (23.17%) Data Migration
5 38 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (21.34%) Budgeting
6 35 (21.34%) Validation
7 22 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (11.59%) Cash Management
9 18 (10.98%) Process Improvement
9 18 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (10.37%) System Integration Testing
10 17 (10.37%) Workflow
11 15 (9.15%) Analytics
12 13 (7.93%) AI
12 13 (7.93%) Project Delivery
12 13 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.63%) SQL
2 9 (5.49%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.44%) ABAP
4 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.22%) C#
5 2 (1.22%) X++
6 1 (0.61%) Python
6 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (16.46%) ACCA
1 27 (16.46%) CIMA
2 14 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.93%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.88%) Degree
4 8 (4.88%) PMP
5 7 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.66%) AAT
7 4 (2.44%) CCA
8 3 (1.83%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.22%) CIPFA
9 2 (1.22%) CISM
9 2 (1.22%) CISSP
10 1 (0.61%) CCAB
10 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.88%) GDPR
1 8 (4.88%) IFRS
2 7 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.05%) GRC
4 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.22%) GAAP
4 2 (1.22%) QA
5 1 (0.61%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.22%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (38.41%) Oracle
2 52 (31.71%) SAP
3 41 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.10%) Workday
5 9 (5.49%) Sage
6 5 (3.05%) Infor
7 4 (2.44%) Talend
7 4 (2.44%) Xero
8 3 (1.83%) Adaptive Insights
8 3 (1.83%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.83%) Databricks
8 3 (1.83%) Epicor
8 3 (1.83%) Google
8 3 (1.83%) IFS
8 3 (1.83%) QAD
8 3 (1.83%) Zuora
9 2 (1.22%) Ariba
9 2 (1.22%) Concur
9 2 (1.22%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow