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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 436 427
Rank change year-on-year -62 -9 +110
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 202 125 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the General category 0.64% 0.59% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 83 80
10th Percentile £419 £404 £438
25th Percentile £500 £423 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £641 £674 £672
90th Percentile £769 £751 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 1
10th Percentile £16.83 £53.38 -
25th Percentile £17.33 £54.69 £41.25
Median hourly rate £19.69 £58.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.49% +38.24% +117.95%
75th Percentile £47.71 £62.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.88 £63.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.71 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 31,386 21,013 22,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.76% 63.28% 58.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,231 13,114 13,043
10th Percentile £313 £275 £280
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £649
90th Percentile £740 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £478
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.52% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,837 1,247 919
10th Percentile £13.46 £13.59 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.30 £17.08
Median hourly rate £27.38 £25.00 £32.28
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -22.55% +8.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £44.42 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.10 £71.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.08 £21.39 £30.00
% change year-on-year +26.59% -28.70% +11.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Top 15 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 15 October 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 -67 176 £575 - 91
UK excluding London -39 96 £550 +4.76% 38
London -70 85 £600 - 58
Work from Home -47 70 £525 -12.50% 34
South East -58 25 £545 +5.83% 11
Midlands -36 24 £481 -9.62% 3
West Midlands -31 17 £429 -25.39% 1
South West -24 16 £600 +26.32% 3
North of England -63 12 £525 +17.45% 17
North West -43 9 £525 +17.45% 9
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 2
East Midlands -12 7 £550 +22.22% 2
East of England -24 7 £500 -16.67%
Scotland -20 3 £555 - 2
Yorkshire -38 3 - - 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 6 (2.97%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 54 (26.73%) Oracle Payables
2 51 (25.25%) Oracle Receivables
3 46 (22.77%) Oracle General Ledger
4 38 (18.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 33 (16.34%) Oracle Assets
6 26 (12.87%) Oracle ERP
7 24 (11.88%) Oracle EBS
8 15 (7.43%) Oracle Cash Management
9 11 (5.45%) NetSuite
9 11 (5.45%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 11 (5.45%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (5.45%) SAP FI
10 8 (3.96%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (2.48%) Oracle FAH
11 5 (2.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 4 (1.98%) Oracle Internet Expenses
12 4 (1.98%) Oracle iProcurement
12 4 (1.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (1.98%) SAP GRC
12 4 (1.98%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.39%) Dynamics 365
2 17 (8.42%) OCI
3 12 (5.94%) Azure
4 8 (3.96%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.97%) SaaS
6 5 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.98%) AWS
7 4 (1.98%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.98%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.98%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (1.49%) dbt
8 3 (1.49%) GCP
8 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.99%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (0.99%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.99%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.50%) Intacct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (3.47%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (2.97%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (1.98%) Power BI
4 4 (1.98%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.49%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.99%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.99%) Metadata
6 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.50%) OLTP
7 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (3.96%) JIRA
2 5 (2.48%) JDeveloper
3 4 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (1.98%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.99%) ERwin
4 2 (0.99%) Hudson
5 1 (0.50%) Toad
General
1 199 (98.51%) Finance
2 70 (34.65%) Social Skills
3 38 (18.81%) Banking
4 22 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.94%) Billing
7 9 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.48%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.48%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.48%) Retail
9 4 (1.98%) Local Government
9 4 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.99%) International Banking
11 2 (0.99%) Legal
11 2 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (31.68%) Consultant
2 33 (16.34%) Analyst
3 28 (13.86%) Oracle Consultant
4 27 (13.37%) Business Analyst
5 23 (11.39%) Financial Analyst
6 22 (10.89%) Lead
7 20 (9.90%) Functional Consultant
8 17 (8.42%) Finance Business Analyst
9 13 (6.44%) Architect
9 13 (6.44%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 13 (6.44%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (4.95%) Accountant
10 10 (4.95%) Senior
11 8 (3.96%) Developer
11 8 (3.96%) Implementation Consultant
12 7 (3.47%) Trainer
12 7 (3.47%) Workday Consultant
13 6 (2.97%) Financial Accountant
13 6 (2.97%) SAP Financial Consultant
13 6 (2.97%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.96%) XML
3 5 (2.48%) Middleware
3 5 (2.48%) REST
3 5 (2.48%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.98%) Web Services
5 3 (1.49%) SOAP
6 2 (0.99%) Express.js
6 2 (0.99%) JSON
6 2 (0.99%) MERN Stack
6 2 (0.99%) Node.js
6 2 (0.99%) React
6 2 (0.99%) RESTful
6 2 (0.99%) Spring
6 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.50%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.93%) Data Structures
2 8 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (3.96%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.96%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.96%) Public Cloud
3 6 (2.97%) NHS
4 5 (2.48%) Derivative
4 5 (2.48%) e-Learning
4 5 (2.48%) Learning Management System
5 4 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.49%) Life Science
6 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.49%) Online Banking
7 2 (0.99%) Equities
7 2 (0.99%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.99%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.49%) Unix
2 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (47.03%) Accounts Payable
2 91 (45.05%) Accounts Receivable
3 90 (44.55%) ERP
4 77 (38.12%) Migration
5 75 (37.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 63 (31.19%) Data Migration
6 63 (31.19%) User Acceptance Testing
7 45 (22.28%) Validation
8 36 (17.82%) Workshop Facilitation
9 29 (14.36%) Budgeting
9 29 (14.36%) Requirements Gathering
10 28 (13.86%) System Integration Testing
11 26 (12.87%) Analytics
11 26 (12.87%) Process Improvement
12 25 (12.38%) Cash Management
13 23 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (10.89%) Project Delivery
14 22 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (9.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.82%) SQL
2 9 (4.46%) PL/SQL
3 4 (1.98%) ABAP
3 4 (1.98%) C#
3 4 (1.98%) X++
4 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.99%) Java
5 2 (0.99%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (15.35%) ACCA
1 31 (15.35%) CIMA
2 26 (12.87%) Security Cleared
3 21 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.46%) AAT
4 9 (4.46%) Degree
5 7 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.47%) PMP
6 4 (1.98%) CCA
7 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.99%) CCAB
8 2 (0.99%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.92%) IFRS
3 6 (2.97%) GDPR
4 4 (1.98%) GRC
5 3 (1.49%) GAAP
5 3 (1.49%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.49%) QA
6 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.99%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.99%) SEPA
7 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.99%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.50%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (39.60%) Oracle
2 58 (28.71%) Microsoft
3 57 (28.22%) SAP
4 13 (6.44%) Workday
5 7 (3.47%) Sage
6 5 (2.48%) Xero
7 4 (1.98%) Adobe
7 4 (1.98%) Databricks
7 4 (1.98%) Infor
7 4 (1.98%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.98%) Talend
8 3 (1.49%) Ariba
8 3 (1.49%) IFS
9 2 (0.99%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.99%) CODA
9 2 (0.99%) Epicor
9 2 (0.99%) HP
9 2 (0.99%) Murex
9 2 (0.99%) QAD
9 2 (0.99%) Zuora