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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 428 497
Rank change year-on-year -54 +69 +82
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 163 111 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.35% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.58% 0.56% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 65 48
10th Percentile £394 £404 £463
25th Percentile £463 £415 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £863 £752 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 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 £49.03 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.40 £67.50 -
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 28,093 19,745 24,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.53% 63.14% 57.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,844 12,414 15,535
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +5.88% -3.62% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,944 978 1,954
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.50 £12.81
25th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.31 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -14.01% +4.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £52.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.49 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.56 £23.00 £30.60
% change year-on-year +37.20% -24.83% +21.78%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -72 142 £575 +19.48% 49
UK excluding London -45 84 £525 - 27
London -71 65 £600 +26.32% 27
Work from Home -45 50 £550 +4.76% 30
South West -1 29 £600 -4.00% 4
Midlands -48 17 £481 -3.75% 4
South East -53 13 £505 - 10
West Midlands - 9 £427 - 2
East Midlands -10 8 £600 +20.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 8 - -
North of England -70 7 £525 +17.45% 5
East of England -21 5 £613 +2.08% 1
Scotland -4 4 £475 +126.19% 1
North West -42 4 £525 +17.45% 5
Yorkshire -51 3 - -
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

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 (4.91%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.84%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 40 (24.54%) Oracle Payables
2 29 (17.79%) Oracle Receivables
3 26 (15.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (10.43%) Oracle Assets
4 17 (10.43%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (10.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (9.20%) Oracle Cash Management
6 14 (8.59%) NetSuite
7 10 (6.13%) Oracle EBS R12
8 9 (5.52%) SAP FI
9 8 (4.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (3.68%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (3.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (3.68%) SAP Business One
11 4 (2.45%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 4 (2.45%) SAP CO
11 4 (2.45%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (2.45%) SAP GRC
11 4 (2.45%) Unit4 Business World
12 3 (1.84%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.13%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (4.91%) SaaS
3 6 (3.68%) Azure
3 6 (3.68%) OCI
4 3 (1.84%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.23%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.23%) Intacct
5 2 (1.23%) PaaS
5 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.61%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.61%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.61%) dbt
6 1 (0.61%) GitHub
6 1 (0.61%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (3.07%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.45%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.84%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.84%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.84%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.61%) Metadata
6 1 (0.61%) OLTP
6 1 (0.61%) Power BI
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Hudson
1 2 (1.23%) JDeveloper
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (1.23%) Toad
2 1 (0.61%) JIRA
2 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 154 (94.48%) Finance
2 48 (29.45%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.66%) Banking
4 19 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.29%) Retail
6 6 (3.68%) Military
7 5 (3.07%) Billing
7 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.45%) Local Government
9 3 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.84%) Legal
9 3 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Front Office
11 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (36.81%) Consultant
2 27 (16.56%) Lead
3 23 (14.11%) Oracle Consultant
4 20 (12.27%) Analyst
5 16 (9.82%) SAP Consultant
6 15 (9.20%) Functional Consultant
7 14 (8.59%) Business Analyst
8 11 (6.75%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 9 (5.52%) Lead Consultant
10 8 (4.91%) Accountant
10 8 (4.91%) Financial Analyst
10 8 (4.91%) Implementation Consultant
10 8 (4.91%) Oracle Financials Consultant
11 7 (4.29%) Senior
11 7 (4.29%) Transformation Consultant
12 6 (3.68%) NetSuite Consultant
13 5 (3.07%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 5 (3.07%) Finance Business Analyst
13 5 (3.07%) Finance Manager
13 5 (3.07%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.07%) Middleware
2 5 (3.07%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (3.07%) XML
3 3 (1.84%) Web Services
4 2 (1.23%) Express.js
4 2 (1.23%) MERN Stack
4 2 (1.23%) Node.js
4 2 (1.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.88%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.13%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.13%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.45%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (1.84%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.23%) Derivative
5 2 (1.23%) Equities
5 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.61%) Replication
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.10%) Accounts Payable
2 59 (36.20%) Accounts Receivable
3 54 (33.13%) ERP
4 44 (26.99%) User Acceptance Testing
5 43 (26.38%) Migration
6 39 (23.93%) Validation
7 38 (23.31%) Data Migration
8 34 (20.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (20.25%) Budgeting
10 23 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (12.27%) Cash Management
13 18 (11.04%) System Integration Testing
14 15 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (9.20%) Workflow
15 14 (8.59%) Record to Report
16 13 (7.98%) AI
16 13 (7.98%) Analytics
16 13 (7.98%) Process Improvement
16 13 (7.98%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.50%) SQL
2 7 (4.29%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.45%) ABAP
4 1 (0.61%) C#
4 1 (0.61%) Python
4 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 31 (19.02%) ACCA
1 31 (19.02%) CIMA
2 13 (7.98%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.91%) Degree
4 8 (4.91%) PMP
5 7 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.07%) AAT
7 4 (2.45%) CCA
8 3 (1.84%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.23%) CIPFA
9 2 (1.23%) CISM
9 2 (1.23%) CISSP
9 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.61%) CCAB
10 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.61%) MBA
10 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.29%) GDPR
1 7 (4.29%) IFRS
2 5 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.45%) GRC
4 2 (1.23%) GAAP
4 2 (1.23%) QA
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) PSD2
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.23%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 58 (35.58%) Oracle
2 50 (30.67%) SAP
3 37 (22.70%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.52%) Workday
5 8 (4.91%) Sage
6 5 (3.07%) Infor
7 4 (2.45%) Talend
8 3 (1.84%) Adaptive Insights
8 3 (1.84%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.84%) Epicor
8 3 (1.84%) Google
8 3 (1.84%) IFS
8 3 (1.84%) QAD
8 3 (1.84%) Xero
8 3 (1.84%) Zuora
9 2 (1.23%) Ariba
9 2 (1.23%) Concur
9 2 (1.23%) Databricks
9 2 (1.23%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.61%) Murex