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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 438 440
Rank change year-on-year -59 +2 +105
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 190 119 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the General category 0.62% 0.57% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 79 64
10th Percentile £419 £404 £441
25th Percentile £500 £418 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £632 £675 £678
90th Percentile £761 £778 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 1
10th Percentile £16.83 £53.38 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £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 £60.75 £62.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £86.75 £63.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.69 - £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 30,797 20,995 22,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.09% 63.51% 58.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,960 13,047 13,078
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
25th Percentile £420 £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 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,644 1,219 1,011
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £17.16
Median hourly rate £28.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.32% -28.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.27 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £21.39 £35.00
% change year-on-year +35.58% -38.89% +30.69%

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 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 1 October 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 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 -46 166 £550 -4.35% 130
UK excluding London -39 94 £540 -1.82% 67
London -77 78 £600 - 72
Work from Home -40 69 £525 -12.50% 56
Midlands -35 25 £516 -8.33% 8
South East -50 22 £505 -1.94% 30
South West -20 18 £600 +26.32% 3
West Midlands -27 16 £427 -25.74% 8
East Midlands -12 9 £575 +4.55%
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 2
East of England -22 8 £505 -15.83% 4
North of England -71 8 £525 +17.45% 16
North West -47 5 £525 +17.45% 8
Scotland -19 3 £555 - 4
Yorkshire -39 3 - - 4
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 6 (3.16%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 52 (27.37%) Oracle Payables
2 48 (25.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 41 (21.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 33 (17.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 29 (15.26%) Oracle Assets
6 24 (12.63%) Oracle EBS
7 21 (11.05%) Oracle ERP
8 15 (7.89%) Oracle Cash Management
9 13 (6.84%) NetSuite
10 10 (5.26%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 10 (5.26%) SAP FI
11 9 (4.74%) Oracle EBS R12
11 9 (4.74%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (2.63%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (2.63%) SAP CO
12 5 (2.63%) SAP FI/CO
13 4 (2.11%) Oracle iProcurement
13 4 (2.11%) SAP Business One
13 4 (2.11%) SAP GRC
13 4 (2.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
2 16 (8.42%) OCI
3 11 (5.79%) Azure
4 8 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.11%) AWS
6 4 (2.11%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.11%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.11%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.11%) SaaS
7 3 (1.58%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.58%) dbt
7 3 (1.58%) GCP
7 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.05%) Azure Databricks
8 2 (1.05%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.05%) Intacct
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (3.68%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (3.16%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (2.11%) Power BI
4 4 (2.11%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.58%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.05%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.53%) OLTP
7 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.16%) JIRA
2 5 (2.63%) JDeveloper
3 4 (2.11%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.05%) ERwin
4 2 (1.05%) Hudson
5 1 (0.53%) Toad
General
1 183 (96.32%) Finance
2 65 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.42%) Banking
4 21 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.84%) Billing
7 8 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.16%) Retail
9 5 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.63%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.11%) Local Government
10 4 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.05%) International Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Military
13 1 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 60 (31.58%) Consultant
2 30 (15.79%) Analyst
3 28 (14.74%) Oracle Consultant
4 25 (13.16%) Business Analyst
5 22 (11.58%) Lead
6 21 (11.05%) Financial Analyst
6 21 (11.05%) Functional Consultant
7 15 (7.89%) Finance Business Analyst
8 14 (7.37%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 13 (6.84%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (5.26%) Accountant
10 10 (5.26%) Senior
11 9 (4.74%) Architect
12 8 (4.21%) Developer
13 7 (3.68%) Implementation Consultant
13 7 (3.68%) Trainer
14 6 (3.16%) NetSuite Consultant
14 6 (3.16%) Transformation Consultant
15 5 (2.63%) Financial Accountant
15 5 (2.63%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (20.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.21%) XML
3 5 (2.63%) Middleware
3 5 (2.63%) REST
3 5 (2.63%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (2.11%) Web Services
5 3 (1.58%) SOAP
6 2 (1.05%) JSON
6 2 (1.05%) RESTful
6 2 (1.05%) Spring
6 2 (1.05%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.53%) Express.js
7 1 (0.53%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.53%) Node.js
7 1 (0.53%) React
7 1 (0.53%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.37%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.74%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.74%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.63%) e-Learning
4 5 (2.63%) Learning Management System
4 5 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.11%) NHS
6 3 (1.58%) Derivative
6 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.58%) Life Science
6 3 (1.58%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.05%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.05%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.53%) Equities
8 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.58%) Unix
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.79%) Accounts Payable
2 86 (45.26%) Accounts Receivable
3 78 (41.05%) ERP
4 66 (34.74%) Migration
5 65 (34.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 57 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 54 (28.42%) Data Migration
8 38 (20.00%) Validation
9 33 (17.37%) Workshop Facilitation
10 30 (15.79%) Budgeting
11 27 (14.21%) System Integration Testing
12 25 (13.16%) Process Improvement
12 25 (13.16%) Requirements Gathering
13 23 (12.11%) Cash Management
14 21 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (10.00%) Analytics
16 19 (10.00%) Data Analysis
16 19 (10.00%) Project Delivery
17 18 (9.47%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.74%) SQL
2 9 (4.74%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.11%) C#
3 4 (2.11%) X++
4 3 (1.58%) ABAP
4 3 (1.58%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.05%) Java
6 1 (0.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (15.79%) ACCA
1 30 (15.79%) CIMA
2 24 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.26%) Degree
5 8 (4.21%) AAT
5 8 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.68%) PMP
7 5 (2.63%) CCA
8 3 (1.58%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.05%) CCAB
9 2 (1.05%) CIPFA
9 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.89%) IFRS
3 6 (3.16%) GDPR
4 4 (2.11%) GRC
5 3 (1.58%) GAAP
5 3 (1.58%) QA
6 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.05%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.05%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.05%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.05%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.05%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.53%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (42.63%) Oracle
2 54 (28.42%) Microsoft
3 53 (27.89%) SAP
4 10 (5.26%) Workday
5 8 (4.21%) Sage
6 5 (2.63%) Xero
7 4 (2.11%) Adobe
7 4 (2.11%) Ariba
7 4 (2.11%) Talend
8 3 (1.58%) Databricks
8 3 (1.58%) Google
8 3 (1.58%) Infor
9 2 (1.05%) Adaptive Insights
9 2 (1.05%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.05%) Anaplan
9 2 (1.05%) Epicor
9 2 (1.05%) IFS
9 2 (1.05%) QAD
9 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.05%) Zuora