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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 425 506
Rank change year-on-year -72 +81 +82
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 148 99 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.34% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.55% 0.53% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 55 43
10th Percentile £313 £404 £465
25th Percentile £463 £414 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £475 £630
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% -24.60% +26.00%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £650
90th Percentile £863 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £488 £600
% change year-on-year +10.77% -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 26,812 18,543 24,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.97% 63.34% 57.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,219 11,673 15,531
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,788 856 1,998
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.41 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.46 £28.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -6.85% -5.83%
75th Percentile £60.30 £53.95 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.58 £24.50 £28.42
% change year-on-year +24.82% -13.79% +3.35%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -86 127 £600 +26.32% 47
UK excluding London -54 69 £540 +10.77% 34
London -72 65 £600 +33.33% 23
Work from Home -52 43 £550 +10.00% 26
South West -4 27 £600 -4.00% 3
Midlands -52 12 £550 +10.00% 5
South East -52 11 £471 - 12
East Midlands -24 8 £600 +20.00% 1
Scotland -4 6 £450 +114.29% 2
North of England -72 5 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
West Midlands - 4 £347 - 4
East of England -32 3 £613 +2.08% 3
North West -35 3 - - 3
Yorkshire -59 2 - - 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 8 (5.41%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.03%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (2.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 41 (27.70%) Oracle Payables
2 29 (19.59%) Oracle Receivables
3 22 (14.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (12.16%) Oracle EBS
5 17 (11.49%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (10.81%) Oracle Assets
7 15 (10.14%) Oracle Cash Management
8 14 (9.46%) NetSuite
9 13 (8.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 11 (7.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 9 (6.08%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (4.73%) SAP FI
13 6 (4.05%) Oracle FAH
13 6 (4.05%) SAP Business One
14 4 (2.70%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 4 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
14 4 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
14 4 (2.70%) SAP CO
14 4 (2.70%) SAP FI/CO
15 3 (2.03%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.76%) OCI
1 10 (6.76%) SaaS
2 9 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (4.73%) Azure
4 6 (4.05%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.70%) PaaS
6 3 (2.03%) Lucidchart
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.35%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.35%) IaaS
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.68%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.68%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.68%) dbt
8 1 (0.68%) GitHub
8 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.38%) Power BI
4 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.03%) SAP HANA
4 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.35%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.68%) Metadata
6 1 (0.68%) OLTP
6 1 (0.68%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Hudson
1 2 (1.35%) JDeveloper
1 2 (1.35%) JIRA
1 2 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.68%) Toad
2 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 139 (93.92%) Finance
2 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.22%) Banking
4 23 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.05%) Military
6 6 (4.05%) Retail
7 5 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.70%) Billing
8 4 (2.70%) Legal
9 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.03%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.35%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) French Language
11 1 (0.68%) Front Office
11 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 50 (33.78%) Consultant
2 32 (21.62%) Lead
3 21 (14.19%) Analyst
4 20 (13.51%) Oracle Consultant
5 15 (10.14%) Business Analyst
6 13 (8.78%) Functional Consultant
7 10 (6.76%) Accountant
7 10 (6.76%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 9 (6.08%) Lead Consultant
8 9 (6.08%) SAP Consultant
8 9 (6.08%) Senior
9 8 (5.41%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (5.41%) Implementation Consultant
10 6 (4.05%) NetSuite Consultant
10 6 (4.05%) Oracle Financials Consultant
10 6 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.05%) Senior Business Analyst
10 6 (4.05%) Transformation Consultant
11 5 (3.38%) Architect
11 5 (3.38%) Implementation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (5.41%) Middleware
3 7 (4.73%) XML
4 3 (2.03%) Web Services
5 2 (1.35%) Express.js
5 2 (1.35%) MERN Stack
5 2 (1.35%) Node.js
5 2 (1.35%) React
5 2 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.35%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.68%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.86%) Onboarding
2 12 (8.11%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.73%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.70%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.03%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.03%) Derivative
5 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.35%) Equities
6 2 (1.35%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.35%) Linux
1 2 (1.35%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (37.16%) Accounts Payable
2 52 (35.14%) ERP
3 46 (31.08%) Accounts Receivable
4 42 (28.38%) Migration
5 37 (25.00%) Validation
6 34 (22.97%) Data Migration
7 33 (22.30%) User Acceptance Testing
8 31 (20.95%) Budgeting
9 26 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (12.16%) Procure-to-Pay
13 16 (10.81%) Cash Management
13 16 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (10.81%) Workflow
14 15 (10.14%) Process Improvement
15 14 (9.46%) Agile
15 14 (9.46%) AI
15 14 (9.46%) Requirements Gathering
15 14 (9.46%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.57%) SQL
2 9 (6.08%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.68%) ABAP
3 1 (0.68%) C#
3 1 (0.68%) Python
3 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.68%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (22.97%) ACCA
1 34 (22.97%) CIMA
2 11 (7.43%) Degree
2 11 (7.43%) PMP
3 10 (6.76%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.03%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.35%) CISM
7 2 (1.35%) CISSP
7 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) CCA
8 1 (0.68%) CCAB
8 1 (0.68%) MBA
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) IFRS
2 6 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.38%) Basel III
3 5 (3.38%) GAAP
3 5 (3.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.70%) GDPR
5 3 (2.03%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.35%) GRC
6 2 (1.35%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.35%) QA
7 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.68%) PSD2
7 1 (0.68%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.35%) Control-M
2 1 (0.68%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 62 (41.89%) Oracle
2 46 (31.08%) SAP
3 32 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 16 (10.81%) Workday
5 5 (3.38%) Infor
6 4 (2.70%) Ariba
6 4 (2.70%) Sage
6 4 (2.70%) Talend
7 3 (2.03%) Adaptive Insights
7 3 (2.03%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.03%) Epicor
7 3 (2.03%) Google
7 3 (2.03%) IFS
7 3 (2.03%) Informatica
7 3 (2.03%) QAD
7 3 (2.03%) Zuora
8 2 (1.35%) CODA
8 2 (1.35%) Databricks
8 2 (1.35%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.68%) JD Edwards