General Ledger Contracts

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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 512 575
Rank change year-on-year +127 +63 +46
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 159 84 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the General category 0.79% 0.34% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 41 59
10th Percentile £404 £463 £420
25th Percentile £415 £513 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £644
90th Percentile £770 £788 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +22.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.88
25th Percentile £20.45 £41.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £22.04 £42.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.14% +115.19% -
75th Percentile £60.63 £43.75 £20.19
90th Percentile £69.25 - £20.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £42.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year -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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,126 24,712 33,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.13% 57.13% 58.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,612 15,452 23,023
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -3.37% -2.20% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 1,943 1,079
10th Percentile £13.47 £12.82 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £16.81
Median hourly rate £27.17 £31.97 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.02% +6.57% +25.00%
75th Percentile £52.04 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £31.25 £25.95
% change year-on-year -26.40% +20.42% +29.75%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing General Ledger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing General Ledger.

Daily rate trend for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing General Ledger.

Hourly rate trend for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing General Ledger over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Top 15 Contract 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 7 July 2025. 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 +79 100 £500 -13.04% 94
Work from Home +83 93 £600 +9.09% 48
UK excluding London +99 71 £550 -4.35% 52
London +53 71 £475 -20.83% 54
Scotland - 41 £210 - 6
South East +47 7 £850 +70.00% 20
North of England 0 7 £447 -31.23% 10
Midlands +14 6 £650 +1.96% 10
North West +4 5 £447 -22.26% 8
South West +43 4 £625 +13.64% 4
East of England +23 4 £600 - 1
East Midlands +4 4 £500 -35.48% 1
Wales - 3 - - 2
West Midlands +4 2 £750 +50.00% 9
Yorkshire +3 2 £650 -23.53% 1

General Ledger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.66%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.52%) CMS
2 4 (2.52%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.26%) CICS
3 2 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.26%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.52%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 43 (27.04%) Oracle Payables
2 39 (24.53%) Oracle Assets
2 39 (24.53%) Oracle General Ledger
3 34 (21.38%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (13.84%) Oracle EBS R12
5 18 (11.32%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 15 (9.43%) Oracle Receivables
7 13 (8.18%) SAP FI
8 12 (7.55%) SAP CO
8 12 (7.55%) SAP FI/CO
8 12 (7.55%) SAP S/4HANA
9 10 (6.29%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (6.29%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (3.14%) Avolution ABACUS
11 4 (2.52%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (2.52%) Sage X3
12 3 (1.89%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (1.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 3 (1.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 2 (1.26%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.92%) Azure
2 10 (6.29%) OCI
3 8 (5.03%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.77%) AWS
4 6 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.14%) SaaS
6 3 (1.89%) IaaS
6 3 (1.89%) PaaS
7 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.63%) GCP
7 1 (0.63%) GitHub
7 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.63%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.63%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (27.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.55%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (5.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.77%) Power BI
4 5 (3.14%) Big Data
5 4 (2.52%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.89%) Tableau
7 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.26%) DB2
7 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.26%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.26%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.63%) OLTP
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.63%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.26%) Hudson
2 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.26%) JIRA
2 2 (1.26%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.26%) Selenium
2 2 (1.26%) SOAtest
3 1 (0.63%) LSMW
3 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 150 (94.34%) Finance
2 86 (54.09%) Social Skills
3 35 (22.01%) Banking
4 24 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.29%) Retail
6 9 (5.66%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (5.03%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.52%) Local Government
8 4 (2.52%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.89%) Billing
9 3 (1.89%) Legal
9 3 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.26%) Back Office
10 2 (1.26%) Law
10 2 (1.26%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) International Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (33.33%) Analyst
2 49 (30.82%) Senior
3 46 (28.93%) Financial Analyst
4 44 (27.67%) Senior Analyst
4 44 (27.67%) Senior Financial Analyst
5 41 (25.79%) Consultant
6 21 (13.21%) Oracle Consultant
7 13 (8.18%) Architect
8 11 (6.92%) SAP Consultant
9 9 (5.66%) Lead
9 9 (5.66%) Oracle Financials Consultant
10 8 (5.03%) Developer
10 8 (5.03%) Functional Consultant
10 8 (5.03%) Oracle Developer
10 8 (5.03%) SAP CO Consultant
10 8 (5.03%) SAP FI Consultant
10 8 (5.03%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
10 8 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.77%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.77%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (5.66%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (5.66%) XML
3 4 (2.52%) Middleware
3 4 (2.52%) XSLT
4 2 (1.26%) EDI
4 2 (1.26%) J2EE
4 2 (1.26%) JSON
4 2 (1.26%) Web Services
4 2 (1.26%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.63%) REST
5 1 (0.63%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (27.67%) Social Media
2 7 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.14%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.26%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.26%) VSAM
7 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.63%) Life Science
7 1 (0.63%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.77%) Linux
1 6 (3.77%) Unix
1 6 (3.77%) Windows
2 4 (2.52%) AIX
2 4 (2.52%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (65.41%) Accounts Payable
2 59 (37.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 49 (30.82%) Procure-to-Pay
4 45 (28.30%) Root Cause Analysis
5 31 (19.50%) Accounts Receivable
5 31 (19.50%) Migration
6 23 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.95%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (10.06%) Cash Management
8 16 (10.06%) Data Migration
9 15 (9.43%) ERP
10 14 (8.81%) Agile
10 14 (8.81%) Analytics
11 13 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (8.18%) Validation
12 11 (6.92%) Test Scripting
12 11 (6.92%) Workflow
13 9 (5.66%) Data Modelling
13 9 (5.66%) ETL
13 9 (5.66%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.27%) SQL
2 15 (9.43%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.52%) Java
4 2 (1.26%) COBOL
4 2 (1.26%) JCL
4 2 (1.26%) REXX
5 1 (0.63%) ABAP
5 1 (0.63%) PeopleCode
Qualifications
1 50 (31.45%) ACCA
2 48 (30.19%) CIMA
3 18 (11.32%) Security Cleared
4 17 (10.69%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.92%) Degree
6 1 (0.63%) AAT
6 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.63%) MBA
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.29%) IFRS
2 6 (3.77%) GAAP
3 4 (2.52%) QA
4 3 (1.89%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) Basel III
6 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.63%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.26%) Control-M
Vendors
1 65 (40.88%) SAP
2 61 (38.36%) Oracle
3 17 (10.69%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.52%) Informatica
4 4 (2.52%) Sage
4 4 (2.52%) Workday
5 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.26%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.26%) Databricks
6 2 (1.26%) IBM
6 2 (1.26%) IFS
6 2 (1.26%) Parasoft
6 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.63%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (0.63%) Aderant
7 1 (0.63%) Adobe
7 1 (0.63%) Ariba
7 1 (0.63%) Concur
7 1 (0.63%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.63%) Tagetik