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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 433 505
Rank change year-on-year -66 +72 +65
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 164 117 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.36% 0.20%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.57% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 69 41
10th Percentile £419 £404 £463
25th Percentile £500 £415 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £650
90th Percentile £828 £840 £788
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% +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 28,914 20,634 23,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.78% 62.91% 57.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,236 12,929 15,000
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
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 £490
% change year-on-year +6.61% -4.29% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,032 1,064 1,718
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.28 £13.18
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.81 £25.75 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +27.40% -24.77% +12.16%
75th Percentile £61.50 £51.58 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.92 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.90 £22.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +46.23% -31.95% +27.30%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -65 140 £600 +17.07% 36
UK excluding London -57 83 £518 -10.00% 19
London -74 67 £625 +31.58% 20
Work from Home -44 51 £530 -11.75% 16
South West -11 29 £600 -4.00% 3
Midlands -34 14 £481 -25.96% 4
South East -62 13 £505 -40.59% 6
West Midlands -54 9 £427 -43.07% 1
Northern Ireland - 9 - -
North of England -75 7 £525 +17.45% 5
East of England -13 6 £561 -6.46% 1
East Midlands -11 5 £625 +11.11% 3
Scotland -14 4 £475 +126.19%
North West -49 4 £525 +17.45% 3
Yorkshire -51 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 (6.10%) 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 28 (17.07%) 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
8 10 (6.10%) SAP FI
9 8 (4.88%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (4.27%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 6 (3.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 6 (3.66%) SAP Business One
12 5 (3.05%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (3.05%) SAP GRC
12 5 (3.05%) Unit4 Business World
13 4 (2.44%) SAP CO
13 4 (2.44%) SAP FI/CO
14 3 (1.83%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.93%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (4.27%) Azure
2 7 (4.27%) OCI
2 7 (4.27%) SaaS
3 4 (2.44%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.22%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.22%) dbt
5 2 (1.22%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.22%) Intacct
5 2 (1.22%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.22%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.61%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.61%) AWS
6 1 (0.61%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.61%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
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%) 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%) Relational Database
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%) Banking
4 22 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.98%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.88%) Retail
7 5 (3.05%) Billing
7 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.05%) Military
8 4 (2.44%) Legal
8 4 (2.44%) Local Government
8 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (33.54%) Consultant
2 23 (14.02%) Lead
3 21 (12.80%) Oracle Consultant
4 19 (11.59%) Analyst
5 17 (10.37%) Functional Consultant
6 16 (9.76%) SAP Consultant
7 14 (8.54%) Business Analyst
8 11 (6.71%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 9 (5.49%) Financial Analyst
10 8 (4.88%) Architect
10 8 (4.88%) Developer
10 8 (4.88%) Implementation Consultant
10 8 (4.88%) Senior
11 7 (4.27%) Accountant
11 7 (4.27%) Oracle Financials Consultant
11 7 (4.27%) Transformation Consultant
12 6 (3.66%) Finance Business Analyst
12 6 (3.66%) Lead Consultant
12 6 (3.66%) NetSuite Consultant
13 5 (3.05%) SAP Financial Consultant
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 10 (6.10%) 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%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) CESG
7 1 (0.61%) Derivative
7 1 (0.61%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.61%) Equities
7 1 (0.61%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.61%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) Replication
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.83%) Unix
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (44.51%) Accounts Payable
2 65 (39.63%) Accounts Receivable
3 60 (36.59%) ERP
4 46 (28.05%) Migration
5 45 (27.44%) User Acceptance Testing
6 38 (23.17%) Data Migration
7 37 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (21.95%) Validation
9 35 (21.34%) Budgeting
10 22 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (11.59%) Cash Management
13 18 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (10.37%) Process Improvement
14 17 (10.37%) System Integration Testing
14 17 (10.37%) Workflow
15 14 (8.54%) Analytics
16 13 (7.93%) AI
16 13 (7.93%) Project Delivery
16 13 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.02%) 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
2 7 (4.27%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.27%) IFRS
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 53 (32.32%) SAP
3 40 (24.39%) 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