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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 431 485
Rank change year-on-year -28 +54 +127
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 127 122 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.56% 0.59% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 70 64
10th Percentile £406 £434 £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £657 £674 £656
90th Percentile £802 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £540 £605
% change year-on-year +6.48% -10.74% +34.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £55.63 - -
25th Percentile £56.56 £28.50 -
Median hourly rate £58.75 £29.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.59% +61.11% -
75th Percentile £61.56 £29.50 -
90th Percentile £62.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +89.66% +61.11% -

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 22,550 20,764 25,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 60.96% 61.16% 59.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,096 12,415 17,011
10th Percentile £276 £288 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,442 708 1,080
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.50 £16.70
Median hourly rate £23.54 £27.37 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.99% -17.07% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.63 £70.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.00 £30.66
% change year-on-year -15.38% -15.21% +40.27%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -9 121 £600 +4.35% 64
London -4 66 £600 +1.69% 25
UK excluding London -35 52 £575 +6.48% 45
Work from Home +20 47 £600 +9.09% 16
South East +8 27 £595 +15.53% 21
Midlands -40 14 £495 -8.33% 8
East Midlands -10 7 £360 -43.75% 3
West Midlands -27 7 £515 -4.63% 5
North of England -56 6 £500 -13.04% 5
Yorkshire -32 5 £500 -9.09% 2
East of England -15 4 £600 +254.51% 6
South West -8 2 £475 +11.76% 4
Scotland - 2 £538 - 2
North West -34 1 - - 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 5 (3.94%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (10.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.57%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 53 (41.73%) Oracle Payables
2 51 (40.16%) Oracle General Ledger
3 39 (30.71%) Oracle Assets
4 37 (29.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 32 (25.20%) Oracle EBS
6 25 (19.69%) Oracle EBS R12
7 23 (18.11%) Oracle Cash Management
8 19 (14.96%) Oracle Financials
9 12 (9.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 10 (7.87%) Oracle AGIS
11 9 (7.09%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 9 (7.09%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 7 (5.51%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (4.72%) Oracle ERP
13 6 (4.72%) Oracle FAH
14 4 (3.15%) SAP ERP
15 3 (2.36%) SAP R/3
16 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
16 2 (1.57%) SAP FI
17 1 (0.79%) Misys Equation
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.66%) Azure
1 11 (8.66%) OCI
1 11 (8.66%) Power Platform
1 11 (8.66%) SaaS
2 9 (7.09%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.57%) Slack
6 1 (0.79%) AWS
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.79%) dbt
6 1 (0.79%) GitHub
6 1 (0.79%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.79%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.79%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.45%) Oracle Reports
2 11 (8.66%) Power BI
3 7 (5.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.15%) SAP BW
4 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.79%) Big Data
6 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.15%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.36%) Hudson
3 3 (2.36%) JIRA
4 2 (1.57%) Oracle APEX
General
1 118 (92.91%) Finance
2 48 (37.80%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.11%) Banking
4 21 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (12.60%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.66%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (6.30%) Billing
8 7 (5.51%) Law
9 6 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.15%) Publishing
10 4 (3.15%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.36%) Legal
11 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.57%) Back Office
13 1 (0.79%) Advertising
13 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.79%) Local Government
13 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (29.92%) Consultant
2 25 (19.69%) Analyst
3 24 (18.90%) Functional Consultant
3 24 (18.90%) Oracle Consultant
4 19 (14.96%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 15 (11.81%) Business Analyst
5 15 (11.81%) Developer
5 15 (11.81%) Oracle Financials Consultant
5 15 (11.81%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
6 12 (9.45%) Financial Analyst
7 11 (8.66%) Architect
7 11 (8.66%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (7.87%) Oracle Analyst
8 10 (7.87%) Senior
9 9 (7.09%) Lead
10 8 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.72%) Oracle Architect
11 6 (4.72%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.72%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.36%) ADO
2 3 (2.36%) Middleware
2 3 (2.36%) REST
3 2 (1.57%) SOAP
4 1 (0.79%) EDI
4 1 (0.79%) Web Services
4 1 (0.79%) XML
4 1 (0.79%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.30%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.94%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.57%) e-Learning
4 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.57%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.79%) AS400
5 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.79%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.79%) PMI
5 1 (0.79%) Tandem
5 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (47.24%) Accounts Payable
2 47 (37.01%) Accounts Receivable
3 40 (31.50%) ERP
4 37 (29.13%) User Acceptance Testing
5 34 (26.77%) Migration
6 26 (20.47%) Cash Management
7 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.39%) Workshop Facilitation
8 16 (12.60%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (12.60%) Data Migration
9 15 (11.81%) Agile
10 14 (11.02%) Requirements Gathering
10 14 (11.02%) Validation
11 13 (10.24%) Process Improvement
11 13 (10.24%) Procure-to-Pay
11 13 (10.24%) System Integration Testing
12 12 (9.45%) Change Management
13 11 (8.66%) Business Analysis
13 11 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (8.66%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.26%) SQL
2 13 (10.24%) PL/SQL
3 4 (3.15%) ABAP
3 4 (3.15%) X++
4 2 (1.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.60%) Degree
3 15 (11.81%) ACCA
3 15 (11.81%) CIMA
3 15 (11.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.15%) CCA
5 3 (2.36%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.94%) IFRS
2 5 (3.94%) QA
3 4 (3.15%) GAAP
3 4 (3.15%) PMO
3 4 (3.15%) SLA
4 3 (2.36%) IFRS 9
4 3 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) Basel III
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) PowerHA
Vendors
1 70 (55.12%) Oracle
2 16 (12.60%) SAP
3 9 (7.09%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.15%) Workday
4 4 (3.15%) Xero
5 3 (2.36%) IFS
5 3 (2.36%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (1.57%) Ariba
6 2 (1.57%) Databricks
6 2 (1.57%) Murex
7 1 (0.79%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (0.79%) Aderant
7 1 (0.79%) Adobe
7 1 (0.79%) CODA
7 1 (0.79%) eFront
7 1 (0.79%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.79%) Misys
7 1 (0.79%) Tagetik
7 1 (0.79%) Temenos