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 12 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 411 527
Rank change year-on-year -47 +116 +47
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 118 133 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.37% 0.20%
As % of the General category 0.53% 0.62% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 79 55
10th Percentile £419 £438 £413
25th Percentile £513 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +3.18% +20.55%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £663
90th Percentile £751 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £615
% change year-on-year +1.85% -12.20% +36.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £53.38 - £18.15
25th Percentile £54.69 £41.25 £18.38
Median hourly rate £58.75 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% +117.95% -
75th Percentile £62.19 £43.75 £20.13
90th Percentile £63.13 - £20.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £42.50 £19.50
% 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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,159 21,352 27,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.98% 58.92% 59.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,874 12,588 18,523
10th Percentile £275 £288 £285
25th Percentile £400 £410 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £643 £654
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,411 806 1,110
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £16.77
Median hourly rate £24.34 £29.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% -3.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £70.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £27.08
% change year-on-year -18.89% +0.16% +23.10%

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 12 November 2025.

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
Top 14 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 12 November 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 -32 107 £600 +5.03% 60
London +11 65 £625 - 38
Work from Home +3 43 £600 +9.09% 29
UK excluding London -48 38 £550 +1.85% 37
South East +10 17 £569 +13.75% 22
Midlands -22 13 £533 - 2
East Midlands - 8 £450 - 2
West Midlands -30 5 £575 +6.48%
East of England -14 4 £600 +541.71% 3
North of England -57 3 £513 -10.87% 3
South West -2 2 £475 -
Yorkshire -32 2 £500 -41.18%
Scotland - 2 £538 - 6
North West -28 1 £525 -8.70% 3

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 (8.47%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.54%) Confluence
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 45 (38.14%) Oracle General Ledger
1 45 (38.14%) Oracle Payables
2 36 (30.51%) Oracle Assets
3 35 (29.66%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (22.03%) Oracle EBS R12
5 23 (19.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 17 (14.41%) Oracle Financials
7 11 (9.32%) Oracle Cash Management
7 11 (9.32%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 11 (9.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 7 (5.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (5.08%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
11 4 (3.39%) Oracle AGIS
11 4 (3.39%) Oracle FAH
11 4 (3.39%) SAP ERP
11 4 (3.39%) SAP FI
12 3 (2.54%) Avolution ABACUS
12 3 (2.54%) Oracle Applications
13 2 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.02%) SaaS
2 12 (10.17%) Azure
3 9 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (6.78%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.93%) OCI
6 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.54%) AWS
7 3 (2.54%) IaaS
7 3 (2.54%) PaaS
8 2 (1.69%) Slack
9 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.85%) dbt
9 1 (0.85%) GitHub
9 1 (0.85%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.85%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) Power BI
2 7 (5.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (5.93%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.39%) SAP BW
5 3 (2.54%) Big Data
6 2 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) JIRA
1 5 (4.24%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.39%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.54%) Hudson
4 2 (1.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 107 (90.68%) Finance
2 51 (43.22%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (16.95%) Banking
5 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.63%) Billing
6 9 (7.63%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.93%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (5.93%) Law
7 7 (5.93%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.08%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.39%) Publishing
9 4 (3.39%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.54%) Retail
11 2 (1.69%) Back Office
11 2 (1.69%) Legal
12 1 (0.85%) Advertising
12 1 (0.85%) International Banking
12 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (33.90%) Consultant
2 27 (22.88%) Oracle Consultant
3 18 (15.25%) Analyst
4 13 (11.02%) Business Analyst
4 13 (11.02%) Developer
4 13 (11.02%) Functional Consultant
4 13 (11.02%) Oracle Financials Consultant
5 11 (9.32%) Architect
5 11 (9.32%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 10 (8.47%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
6 10 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (7.63%) Lead
7 9 (7.63%) Oracle Developer
8 8 (6.78%) SAP Consultant
9 7 (5.93%) Oracle Analyst
10 6 (5.08%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (4.24%) Senior
12 4 (3.39%) Accountant
12 4 (3.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 4 (3.39%) Financial Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.39%) Middleware
3 3 (2.54%) XML
3 3 (2.54%) XML Messaging
4 2 (1.69%) ADO
5 1 (0.85%) EDI
5 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.78%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.24%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.69%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.85%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.85%) PMI
6 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.85%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Unix
2 2 (1.69%) Linux
2 2 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.37%) Accounts Payable
2 38 (32.20%) ERP
3 34 (28.81%) Accounts Receivable
4 31 (26.27%) Migration
5 23 (19.49%) User Acceptance Testing
6 22 (18.64%) Data Migration
7 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (11.86%) Cash Management
9 13 (11.02%) Agile
9 13 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (10.17%) Change Management
10 12 (10.17%) Requirements Gathering
10 12 (10.17%) Validation
10 12 (10.17%) Workshop Facilitation
11 10 (8.47%) Workflow
12 9 (7.63%) System Integration Testing
12 9 (7.63%) Test Scripting
13 8 (6.78%) Analytics
13 8 (6.78%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 29 (24.58%) SQL
2 14 (11.86%) PL/SQL
3 4 (3.39%) ABAP
3 4 (3.39%) X++
4 2 (1.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.71%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.17%) ACCA
3 12 (10.17%) CIMA
4 9 (7.63%) Degree
5 4 (3.39%) CCA
6 2 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.39%) GAAP
1 4 (3.39%) IFRS
1 4 (3.39%) PMO
1 4 (3.39%) QA
1 4 (3.39%) SLA
2 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 65 (55.08%) Oracle
2 14 (11.86%) SAP
3 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.24%) Workday
5 4 (3.39%) Xero
6 3 (2.54%) IFS
6 3 (2.54%) PeopleSoft
6 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.69%) Databricks
7 2 (1.69%) IBM
7 2 (1.69%) Informatica
7 2 (1.69%) Murex
8 1 (0.85%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.85%) Aderant
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) eFront
8 1 (0.85%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.85%) Tagetik