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 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 434 478
Rank change year-on-year -57 +44 +71
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 178 121 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.37% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.60% 0.58% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 75 54
10th Percentile £421 £404 £441
25th Percentile £500 £415 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £684
90th Percentile £780 £809 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £16.82 £20.62 -
25th Percentile £19.20 £20.86 £41.25
Median hourly rate £39.60 £38.52 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -9.36% +117.95%
75th Percentile £77.81 £59.06 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.30 £61.88 -
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 29,578 20,791 22,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.13% 63.49% 57.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,440 12,926 13,659
10th Percentile £313 £275 £292
25th Percentile £418 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £499
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.71% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,300 1,170 1,213
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.87 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -31.10% +32.73%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.84 £70.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.93 £22.06 £36.08
% change year-on-year +44.72% -38.86% +39.05%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -72 154 £575 - 145
UK excluding London -45 84 £525 -2.33% 87
London -69 80 £600 +1.69% 83
Work from Home -31 66 £525 -12.50% 84
South West -19 23 £600 -5.88% 4
Midlands -46 18 £550 - 10
South East -58 14 £503 -2.43% 25
East Midlands -10 9 £575 +26.37% 3
West Midlands -45 9 £430 -25.30% 7
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 10
East of England -17 8 £505 -12.17% 6
North of England -68 6 £525 +17.45% 26
Scotland -17 5 £555 +164.29% 7
Yorkshire -35 3 - - 2
North West -56 3 £525 +17.45% 14
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 (4.49%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 17 (9.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 47 (26.40%) Oracle Payables
2 39 (21.91%) Oracle Receivables
3 32 (17.98%) Oracle General Ledger
4 29 (16.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 22 (12.36%) Oracle Assets
6 20 (11.24%) Oracle EBS
7 16 (8.99%) Oracle ERP
8 15 (8.43%) NetSuite
8 15 (8.43%) Oracle Cash Management
9 11 (6.18%) SAP FI
10 9 (5.06%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (3.37%) SAP Business One
11 6 (3.37%) SAP CO
11 6 (3.37%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (2.81%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 5 (2.81%) SAP GRC
13 4 (2.25%) Oracle FAH
13 4 (2.25%) Oracle Internet Expenses
13 4 (2.25%) Oracle iProcurement
13 4 (2.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
2 13 (7.30%) OCI
3 9 (5.06%) Azure
4 7 (3.93%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.81%) SaaS
6 4 (2.25%) AWS
6 4 (2.25%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.25%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.69%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.69%) dbt
7 3 (1.69%) GCP
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Databricks
8 2 (1.12%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.12%) Intacct
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (3.93%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (2.81%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.25%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (2.25%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.69%) Power BI
5 3 (1.69%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.12%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) Metadata
7 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.56%) OLTP
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.81%) JDeveloper
2 4 (2.25%) JIRA
2 4 (2.25%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.12%) ERwin
3 2 (1.12%) Hudson
4 1 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 170 (95.51%) Finance
2 62 (34.83%) Social Skills
3 31 (17.42%) Banking
4 22 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.06%) Retail
7 6 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.81%) Billing
8 5 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.81%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.81%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.25%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.25%) Local Government
10 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.69%) Legal
10 3 (1.69%) Military
10 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (33.15%) Consultant
2 26 (14.61%) Lead
3 24 (13.48%) Oracle Consultant
4 23 (12.92%) Analyst
5 22 (12.36%) Functional Consultant
6 17 (9.55%) Business Analyst
7 16 (8.99%) SAP Consultant
8 14 (7.87%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 13 (7.30%) Financial Analyst
10 10 (5.62%) Developer
11 9 (5.06%) Architect
11 9 (5.06%) Senior
12 8 (4.49%) Finance Business Analyst
12 8 (4.49%) Implementation Consultant
13 7 (3.93%) Accountant
13 7 (3.93%) NetSuite Consultant
13 7 (3.93%) Transformation Consultant
14 6 (3.37%) Finance Manager
14 6 (3.37%) Lead Consultant
14 6 (3.37%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.49%) XML
3 6 (3.37%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (2.81%) Middleware
5 4 (2.25%) REST
6 3 (1.69%) Web Services
7 2 (1.12%) RESTful
7 2 (1.12%) SOAP
8 1 (0.56%) Express.js
8 1 (0.56%) JSON
8 1 (0.56%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.56%) Node.js
8 1 (0.56%) React
8 1 (0.56%) Restlet
8 1 (0.56%) Spring
8 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.43%) Data Structures
2 11 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.06%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.81%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.25%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.69%) Life Science
7 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.12%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.56%) CESG
9 1 (0.56%) Derivative
9 1 (0.56%) Equities
9 1 (0.56%) FMCG
9 1 (0.56%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (44.94%) Accounts Payable
2 77 (43.26%) Accounts Receivable
3 68 (38.20%) ERP
4 58 (32.58%) Migration
5 53 (29.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 51 (28.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 48 (26.97%) Data Migration
8 32 (17.98%) Budgeting
8 32 (17.98%) Validation
9 24 (13.48%) System Integration Testing
9 24 (13.48%) Workshop Facilitation
10 22 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (12.36%) Process Improvement
11 21 (11.80%) Cash Management
12 19 (10.67%) Requirements Gathering
13 18 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (9.55%) Analytics
15 16 (8.99%) Change Management
15 16 (8.99%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.61%) SQL
2 8 (4.49%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.25%) C#
3 4 (2.25%) X++
4 3 (1.69%) ABAP
4 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.56%) Java
5 1 (0.56%) Python
5 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (13.48%) ACCA
1 24 (13.48%) CIMA
2 19 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.62%) Degree
5 8 (4.49%) PMP
6 7 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.37%) AAT
8 5 (2.81%) CCA
9 4 (2.25%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.12%) CIPFA
12 1 (0.56%) CCAB
12 1 (0.56%) CISM
12 1 (0.56%) CISSP
12 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.30%) Data Quality
1 13 (7.30%) IFRS
2 7 (3.93%) GDPR
3 5 (2.81%) GRC
4 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) GAAP
4 2 (1.12%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) PSD2
5 1 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.12%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.56%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (42.13%) Oracle
2 53 (29.78%) SAP
3 46 (25.84%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.49%) Sage
5 7 (3.93%) Workday
6 5 (2.81%) Xero
7 4 (2.25%) Adobe
7 4 (2.25%) Talend
8 3 (1.69%) Ariba
8 3 (1.69%) Databricks
8 3 (1.69%) Google
8 3 (1.69%) Infor
9 2 (1.12%) Adaptive Insights
9 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.12%) Anaplan
9 2 (1.12%) CODA
9 2 (1.12%) Epicor
9 2 (1.12%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.12%) Zuora